Power Search (Library Manager)

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If you have tried a Basic search and received too many results, or results that were not what you are looking for, the Power search can help.

For your Power search to be successful, you need to choose the right field and enter a search term.

  1. Select Catalog > Library Search > Power sub-tab.
  2. If you use more than one word in your search term, you can also determine how Destiny searches for them. Do you want results that contain all of the words, any of them, the exact phrase, or anything starting with those words?
  3. If you enter more than one search term, you need to select the right Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT).
  4. In addition, you can limit or expand your search by selecting any of the limiters beneath the three search fields.

    Note: Limiting a search by a reading program affects only the Titles sub-tab of your search results.

  5. When you are ready, click Search.
  6. To clear everything and start over, click Clear.

To understand how the phrases in the lists work, review the following examples. The examples all use Title from the drop-down on the left. The rules are the same, though, whether you select Keyword, Title, Author, Subject, Series or Note.

Use 'All these words'

If you choose this from the third drop-down, Destiny returns only items with all of the words you enter; it actually places the word AND between the words.
If you get too many results, just add more words or use more fields to narrow your search.

Example: A title search for secrets potter returns only items that have both secrets and potter in the title, in any order. Results would include Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets but not any other Harry Potter books or books like Secrets of Animal Behavior.

If there are words that you know are not in the title, author, subject or series, put NOT (and a space) in front of each unwanted word.
Make sure to use uppercase letters; Destiny ignores not and Not.

Example: You are trying to find a Goosebumps book with night in the title, but you do not want one of the three Night of the Living Dummy books.
Select Title and enter night NOT dummy. Select AND. In the second row, select Series and enter goosebumps.
The search results include only A Night in Terror Tower, Night in Werewolf Woods, and Night of a Thousand Claws.
If you had entered goosebumps NOT give next to Series, the results would only include books in the Goosebumps series, not ing the Give Yourself Goosebumps series. In this case, the search results would only have A Night in Terror Tower.

Use 'Any of these words'

If you choose this from the drop-down, Destiny returns items with any of the words you enter; it actually places the word OR between your search words. If you get too many results, delete one or more of the words or use more fields to narrow your search.

Example: You are trying to find a Goosebumps book with night in the title, but you are not sure if it is night, nightmare or midnight.
You would select Title and enter night nightmare midnight, select AND, then select Series and enter goosebumps.
The search results list then contains all the Goosebumps books with night, nightmare or midnight in the title.

Use 'Starts with'

If you choose this from the drop-down, Destiny returns only items that begin with the words you enter.
Note that Starts with is not available if you chose Keyword or Note in the drop-down on the left.

Example: A Title Starts with search for red would return The Red Pony but not The Hunt for Red October.

Keep in mind that Destiny ignores certain words, called stop words in the All these words, Any of these words, or This exact phrase searches.
It does not ignore them in Starts with searches.

Example: If you enter on the road, Destiny usually ignores on and the and only searches for road. The search results would include The Road Not Taken and The Golden Road but not On the Road. If you select Starts with, however, Destiny does not ignore any of the stop words. Destiny would look for on the road and the search results would contain the book, On the Road.

Use 'This Exact phrase'

If you choose this from the drop-down, Destiny returns only items that contain these words in this order.

Example: If you search for dead house, Destiny returns Welcome to Dead House, but not The House of the Dead or The House on Mango Street or Tick Tock, You're Dead.

Note: You cannot use wildcards in a This exact phrase search term.

Stop Words

These words are so common that searching on them is not productive. To save time, Destiny disregards them when they are used in all searches except Starts with searches. You can leave them out of your search term.

Destiny provides the following stop words. Your list may be different. 

            	a, an, and, are, as, at 
		be, but, by 
		for 
		if, in, into, is, it
		no, not 
		of, on, or
		such 
		that, the, their, then, there, these, they, this, to 
		was, will, with

Case Sensitivity

You can use either case.
Searches are not case sensitive.

Wildcards

If you do not know the complete word, or are not sure how to spell it, add an asterisk (*) to the end of what you do know. An asterisk can replace any number of letters at the end of a word. However, the * cannot be used as a word's first or second letter or have any letters after it.

You can use a question mark (?) to replace a single letter. You can use more than one question mark in a word, but it cannot be the first or last letter.

Note that you cannot use wildcards in a This exact phrase search term.

