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Enter a simple search term in the box, such as cicero or lake forest. The simple search utility then tries to find your term in the name of the institution, the name of the library, and the city fields. Right-hand truncation is assumed, so the simple search utility will find cicero if you enter cice, cic, or even c. The simple search utility will also search for all terms in your search string; entering lake library will find, amongst other hits, Lake Forest Library. |
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The advanced search utility allows you to search up to three terms in different fields, connecting the results together with Boolean terms. The real power of this utility is the ability to describe complex relations between search terms. For instance, if a user searches Name of Institution for coal city and selects a Boolean operator of And, then selects URL of Web Site for coalcity, the advanced search utility will return only one record, that of Coal City Public Library District. There are several variables you can use to affect your search: A. You can select which field you want to search. Your choices are Name of Institution, City, URL of Web Site, Name of Library Director, and Name of Trustee. B. You can also select the relationship of the search field to your search term by selecting one of four relationship operators. The first, Contains, searches for your term in the same way as the simple search utility does. Like the simple search utility, right-hand truncation is assumed. The second, Exactly Matches, matches the term exactly in the search field. No truncation is assumed. The other two operators, Is Greater Than and Is Less Than, will search for all records that are alphabetically less than or greater than your search term. C. Finally, you can relate up to three search terms together with the Or, And, Not Boolean operators. Or will give you all records that relate to your first search term and your second term (and, of course, your third term if you entered one). And gives you only the records that are in both the first and second results sets. Not will give you only those records that are in the first results set but are not in the second results set.
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