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2.2.3 Note that the search term “membership cards” was entered using quotations. This meant that the two words were searched as a phrase. Entering membership cards without quotations would have resulted in the default OR boolean operator being used. The search box in ICA-AtoM can accommodate a number of search types.
Try the following more advanced searches:
membership and not cards
workers and “membership cards”
workers and not “membership cards”
union* and workers
union* and not labour
2.2.4 You can refine your search further by searching on specific fields. Try the following searches, being sure to type them exactly as they are shown (no capital on the field name, no space after the colon):
title:union
repository:“University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections”
scopeandcontent:workers
union* and not scopeandcontent:workers
Notes on Boolean Operators:
AND searches for records containing both of the words and narrows the search.
OR searches for records containing either of the words and broadens the search.
AND NOT searches for records containing the first term but not the second term.
The asterisk * may be used to truncate a search term. This means that work* will search for work, works, workers, working, etc.