Searching Rlin: Using als Qualifers or Limits

Narrowing a current search

• RLIN offers a variety of "qualifiers" or limits to constrain a current search.
• The goal is to make your search results more precisely what you need.
• The qualifiers can only be used to narrow a search that has retrieved 2,500 or fewer "clusters."
• The qualifiers are used in combination with the also command.
• Information on using qualifiers is at the RLG web page: http://www.rlg.org/rlinsea/rlinalso.html

Using also (als)

• Format using slash ( / )
  • /als <qualifier> <character string>
  • /als not <qualifier> <character string>
• Examples
  • fin pe king, stephen/als pd 1999

Qualifiers

Qualifier	Abbrev.	Example
RLIN library indentifier (location)	li	/als li cubj also li ctyg also li ctyg86 also li cty also li ct
National Union Catalog symbol	nuc	/als nuc nic
Publication date	d or pd	/als d 1995
Range of dates		/als d before 1995
		/als d after 1995
		/als d from 1991 to 1996
Language code (uses first 3 letters of the English name of the language)	lg	/als lg ger
Secondary material (such as a recording that is included in a book)	mat	/als mat ser (serials) /als mat rec (sound recordings) /als mat kit (kits) /als mat tac (tactile materials)
Country of publication code	cp, cpr, pp	/als cp ger
Text from note fields (don't truncate)	note	/als note bibliography
Data in a MARC field group (eg. 100)	<group field tag>	/als 300 ill
Data in a specific MARC field	<field tag>	/als 260 macmillan

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