Multiple Key Words or Phrases: Place in separate boxes or separate by Boolean operators. Don’t string them together all on one line as you would in Google.
Phrase Search: Use quotation marks to indicate a phrase search (“graphic design” "art therapy" "social realism")
Truncation: Add an asterisk * to the end of a term to retrieve results with multiple endings
For example:express* will retrieve records for expression, expressionism, expressionists, etc.
Boolean Operators can help you expand or narrow your search
AND: (“Picasso” AND “blue period”) Narrows your search so that only records containing both search terms come back to you.
OR: (artist or designer) Broadens your search so that all records containing the word artist as well as all records containing the word designer come back to you.
NOT: "medieval cathedrals" NOT “Romanesque” will brings back records about medieval cathedrals and none that are about Romanesque cathedrals.