A Phrase contains one or more search terms arranged in a particular order. Phrase searches retrieve those records in which the phrase appears in the beginning of a field and is an exact match. However, they tend to be more successful when you can specify the Library of Congress subject heading. It covers 76,000 collections with each record including LC s subject and name indexing terms. ArchivesUSA is available in the campus Libraries and to University of Massachusetts Amherst students, faculty and staff that access it through a UMAccess OIT account .
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