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Millennium is an integrated library system written and maintained by the company Innovative Interfaces, Inc. It is the software that libraries buy and it is where they place their catalog records for library items. The operators and fields are similar across most Millenium installations.
Boolean Operators
BooleanOperator Syntax Example AND and skunk and tomato OR or skunk or tomato NOT not skunk not tomato
Other Operators
Syntax Example Description {Default} skunk smell removal phrase search || skunk* Truncation for 1-5 characters if placed at the end of a word.Wildcard for 1 character if placed in the middle of a word. || math** Truncation for 6 or more characters. () (Washington or Jefferson) and (constitution or declaration) word grouping; order of operation near skunk near tomato proximity search that find two word, in any order, which are close to one another within # skunk within 5 tomato proximity search that finds two words, in any order, which are within the set range of words.
Search Fields
Syntax Example Description a: a: Washington Searches the author field. t: t: skunk Searches the title field. s: s: tomato Searches the subject field. n: n: core curriculum Searches the other notes field.