What's the difference between KEYWORDS & SUBJECT?
Use the KEYWORDS search when you know only one or a few key words in the title, subject, contents, or sponsoring organization.
A KEYWORDS search retrieves records in which the term or terms appear.
However, a KEYWORDS search may retrieve records that are not relevant to your specific need.
A KEYWORDS search may retrieve records which are not relevant to your specific need
For example: depression
Retrieves records in which "depression" appears, without regard to the subject, which may be history, economics, psychology, geology, meteorology, astronomy, etc.
A SUBJECT search is based on the controlled terms in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
For best results, search a subject exactly as shown in these lists on in a University of Dayton library record
For example: Agriculture -- Ohio -- History
or just: agriculture ohio history
For example: Walker, Alice
or just: walker alice
Once you have retrieved a relevant record, just click on its subject heading to search for other items on the same subject.
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