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Overview
Your library catalog search should begin at the catalog screen of your home library:
| Colby Library | http://library.colby.edu/search |
| Bates Library | http://ladd.bates.edu |
| Bowdoin Library | http://phebe.bowdoin.edu/search |
To duplicate your search in other Maine Info Net libraries, Select the Maine Info Net Button on your screen. Once in Maine Info Net, you may select a different search mode. The following parts of the catalog are searchable in Maine Info Net:
- Author
Type last name first for personal names; enter corporate or organization names as written.
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Title
Enter title words in correct order; the first few words are often enough. -
Author/Title
For a more exact search combine last name of the author with the first few words of the title. -
Subject
Enter a word or phrase from the controlled vocabulary of Library of Congress Subject Headings. -
Keyword
Perform a keyword search, using logical connectors, truncation and limiting. -
Number
Enter a number: Library of Congress call number, Dewey Decimal call number, Government Documents number, ISSN or ISBN, or National Library of Medicine number.
Searching Tips
Searching is not case sensitive. It is not necessary to use capital letters when typing search terms.
Do not include articles at the beginning of a title search. For example, when searching for a book titled “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ” enter the title in the following form:
decline and fall of the roman empire
The Keyword search in Maine Info Net differs in several significant ways from the current CBB catalog Word search:
- You may limit at the beginning of a search by language, location of library and year of publication.
- Searchers can display results by date published, relevance or alphabetical order.
- Logical operators must be used to connect terms. The table below also appears directly below the keyword search screen in Maine Info Net.
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ADJACENCY |
Multiple words are searched together as one phrase. |
United States supreme court |
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TRUNCATION |
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. |
environment* polic* fyodor dost** |
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OPERATORS |
Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words. Parentheses group words together when using Boolean operators. |
(annotated bibliography) and child* (alaska or canada) and (adventure not vacation) |
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PROXIMITY |
Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use "within #" to specify terms which occur within # words of each other in the record. |
California near university america within 3 econom* |
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FIELDS |
Specify fields to search, using field abbreviation. Fields available for this database are a: (author), t: (title), s: (subject), and n: (note.) |
(a:twain) and (t:huck*) (a:united and a:states) and (d:handicapped or d:disabled) |
Printing, Saving and Exporting
Click on the "export" button to add an individual record to a saved list which then can be exported to email, downloaded to a disk, or printed.
To display your saved list, click on "export saved lists" and select format and destination.
Print records using the print function of your individual browser.
