The same rules apply for searching by keyword in our catalog as it does in searching in NARA's catalog. In the Searching for microfilm in NARA tab there are the following search suggestions that work for both sites:
If your choosing to search by keywords it is to your advantage to use as many words as possible to help narrow your search. To start your search go to our library's home page, select Catalog and type your search terms in the search box.
There are two examples below, the first image shows when we used the words Ministers Russia that 224 records were found and we were just plain lucky that the title we were looking for was the first one listed. If you were not so lucky you can narrow the search under "Tweak your results". Though these are physically microfilm the are listed as Books under Material Type or Physical Items under Availability.
This second image illustrates that if you just add Despatch* (including the asterisk at the end to indicate that any word beginning with these letters should be considered in the search) to the basic Catalog search from the TCU Library homepage only two records are found and the first item is the needed title.
