Basic Search - Title

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)

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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

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• 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.

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