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TALIS Plus is the new State Library catalogue for searching, placing holds, checking your loans and making renewals.
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My Library lets you see what you have on hold, see your current loans, renew your loans, cancel holds or see any outstanding fees. Other features:
Place hold now button
Commit hold
Place hold button
Commit hold
Click on the tab for My Library and login. Your queue position and estimated wait time are under the hold details in your holds list.
Place hold now button
Commit hold
Library location on the left
If you wish to search on specific fields like author, subject etc, there are several options that you can use:
The Refine options are the easiest and most powerful way to use TALIS Plus. Just enter any words from your chosen author, subject, and/or title into the search box. Once your search results have appeared, use the 'Refine your search' options in the left-hand menu to narrow your results down to the author, topic, etc that you want. For example, you can search for rowling, then click on Author in the left-hand refinement menu, and choose Rowling, J. K. If your author does not appear in the initial list, the 'More' button will let you move through all available options alphabetically.
If the Refine options do not meet your needs, the Searching Help page explains how you can use special syntax to perform advanced searches, including searching for words in particular fields, like author, title, subject, format and so on.
We are happy to offer assistance with any search problems. Use the TALIS Plus feedback form or Ask Us.
Find any item with your chosen author or series in your results list. The Author and Series are shown as links in the item - click on a link to get everything by that author or in that series.
Find any item with your chosen author, subject or series. Go into the Full Record. The Authors, Subjects and Series for that item will be listed there as links. Click on a link to get everything for that author, subject or series.
As you search and use the Refine options in TALIS Plus you build up a breadcrumb trail of your pathway through the site. This appears in the upper left corner of the page as 'Your search so far'. You can use the Remove buttons (the red crosses) to take out any part of your search in any order, thus broadening your search out again. For example, you may have searched for 'wexford', then Refined by Author 'Rendell, Ruth, 1930-'. Removing 'wexford' from 'Your search so far' will give you everything by Ruth Rendell.
If you have a favourite author or subject that you will want to check again in future, you can use your Browser to bookmark your search results page. Sorting your results by date will give you the latest additions to the catalogue.
Audience on the left
Children or Youth from that folder
Language on the left
Topic select Service manuals
Format click on Text
Musical score
Add to my list button
I have a library card link. You will be prompted to log in. Return to your search to add items
I am a guest link. Return to your search to add items
Yes you can email results from the My Library Wish list and Bibliography list, following the directions for printing.
Send details of the item via our feedback form or email state.library@education.tas.gov.au
LibraryThing (www.librarything.com) is an online service to help people catalogue their books easily and to add tags, reviews, and ratings to them. It has over 300,000 members, who have catalogued and tagged over 3 million titles. LibraryThing lets libraries access and use the tags that are contributed by their users. TALIS Plus shows these user-contributed tags etc in the Similar/Other/Tags tab on the Full Record screen for any titles that are available from LibraryThing.
Please note that the tags come from LibraryThing users and are NOT created or authorised by the State Library of Tasmania. If you would like to contribute to the tags you see in TALIS Plus, you might consider joining LibraryThing and adding your books and tags to it—membership is free for the first 200 items.
Occasionally TALIS Plus fails to communicate with the underlying software, due to too much load on the system at that moment or general network issues, resulting in an error. If you try the action again and the problem continues: