Archive for the ‘Searching & Filtering ’ Category

Filtering Search Results and Collections

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

If you are viewing a long list of search results, or looking at your own or another member’s collection, you can filter the view to help you find items of interest. For example, you may want to see only DVDs, or only books by a specific author.
On the left side of the screen is a [...]

Searching for Titles

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

The easiest way to search the library catalogue is to type one or more words in the Quick Search box at the top of the page, and then click Search. The search results include items with all of the search terms in either the title or author fields, or in headings or tags.

The Quick Search [...]

Using Advanced Search

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The Quick Search box found at the top of every page should provide excellent results for most of your searching requirements. It has a default keyword search plus five additional options, each of which has been tuned to get complete results for most search types.
For those occasions where you have a particular kind of search [...]

Writing Your Own Queries

Monday, July 7th, 2008

You can create custom search queries by typing your query directly into the advanced Boolean query box on the Advanced Search page. For example, you could enter…
Anywhere:(canadian immigration)  -Title:(census)  language:(eng)  format:(BK)

… to find books in English on Canadian immigration that do not have the word census in the title.
The information below will help you [...]