Keyword Search

The Keyword Search button allows you to perform a general search across multiple fields for any catalog records online.

• When to use it: Keyword Search is best if you want to do a broad search across categories. For example, enter water in the Keyword Search if you want to find everywhere water is written as a stand-alone word. Once entered, all artists named Water, or all works with water in their title will come up.
• PRO-TIP: Expand the search by putting your key word in asterisks (*). Now, when you search *water*, not only will the stand-alone word water come up in every field, so will any artist with the name Waterson, pieces with Edgewater or Waterslide in their title, and all works with watercolor listed as the medium.
• A few more things: Keyword searches use OR as the default connector between words. For example, a search for Edgewater Park will return records associated with Edgewater OR Park. If you want to find records where both keywords are found, type in AND between the two words (Edgewater AND Park). To search for a specific phrase, be sure to put the phrase within quotes ("Edgewater Park Beach"). Searches are not case sensitive.