MULTISEEK SEARCH

MultiSeek is available from every page in the catalogue. The MultiSeek links are located on the upper and lower blue bars, which appear on each page.

MultiSeek search allows you to further refine search criteria so that only very specific results are received. MultiSeek search uses Boolean operators and combines terms for more streamlined results.

When clicking on the MultiSeek search, you are presented with a screen similar to the one above.

To perform a MultiSeek search:

1. From the dropdown menus, select the field(s) to search
2. In the field(s) provided, enter the search criteria
3. From the dropdown menus, select the Boolean search operand
   • OR – used to receive search results that contain either of the items before and after the OR operand. Example: Selecting ‘cat OR dog' will produce results that contain both cat and dog, as well as only dog or only cat.
   • AND – will produce results that contain both items before and after the AND operand. Example: Selecting ‘mouse AND elephant' will only produce results that contain both mouse and elephant.
   • NOT – will produce results that contain the item(s) before the NOT operand but excludes items after the NOT operand. Example: selecting ‘cat NOT elephant' will produce results that contain cat, but will exclude items which contain cat as well as elephant.
4. Click Search
5. Reset will reset the search to default so that a new search can be entered
6. The Results screen will display the number of hits in the Title Bar and list them in the main screen.

*Note About Keywords and SoundsLike: When using the "Keywords" or "SoundsLike" Area to Search, more than one word in each Search Criteria field may be entered. Unless you specify otherwise, AND is the set default Operand that will be applied between the words you enter. Only the Keyword or SoundsLike Area to Search are able to support multi-word Search Criteria entries.

Compiled by Theatre Alberta from Kelowna Software Ltd.'s original help file information