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Power Search Tips
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Title Search will search the title only.
Keyword Search will search the title, summary, subject and keywords.
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Word Matching
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Partial Match
Functions as a "starts with" search. This search can be used to find text strings that may be part of other
complete words. For example, a Partial Match on cat
will return cat, cats and cathedral. It
is generally better to search for the singular form of a word
and use the Partial Match option to find singular and plural
forms. When you are uncertain of a spelling, key in the
letters that you are certain the word begins with and use the
Partial Match function.
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Exact Match
An Exact Match functions as an explicit search.
For example, an Exact Match on cat will return all products that contain the
word cat such as Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat. However, it will
not return Cats Don't Dance because the word cat is in the plural form.
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Word Usage
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Use All Words
This option will return products that contain all the words entered.
For example, a search on cat dog will return Hot Dogs and Cool Cats, but
not Mr. Sears' Catalogue.
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Use Any Word
Using Any Word in a search for that darn cat will return all
matches to titles that contain that, darn or cat.
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Use As Phrase
This option in a search for cat in the will return Cat in the Hat because the words appear in the same sequence.
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Search Modifiers
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Grade Range
A Grade Range can be set to limit search results. For example, if you are looking for a
program for a 5th grade class, you may want to enter grades 4 to 6 as your range.
The default is Pre-Kindergarten through Adults.
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Media Type
You may select from the different media types available.
Choices include All Media, Video, All CD-ROM, DOS CD-ROM, Windows 3.x CD-ROM, Win 95 CD-ROM, Macintosh CD-ROM, DVD,
Audiocassette, Activities and Laserdisc. The default is All Media.
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Closed-Captioned
Checking this box will return titles that are Closed-Captioned.
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New Titles
Checking this box will return titles received by Library Video Company in the past 365 days.
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Copyrights
You may choose to display titles based on the year of copyright. This may be modified to return
titles copyrighted In, Before, After, Before & Including or After & Including a certain year (or All Years).
The default is In All Years.
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Results Modifiers
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Results Per Page
Select how many items you want listed per page. If you have a fast Internet connection, you may want
to see more results per page, or if you wish to print out your results list, you may want all
of the items on one page. Please note that selecting a high number of results per page can create a very large
download.
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Sort
The default sort uses an algorithmic model for keyword/subject relevance. However, you may change the sort for any search using this feature. In addition, you will be able to sort from the results page on Title (alpha), Price and Media Type. To change sort options in advance of your search, select either Title of the product, the Price of the product, the Media type, and Showing New titles first, Ascending order starts at low values (0 for numbers or a for letters) and ranges to high values, while descending starts at high values and ranges to low values. For relevance, the higher the value, the more relevant it is to your search, so descending is the default search order.
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