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• Locating An Item
  How to locate which libraries have the item found by your search

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Locating An Item

What are locations?

Locations identify which libraries have the item found by your search.

Where is the location information?

The Federal Publication Locator shows the Locations button to indicate location information is present. The Locations button can display on the Record screen and below each result on the Results screen.

If no Locations button displays, this means that no library has reported having this item.

Click the Locations button to display the Locations screen.

The Locations Screen provides information about libraries holding that item.

• Click on the Library Name to display Library Information.
  • Library name (if underlined, click to see the library's home page)
  • Loan policy for monographs and serials
  • Charges and terms of payment
  • Items not available for loan (example: rare books)
  • Comments
  • Library mailing address
  • Telephone, fax, email and other addresses (example: IUTS)
  • Other library codes (example: WHO code)
  • Type of library (example: Public library)
  • Link to the library's Web, Telnet, or Z39.50 catalogues
• Holdings: The holdings summary provides information about specific copies held by the library. For serials and multi-volume monographs, the holdings identify the specific parts of the item held by the library. The holdings may be incomplete; some libraries report selectively or for special collections only. See abbreviations and punctuation for information about specific abbreviations and punctuation used in holdings.

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