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Browse the Collection
Use the browse option for viewing items without specifying
search criteria. Results are presented in alphabetical order by
author and then title or in chronological order from oldest to
newest. By following these links, you will also have access to
bibliographical information and a page image of each work.
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Search the Collection
Use Search:
- If you have specific search criteria, such as author,
title, city of publication, or publisher.
The search fields can only be used one-at-a-time. You
CANNOT search multiple fields at once. The search fields make
use of boolean operators (eg. AND, OR, NOT) to further refine
search results. For a more complete explanation of Boolean operators
and Boolean searches, please visit the following site (page will
open in a new window):
http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html.
Because many of the titles have been translated from their original languages, a helpful search strategy would be to employ as many different spelling variations as possible in your search criteria. For example, when searching for books by Euclid, the alternate spelling "Euclides" should also be used. In addition, often in Latin spelling, the letter pairings U and V and I and J are interchangeable. Therefore, alternate spellings substituting one letter for its companion would return the most hits. For example, "Institutium" should be spelled as "Institvtivm," etc.
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Search Results
Search results are presented in alphabetical order, by
title. Results may be viewed up to four different ways.
- Grid—displays five fields and allows user to
re-sort results by clicking on any column header.
- Thumbnails—displays a thumbnail image and
the item title.
- Bibliographic—displays text from up to five
fields without images.
- Titles—displays only item titles.
Click on a letter to link to the definition of that
element:
Figure 1 - Search Results image
A. Global Navigation
Bar
Global navigation for searching, browsing, and working with
items in the collection.
B. Search
Results
Displays the number of items in the collection that match your
search criteria.
C. View Options
Use
the buttons labeled Grid, Thumbnails, Bibliographic and Titles to
view your search results. Each option presents a different view of
the results.
- Grid view shows five fields.
- Thumbnail view displays larger thumbnail images
along with the item title.
- Bibliographic view is simply a text based view of
item titles and metadata.
- Titles view displays only the titles of items.
D. Check Boxes
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has been disabled for The Books of Isaac Norris at Dickinson.
E. Select All, Clear All,
Add Selected Items to Favorites
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which has been disabled for The Books of Isaac Norris at Dickinson.
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browsers.
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If your search produces more results than can be displayed on
one page, click the hyperlinked page numbers to view other results
pages.
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