KEYWORD SEARCH

A Keyword Search looks for a word or phrase anywhere in a record.  To do a Keyword Search, type in the term or terms you want to search.  Keyword searches can be especially useful when you are not sure which fields (Author, Title, Subject) to use. If you did not find any records after a Subject Search, a Keyword Search using the same terms will often yield results.

If you fill in more than one box on the search screen, CALVIN automatically looks for records containing both terms. 

 

Example:  In the Title search box, you enter the term "liberation"

                 In the Keyword search box, you enter the term "christianity"

 

CALVIN searches for records with "liberation" somewhere in the title, and "Christianity" anywhere in the record.

 

If you type in "liberation and christianity," in the Title box, it searches for titles with those terms as a single phrase, not as two separate terms.  See Title Search for more details on searching title words and phrases.

 

Boolean Operators

 

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) can help you narrow or broaden your search.

 

& for AND 

 

Use AND (&) when you want to locate records containing both terms. 

 

Example:  women & church

This search will retrieve only records where both the terms "women" and "church" appear in the same record.

 

/ for OR

 

Use OR (/) when you want to locate records containing any of the terms you are searching.

 

Example:  women / church

This search will retrieve records containing the terms "women" and also records containing the term "church."  The two terms do not have to appear in the same record.

                                      

! for NOT

 

Use NOT (!) when you want to locate records with one or more term but not another.

Example:  women ! church

This search will retrieve records containing the term "women" where the term "church" does not appear anywhere in the same record