Health, physical education, recreation and dance subject headings often have several subdivisions. When entering subject headings in the library catalog search form leave off all punctuation and capital letters. Subject headings for individuals appear like the examples shown below. When entering a person's name as a subject heading in the library catalog search form leave off all punctuation and capital letters. With keyword searching, search terms can be combined with the operators and , or , not .
Truncation allows users to stem words or retrieve root words with several endings.
The search shown below will locate records in the Owens Library Catalog that include the words athlete, athletes, or athletics. Keyword searches may include nesting. Qualifying a search allows users to look for information in a specific field of a catalog record such as the author, title, subject or note field. Order these books through Interlibrary Loan . Be sure to use the keyword synonyms formulated at the beginning of the search and refined during the library catalog search as search terms in the periodical indexes.