This search is available from the Basic Search screen and is also the search available from the Library home page. The Keyword option searches every word in the entire record. More than one word can be entered into the "Search for:" box.
Example: Owyhee mountains
Use quotes " " to indicate the terms must be searched as a phrase.
Example: "Idaho youth ranch"
The Catalog will retrieve all records that match the search request. Only records which contain all of the terms in the search will be retrieved.
The search results summary list includes a Relevance column. This column indicates how much relevance (weight) each title has in relation to the search criteria. A title's relevance is determined by how often the search terms appear in a record and where they appear (i.e. a title with the term appearing in a subject field is more relevant than one where the term appears in a note field). The most relevant titles display at the top of the list. As retrieved titles become less relevant to the search criteria the number of bars in the Relevance column decrease. In addition to Relevance, the results summary lists title, author, and date of the work.
Example (using Idaho wolves and showing first part of the results):
| To Print, Save or E-mail selected records | |
| 1. | Mark the record(s) you are interested in by clicking on the white box on the left side of the screen. A checkmark displays. Only one display result page can be printed at a time. You can change the number of records displayed by using the drop-down menu in the ... records per page box. |
| 2. | Click Selected on Page in the Record Options box at the bottom of the page. |
| 3. | Use the Select Download Format box to choose a download format [Full Record, Brief Record, EndNote Citation, Latin1 Marc, Raw Marc, UTF-8] |
| 4. | To Save or Print - click Format for Print/Save. Either Print or Save your results screen. |
| 5. | To e-mail the information to yourself - type your e-mail address in the enter your e-mail address box and click Email. |
| 6. | Click the Clear Selected to clear the checkmarks from all of the current titles. If you wish to print more records, go to the next page of your search results. Repeat steps 1- 6. |
| ARIEL UNICODE MS is the recommended font for viewing Search Tips. The screen may not display properly in other fonts. | ||
| Search Tips: | Limits | Limits may only be used with Keyword, Title, Journal Title, and Author (Personal or Corporate) searches. Limits are retained between searches until they are removed. Use Quick Limit to apply a single, commonly-used limit to your current search. Use Limits to apply one or more limits (such as years, languages, locations, etc.) to a search. Quick Limit and Limits cannot be used simultaneously. |
| Keyword | The default Keyword search is a relevance search that combines terms with 'and'. To truncate, use a question mark. For example: child? will retrieve child, child's, children, childhood, etc. To search phrases, use quotes. For example:"French Revolution" |
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| Title and Journal Title | Omit initial articles (a, an, the, el, la, etc.) when doing a title search: lewis and clark journals rather than the lewis and clark journals |
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| Author (Personal or Corporate) | For individuals, enter last name first, followed by first name, if known: shakespeare william Enter names of organizations or groups: american psychological association |
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| Subject Browse | Searches Library of Congress Subject headings. For this search to work, terms must be entered in exact order. Example: united states history rather than history united states If the search does not work, try a Keyword or Keyword Within Subject search where word order does not matter. |
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| Call Number Searching | Albertsons Library uses several types of call number searches. Call Number Browse will search any of these types.
For all, type as much of the call number as you know, including spaces and punctuation.
a. MATH Elem. Allyn (for CRC textbooks) b. MICROFICHE 123 c. M 1183 (for phonorecords) d. MSS 021 (for manuscript collections) |
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