Use the subheading “exhibitions” in a Keyword Boolean search for exhibition catalogues:
rembrandt and exhibition? [truncated for singular or plural]
rembrandt and exhibition? and agnes
How to analyze a book citation
Schneider, Jane. "Cloth and Clothing." In Handbook of Material Culture, ed. Christopher Tilley et al., 203-20. London : Sage, 2006.
The citation refers to a chapter in an edited book.
Tip: Search Omni by Title Exact to see if Queen's Library has the book handbook of material culture. Omit initial articles (the, an, a). Ignore punctuation and case.
If a book is listed as not available, click Request to get it from another library.
Use AND to tell the database that ALL search terms must be present in results. Narrows your search results |
fashion AND art AND 19th (or leave a blank for AND as it is implied) dress AND gender |
Use OR between words for synonyms. Broadens your search results | victorian OR 19th OR nineteenth |
Use NOT to exclude terms |
sculpture AND degas NOT rodin "arts and crafts" (tip: limit to “Art Collection”)
"material culture" (limit to a library - e.g. "Stauffer" )
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Use quotation marks around phrases |
"art deco" AND fashion
"material culture" AND (aborigin? or indigen? or native or "first nation?")
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? for single character wildcard (useful for variable spellings) | wom?n for woman, women |
* for truncation (multiple character wildcard). Useful for variant endings of a root word. | fashion AND exhibition* AND metropolitan (exhibit* for exhibit, exhibits, exhibition, exhibitions) |
brackets to group terms (nested searching) | fashion* and (19th or nineteenth or victorian) |