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Selected keyword indexes and search examples • For compound or hyphenated surnames, treat all parts of a name
up to the first comma as the first derived search element.
Keyword index Label Example Example: For Li-Marcus, Moying, type pd:lima,moy,.
Corp/Conf Name cn: cn:enron • For forenames only, treat each part as separate segments. Treat
Corp/Conf Name cn= cn=enron corp each part of a hyphenated forename as separate.
Phrase Examples: For White Bull, type pd:whit,bul,. To find Li-Min Tau, type
Corp/Conf Name cnw= cnw=enron corp board of directors pd:li,min,t.
Whole Phrase special investigative committee • Do not use non-Latin scripts in derived searches.
Name au: au:kahlo Derived search stopwords
Name Whole auw= au=kahlo, frida 1910-1954
Phrase Omit the following words from the first segment of a corporate/
conference name when you use the derived search indexes cd: and
Personal Name pn: pn:salinger j d
nd:. Otherwise, include the words.
Publisher pb: pb:thousand oaks
Series se: se:ergonomic & Commonwealth Institute South
a Conference International State
Series Phrase se= se=ergonomic management series American Congress Joint Subcommittee
Subject Phrase su= su=aquatic ecosystems an Council Meeting Symposium
and Department National the
Title ti: ti:gerontological Association Dept. North U.N.
Title Phrase ti= ti=gerontological nursing at Division of U. N.
Australia East Office United Nations
Board Federal on United States
Derived searches Bureau for Organization University
Canada France Parliament U.S.
Derived search key limits College Great Britain School U. S.
Colloquium House Seminar West
Derived index Label Minimum key Maximum key Commission in Senate Workshop
Committee India Society All names of
Personal Name pd: 4,1,blank 4,3,1
U.S. states
Corp/Conf Name cd: =4,1,blank =4,3,1
Examples of omitting initial stopwords
Name/Title nd: 4,4 4,4
Omit initial stopwords in a search for … Enter search as
Title td: none 3,2,2,1
…
Notes: Corporate author: Great Britain Forestry cd:fore,com,/1985
• For records without 1xx fields, the minimum search key can be Commission (works published in 1985)
blank,4.
Corporate author: United Nations Committee on cd:econ,soc,c
• Even if data has fewer than the required number of words, type all
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
required commas.
Example: To find Roots, type td:roo,,, or roo,,, Corporate name and title: Indiana Supreme Court nd:supr,race
• For Corp/Conf Names, precede with the index label and a colon or [name] and Race and gender fairness [title]
with an equal sign (=).
Derived search examples
Guidelines
Index (label) To find this data… Enter this search…
• Omit index label if it is the first or only search in the command line. Personal Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus pd:moz,wol,a or
• Omit initial articles (a, an, the, and non-English equivalents). name moz,wol,a
• Include articles within titles. derived (pd:) De Groot, Adriaan pd:degr,adr, or degr,adr,
• Include letters and numbers. Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth pd:kubl,eli, or kubl,eli,
• Exclude all other characters; for example, exclude diacritics and Corp/Conf American Rock Garden cd:rock,gar,s or
punctuation. derived (cd:) Society =rock,gar,s
World Energy Conference cd:worl,ene,c or
• Use a circumflex (^) to narrow a search (but do not use the =worl,ene,c
circumflex in a derived title search). Name/Title Bergson, The creative mind nd:berg,crea or
Example: pd:harv,hen,^ or harv,hen,^ derived (nd:) berg,crea
• For names beginning with Mc or Mac followed by an uppercase Clarke, 2001 : a space nd:clar,2001 or clar,2001
letter, type m and omit the c or ac. If followed by a lowercase odyssey
letter, include the lowercase letter c or ac. Title derived Hotel td:hot,,, or hot,,,
Examples: For MacDonald, Marion B., type pn:mdon,mar,b. (ti:) Miracle on 34th street td:mir,on,34,s or
For Macdonald, Andrew T., type pd:macd,and,t. mir,on,34,s
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LC Class Number lc: sca lc:z5063.2.a2 Unknown dates (code u) (example: for Date1 value
19uu, type /1900 or yr:1900)
Name Whole Phrase auw= sca auw=dewey, melvil
No date: Enter zeroes (example: /0000 or yr:0000)
Personal Name Whole pnw= sca pnw=james, henry 1843-1916
Phrase Microform/not /mf or mf:mic (microform)
microform (mf:)
/nm or mf:nmc (not microform)
Publisher Phrase pb= sca pb=macmillan
Series Whole Phrase sew= sca sew=literacy 2000 Source (dl:) /dlc or dl:y (records contributed by Library of
Congress/Program for Cooperative Cataloging)
Subject Whole Phrase suw= sca suw=library science
Note: Use the Cataloging Source phrase index (cs=)
Title Whole Phrase tiw= sca tiw=birds and beasts with an OCLC symbol to find records contributed by a
specific library.
