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Subject Searching

You'd think you could enter any topic as a subject in the catalog. However, the subject search uses standardized terms to organize records by subject. These are called Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH for short). If you enter your terms as a subject search, you may be directed to a standardized LCSH.

For example:
If you entered dreaming as a subject search you would be directed to search for dreams because subject searching uses standardized terms to organize subjects.

So if you searched using the standardized term dreams you'd see that the catalog has over 10 entries.

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