AccessUN Tutorial

Lesson 1: Author Searching

To find out about items emanating from individuals or UN organizations, you need to search both Title and Author fields. Let's say you know Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, wrote something about the global economy in November 1998. You will want to search for his name in the Author or Title fields as contents notes are also included when you search the Title field.

  1. In input box, type Annan.
  2. In drop-down menu, choose in Author.
  3. In drop-down menu, choose or.
  4. In input box, type Annan.
  5. In drop-down menu, choose in Title.
  6. In drop-down menu to Limit Search by date, choose from NOV day 1998.
  7. In drop-down menu, choose to NOV day 1998.
  8. Click Search button.

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Created for LIS 316: Library Instruction and Assistance Systems.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 11/2000.
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