Expanded search

In addition to standard searches, the Carmen on-line catalogue offers so-called expanded searching. The option of an advanced or combined search is available in the on-line catalogue header.

Advanced search

Department

Select department or item type to filter your search (for example “books only,” “in the music department,” etc.).

Title

Title of the document. If you do not know the entire title, enter a partial title.

Author

Name of the author (in the form of surname, first name) or name of the entity (musical group, institution).

Subject

A word or phrase that expresses anything. The subject includes keywords and subject headings.

Keyword

A keyword or phrase that expresses the subject or area that relates to the requested item (i.e. field, geographic name, literary or musical genre, etc.).

Publisher/Volume call number

Volume call number is important primarily for A/V media

Any field

The catalogue searches all sections of the records, including, for instance, genre, comments, etc.

Combined search

Combined searches allow for a more complex search and research using a combination of conditions to be selected. Each condition is made up of three input fields for submitting the query. The first column contains the types of data according to which you may search for records in the library’s collections. The entries in the second column govern the relationship between the data and the search values. You can select the relationship from the drop-down menu. The number of choices in this list changes based on the information in the first column. In addition to standard choices such as Equal, Contains, etc., it also offers relationships such as Does not start with, Not empty, and Empty. The final part of the condition in the third column is a search textbox for entering the value according to which you would like to search for your document. You can enter 5 different conditions using the logical operators “and” (searches for documents that satisfy all entered conditions) and “or” (searches for documents that satisfy at least one entered condition).

For example, you are searching for an AAA book edition (Anglo-American Author editions) published after 2005 by the publisher, Argo.
Edition – equals – AAA
and
Year of publication – greater than – 2005
and
Publisher – equals – Argo

The following are descriptions of some of the items from the first column:

Any field

The entered phrase shall be searched for in all parts of the document record

Author

Name of the author or the entity(musical group, institution). Enter the name in the form of surname, first name.

Title

Title of the document. If you do not know the entire title, enter a partial title.

Subject

Includes subject headings and keywords, i.e. a keyword or phrase that expresses the subject or area that relates to the requested document (i.e. field, geographic name, literary or musical genre, etc.).

Part number

Use Arabic numerals

Edition number

Use the format “1^st ed.” or “ed. 1"

Place of Publication

use the format “Tábor” or “in Tábor”

Publisher

Name of the publishing house

Year of Publication

If you are searching for documents published during a specific period of time, you can enter this information in the format 2000–2001

Edition

enter the name of the edition

Journal Number

use Arabic numerals

Document Language and Original Language

select the language from the drop-down menu

ISBN

International Standard Book Number

ISSN

International Standard Serial Number

ISMN

International Standard Music Number