FHU Library Catalog

Searching Tips

Stick to keywords

- The library catalog is not like Google; it will not process questions or phrases like "How should we prepare for artificial intelligence job displacement?" Stick to basic keywords such as "artificial intelligence" or "job displacement." If you want to use multiple keywords at once, do an Advanced Search.

Change up your keywords

- If a certain keyword is not yielding very many results, try a different but similar keyword. For example, "artificial intelligence" could be replaced with "machine learning", "expert systems", or "knowledge engineering."

Check spelling

- If you make a spelling error, the catalog won't guess what you meant and give you results anyway; keywords must be spelled correctly or else you will not receive any results.

Basic Search

Detailed information and/or links to all of the library's print books, ebooks, articles, journals, games, FLIX, etc. can be found on our online catalog. This catalog can be accessed from the library's home page at www.fhu.edu/library.

Type your keyword, book or article title, author, etc. into the Search the Library box and click Search.

Your search results will include various resources such as articles, books, films, etc. Click on the title of any listed result for more information on that particular resource.

As you can see above, our initial search resulted in over 42,000 results.

Since a lot of those results are probably not going to be helpful to you in your research, you can narrow down your result list using the Search Tools bar to the left of the page. By selecting specific options in this bar, your result list will become more specific to your needs.

Notice that when it comes to books, 1,153 out of the 1,213 in the search results are eBooks. These are not only ultra-accessible, but they're often much more up-to-date than their hard copy, print counterparts!

Advanced Search

If your Basic Search is still too broad, click on the Advanced Search link under the main search bar.

On the Advanced Search page, you can specify the search index and add multiple search terms.

You can also use the Search Tools (towards the bottom of the page) to narrow down your search even more.

Click the maroon Search button when you are finished.

Our initial Basic Search yielded over 42,000 results. As you can see, using Advanced Search helped to narrow down the results tremendously. Using Advanced Search can leave you with results that are much more relevant to your research than Basic Search typically can.

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