Searching Authorities by Keyword (Library of Congress Authorities Help)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <HEAD> <title>Searching Authorities by Keyword (Library of Congress Authorities Help)</title>  <META name=keywords content="keyword authority searching help record search overview subject names title name title search library congress authorities catalog help page file guide"> <META name=description content="Searching Authorities by Keyword - Finds name, title, name/title, and subject authority headings in a single keyword search."> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="opac-auth.css" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" link="#003333" vlink="#660000" alink="#CC0000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" background="images/help-background.gif">  <TABLE WIDTH=770 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> <TR valign=top> <TD width="200"><a href="#content"><IMG SRC="images/help-imagewhole.gif" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="182" border="0" alt="Skip Persistent Navigation"></a> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr> <td> <a href="http://authorities.loc.gov/" class="link">Authorities Home</a> <a href="/help/contents.htm" class="link">About Library of Congress Authorities</a> <a href="/help/auth-faq.htm" class="link">Frequently Asked Questions</a> SEARCHING: <a href = "/help/combinedsearch.htm" class="link">Search Overview</a> - <a href="/help/subj-auth.htm" class="link">Subject Authorities</a> - <a href="/help/name-auth.htm" class="link">Name Authorities</a> - <a href="/help/title-auth.htm" class="link">Title Authorities</a> - <a href="/help/nt-auth.htm" class="link">Name/Title Authorities</a> - <a href="/help/keyword-auth.htm" class="link">Keyword Authorities (All)</a> <a href="/help/history.htm" class="link">Search History</a> <a href="/help/unicode.htm" class="link">Diacritics & Special Characters</a> SEARCH RESULTS: <a href="/help/disphlpA1.htm" class="link">MARC Display</a> <a href="/help/disphlpA2.htm" class="link">Labelled Display</a> <a href="/help/headings.htm" class="link">Headings List</a> <a href="/help/refer.htm" class="link">References/Scope Notes</a> <a href="/help/savemail.htm" class="link">Save, Print, Email</a> OTHER TOPICS: <a href="/help/thesauri.htm" class="link">Headings List Types</a> <a href="/help/icons.htm" class="link">Icons, Buttons & Tabs</a> </td> </tr> </table> </TD> <TD width=570><img src="images/help-topright.gif" width=570 height=105 align="left" alt="Library of Congress Authorities Help Pages: use the browser's back button to resume searching"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><a id="content"></a> <h1>Searching Headings by Keyword</h1> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top">Select the search type Keyword Authorities (All) from the main search screen to find headings that contain your search terms. Names, titles, name/titles, and subjects (including genres and forms) established by the Library of Congress (and cooperating partners) and used in LC Catalog records will be retrieved in a single keyword search.</td> <td style="vertical-align:top"><img src="images/keyword-auth.gif" width="204" height="79" border="0" align="right" alt="Image of the Search Type window with Keyword Authorities (All) selected"></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="2" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#003300" bgcolor="#FFFFEE"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFEEAA">Heading keywords can be entered in any order. Note: Only headings and cross-references -- not all the fields in an authority record -- are searchable by keyword.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Keyword Authorities (All) Search Examples:</h2> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 width="95%" align="center" border=1> <tbody> <tr bgcolor=#ffffcc> <td width="30%">Heading type . . . </td> <td width="70%">Search Examples . . .</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%">name</td> <td width="70%">congressional budget office 明宣宗 china</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%">title</td> <td width="70%">"canterbury tales" bible english standard</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%">name/title</td> <td width="70%">beethoven sonata piano shakespeare hamlet</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%">subject</td> <td width="70%">civil war personal narratives whitman selections</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="tips">Search Tips:</h2> <ul> <li style="padding-bottom:5px">Enter your search terms in any order. Results will match all words entered.</li> <li style="padding-bottom:5px">Use quotation marks to identify words you want searched as a phrase (e.g., "solar energy")</li> <li style="padding-bottom:5px">Use a percent sign ( % ) as a single character wildcard, either inside or at the end of a search term (e.g., col%r retrieves color, coler and colur, but not colour)</li> <li style="padding-bottom:5px">Use a question mark ( ? ) as a multiple character wildcard, either inside or at the end of a search term (e.g., ecumen? retrieves ecumenical, ecumenism, etc.)</li> <li style="padding-bottom:5px">Most punctuation marks found at the end of words or phrases are ignored. Retain punctuation found in the middle of words and numbers (e.g., "4-H" or 401(k) plans)</li> <li style="padding-bottom:5px">Special characters are generally converted to their nearest alphabetic equivalent (for example: an Æ digraph to "ae" or a þ thorn to "th"). Retain the following special characters in searches: ampersands (&), plus signs (+), at signs (@), number signs (#), and musical flat and natural signs.</li> </ul> <h2>How to View Authorities and References:</h2> Keyword Authorities (All) search results are presented as a finite <a href="/help/headings.htm">Headings List</a> of all names, titles, name/titles, and subjects (including genres and forms) in the <a href="https://catalog.loc.gov/">LC Catalog</a>, whether these headings have authority records associated with them or not. <blockquote> Note: Headings in the LC Catalog that end with the legend "[from old catalog]" were assigned before the online cataloging era and may not be associated with a records in Library of Congress Authorities. In addition, the Headings List may display headings from in-process catalog records for which authority records will be made in the near future. </blockquote> To move forward through the Headings List, select<img src="images/s-next.gif" width="100" height="20" align="top" alt="Next Button">. Roman script entries are listed first, followed by entries in <a href="/help/unicode.htm#headingSort">non-Roman scripts</a>. To retrieve authority information, references, and/or notes for a heading, select the icon shown to the left of the heading. <img src="images/headings-keyword.gif" width="550" height="421" border="1" align="center" alt="Image of the Keyword Authorities (All) display for twain 'huckleberry finn'"> <hr noshade size="1"> <h2 id="stopwords">Keyword Authorities (All) Stopwords:</h2> Heading keyword searches do not index the following words or word fragments: <table width="98%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top">a about [reserved] accum [reserved] all an and are at be by can d do equiv [reserved] for from</td> <td style="vertical-align:top">fuzzy [reserved] he her his how i in into is it its minus [reserved] my near [reserved] no</td> <td style="vertical-align:top">not of on one or our s she so some stem [reserved] soundex [reserved] syn [reserved] t that</td> <td style="vertical-align:top">the their this through to ve was we what when who will within [reserved] you your</td> </tr> </table> Please consult the following Help Screens for more detailed information: <ul> <li><a href="/help/headings.htm">Headings List</a></li> <li><a href="/help/thesauri.htm">Headings List Types</a></li> <li><a href="/help/refer.htm">Authorized, References, and Scope Notes</a></li> <li><a href="/help/disphlpA1.htm">MARC Display</a></li> <li><a href="/help/disphlpA2.htm">Labelled Display</a></li> </ul> <hr noshade size="1"> Use the browser's [Back] button to exit help and resume searching. >><a href="#contents">Top of Page</a> </td> </tr> </table> </TD> </TR> <tr bgcolor="#FFEEAA" valign="middle"> <td>   Still need Help?   <a href="contact-authorities.htm">Contact the Help Desk</a> </td> <td align="right" style="padding-right:10px"> Library of Congress Authorities - <a href="http://authorities.loc.gov/">http://authorities.loc.gov</a> Library of Congress Catalog - <a href="https://catalog.loc.gov/">https://catalog.loc.gov</a> The Library of Congress Home - <a href="https://www.loc.gov/">https://www.loc.gov</a> </td> </tr> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>

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