Subject Searching in the Online Catalog

You'd think you could enter any topic as a Subject search in an Online Catalog. However, the Subject search uses special terms to organize books by subject. These are called Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH for short). If you enter your keywords as a Subject search, you may not get much back. For example:

If you entered a Subject Heading search for: acquired immune deficiency you would get no books!

Instead, you get an "Info" button that tells you to use the term AIDS (Disease).

If you searched using the LCSH term, AIDS (Disease) you'd see the library has many books.