Advanced Catalog Search

Here are a few advanced search features you can use when looking for video titles in the library. Please read the information on how to do a catalog search before using these.

Adjacency

Multiple words are automatically searched together as one phrase.

Example: united states supreme court

Boolean Operators

Use "and" or "or" between separate words/phrases to search for multiple concepts in any field, in any order. "And" requires that both words/phrases be found in a record. "Or" requires that one word/phrase, but not necessarily both, be found.

Use "and not" to exclude words/phrases.

Example: usa or united states

Use parentheses to group words/phrases together while using Boolean operators.

Example: (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation)

Truncation

Use a single asterisk (*) to right-hand truncate up to 5 characters of a word.

Example: environment* polic*

Use a double asterisk (**) for infinite right-hand truncation.

Example: fyodor dost**
Proximity

Use "near" to require that words/phrases be close to each other, in any order.

Example: california near university

Use "within #" to require that words/phrases appear within # words of each other in the record.
Example: america within 3 econom*

Field Searching

Use field abbreviations to require that words/phrases appear in a specific field. Available abbreviations are a: (author), t: (title), s: (subject), n: (note).

Example: (a:twain or a:clemens) and (t: huck*)

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