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Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) and Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) have withdrawn all cassettes from circulation. NLS plans on removing records for RFB&D and CNIB cassette books. In the meantime do not request cassette books from RFB&D or CNIB.

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Search terms can be single words or phrases. Do not omit words in a phrase. Use Lord of the Rings, not Lord Rings. Try using shorter searches, if you are getting no results. Use the question mark to truncate words.

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Examples of Author Searches

Use for searching authors, narrators, editors, etc. Examples:

• Clark Mary Higgins (last name first, no comma necessary)
• Shakespeare (last name alone will work)
• Gian? in the author search field and narrator in the keyword search field will retrieve books narrated by Laura Giannarelli.

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Examples of Title Searches

Use for searching titles, titles in contents notes, and series titles. Examples:

• wind in the willows (enter words in same order as in title)
• oz (retrieves Wizard of Oz, Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Ozma of Oz)
• star wars (retrieves series titles)

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Examples of Keyword Searches

Use for searching anywhere in record: names, subjects, notes, annotation, etc. Examples:

• RC 15141 (retrieves by book number; spacing counts)
• web braille (retrieves web braille records)
• mystery fiction (retrieves subject headings)

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