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You can search any combination of words from the title, author’s name, notes or subjects that describe different editions of books and other material in the library catalog. You don't need to worry about capitalization, since the system ignores case in searching. You don't need to add AND between words and phrases-- the system adds this automatically.

Examples:

East of Eden Steinbeck hiking White Mountains new england architecture cinderella walt disney civil war hospitals beowulf seamus heaney

If you want to search two or more words as a phrase, rather than separate words, you can put quotation marks around the phrase. For example, a search on New England will find books that have the word New and the word England anywhere in the catalog record, but a search on "New England" will only find things that have the two words together as a phrase.

Examples:

"new england" literature "John Smith"

You can use OR between words or phrases when you want to find things that use either word or phrase. You may want to combine an OR search with an AND search. You must put the OR search in parentheses. OR searches are especially useful for country and nationality terms, synonyms, and different spellings or forms of words

Examples:

netherlands or holland anorexia or bulimia art and (france or french) animals and (rain forest or rainforest)