SirsiDynix Symphony

Users search by a combination of search types and indexes.  It is important to understand what each search is doing to get the desired results.

Additional Search Indexes (No MARC field)

Item ID

Title Control Number

User ID

KEYWORD: returns records that contain the term(s) entered, wherever they may appear in the field(s) specified. If fields are not specified, all indexed fields are searched. The terms AND, NOT, OR, and XOR are treated as boolean operators by default in Keyword searches. The following search indexes can be used with Keyword searching and support Boolean and proximity operators, substitution, truncation, and nesting (go to Search Strategies):

• Author
• General
• Periodical Title
• Series
• Subject
• Title

BROWSE (Exact Search): matches terms entered character by character with cataloged entries in the system. The Browse option produces a list in the alphabetic vicinity of the term you typed. The second item in the list-the closest match-will be highlighted, and from that point you can browse forward or backward in the list The following search indexes support browsing:

• Author – Browses last name only
• Call Number – Browses only one library at a time, displaying each number of copies
• General – Browses only subject indexes
• Periodical Title – Browses only the periodical index
• Series
• Subject
• Title
• Title Control Number – Browses by original prefix and subsequent digits

EXACT: searches the browse list and only displays the matching record or hit list associated with that entry. If an exact match is not found, a browse list appears at the point closest to the search term. The Exact search option is BEST used on these search indexes:

• Item ID
• Title Control Number
• User ID