Subjects Covered
Automation, Cataloging, Censorship, Children's Literature, Circulation Procedures, Classification, Copyright Legislation, Education for Librarianship, Government Aid, Information Brokers, Internet Software, Library Associations & Conferences, Library Equipment & Supplies, Personnel Administration, Preservation of Materials, Public Relations, Publishing, Web Sites

Library Literature & Information Science, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.

Fields
Document Types List
Physical Description List
Journal List
Using Limit Fields
Sample Searches
Stopwords

Highlighted fields are limit fields.

The Citation (CITN) consists of the TI, OT, TT, UT, AU, CA, SO, PB, IB, and DE fields.

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AN Accession Number
(a limit field)

199201327200 in an
an=199201327200

The AN field contains a unique 12-digit code that identifies the document.

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AU Author(s)

brodie carolyn s in au
brodie in au
brodie carolyn in au
brodie-c* in au

The AU field identifies the person(s) responsible for the intellectual content of the document.

Author's names can be searched with or without hyphens. When searching without hyphens, type last name followed by first name or first name followed by last name. The order of the words does not matter. Do not type a comma.

When searching an author's name with hyphens, type the last name first and hyphenate all names and initials. Use truncation (*) if your are not sure about spelling.

You can search author names by last name, using the AUT Author Name index in Browse (Index).

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AUT Author Name
(a limit field)

The AUT field identifies the person(s) responsible for the intellectual content of the document. Use Browse to search for the author by last name in this Author Name index. The AUT field is for searching only; it does not display in the record.

association of research libraries in ca

The CA field identifies the institution, association, conference, corporation, or government agency that is the author of a document. You can search any word or phrase in this field.

CN Call Number
(a limit field)

025 in cn
cn=z695

The CN field lists the Dewey Decimal classification number for books and the Library of Congress classification number for books.

librarians in de
librarians- in de
duties of librarians in de

The DE field lists the controlled vocabulary terms that describe the document. This field can include personal names, uniform titles, topical terms, organization names, and geographic names.

You can search terms in the DE field with or without hyphens. In the example above, librarians in de retrieves records containing any descriptor with the word librarians, such as school librarians pakistan or librarians as authors. or librarians as authors. The search duties-of-librarians in de retrieves just that specific descriptor. Search on librarians- if you want only those records indexed with the single descriptor librarians.

You can search for Descriptors using the SU Subject index in Browse (Index).

DT Document Type
(a limit field)

product-evaluation in dt
dt=biography

The Document Type field describes the nature or contents of the original document. Use the DT field to limit your search to records of a particular type of document, such as biography, interview, etc. Hyphenate multi-word document types. The following is a list of the document types available in this database:

Autobiography
Bibliography
Biography
Books
Book-Chapter
Book-Excerpt
Book-Review
Exhibit
Feature-Article
Interview
Obituary
Product-Evaluation
Speech
Symposium

IB ISBN
(a limit field)

0938734431 in ib
ib=0938734431

The IB field lists the International Standard Book Number. Enter an ISBN without hyphens.

IS ISSN
(a limit field)

0192-2912 in is
is=0192-2912

The IS field lists the International Standard Serial Number. Include hyphens when searching for an ISSN.

JI Journal Issue
(a limit field)

The JI Journal Issue field lists the issues of journals included in the database. You can search for a specific issue of a journal using the JI Index in the Browse (Index).

JN Journal Name
(a limit field)

The JN Journal Name field lists the names of the journals included in the database. You can search for a specific journal using the JN Index in the Browse (Index).

LA Language of Work
(a limit field)

english in la
la=french

The LA field lists the language of the document. When searching, use the full language name. The following is a list of languages used in this database:

Afrikaans
Chinese
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Multiple languages
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Urdu

4th ed in nt

The Notes field contains additional information not provided in other fields in the database.

media skills in ot

The OT field provides additional title access. It may include descriptive words added by the indexer to augment the title. You can search any word or phrase in this field.

library of congress in pb
greenwood press in pb

The Publisher field lists the name and address of the publisher or distributor of the document, the publication date, and pagination.

PD Physical Description
(a limit field)

charts in pd
pd=pors

The PD field contains details about illustrative or graphic material that appears in the original document. The PD field contains one or more codes that describe the illustrative material. Each of the following pairs of terms includes the physical description code and the term it represents.

PEI Peer Reviewed Journal
(a limit field)

The PEI field indicates whether the document is from a peer-reviewed journal. The field contains a y if the journal is peer-reviewed.

PY Publication Year
(a limit field)

The Publication Year field lists the year in which the document was published. For a book review this field lists the year of publication of a book being reviewed. This field is range searchable.

library orientation series in se

If a document is part of a series, the Series Title field indicates the title of that series. You can search for any word or phrase in this field.

