Youth & Community Work

You can use Library Search to look for the exact title of a book, journal or article you are looking for. There are two techniques you can use:

• Use the drop-down list and select "Title" or type in your search prefixed by ti:. For example:
  

  ti:interpreting qualitative data

• Type or copy the title into the Library Search box or keyword search and put it in quotation marks. For example:
  

  "interpreting qualitative data"

When searching for resources by title, correct spelling is vital! Copying and pasting is a good idea; but if your search returns no results, make sure you check the spelling of words in your search and look out for American and British spelling differences, e.g. 'Organisation' vs 'Organization'.

If you know the name of an author or researcher whose work you are interested in, you can use the "author" search function by either choosing "Author" from the drop-down menu, or typing

au:

Library Search is good at recognising the different ways that names are expressed (e.g. Fist Name-Family-Name or Family Name, comma, First Name; however, it will also search for both names individually. The best way of searching for author names is therefore to use quotation marks around the name in the following format:

"Family Name, First Name"

Using the Keyword search, you can combine search terms to include authors, titles or parts of title and keywords and phrases together. You do not have to use any special format to do this (except remembering to put "quotation marks" around any phrases). For example

Shakespeare masculinity "Taming of the Shrew"

combines all three elements.

However, if you want your search to be more specific, you can add the determiners ti:, au: or kw: before individual search terms. For example, if you wanted to find what Harold Bloom had written about Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew, you might search for:

"Taming of the Shrew" au:bloom