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To search for books (and other items) at Auburn Univeristy Libraries use the

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General

• Limits only apply to Title and Journal Title. For Author or Subject, use Keyword searches
• Truncation is automatic: teach = teacher, teaching, teaches, etc.
• Do not combine terms with AND OR NOT
• In a list of subjects or authors, the See Also button leads to references that contain information related to your search.

Author

• Last name first: wong harry

Title 

• Omit initial articles (a, an, the, der, la, los...): first days of school
• Enter just the first few words: cyclopaedia of education a dictionary

Call Number

• Use punctuation and spaces: lc 189.95 e38 2002
• Use for Library of Congress or Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) numbers only