SO Source  

american libraries in so
interlibrary loan "and" information in so

The SO field indicates the bibliographic source of the entry. It may include the journal name, volume number, publication date, and page numbers. Use quotation marks when searching for journals with an operator in the title, such as AND, IN, etc. If the entry is a book chapter, the SO field contains information about the book in which it is found.

SU Subject
(a limit field)

The SU field lists the controlled vocabulary terms that describe the document. The field can include personal names, topical names, organization names, geographic names, and uniform titles. This field is for browsing subject headings (descriptors) using the SU Subject index in Browse (Index). The SU field does not display in the record. Subject headings display in the DE Descriptor field.

library media programs in ti
l'information textuelle in ti

The Title field contains the title of the original document. You can search for any word or phrase in a title. If the original title is not in English, the English translation of the title appears in the Translated Title field.

children's literature in tt

For non-English documents, the TT field contains the English translation of the original title. The original title of the document appears in the Title field.

UD Update Code
(a limit field)

The UD field indicates the year, month, and day in which the record was added to the database in the format yyyymmdd. You can search for a single date using in or =, as shown above. In addition, you can search for a range of dates using the following operators:

< less than,
such as ud<19940802

> greater than,
such as ud>19940802

<= less than or equal to,
such as ud<=19940802

>= greater than or equal to,
such as ud>=19940802

- within a range,
such as ud=19990801-19990901

The URL2 Web Sites field lists the URLs of web sites chosen by the author of the article. These related internet links provide additional information on subjects discussed in the document.

UT Uniform Title

biblioteki in ut

The Uniform Title field contains the standardized title for a work that has appeared under varying titles or in various versions.

ZA All Authors

center for the book in za

The All Authors field includes the Author(s) (AU) and Corporate Author (CA) fields.

ZS Sources

canadian in zs

The Sources field includes the Source (SO) and Publisher (PB) fields.

ZT All Titles

media in zt

The All Titles field includes the Other Titles (OT), Title (TI), Translated Title (TT), and Uniform Title (UT) fields.

The Citation (CITN) consists of the TI, OT, TT, UT, AU, CA, SO, PB, IB, and DE fields. These fields are the default display for this database.

The Document Type (DT) field contains keywords that characterize the nature or contents of the original document. Use these words to limit your search to a particular kind of work. The following is a list of document types:

Autobiography
Bibliography
Biography
Books
Book-Chapter
Book-Excerpt
Book-Review
Exhibit
Feature-Article
Interview
Obituary
Product-Evaluation
Speech
Symposium

The Physical Description (PD) field contains details about illustrative or graphic material that appears in the original document. The PD field contains one or more codes that describe the illustrative material. Each of the following pairs of terms includes the physical description code and the term it represents.

View the most current Journal List.

Limit fields, when combined with other search terms, are particularly useful for focusing or limiting a search. To search a limit field, use the in or = operators with the field abbreviation, such as english in la or la=english. Omitting the field label retrieves information from free text (non-limit) fields only.

You can search limit fields using field-specific indexes in Browse (Index).

For limit fields containing numeric data, you can also use other special operators:

= equal to,
such as py=1990

< less than,
such as py<1991

> greater than,
such as py>1989

<= less than or equal to,
such as py<=1990

>= greater than or equal to,
such as py>=1988

- indicates a range,
such as py=1988-1990

Below are several examples of the types of searches you can use to retrieve information from this database.

Authors' names appear in the Author(s) (AU).

To see all authors with the same last name or to see variations of an author's name, use the Browse (Index). You can search for author names using the AUT Author Name index in Browse (Index). For example, to look for articles by Shirley L Aaron:

1. Go to Browse (Index).
2. Select the AUT Author Name index.
3. Type aaron.

The Descriptors (DE) field lists the controlled vocabulary terms that describe the document. This field can include personal names, uniform titles, topical terms, organization names, and geographic names.

You can search terms in the DE field with or without hyphens. Searching a single term (for example, classification in de) retrieves records containing any descriptor with the word classification, such as classification systems, classification systems dewey decimal, or standard industrial classification. The search classification-systems in de retrieves just that specific descriptor.

With hyphens, the terms must be an exact match in the Descriptor. Search for classification- if you want only those records indexed with the single descriptor classification.

You can search for Descriptors using the SU Subject index in Browse (Index).

Searching with truncation lets you retrieve records containing variations of your term. For example, let's search for records of feature articles about children's library services.

1. First conduct a search for the term child*. Using the truncation symbol (*) searches for all variations of the root term child, such as child, children, etc.

2. Next search for and library services. Beginning the search request with the AND operator automatically adds it to the previous search.

Certain words of little intrinsic meaning appear too frequently to be useful in searching text. Information systems call these "stopwords." You will not be able to search for the following words alone in the database. They can be included within a phrase, but they will be ignored.

an
and
are
for
from
in
of
or
that
the
was
were
which
with