It is especially useful if you do not know the exact title of the work, or the Library of Congress Subject Heading or the exact name of an organization. It is also the best type of search to use when looking for conference proceedings. In a WORD search you search for one or more keywords. Words of one or two letters are not searched. Punctuation marks are ignored.
Truncation allows for the retrieval of words with alternate endings.
Terms longer than twelve letters are automatically truncated at the twelfth letter. Different operators may be combined into a single search statement using parentheses.