Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial

Using keywords to search the online catalog

We looked at author searching and title searching first because they are fairly straightforward ways to search the catalog. Now you're going to take what you learned in Chapter 1 about preparing to search, and what you learned in Chapter 3 about searching using computers, and you're going to learn how to search a real database using keywords and search connectors.

The good news is: all the little tricks we discussed in Chapter 3 work in the online catalog, and that includes:

using search connectors (and, or)
using parentheses

As an example let's use one of the searches we looked at in Chapter 3.

women and (islam or muslim)

Enter your search in the box below:

Pressing "Enter" searches by the highlighted search button.

If your "keyword anywhere" search finds some matches in the catalog, you will see a brief record list of the records that matched your search. For this search, the computer found 403 matching items.

Your search for "women and (islam or muslim)" found 403 titles in UNCG Libraries.

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1. Burke, Mary Thomas. Religious and spiritual issues in counseling [electronic resource] : applications across diverse populations / Mary Thomas Burke, Jane C. Chauvin, Judith G. Miranti. New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2005.
Available online.

Call Number	Location	Material	Status
EBOOK	World Wide Web Access		Online

2. Bodies in contact : rethinking colonial encounters in world history / edited by Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.

Call Number	Location	Material	Status
GT495 .B62 2005 c.1	Jackson Library -- Stacks	Book	Available