Quick searches look only in the library’s own catalog, not in remote databases.
Multiple words - If you type more than one word, your results may include materials with the words in any order. If you want to find the words in the exact order, begin the phrase with double quotation marks.
Wildcard characters - You can type a part of a word and use a wildcard character. The wildcard character asterisk (*) represents the rest of the word. For example, if you type King*, the results include words such as King, Kingsley, and Kingford. The wildcard character question mark (?) represents exactly one character. For example, wom?n finds woman and women. If the question mark occurs at the end of a word, it does not act as a wildcard character, so you can find titles like what color is your parachute? Also, if you type a backslash character \ before any wildcard character, the wildcard character is treated as text.
Punctuation - Punctuation is usually ignored. However, you can include the following characters if they immediately precede or follow a letter or number (no space between):
+ # % $
To do a quick search of the library catalog with a Limit by option:
If you see suggested search terms as you type, you can ignore the suggestions and continue to type your search term, or you can select a suggestion to search for the term. Select Hide Suggestions if you do not want to see search suggestions. Select the small arrow in the search text box to show the suggestions after they have been hidden.
Note:
Your library may provide a digital collection that you can search and access in the same way that you search for other materials. Materials in the collection may include images, video clips, sound files, and text files. If you want to restrict your search results to digital collection materials, select Digital Collection in the Limit by box.
Depending on how your library has set up searching, you may see the following options:
To do a quick library search with search buttons (Anywhere, Subject, Title, Author, Series, Fiction, Nonfiction):
If you see suggested search terms as you type, you can ignore the suggestions and continue to type your search term, or you can select a suggestion to search for the term. Select Hide Suggestions if you do not want to see search suggestions. Select the small arrow in the search text box to show the suggestions after they have been hidden.
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If you type search text and press ENTER, without selecting a search button, a keyword search anywhere in the catalog starts.
Anywhere - Looks in all the indexed information fields.
Subject - Looks in the catalog’s subject descriptions.
Title - Looks in the titles of works in the library catalog.
Author - Looks in authors’ names in the library catalog.
Series - Looks in series names in the library catalog.
Fiction - Looks in fiction titles.
Nonfiction - Looks in nonfiction titles.
If the search is successful, you see your search results.
If no matches are found, you see a message that no titles were found.
Depending on how your library has set up searching, you may see the following options: