Browse Search (Header link)
- Find It Browse SearchDirect link to a Browse search. Title, Author, Series, Subject (Library of Congress or National Library of Medicine) and many call number types. Only local library materials are included in the results.
Think of the Browse Search as a traditional catalog search (if you are old enough to remember those). The public interface of Primo VE/Find It utilizes the Alma browse capabilities. Search results only includes records from the Institutional Zone, not Network Zone records that are available to the institution. In other words, ebooks we can access through PASCAL collections are not included.
Libraries can customize the name and fields searched or opt not to make Browse searches available at all.
When to use?
- Having a hard time spelling an author's name? With an author browse search you can type in only as much as you are sure of and be shown a list of results
- When using a Title browse search, it is recommended that you omit initial articles (a, an, the)
- You want to see an organized list. Compare a Browse subject search for world war 1939 1945 aerial to an Advanced search (limit to subject and experiment with contains or contains exact).
- A person returns to your public service desk (no Alma) with a call number that isn't decipherable or complete.
Z711 something PS628 and you think it might be M or N that comes next