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Personal Name Subject

Find the fields, subfields, notes, and product availability for the Personal Name Subject word (na:), phrase (na=), and whole phrase (naw=) indexes.

Also called Named Person.

Word (na:)
  Connexion FirstSearch and Collection Manager query collections WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery
Label na:
Search? Yes Yes Yes
Browse? Yes Yes ---
Examples
  • na:mandela
  • na:conrad and yr:1990
  • na:mandela
  • na:conrad AND yr:1990
Fields/Subfields
  • 600 a-d j q
  • 653 a (if indicator 2 = 1)
Qualifier index? No
Notes
  • Supports non-Latin script searches.
  • In Connexion, scan index from the Command Line Search by entering the Scan command (sca), the index label with appropriate punctuation, and the term, and then clicking Search (example: sca na:mandela). For more information, see Browse (scan an index).
  • Contains data from your local bibliographic data records in WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery.
Phrase (na=)
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Label na=
Search? Yes Yes Yes
Browse? Yes Yes ---
Examples na=conrad, joseph and yr:1990 na=conrad, joseph AND yr:1990
Fields/Subfields
  • 600 a-d j q
  • 653 a (if indicator 2 = 1)
Qualifier index? No
Notes
  • Supports non-Latin script searches.
  • In Connexion, scan index from the Command Line Search by entering the Scan command (sca), the index label with appropriate punctuation, and the term, and then clicking Search (example: sca na=conrad, joseph). For more information, see Browse (scan an index).
  • Contains data from your local bibliographic data records in WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery.
Whole phrase (naw=)
  Connexion FirstSearch and Collection Manager query collections WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery
Label naw= --- ---
Search? Yes --- ---
Browse? Yes --- ---
Examples naw=conrad, joseph 1857-1924 and yr:1990 --- ---
Fields/Subfields 600 a d --- ---
Qualifier index? No --- ---
Notes
  • Supports non-Latin script searches.
  • Scan index from the Command Line Search by entering the Scan command (sca), the index label with appropriate punctuation, and the term, and then clicking Search (example: sca naw=conrad, joseph 1857-1924). For more information, see Browse (scan an index).
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