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MELcatthe library online catalog
www.piercelaw.edu/LIBRARY/LIBRARY.HTM
Search by TITLE:
Type in the entire title or a portion, such as blacks law dictionary, or blacks law, or blacks.
Search by AUTHOR:
You can search by author, artist, composer, gov't body, or by organization.
For example: brown, john q., or brown, j., or just brown for a person's name, or united states. Occupational & health administration, for a gov't body, or american bar association for an organization.
Search by SUBJECT:
Searching by subject allows you to find information about topics, personal names, and organizations.
Type in all or a portion of the subject, such as copyright and electronic data processing--philosophy, or copyright and electronic, or philosophy.
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Keyword searches will look for your words in various fields such as title, contents, notes, author, etc. You may use the Boolean operators; AND, OR, and AND NOT
For example: franklin pierce AND NOT law center
For example: Soviet AND Russian
For example: Soviet Union OR Russia
Proximity operators NEAR and WITHIN (NEAR = Within 10 words of search terms)
For example: foreign NEAR regulation
For example: foreign WITHIN 3 regulation
Limit by FIELDS:
t: = within title field
a: = within author field
d: = within subject field
n:= within notes field
For example: t: commerce and a: doernberg and d: taxation
WILDCARDS:
? = 1 wildcard character
For example: wom?n ...would pick up woman and women
* = up to 5 wildcard characters
For example: inter* ...would match internal and internet, but NOT international
** = unlimited # of wildcard characters
For example: inter** ...would match internal, internet, international, etc.
For example: (adopt** OR reproduc**) AND (child** OR infant**)
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