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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

Boolean
Operator		 Syntax Example
ANDand
skunk and tomato
ORor
skunk or tomato
NOTnot
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.
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