Do a search by typing a command
Follow these steps to search by typing a Common Command Language (CCL) command.
Note:
For more information about Common Command Language, see Boolean
Operators, Relative
Operators, and Search
Access Point (Field) Codes.
1. Select Search from the menu bar, and select Boolean from the Search submenu.
The Boolean search bar appears.
2. If you want to have the search results sorted by a category other than the one displayed, click the Sort by arrow symbol and select a sorting option.
Relevance sorts titles in the search results so that those that seem most likely to meet your needs appear first in the list. Most Popular sorts titles in the search results so that the titles most frequently checked out or requested over the past 120 days appear first in the list.
When you select a sorting option that combines two categories, the results are sorted by the first category, then by the second.
Notes:
If your library handles course reserves, you can limit your
search to materials reserved for courses. Click the Course
reserve items only check box. For more information, see Find
an item on reserve.
When you choose to sort by publication date, the sorting of serial titles in the results may not be obvious since the publication date is not displayed in the brief results for these titles.
3. If you want to set databases to search, click Select Databases, and select databases to search (see Search multiple databases).
Tip:
You can set search options for the Boolean search instead
of typing the command variables. For more information about search options,
see Focusing
Searches.
4. Type the CCL command in the Boolean search for box, keeping the following tips in mind:
: 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.
: Use parentheses to group search terms.
Example:
The following command finds works of the author Asimov which
have titles with the word foundation, except audio books published after
1990:
(AU=asimov AND TI=foundation) NOT (TOM=abk and
PD>1990)
Terms inside the parentheses are processed first, then the
entire command.
: To include text that is ordinarily ignored, such as punctuation or Boolean command words in the search text, place the search text in quotation marks.
Example:
To find the title Bud, Not Buddy,
type the following command:
TI = “bud not buddy”
When the search is finished, the search results list is displayed.
Note:
Some searches may find thousands of titles. You can focus
searches to yield fewer but more useful titles. See Focusing
Searches.
6. 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 Results and Related Searches.
: Add a title to a title list. See Working with Search Results.
: Place a request for a title, or purchase a title. See Obtaining Materials.
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Additional search methods - See the following topics: