Operators, Records, and Fields...

When using the EPS, you will notice a search box near the top/center of just about every page (see image). This gives the customer quick access to our catalog. With the drop-down menu, you can apply a quick limiter to your search. But can you just type whatever words you want into the search box? Yes and no. While this is a step towards a "googleified" search process, this does not work quite the same as a search engine. You still have to use boolean operators and such.

While you give up a little simplicity, you gain much more control. For example, searching for chicago and history with return all records with the words chicago and history anywhere in the record.

Searching for chicago same history will return all records with the words chicago and history within the same field.

Searching for chicago with history will return all records with the words chicago and history within the same sentence within a field.

Searching for chicago near history will return all records with the words chicago and history next to each other within a field.

Confused about the terms Record and Field? Visit this page.

For more information about boolean operators and other search strategies, visit this page.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please let me know (email, phone, comments, wiki discussion page, etc.).