Punctuation

You can leave out the punctuation. Destiny ignores the punctuation in a search term.

If your search term includes words separated by a punctuation mark such as a dash, double-dash, hyphen, or slash, leave it out. When you leave it out, do not replace the punctuation mark with a space.
For example, if you are trying to find Camp Ghost-Away, enter camp ghostaway.
If you are trying to find Katie.com, enter katiecom.

Limit Your Search for Titles...

You can limit your search for titles by doing any or all of the following:

  • Select a Location from the drop down and/or select the District Media Collection checkbox.
  • Select a Material Type from the drop-down.
  • Select a Publication Year from the drop-down, and enter a year if necessary.
  • Select a Call Number From and to.
  • Update the Circulation Type:
    1. Click Update. The Select Circulation Types... page appears.
    2. Select the circulation types to include, and click OK.
  • Update the Sublocation:
    1. Click Update. The Select Sublocations... page appears.
    2. Select the sublocations to include, and click OK.
  • Select an Award Winner from the drop-down.
  • Enter a Reading Level From and to.
  • Select an Interest Level From and to.
  • Select from the Reading Programs drop-down.

For Accelerated Reader® or Reading Counts!®:

  1. Select the program from the Reading Programs list.
  2. Next to AR Level or RC Level, enter the reading level in the From and to fields.
    • To include all levels, leave the range at 0.0 to 20.0.
    • To include books from 0 up to a certain reading level, leave the From field blank at 0.0 and enter a reading level in the to field.
    • To include the books from a particular level up to level 20, enter a reading level in the From fieldand leave the to box at 20.0.
  3. Next to Point Value, enter a point value range.
    • If you leave the fields at 0.0 and 130.0, the search results include books with any point value.
    • If you leave the From field at 0.0 and enter a point value in the to field, the search results include books worth from 0 points up to the number you entered.
    • If you enter a point value in the From field and leave the to field at 130.0, the search results include books with point values from your number up to the maximum.

The search results include the titles, within the ranges you entered, for which your library has quizzes.

For Lexile® Measures:

  1. Select Lexile from the Reading Programs list.
  2. Next to Lexile Measure, enter the Lexile range in the From and to fields.
  3. To find books that have a particular Lexile Code, choose the code from the list.

You can limit the search for books that match a measure (or range of measures), a code, or both.

For Fountas and Pinnell levels:

  1. Select Fountas and Pinnell from the Reading Programs list.
  2. In the lists that appear, select the range of levels.
    To limit the search results to one level, select that level from both lists.

Note: If you are a district user, you can search locally at a site using sublocation.

Include One Search™ in a Power Search

For One Search to appear in your search results, Destiny must have preset selected databases. See Set Up One Search.

To include One Search in a Power Search

  1. Select Catalog > Library Search > Power sub-tab.
  2. Enter your power search term.
  3. Select the Include Online Resources checkbox. A list of all the available online resources appears.
  4. Select the online resources you want to search, and then press Enter or click Search.
  5. For results, click the One Search tab.

Top 10

These are the books that are checked out the most. You can click Top 10 to see the list of the top ten titles in your library.
For more information about any of them, click its Details.

Search Results

There are sub-tabs for different types of materials:

  • Titles lists the library materials matching your search term.
  • If your library has any videos, pictures or sound files from a digital provider, Digital Resources lists them.
    Each entry has a link to play the resource.
  • If your library subscribes to WebPath Express™, Web Sites lists the websites that have information about your search term.
    Each entry has a link to open the website.

    If the list is too long, you may be able to shorten it. The following filters may be available:

    • Topic
    • Grade Level
    • Domain
    • Format
    • Lexile
    • Source
    • Language

    Make your selections from the lists, and click Go!.

  • If your library subscribes to One Search, One Search lists the resources in your online databases.

You can add any of these materials and resources to a Resource List. They appear on separate sub-tabs there, too.

Follett Digital Integration

After you successfully complete the Follett Digital integration, you can:

  • View Follett eBooks in Destiny and Destiny Discover. In Destiny, eBooks appear on the Search Results page.
  • Access Destiny Discover directly from Destinywhen your login to Destiny is authenticated. There is a Destiny Discover option on the left in Library Manager > Catalog.

eBooks and Audiobooks

For details on eBooks and Audiobooks, see Search the Library.