MOBIUS Tutorial Keyword Introduction The keyword search is used to combine ideas or concepts using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NEAR, WITHIN. ( Note: Capitalizing operators is not required) For example: AND: television and violence and children OR: clothing or apparel or garments or attire NEAR: space shuttle near challenger WITHIN: fraternity within 3 hazing Nesting: (career or vocation or job) and (acting or theatre or theater) Search the MOBIUS Catalog

Tips for success: AND narrows your search because it requires all of the words to appear in the record. (Note: Since AND is the default search operator, entering television violence children would retrieve the same results)    OR expands the search because it requires only one of the terms to appear in the record. (Note: Use OR to combine synonyms or terms with variant spellings)    NEAR retrieves records that contain the specified words or phrases within ten words of each other WITHIN specifies the maximum number of words that may appear between search terms Several Boolean operators can be used in a single search. Parenthesis may be used to group portions of a search together. This is known as nesting. (Note: OR searches are always nested before combining them with the AND operator)