Search
At any time you can clear your search and start your search again by clicking the reset icon (1)
The first search drop-down allows you to choose 1 of the 4 resources in the Tasmanian Collections tab to search. It is often worthwhile to initially search Everything as you may discover unexpected resources and you are easily able to limit your results to specific types of records (e.g. online).
Enter your search into the search box and press the Enter key or click the search icon (2).
You can search for a single word or multiple words or a phrase.
If you want an exact phrase you may need to surround the phrase with double quotation marks if the words are commonly used.
Search examples:
- Mills
- Electrolytic Zinc
- "Clarence High School"
Limiting your results
The categories to the left of your results can be used to limit your results.
The Availability and Format categories are expanded. The other categories can be expanded by clicking the + icon:
For each expanded category the top 5 limits display.
To select a limit(s), click the checkbox(es) and click the Select button:
Records can be removed from your results by clicking the Ignore button:
If there are more than 5 limits, all can be displayed by selecting View All (3). Options may be sorted A to Z and the required limits selected or ignored:
Year limits
The year category always displays 5 limits:
When you select a range, the years are split into 5 more limit ranges allowing you to continue to drill down until single years display:
Sorting
The default sort for all results is by relevance.
If your results are less than 1000 titles you can re-sort by Year, Title or Author:
Select an Action
You can select records on your results page by clicking the checkboxes to the left of the images or you can select all 12 records on the page by clicking the select all checkbox (4)
The Select an Action drop-down allows you to perform actions on your selected records:
- Add the record to a list – see My Lists help
- Email the record
- Change to a print friendly browser view
Full record detail
Click on the image or title of a record in your search results to view the full record:
Clicking the blue links will perform a new search for the words in that link. For example, a subject search for "Paper industry Tasmania New Norfolk" or an author search for "Australian Newsprint Mills".
As this is a library record its location is displayed (5)
The action icons (6) allow you to:
- Change to a print friendly browser view
- Email the record
- Add the record to a list – see My Lists help
Click Permalink to display the unique web address for this record which you can bookmark in your browser:
Archives Series
If the series has less than 100 items associated with it, links to these items can be searched and they display in the series full detail record:
Clicking on the first Go to Archives link (7) will take you to Archives record for this series but you can also click on item links (8) to go directly to that item record in Archives.
If a series has more than 100 items, the items are not included in the series record and cannot be searched.
You will need to click on the series link (7) to view the items in Archives:
Searching using Search Limits
You do not need to enter a search term or phrase to commence your search
Click the reset icon (1) to clear any of your searches and then click the search icon (2) :
All records will display in your search results and you can use the search limits to limit your results.
For example, click on the Format photograph limit to return all photographs:
Search Examples
Example 1
Enter the search Electrolytic Zinc
If you wish to view the Online records click Online in the Availability limit.
Your search is now reduced to 55 online records and Online is included in Your search so far:
You can view an image or electronic document by clicking View online from the results screen or you can select the image or title to view the full detail :
You can view the image within this record (9) but we recommend you click on the first Electronic Resources link (10) to open the image in another browser tab.
You can also select the blue Series link to view other digitised images in this series.
As this record is from Archives you can click on the second Electronic resources link (10) to view more details about this Archives series.
If you wish to view non-online records, remove the red cross from online (11) by clicking on it.
You return to your original 154 records. You could now select Archives in the Availability limit
Your search is now reduced to 31 Archives Series records
Expand the Agency/Creator (Archives) category and select the Electrolytic Zinc Company to limit your results to archives records provided by Electrolytic Zinc Company:
Click on an image or title to view the full detail:
The series note provides useful information about the records in the series but as there are more than 100 items associated with this series are they not listed here. Click the Go to Archives link to view the details of the items:
Example 2
Enter the search flowers:
.Format – select picture and print and click Select:
You now wish to limit your search by Author Allport, Curzona Frances Louise. Expand the Author/Creator category:
As there may be multiple listings for the same entry in the Limit lists due to ending punctuation or typing errors, click View All and sort alphabetically to check for variations:
The View All displays an additional variation you would have missed if you hadn't viewed the full list of authors - different wording.