Melba Store Search Tips

MCLS's store search is designed for simple keyword searching.  This is not Google or your OPAC.

For best results follow these tips:
  • Generally it's better to start a wide search over a narrow search.  Keep the number of search terms to 1 or 2.
  • Searching is not case-sensitive.
  • When searching for a vendor, use just 1 or 2 words in the vendor's name.  For example: if you are searching for H.W. Wilson products, search for  Wilson.
  • Hyphens or other punctuation are needed to match, so searching for abc-clio will require you to search it with the hyphen.  A better search would be for just clio or abc (notice that searching is NOT case sensitive).
  • If you get a lot of results for your search, use your browser's page-searching tools to find the text on the page.  You get access to Firefox page-searching with Ctrl-F.