{"id":11654,"date":"2014-02-28T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=11654"},"modified":"2015-09-01T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:08:26","slug":"search-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/catalogs\/search-instructions","title":{"rendered":"Search Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"FC1\">\n\tThe examples below provide a variety of approaches that can be used to search the Archives<br \/>\n\tand Special Collections Catalogs and Databases. If you are having difficulty using any database, please<br \/>\n\tcontact us for support at <a href=\"mailto:archives@davidson.edu\">archives@davidson.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"example_search\">\n<p>\n\t<strong>Search for Words and Phrases<\/strong> <br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Single Term:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">Musician<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Phrase:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">Reserve Officers Training Corps<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records with the <u>exact phrase<\/u> entered)<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Truncation:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">Music*<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records that have music, musicians, musical, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Boolean Searches<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Boolean AND:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">Music &amp; ROTC<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records that have <u>both<\/u> words in the record)<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Boolean OR:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">Music \/ ROTC<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records that have <u>either<\/u> word in the record)<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Search Dates and Years<\/strong> <br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Date:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">1890<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records where the date is the date field or the caption)<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Truncated Date<\/span>: <span class=\"example\">189*<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records with dates from 1890 to 1899)<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Date Range:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">1890:1990<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records with dates from 1890 to 1990) [use for &#8220;Date&#8221; field only]<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Academic Year:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">1890-1891<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records matching the academic year entered: format is yyyy-yyyy)<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"type\">Academic Year Range:<\/span> <span class=\"example\">1890-1891:1990-1991<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t(retrieves records for dates from 1890 to 1991)\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The examples below provide a variety of approaches that can be used to search the Archives and Special Collections Catalogs and Databases. If you are having difficulty using any database, please contact us for support at archives@davidson.edu. Search for Words and Phrases Single Term: Musician Phrase: Reserve Officers Training Corps (retrieves records with the exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21603,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions\/21603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}