How does the Search page work?

Simply select your search type and type in your search term(s).

  • If you don't know what type of search you want, use the default ANY Word search. This is a Google type search. If your search term is spelled correctly, ANY Word search will give you the most results. However, many of the results may seem unrelated.
  • If you do an ANY Word search, when you get your results, use the Limit boxes to narrow your choices. For example, if you do an ANY Word search for travel guides, there are more than 190 travel guides in the catalog. If you Limit by "All Nonfiction" and re-execute the search using the arrow next to the Limit by box, your results are narrowed to 97 titles.