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 Online Archive of New Mexico

OANM Finding Aid Search Hints

Enter your search term in the Search for text box (eg. Cuarto Centennial). Do not use quotation marks around your search terms. The * character can be used as a wildcard if you are unsure of spelling or are searching for words beginning with or ending with certain characters (eg. survey* matches survey, surveyed, and surveying).

The options in the Using text box are:
"All of these words" for an and search (eg. Cuarto and Centennial will both be matched but don't necessarily need to be next to each other).
"This phrase" for an exact phrase search (eg. Cuarto Centennial will be matched exactly).
"Any of these words" for an or search (eg. Cuarto or Centennial or both will be matched).

In the Limited to text box, you can select options to search through an entire document for your search term, search only the title area of a document, search only the scope and content (a description of the material), or search only the controlled access points (things like subject, author, business name, geographic location, etc.).

In the In Repository text box you can limit your search to a particular OANM member archive site, or search all sites (the default.)

Finally, in the Display Type text box you can choose a detailed view (this choice will display the location, the collection size, and the top portion of an abstract if the finding aid has one) or a brief display which shows only the title and location.
The column on the left of the returned form shows the number of occurances of your search term in a finding aid taking into account the limitations you set in the various text boxes.
Single clicking on the link will bring up the finding aid. The finding aid consists of several linked HTML pages. Search terms are not highlighted in the finding aid returned by the search. To find the search terms in the actual HTML page you must use your browsers Find feature. (Click on the Edit pull down menu. In Netscape, click on Find in page..., in Internet Explorer click on Find (on this page)....) This will only search the current page. You must do this with each linked page you wish to search. The two most likely pages to search are the Scope and Content page and the Contents List page.

SEARCH HINTS