Media Database Guide
Catalog search

If you have a media database account, at some point you will need to search cataloged files, your own or some one else's. By default, all cataloged files are available to all users of the database, so you can include other people's media in your collections.

Select Search Cataloged Files from the main menu to bring up the screen below. This search returns all cataloged files in the database which conform to your the search terms. The default search is across all fields. To narrow a search, you may select a particular field to search. 

The Select Display option provides choices for displaying the results of the search: thumbnail and text, thumbnail, or a slideshow. Slideshow presents full-screen images.

You will be able to edit any catalog records, returned by the search, for which you have access privileges. 

Advanced search
If your initial search does not return the desired results, you can use multiple search terms, and or change the default Boolean operators, 'contains' and 'and,' to 'equals' or 'or'. 'Equals' will narrow the search; 'or' will make it more expansive.

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