How To Search/Millennium-III
Millennium is an integrated library system written and maintained by the company Innovative Interfaces, Inc. It is the software that libraries buy and it is where they place their catalog records for library items. The operators and fields are similar across most Millenium installations.
Boolean Operators
[edit | edit source]| Boolean Operator |
Syntax | Example |
|---|---|---|
| AND | and | skunk and tomato |
| OR | or | skunk or tomato |
| NOT | not | skunk not tomato |
Other Operators
[edit | edit source]| Syntax | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| {Default} | skunk smell removal |
phrase search |
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Truncation for 1-5 characters if placed at the end of a word. Wildcard for 1 character if placed in the middle of a word. | |
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Truncation for 6 or more characters. | |
| () | (Washington or Jefferson) and (constitution or declaration) |
word grouping; order of operation |
| near | skunk near tomato |
proximity search that find two word, in any order, which are close to one another |
| within # | skunk within 5 tomato | proximity search that finds two words, in any order, which are within the set range of words. |
Search Fields
[edit | edit source]| Syntax | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| a: | a: Washington |
Searches the author field. |
| t: | t: skunk |
Searches the title field. |
| s: | s: tomato |
Searches the subject field. |
| n: | n: core curriculum |
Searches the other notes field. |