Here are a few ways to get more relevant results...

Use quotation marks around phrases.

     EXAMPLE:

                “saint patrick” will retrieve… The Life of Saint Patrick by Quentin James

                saint patrick will retrieve…The Geology of Mount Saint Helens by Patrick Pringle

Use a capitalized OR to search for different possible words or phrases.

      EXAMPLE:

                irish OR celtic will retrieve results that have either the word Irish or Celtic in them.

Use parentheses to specify the order of how words are searched.

      EXAMPLE:

(irish OR celtic OR ireland) AND history will retrieve results that contain the word history and contain either the word Irish, Celtic, or Ireland.

Use an asterisk (*) at the end of a root word to find results with variant endings.

     EXAMPLE:

                histor* will retrieve history, historical, historian, etc. 

Use the Advanced Search screen to search for keywords in a title, subject, author etc.