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3.3 Note that the search term “city hall” was entered using quotations. This meant that the two words were searched as a phrase. Entering city hall without quotations would have resulted in the default OR boolean operator being used. The search box in ICA-AtoM can accommodate a number of search types. Try the following more advanced searches:
city and not hall [2,254 results]
construction and “city hall” [5 results]
construction and not “city hall” [495 results]
drawing* and architectural [106 results]
drawing* and not hall [257 results]
3.4 You can refine your search further by searching on specific fields. Try the following searches, being sure to type them exactly as they are shown (no capital on the field name, no space after the colon):
title:architectural [11 results]
repository:“City of Richmond” [308 results]
scopeandcontent:architectural [263 results]
drawing* and not scopeandcontent:architectural [176 results]
3.5 You can also search for archival descriptions belonging to a specific repository. To do this, you must first locate the repository. Start by clicking on repositories in the browse box.