Without them, the retrieval list runs to 726 items, mixing books owned by the novelist with books from the library of James L. Henry, a private collector. The genre terms used are taken from the controlled vocabulary given in several publications of the Association of College and Research Libraries. It is not the Library's practice to make an entry for every term in the thesauri. Therefore, retrievals using the genre terms should be considered as examples of the genre, not as an exhaustive list of everything Bancroft owns to which that genre term might be applied. A few cataloguing units besides Bancroft have used this field.
Pathfinder also allows for genre searching.
This brings up the records for 223 titles. It is important to remember the special features of Gladis and Pathfinder outlined above to obtain the best and most reliable results. The boolean search features of Pathfinder have made the special files even more useful since it is now possible to combine special files queries with other types of searches. It will take patience and persistence before you feel truly at ease with these new searches, but we feel that our users will find the special files to be a great help in their research. 1998 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley.