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Simple
Database Searching
Kentuckiana
Digital Library Database:
Holds bibliographic records with links to digital resources,
currently including archival finding aids, electronic texts,
digital photographs, and audio files. The database can be
searched by defined fields; creator/author, title, etc.
Select desired search type by clicking on a search tab.
*Note, the default is "Simple Search", searching
for your term or phrase in all the fields included in the
database.
Type a search term or phrase into the search sliver and
click the "Search Database" button.
When
constructing a search phrase, include a "+"
between each word in the phrase: civil+war+letter
Use "and", "or", or "not"
to further refine your search string: coal
and warren+county
Nest
search phrases using parenthases as in the following search
string: (firearms or guns) and
crime.
To
find a term and its different variations perform truncation
using an asterisk as in the following search: educat*
(this search will retrieve records containing educate,
educated, education, educational, and all other words
beginning with educat )
Be
aware of stopwords, those too common to search for in
the database because they occur so often. Example stopwords:
a, an, are, be, but, for, from,
of, on, that, the, was, which... *Note, the
database search engine ignores stopwords included in a
search string.
Advanced
Database Searching
Select
the advanced search tab.
Select desired field to search. Also select the desired
Boolean operator; and, or, not.
Set search limits using drop down boxes. *Note,
only selecting search limits does not construct a complete
search query. Search limits only work when used in combination
with an input search term (see step 6).
Set search results set list size and record layout format
Define sort order for search results set
Type a search term or phrase into the search sliver and
click the "Search Database" button.
Search
Database by Kentucky County
Clicking
on a county on the Kentucky map, or use the alphabetical
list of counties. The search form retrieves all the records
in the database that relate to the specified Kentucky county.
Browse
Database by Broad Topic Term (Library of Congress)
Clicking
on a topic area term executes a database search for resources
related to the topic.
Searching & Navigating Full-Text
Kentuckiana
Full-Text Database:
Comprised of full-text archival finding aids and additional
full-text resources. This database can be searched via full-text
and browsed by resource type (Archival Finding Aids, e-Books,
and Oral History Transcripts) and KYVL repository.
Navigating
- Select
a collection title indicated by the
icon to view the hot-linked list of the documents within
a collection.
- Select
a document title indicated by the
icon to view the hot-linked table of contents for that
document.
- Click
on these (
  ) to expand and collapse levels in the table of contents
for .
- Click
on these (
  ) to move from one section of the document to another.
- Digital
objects in the form of thumbnail images. When links in
the form of thumbnail images appear in documents, clicking
on the thumbnails will open a new browser window holding
the larger image.
- In
Non-Frames mode, click on the
icon to go to the table of contents for the current book.
Search
Use
key search terms. Specific search term (names, places, events,
years) yield more successful search results. The full-text
collections are not searched by fields like database records.
For a search, exact search term matches are found within
the full-text of available collections and documents.
Use
standard keyword searching, wildcards, proximity searching
and Boolean searching. Conduct searches localized within
an individual document, widened to include an individual
collection, or to search across all document collections.
Following
a search, before each collection title or section, the number
of search hits is displayed in red. Within individual documents,
the found text elements appear in bold red text.
Searches are not case sensitive.
Use wildcard symbols ("*" or "?")
Use proximity or Boolean ("and", "or" and "not") searching
techniques
Navigation
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a subheading list |
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to the previous/next section |
The following
icons appear around found  text
within the searched document. Clicking on these icons
jumps to the previous and
next hits from a search.
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Help:
Kentuckiana Digital Library Help Pages
*Note:
Buttons are not always available, depending on the level
at which you are viewing the Collection.
Searching
& Navigating e-Books
An e-Book
is comprised of digital page images delivered via the Web
to allow users to search and browse an electronic text in
a "page turning" format. e-Books may include a
wide range of printed and original manuscript material including
books, journals, diaries, etc.
Searching e-Books
Bibliographic
records for e-Book resources are created in the Kentuckiana
Digital Library Database and e-Book resources are also linked
to from selected searchable archival finding aids.
The
Kentuckiana Digital Library e-Books collection allows for
full-text searching of many texts. A full-text search can
be executed using keywords and Boolean operators across
a collection of e-Books in the digital library and at the
individual e-Book level. Search hit results are grouped
by collection, e-Book, and page number.
It is
important to consider that individual e-Books may have been
processed in a different manner from other individual e-Books
in the collection. This is largely due to alternate source
formats (i.e., printed vs. hand written manuscript material
requiring manual transcription for searching) and human
resource constraints. **Hand written manuscript material
often does not include searchable full-text along with page
images.
Navigating
e-Books
Our
e-Books interface allows for enhanced book navigation.
Controls
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Enter
a search term and hit return key or click on the 'Search'
button to execute search.
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All
controls target the right frame. From left to right;
view previous and next pages, activate thumbnails
view, view transcribed or raw text (if available),
hi-resolution image link (if available), activate
print view for PDF (if available). Buttons will disappear
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e-Books
Frames
Note: Page images with no pagination
are given "image" links. Page images with pagination
are given "page" links.
Thumbnails
View
Search
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Printing
e-Books
The
page images sent to you by our web server are medium resolution.
This enables them to be transmitted to your computer quickly
and allows your web browser to render them in a size that
fits on your computer monitor. However, these pages are
not appropriate for printing.
In
order to print readable copies that fit on a single 8.5
x 11 standard sheet of paper, you must click the print button
 when it is available.
This will load a Portable Document Format(pdf) version of
the page image. In order to view and print the Portable
Document Format(pdf) pages, you will first need to make
sure you have the Acrobat Reader application installed on
your computer and configured as a helper application for
your web browser.
Note:
Not all e-Books offer printing functionality.
Acrobat Reader is freely available for download on Adobe's
website at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Using
Archival Finding Aids
What
is an Archival Finding Aid?
An archival finding aid is a detailed description of the
contents of an archival collection. Finding aids include
inventories, registers and guides to assist scholars and
researchers in identifying the scope of intellectual content
present in a particular archival collection. Through searching
and browsing a finding aid, scholars and researchers can
more easily determine whether or not the collection holds
appropriate material for their research needs.
Common Finding Aid Structure
Descriptive
Summary:
Includes basic information about the collection such as
title, creator, collection number, repository, and physical
extent in terms of cubic/linear ft. and box and folder
counts.
Administrative
Information:
Includes any access and use restriction information as
well as preferred citation to be used when citing the
collection.
Biographical
Sketch:
Brief biographical text concerning the collection.
Scope
and Contents:
Brief overview of the contents of the collection.
Series
Description:
Brief descriptions of each subseries of the collection.
Container
List:
In-Depth description of the collection using container
references such as [box 1, folder 3], etc. This section
may contain links to digitized collection items.
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