Do a quick search with Limit by
Follow these steps to do a quick search of the library catalog from the portal page if your library offers an option to limit your search.
1. Type a word or words in the Quick Library Search box.
: 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.
: 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 question mark (?) represents exactly one character. For example, wom?n finds woman and women.
: Punctuation is usually ignored. However, you can include the following characters if they immediately precede or follow a letter or number (no space between): + # % $
: If you leave this box blank and just select an option in the Limit by box (see step 2), the search is launched and your results include all the materials that fit your Limit by selection.
2. If you want to find only a certain kind of material, click the arrow symbol in the Limit by box, and select an option from the list. Your library may provide additional limiters, such as availability.
Example:
If you want to find only DVDs, select DVD
in the Limit by list.
Note:
Your library may provide a digital collection that you can search and access
online 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. For information
about using digital collection search results, see Accessing
Digital Collection Materials.
: If the search is successful, information about titles is displayed in the search results list.
: If no matches are found, you see a message. You may also see a Did you mean suggestion. You can click the suggestion to search for the suggested term.
Note:
You may see a more link
next to the suggestion. Click the link to see more suggestions.
4. To work with the results, do any of the following actions:
: Navigate the results list and view more information about the titles. See Viewing Title Information.
: Narrow your search results or do related searches. See Narrowing or Widening Results.
: Add a title to a title list. See Working with Title Lists.
: Place a request for a title, or purchase a title. See Obtaining Materials.
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~ Additional search methods - See the following topics:
: Phrase and Exact Phrase Searches
~ Focusing your search - You can limit searches by libraries, publication date, language, and other options. See Focusing Searches.
~ Searching sources outside the library - See Selecting Search Databases.
~ Course reserves - If your library holds items reserved for courses at a school or college, you may be able to search for course reserve information and materials. See Finding Course Reserves.