Changes to MacEwan Catalogue Searches

Catalogue searching has changed: Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) must now be CAPITALIZED. For example, use:

    cats AND (food OR diet) NOT mice instead of cats and (food or diet) not mice.

 

The catalogue will treat lower-case operators as part of the search. For example:

    cats AND dogs will retrieve a different number of results than cats and dogs.

 

If you don't use AND to join search terms, the catalogue will treat your search as if the operator AND were present. For example:

    cats AND dogs is the same as cats dogs

 

You can also use a short dash instead of NOT. For example:

    cats –mice is the same as cats NOT mice