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Search Syntax
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Type in phrase to search
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Type in phrase to search
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Adjacency
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Multiple words within quotes are searched as a phrase.
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"economic policy"
"thurston county"
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Truncation
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Use * to search for different endings of the word at the same time. Words may be
right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from
1-5 characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation.
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environment* retrieves environment, environmental, environmentalism, etc.
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Operators
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The AND search is the default search. The Catalog will return results containing
all the words typed in the keyword text box.
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washington art*
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Use OR to require that either term be present.
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olympia OR thurston
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Use AND NOT to exclude the second term.
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desert AND NOT mount
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Use parentheses to group combined terms.
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washington AND (ski* or snowboard*)
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Proximity
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Use "near" to find words within 10 words of each other in the same field.
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washington near teachers
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Use "within #" to find terms which occur within # words of each other in the field.
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dream* within 5 interpret*
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Fields
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Use a:, t:, s:, or n: to search the author, title, subject or notes parts of records.
Note that there is no space between a, t, or s and colon. Truncation (*) cannot
be used in field searching.
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a:washington and s:handicapped s:criticism and (n:romeo or s:romeo)
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Searching Boolean Operator words
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Any of the Boolean operators may be used as a search term by enclosing it in double
quotes.
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"near" east
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