Title Search: Help

A Title search retrieves materials by title in the exact word order of the search. Use this search when the title of the work is known. If you are unsure of the exact wording of an item's title, try a Keyword search.
To search by title, select the Title option from the search menu. Type the exact title, or the first few words, and click on "Search". Boolean operators (and, or, not) do not function in Title searches.

Results of your search are displayed in a Title List. Search limits are available for date of publication, language, item type, medium, and collection location.

Note: A Title search retrieves items based on information in the title fields of their catalog records. Many items, such as music CDs or anthologies, have a general title but also titles for each individual part, e.g. each music track or essay. These titles are not included in the item's title fields. To search for them, use a Keyword search.

Search Strategies:

• Always omit initial articles (a, an, the, das, un, el, la, l', etc.) in any language.
• Always omit initial punctuation in any language (e.g., quotation marks, ¿). Also, omit intervening commas, periods, apostrophes, and most other punctuation. Retain hyphens and internal commas or periods (commas or periods within numbers).

  1,001 Broadways or 1.001 poemas

• If searching the full title does not produce satisfactory results, enter only the first few words of the title.   You can also enter just the beginning of a word: searches are automatically truncated and retrieve catalog records that begin with the words or phrases you enter. Do not use the question mark (?) for truncation.

  painted ladies (for Painted ladies: women at the court of Charles II)
  ovids meta (for Ovid’s Metamorphoses)  

• Consider alternate forms of title words:

  initials, acronyms, abbreviations (e.g., epa or environmental protection agency)
  numbers (e.g., 60 or sixty)
  one word or two (e.g., child care or childcare)
  spelling variations (e.g., gray or grey, center or centre)
  similar concepts (e.g., internet or world wide web)
  word variations (e.g., email or e-mail)

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