Searching Requests in Request Manager

Request Manager displays a summary list of WorldCat Resource Sharing requests needing action, and allows you to search all current requests (all requests except those with a status of Closed) using a variety of terms.

Details

You can search for specific requests a number of ways. The searching process operates differently for different search types.

For all searches except Exact match:

• Case is ignored.
  Example: The Guns of August produces the same results as the guns of august.

• Stopwords are ignored.
  Example: For whom the bell tolls is searched as whom bell tolls.

• Punctuation is removed and the remaining characters (spaces included) are collapsed.
  Examples: Shakespeare, William searches as Shakespeare William (the space before W  remains)
  Examples: Shakekspeare,William searches as ShakespeareWilliam

• Diacritics are stored in the database as Roman characters.
  Example: Search for Paul Valéry as Paul Valery
  Example: Search for Cien años de soledad as Cien anos de soledad
  

Exact match searching

An exact match search requires you to enter the exact text you want to retrieve. You can use exact match searching for borrowing library, lending library and request identifier searches.

Keyword searching

A keyword search retrieves the entire search term as a whole word (that is, bordered by spaces) anywhere within the search type. You can use keyword searching for the searches shown below.

Examples:

Boolean expressions.  You can combine keywords using Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT; you may also use parentheses for more complex searches.

Examples:

Phrase searching

A phrase search retrieves the exact phrase between the double quotes as a whole word (that is, bounded by spaces" anywhere within the search type. You can use phrase searching for the searches shown below.

Examples:

Truncated searching

A truncated search is used for author, call number, patron department, patron identifier, patron name, and title searches. For these searches, you may enter the partial names or titles with an asterisk (*), with or without a space, in upper- or lower case (case insensitive).

Examples: In the following examples, this symbol represents a blank space.

This...	Retrieves...	This
rob*	Any name or title beginning with rob+space:	Rob Madison Rob Roy
rob*	Any name or title beginning with rob	Rob Madison Rob Roy Robert Ludlum Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
lit*	Any term beginning with lit	French language & lit renaissance lit Spanish lit Spanish literature
nnnn*	Any term such as an ID number: 1841*	18412316
PR45*	Any call number beginning with PR45	PR4536 .M4  Metcalf, John C .  De Quincey: a portrait PR4568 .A1 1864  Dickens, Charles.  Our mutual friend PR4571 .A1 1901  Dickens, Charles.  A tale of two cities PR4588 .R6  Romano, John.  Dickens and reality
PR457*	Any call number beginning with PR457	PR4571 .A1 1901  Dickens, Charles.  A tale of two cities PR4575 .D525 2003  Galvin, John ed.  Dickens on screen PR4577 .K5 1899  Kitton, Frederic G.  Dickens and his illustrators
* smith	Any name or title ending with space+smith:	Gene Smith The Life of Joseph Smith
* literature	Any term ending with space+literature:	Spanish literature
*smith	Any name or title ending with smith:	Gene Smith Jack L. Hammersmith Blacksmith The Life of Joseph Smith
*smith*	Any name or title containing the string smith	Fundamentals of Blacksmithing
smith	Any name or title containing only the word smith:	Smith