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Using Oliver to Find Books
1. You can access your personal Oliver Library account through the student portal here. any time, anywhere - home or school.
You can also find the student portal icon on the home page of nuwarra.weebly
2. Log on using the DET user name and password.
3. Select OLIVER Library once you are in the portal.
You should see the following screen once you are in OLIVER Library.
You can also find the student portal icon on the home page of nuwarra.weebly
2. Log on using the DET user name and password.
3. Select OLIVER Library once you are in the portal.
You should see the following screen once you are in OLIVER Library.
4. Click My Library and you should see features such as Messages, Searches, Loans, Reserves, Loan History and Settings.
- Messages is where you check messages from the library about your loans.
- Search is where you can search books and save the search for future reference.
- Loans is where you check how many books are currently loaned to you. This is also a feature that allows you to renew your loans for another 2 weeks. Please note the system will allow 3 renewals. If you need more than 2 weeks, you will need to see the library teacher.
- Reserves is where books that are reserved in your name. If those reserved books are available you will be notified by the library teacher. All reserved books will be held for 3 weeks.
- Loan History shows what you have borrowed in the last 12 months. This is a fantastic feature for you to go through and choose the books that are on the Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) that you may wish to add to your PRC record.
- Settings lets you personalise your OLIVER Library home page
5. To renew books, select Loans and click the blue box that has a green arrow and a clock.
6. To reserve a book that is currently on loan, click the top blue box that has a book and a padlock on it
7. Searching for a book is often done by typing the Word(s) you are looking for but there are other options.
(Spelling matters!)
(Spelling matters!)
- You can search by the Genre of a book, e.g. science fiction or adventure
- If you know the subject of a book e.g. dinosaurs or Japan, use Subject. This should stop unwanted books that have the word somewhere in their title but nothing to do with the subject from being in your results.
- Use Title when you know the title of the book you want. Maybe someone recommended it to you or you saw the name in a book you just finished and are curious.
- Author can be used with just the last name or the first and last name. It is useful when you are wondering what other books are in the library by that author.
- Series is used often. It can tell you if the library has a complete set of the books or are some missing. Let the teacher/librarian know if some book are missing and they may be able to be bought for the collection and you can read them.
- From time to time the library makes a List of books on different topics. A permanent list is made for the Premier's Reading Challenge on each.