The General Guidelines in searching for keywords are:
1. Users should not use
punctuations and special characters.
2. A comma represents an OR operation.
3. The system is not case sensitive.
Boolean Searching Hints E.g. Cats, Dogs
All titles of the library material containing the word Cats,
or/and Dogs will be displayed,
including the date the material was published and the agency who owns
the material.
Truncation Searching Hints E.g. cat
All titles of the material containing the word rice
will be retrieved, and displayed like catalog,
concatenation, and
indicator including
the date the material was published, and the agency who owns the material.
Title Searching Hints E.g. Birth
All titles of the library material containing the word birth
will be displayed, including the date the material was published,
and the agency who owns the material.
Author Searching Hints
No format is required. The author’s first name or last name can
be interchange. E.g. Jose
All titles of the library material with the author name Jose
will be displayed, including the date the material was published, and
the agency who owns the material. E.g. Yoro Jose
All titles of the library material with the author name Yoro
Jose will be displayed, including the date the material
was published, and the agency who owns the material. E.g. Manipon Francisco R
All titles of the library material with the author name Manipon
Francisco R will be displayed, including the date the
material was published, and the agency who owns the material. E.g. Francisco, Manipon
All titles of the library material with author name Francisco
or Manipon will be displayed,
including the date the material was published, and the agency who owns
the material.
Note: A comma
denotes an OR
operation.
Subject Searching Hints E.g. Papaya
All titles of the library material with the keyword Papaya
will be displayed, including the date the material was published,
and the agency who owns the material. E.g. Honey and Bee
All titles of the library material with the keyword Honey,
honey bee, and bee
will be displayed, including the date the material was published,
and the agency who owns the material.
Note: Do not
use the ampersand sign (&) because the system does not accept special
characters.
Publisher Searching Hints E.g. Gintong Butil
All titles of the library material with the publisher name Gintong
Butil will be displayed, including the date the material
was published, and the agency who owns the material. E.g. Wiley
All titles of the library material with the publisher name Wiley
will be displayed, including the date the material was published, and
the agency who owns the material.
Note: Do not use
the ampersand sign (&) because the system does not accept special
characters.
Date Published Searching Hints E.g. 1997
All titles of the library material with publication date 1997
will be displayed, including the date the material was published, and
the agency who owns the material.
Note: This date format will not retrieve the Jan 1997
format.
Do not use this format
mm-dd-yyyy(e.g. 10-10-2003) , or this format mm/dd/yyyy(e.g. 10/10/2003)
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