Searching in The ELAC Catalog

• No need to use capital letters.
• Use a dollar sign ($) to truncate, i.e. to find words that have a common root (gun$ to find gun, guns, gunnery, etc; $ology to find anthropology, archaeology, psychology, etc)
• Use a question mark (?) to substitute for any single letter (wom?n to find both woman and women).
• Usually you'll leave the search option as "word(s) or phrase".
• Do not use punctuation; for example, women's studies should be womens studies.
• If you enter multiple words, the ELAC catalog will search for items with all the words in their title or description.

GET READY TO SEARCH . . .

Let's say you're interested in finding information about policy related to global warming.

On the next page, you will search for this topic using ELAC library catalog's basic search.