Basic Search - Title
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Basic Search - Title retrieves materials
by title in the exact word order of the search.

TITLE SEARCHES FIND...
- main title of a single work (book, journal article, chapter from
a book, etc.)
- title of works in a series (Latin America otherwise; Pitt
Latin American series)
NOTE:
Search limits are available.
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are not
available.
Title Search Examples:
To retrieve the Title . . . |
You can enter. . . |
La casa de los espiritus |
casa de los espiritus |
Latin American art: an introduction to works of the 20th century |
latin american art |
Bolivia: land of struggle |
bolivia land |
"Sons of the same father": gender, race, and citizenship
in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1792 |
sons of the same father |
Dictionary of Maya hieroglyphs |
dictionary of maya hieroglyphs |
¿Quien habla por la ciudad?: la politica portena
y el affaire CHADE, 1932-1936 |
quien habla por la ciudad |
Search Tips:
- Always omit initial articles (a, an, das, el, la, the, etc.) in
any language.
- Always omit initial punctuation in any language (e.g., quotation
marks, ¿). Also, replace other punctuation with a space.
(Exception: drop apostrophes and close up the space.)
See examples, above.
- If searching the full title does not produce
satisfactory results, enter only the first
few words of the title.
- refried elvis (for Refried
Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture)
- del amor (for Del amor
y otros demonios, by Gabriel García
Márquez)
- cuban lit (for works in the Cuban
literary studies series)
- Consider alternate forms of title words:
- initials, acronyms, abbreviations (e.g., us or united states)
- numbers (e.g., 10 or ten)
- one word or two (e.g., rainforest or rain forest)
- spelling variations (e.g., quipu or khipu)
- similar concepts (e.g., british or english)
- word variations (e.g., archeology or archaeology)
- 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.
Alternative Search Options:
When the exact title word order is not known, try either a Boolean
Keyword or a Guided Search using
the words of the title you do know with Boolean operators (e.g., yearbook
AND geography).
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