| Use the Keyword search when you know only one or a few key words in the title, subject, contents, or sponsoring organization. A Keyword search retrieves records in which the term or terms appear. However, a Keyword search may retrieve records which are not relevant to your specific need. | ||
| A Keyword search may retrieve records which are not relevant to your specific need | For example: | depression |
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| Retrieves records in which "depression" appears, without regard to the subject, which may be history, economics, psychology, geology, meteorology, astronomy, etc. | ||
| A Subject search is based on the controlled terms in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). | ||
| For best results, search a subject exactly as shown in these lists on a record | For example: | Agriculture -- Indiana -- History |
| or just: | agriculture indiana history | |
| For example: | Walker, Alice | |
| or just: | walker alice | |
The IWU Catalog has separate options for LCSH
Once you have retrieved a relevant record, just click on its subject heading to search for other items on the same subject.