Uniform Title Whole utw= sca utw=concertos f 44 f major
Phrase Internet/ mt:url (Internet resources only)
non-Internet
(mt:) not mt:url (exclude Internet resources)
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Note: you can also qualify searches by language of cataloging (checks Truncation and wildcard symbols
for a language in 040 b):
• In the command line: Use index label ll: (two lowercase letter Use truncation and wildcard symbols to expand or focus search results.
“ells” followed by a colon) and a language code. (See a list of Truncation How to use
codes at http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages.) * (asterisk) Place at the end of a word to retrieve variant endings.
Example: ti=to the lighthouse and ll:ger Example: invest* retrieves investor, investment, investment
Or fraud, etc.
• In the keyword/numeric search area: Enter a language in one of the
Search for boxes and select the Language of Cataloging index in Wildcard How to use
the adjacent list. Combine with another search term. # Replace one unknown character in a word.
Example: wom#n retrieves woman and women
Qualifier guidelines
? Replace multiple unknown characters in a word
• Use slashes or index labels for format, years, microform, or Example: emp?e retrieves empire, empale, emphasize, and
source qualifiers (called “slash qualifiers”). Use index labels only emplace
for Internet/non-Internet and language qualifiers. ?n Specify the number of characters to replace (n=number of
• Use only one qualifier of each type per search. characters, 1-9)
Example: str?3 retrieves street, stream, streak, stride, strait,
• “Slash” qualifiers must appear at the end of a search. Qualifiers string, etc.
with index labels can appear anywhere in a search, combined with
a Boolean operator. Truncation and wildcard guidelines
• Type qualifiers in any order.
• Limitation: Precede symbols by at least three characters.
Operators • Non-Latin script searches: Truncating searches is supported for
Bengali, CJK, Devanagari, Tamil, and Thai script search terms
Use Boolean and proximity operators to combine search terms.
only. For other scripts, use browsing for automatic truncation.
Operator What the operator does
Qualified, combined, and expanded search examples
and Finds all terms anywhere in a record.
Example: su:wom?n and ti:history and yr:1970- Searches in both keyword/numeric and derived search format:
or Finds any single term or all terms. Keyword/numeric search Derived search
Example: pn=woolf, virginia or pn=woolf, leonard and au:rendell, ruth or au:vine, rend,rut, or vine,bar,
yr:1900-50
barbara Or
not Excludes the term that follows not. pd:rend,rut, or vine,bar,
Example: ti=civil war not su:battle not gc=united states au:cervantes/1970-80/vis cerv,mig,d/1970-80/vis
with (w) Finds records containing both terms, in the order typed, or if Or Or
followed by a number (1 to 25), finds records with no more au:cervantes and mt:vis and pd:cerv,mig,d and yr:1970-80 and
than the specified number of words between the terms. yr:1970-80 mt:vis
Examples: au:camus and ti:etranger and pd:camu,alb, and td:etr,,, and
ti:aluminum w wiring or alternatively, enclose the phrase in la:french la:french
quotation marks: ti:"aluminum wiring"
Or ti:aluminum w2 wiring More examples of qualified, combined, and expanded searches:
near (n) Same as for with, except that the words can be in any order. su:scotland and mt:map and yr:2000-
Examples: ti:moon n eclipse cn:microsoft and yr:2003 not mt:url
ti:chicken n3 egg su:civil and war not battle/1970
dd:880 and la:eng/bks/1960-70
Operator guidelines ti:bring w2 bacon
gon,wi,th,w/bks/19??/mf/dlc or td:gon,wi,th,w/bks/19??/mf/dlc
• Do not use and, or, not, with, or near for browsing. =adri,col,/bks/1970-90 or cd:adri,col,/bks/1970-90
• Do not use with or near for derived searching.
Qualify searches by specific material types
• Type the maximum number of characters in the segments of each
derived search that you combine with and, or, or not. To qualify searches by material type, use a word or phrase qualifier
• To use and, or, not, with, or near as a keyword in a search, index label (mt: or mt=) with the 3-letter code or name for a material
enclose the word in quotation marks. type, as shown in the table below (names are not case-sensitive but
Example: To search for the title Neighbors Near and Far, type must be entered exactly as shown).
ti:neighbors "near" "and" far. Example: To find The Sound of Music in CD audio only, type:
• Qualifiers apply to all parts of combined searches. sou,of,mu, and mt:cda or sou,of,mu, and mt=cd audio
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Material type codes and names below are organized by broad qualifier
group and then alphabetically by name within each group.
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