Welcome to the Library Catalogue of the Société Jersiaise.
This is a temporary facility that will be replaced once our working catalogue is ready to be published.
There are still some data inputting errors within the catalogue but rather than leave our members and visitors without access to the library material, we decided to publish this interim catalogue while work on the database continues.
If you know the author or title of an item please use these functions, always giving as much information as possible for best results. If you wish to do a broader search, please use the keyword search but be aware this will match your keyword(s) against all fields and may bring up a lot of results that may not be relevant to you.
Please enter your search query into one or more of the fields below :
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- Search words less than 3 characters in length will be omitted from the results of your query.
- Search queries return results specific to the words exactly as they appear in the search query.
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Search terms entered into the above fields are limited to return only occurrences of the individual words exactly as they appear in the query, for example a search for the word 'state' will return results containing that exact word only and not variations such as 'states'.
To expand and truncate the search to include variations of the search term, include an asterisk (*) at the end of the word, e.g. 'state*', which will return results containing both the word 'state' and 'states'.
Please note that the asterisk can only be suffixed to the search word in question and cannot be used at the beginning of the word.
Multiple word queries return results where any one or more of the individual words appear in each library record, e.g. a search for 'states of jersey' will return all results where either 'states' or 'jersey' appear in the record (the 'of' is omitted as it is less than three characters in length).
To ensure that a particular word in your search query appears in all of the returned results, prefix the word in question with '+'. For example, to return all results were both 'states' and 'jersey' appear together in the individual library records, enter 'states +jersey' into the search field.
To return a phrase exactly as it appears in your search query, surround the words in question with double quotation marks ("), e.g. "states of jersey". This method is of particular use in searching for library classification numbers.
As mentioned above in relation to multiple word search queries, the '+' character can be prefixed to a word to ensure that it appears in all of the search results.
To ensure that a word does not appear in any of the results of your search, a '-' character can be prefixed to the word in question. For example, a search of 'jersey -"new jersey"' will remove all occurrences of the phrase "new jersey" from the results.
If you wish to prioritise a particular word in your search query, surround the word with brackets (), e.g. a search for '(states) jersey' will ensure a higher relevance for the word 'states' than for the word 'jersey' in the results.
In order to decrease the relevance of a particular word in your search, prefix the word with a tilde (~), e.g. searching for 'jersey ~"new jersey"' will lessen the relevance of the phrase "new jersey" in the results, but will still display records with occurrences of "new jersey", unlike using '-'.
