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If you can't find what you are looking for, and you know that the item is recently-added to ALIAnet, try looking in our 'What's new' pages. Staff and office-bearers of the Association are found in Vital Link Online, drawn from our membership database.

String items relationship [ all | any | boolean ]

Choose 'all' if the entire text string must be found together in a document, 'any' if you are not fussed about which word is found (if searching for more than one word), and 'boolean' if you wish to search for expressions that involve boolean parameters, such as library and association; copyright not royalties; officer or (representative not sample).

Fuzziness [ exact | fuzzy ]

Determines how closely an item is matched. Choose 'fuzzy' if you would like to find words that closely match what you have entered, and 'exact' if you only wish to find exactly what you have typed.

Sort order of results [ relevance | date | title | rev score | rev date | rev title ]

Prefer to find your search term closer to the top of the page? Looking for the most-recently uploaded pages? Looking for the search term in the title? Each of these options allows greater flexibility in how your results appear - though not how many results are returned. 'Rev' refers to reverse for even greater variety [score = relevance].

Format of search results [ normal | brief ]

Search results in standard form present a contextual abstract surrounding the text string you are looking for, whereas the abbreviated [brief] search result offers the title of each document only. The latter is only useful if you know what you are looking for, or if the number of returned results is large.

Entries per page [ 10 | 25 | 50 | 100 | 250 ]

Search results are grouped into a series of entries, collated into a number of pages, dictated by your choice in the entries per page menu. Only the brave go for 250...