The default for displaying search results is by ascending Accession Number. Generally, the higher the accession number, the more recently that item was entered into the Catalog. If you sort by Document Number, items with no document number will display first. When sorting by Date, items where no dates are indicated will display first, then those items published in the same year are grouped together. You must choose a search term from one of the options in the authority lists by clicking on the down arrow at the far right of the field.
Big searches take time.
You will first see the number of results and then it may take several more seconds before the actual results are displayed. Each search will retrieve the total number of records in the catalog that match the specified search criteria, but only 50 records are printed or displayed on the screen at a time. If your search retrieves more than 50 records and you want to print the entire results, you need to print each list of 50 records separately. You can select items from each group of 50 and then just print what is selected. The initial search screen has the comparison operators set on the most commonly used operator.