Library Quick Search
Library contains 1000+ books and other publications including
primary sources:
- school textbooks
- technical manuals
- medical texts
- reports by early explorers and travelers such as Palliser, G.M. Dawson
and John Macoun
and secondary sources:
- community histories
- topical histories [i.e. irrigation, Native people, the Mounted Police
and coal mining]
- numerous other secondary source
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Search Tips
Within search boxes:
- Search terms are automatically joined by AND
(e.g. information research finds information AND research)
- Use / for OR
(e.g. art / design)
- Use ! for NOT
(e.g. design ! software)
- Use " " to search for a phrase
(e.g. "press releases")
- Truncation is automatic
(e.g. system finds
system,
systems,
systematic, etc.)
Special characters:
- Use >, <, >=, <= for greater or less than
(e.g. >= 1999 finds dates from 1999 onwards)
- Use : to search a range
(e.g. 1999:2003, example:sample)
- Use the proximity operators w (within) and p (preceding) to find
words near each other
(e.g. arts p3 culture finds records with 'arts' up to 3 words before
'culture')
(e.g. social w5 design finds records with these words within 5
words of each other)
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