Searching CATNYP for Archives and ManuscriptsWord Searches
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Other Searches Unlike Word Searching, when using Subject, Author, or Title searching, you limit your results to Archives and Manuscripts after you receive your initial search results. Subject searching Panama Canal retrieves 988 items, most of them books. To see only the archival materials, click on the "Limit/sort Search" button. You will then be taken to another screen where you can limit by Archives and Manuscripts.
Your result will be the same five records you received in one step using Keyword Searching. Other Advantages of Keyword Searching Keyword Searching is a powerful and flexible tool. It can search all parts of a catalog record. This is particularly important when searching for archival material, since archival collections do not usually have traditional "authors, " "titles" or "subjects" as books do. For instance, while it is necessary to distinguish between books by Ernest Hemingway and books about Hemingway, this distinction is not so useful for archival research. Researchers looking for material on Hemingway would find letters to him, from him, and about him of interest. Word Searching can retrieve all of these at once. However, it is also possible to restrict a search to specific fields or combination of fields. For more information on Keyword search strategies, see What is Word (Keyword) Searching?. |
