Concordia University Records Management and Archives
Audio Visual Document Database

How to use the search page

1. If no criteria are entered in any field all the documents in the collection are retrieved (25 at a time).
2. You may enter just a fonds/collection number in the 'Document number' field if you so choose. Doing so will restrict the results to documents in that fonds.
3. If search criteria are entered in more than one field the search fields are processed using "and" logic, not "or" logic.
4. Fields whose names are preceded by an asterisk support Boolean keyword searching.

How to do Boolean keyword searches

Boolean searches are NOT CASE SENSITIVE.  Enter one or more words in a Boolean search field as follows:

• All search words must consist of at least three characters (not counting any attached operators).
• To indicate that all items retrieved MUST CONTAIN A WORD precede it with an addition operator ( + ).
  Example:   +miller
• To indicate that all items retrieved MUST NOT CONTAIN A WORD precede it with a subtraction operator ( - ).
  Example:   +miller -arthur
• To indicate that A WORD IS OPTIONAL (Boolean "or") do not precede it with any operator.
  Example:   soundtrack transcription
  
  A single word without an operator is treated as a required word; thus a search for "miller" is the same as a search for "+miller".
• A WORD MAY BE TRUNCATED by appending an asterisk ( * ) to the end of the word.
  Example:   transcrip*
• To SEARCH FOR A PHRASE put the phrase in double-quotes.  (You can use " + " and " - " with a phrase, but not   " * ").
  Example:   +"glenn miller" +transcrip*
• Hyphenated words are treated as two separate words.   To search for a hyphenated word treat it as a phrase.
  Example:   "multi-institutional"