What does keyword search mean?
The library keeps track of items with records that contain the title, author, subject, and summary description. When you use keyword to search for an item, the system searches all areas of the record: the title, author, subject, and summary. So a keyword search of homer would retrieve a record with a title of Homer’s Odyssey, another title called The Far Reaches by author Homer Hickam, and a Bob Dylan music CD that has the song Open the door, Homer in the summary description. If you knew two pieces of information like the author and title you could do a keyword search for homer reaches to narrow in on author Homer Hickam’s book. With keyword search the exact order of the words does not matter so you may do a keyword search for reaches homer far to retrieve Homer Hickam’s book. However, you do need to be exact in spelling. If you did a keyword search with a misspelled homor, you would not get any search results.
