Administrative Search
Rather than search the full text of the resource, this search looks for terms in specific, controlled areas of the document.

Date Last Modified: searches for the date that the resource was last changed.
Recommended Action: searches for controlled words that suggest what needs to be done with the resource.
Review Date: searches for the date on which action needs to taken on the resource.
Coverage: searches for spatial or temporal characteristics of the document, e.g. "Minnesota" or "Spring 1999."
Title: searches for words in the title of the document, assigned by the creator.
Creator: searches for the name of the person or entity responsible for the content of the resource.
Description: searches for significant keywords used to summarize the content of the resource.
Subject: searches for controlled words used to represent the main concepts of the document.
Keywords: searches for terms in the header of the document including the title, creator, description, and subject tags.

Boolean AND operator
Multiple terms are automatically connected by a Boolean AND operator. For example, if you enter the terms school library certification, the search engine looks for school AND library AND certification. The terms may be found anywhere in the document, but not necessarily adjacent.

Truncation
To find variant forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) at the end of the term. For example, entering librar* will find library, libraries, librarian, and librarians.
To search for a truncated date, simply enter as much of the date as desired, formatted  yyyy-mm-dd, followed by an asterisk. For example, to find resources last updated any day in December 2000, enter 2000-12*.

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