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WORDS Search

Use the WORDS search to look for significant words about the items you want. WORDS may come from anywhere (titles, authors, subjects, etc.).

Search WORDS if you know some words from a title, author, or subject but not the full entry. With the WORDS search, you can also combine significant words from author and title together, author and subject together, subject and publisher together, etc.

The WORDS search allows searching adjacent words, or you can specify operators AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR, or WITHIN "n". You can truncate words to retrieve variant endings.

See instructions and examples on the WORDS search page

The WORDS search also allows you to specify other attributes about the items you're seeking, such as Language, Material Type, Location, and Publication Year. Results can be sorted by date, relevance, or alphabetically.

Selecting words to search:

• Use words that are as specific and definitive as possible. For example: climatology (rather than "weather").
• Try synonyms of your terms, or think of alternate ways to express the concepts you are searching. For example: contraception or (birth control).
• Try variant spellings. For example: absurd and (theater or theatre).

If you have questions, ask library staff for help.