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Enter the words or phrase you wish to search for in the entire record. For example:

• local foods: searches for local and foods anywhere in the same record
• "local foods": use quotes to search for the phrase "local foods"

Title Search

Enter all or part of the title, starting at the beginning. Title words must be in exact order. You may include the initial articles "The", "An", "A" in your search, but you should exclude non-English initial articles, such as "Die," "Las," or "Un.". If you are unsure of the title, try a Keyword search. For example:

• animal vegetable miracle
• animal vege

When searching for items whose first word looks like an initial article, i.e. "A Is For America" repeat the initial word twice to account for the system's dropping of initial articles. For example, search "a a is for america."

Journal Title

Enter all or part of the title, starting at the beginning. Title words must be in exact order. Do not include initial articles like THE, AN, or A.

For Example:

• environmental politics
• environmental poli
• roanoke times

Search only Addison journal records

When searching for items whose first word looks like an initial article, i.e. "THE Journal," repeat the initial word twice to account for the system's dropping of initial articles. For example, search "the the journal."

Author Search

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• kingsolver barbara
• kingsolver
• shakespeare w

You may also type the full or partial name of an organization or group. For example:

• united states congress
• american medical

Author/Title

Enter all or part of an author’s or artist’s name, last name first. You may also type the full or partial name of an organization or group. For example:

• kingsolver barbara
• kingsolver
• united states congress

Type as many or as few of the words in the title as you want, in any order. For example:

• animal vegetable miracle
• animal vege

Subject

Only use Library of Congress Subject Headings or Medical Subject Headings. If you don't know the exact phrasing of the subject heading, use the Advanced Search screen and limit to Subject. For example:

• farm life appalachian region
• food habits appalachian region
• neoplasms

Notes on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): For many years, MeSH terms were removed from records before they were added to Addison. More recently, MeSH terms were left in the record, but hidden from view and unsearchable. Now MeSH terms are searchable and appear near any Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). We may add MeSH terms back to a select number of records, but replacing the terms removed from all modified records is extremely unlikely.

Number

Library of Congress call number

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Government Document number

Punctuation and spaces are important; capitalization is not. Examples: A93.73:64; D 1.6/2:F 33.

Other call number

Search for videos, sound recordings, and other non-standard call numbers. Examples: DVD 1481; Video 8042; Compact Disc 4036.

ISSN/ISBN

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OCLC number

Example: 251202208

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