To find books in AllForOne Search:
To find books on the shelf:
When you are browsing books in the McDonald Library, nursing books are generally cataloged in the R's of the Library of Congress classification--specifically RT.
RT Nursing
48 Nursing assessment
48.5 Diagnostic techniques. Laboratory tests, etc.
48.6 Nursing diagnosis
49 Nursing care plans
49 Nursing records.Charting
49.5 Computer applications
55 Problems, exercises, examinations
65 Medicine and surgery for nurses
74.7 Preceptorships in nursing education
75 Graduate nursing education
76 Continuing nursing education
81.5 Research. Experimentation
82 Nursing as a profession
82.8 Nurse practitioners
84.5 Philosophy of nursing. Nursing models
85 Nursing ethics
85.2 Religious aspects
85.5 Standards for care
86.3 Nurse and patient
86.54 Transcultural nursing
86.7 Practice of nursing. Economics
87.N87 Nutritional care. Feeding patients
87.P35 Pain
89 Nursing administration
90 Teaching. Patient teaching. Nursing education
90.3 Health Promotion. Health education
97 Public health nursing
98 Community health nursing
120.C45 Chronic diseases
120.E4 Emergency nursing
120.F34 Family nursing
120.H65 Home nursing
120.I5 Intensive care
120.L64 Long-term care facilities
120.O9 Outpatient facilities
120.R4 Rehabilitation
Call Number: Each item in a library has its own "address", so it can be found easily. Library of Congress call numbers, made up of letters and numbers, are used by most colleges, including Xavier's. When two different college libraries have the same item, it will have the same address in both libraries. Each line of a call number has a specific meaning.
For example, if you see this record in the catalog:
Call Number: RT42 .M44 2023
You would read the call number like this:
RT = Nursing
42 = general works about nursing
M44 = Author number (notice the author's last name starts with M)
2015 = Date of publication
Go to the Library homepage, xavier.edu/library, to begin searching in the library resources.
Simple Search using AllForOne Search on the Library Home page. 
This preliminary search will help you learn more about your topic.
Advanced Search found under the Simple Search browser. This will offer the options for more advanced search strategies using more keywords and filters to help narrow down search results.
This is a great place to start when you have a topic selected, but aren't sure yet what specifically you want to learn about it.
Type your topic into the browser available on the library homepage.
Once you are on the AllForOne Search page, try a Simple Search for your topic. For example, if you want to know how about climate change, but want to learn more about it.
Look through the results to begin learning more about your topic.
Select the "Advanced Search" option available under the Simple Search browser on the library homepage.
This will take you to the AllForOne Search Advanced Search page where you can construct a search strategy using multiple keywords and filters that allow you to focus in on your specific topic more precisely.
After a preliminary search for materials, keep in mind that you have to be sure that you have explored your topic thoroughly, which often means revising your search strategies in order to be able to write competently about your topic.
It is likely that you will have to perform several advanced searches, as well as search in a few subject databases, in order to find the right sources to fulfill your assignment.
You will receive a variety of types of sources in your search results once you perform a search.
Notice the results list icons showing you if an item is a journal article, book, video, or other source type.
Read your assignment carefully so that you know which types of sources you need.
Filters help you to narrow down your search results so that they are focused on your research topic.
Enter the dates of publications you'd like in your results; then, select "Refine Date"
You may need a variety of sources for your assignment or research project.
Be sure to remove filters when you are ready to try new ones.
