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Use this form to search for film and other multimedia-related items owned by the UNT Libraries.

The online catalog contains descriptive records for several million items that are available at the UNT Libraries, physically or online. If you have any questions, or if you need help finding an item, please Ask Us!

Keyword/Any Field

A broad search across the indexed text of an item. Includes information about the item's title(s), subject(s), author(s) as well as various textual notes such as table of contents, summaries, etc.

Author

Includes directors, actors, crew, production companies and many other named entities. Many names are normalized within the catalog for organizational purposes. Knowing a little about the person (first, last name, birth/death dates) helps.

Example of Director/ Actor: Coppola, Frances Ford

Example of Company: Sony Pictures Classic

Title

A phrase search associated with the various titles of an item. Can include main titles, series title or episode title. Include (Television Program) after the title to help limit results to a specific television show or series.



Example of film title: Cat On a Hot Tin Roof



Example of television series: NOVA (Television Program)



Example of Television Series: Sopranos (Television Program)



Example of television episode: Once More With Feeling

Subjects & Genre Headings

Subjects and genres are separate search types. Search for subjects when you want to find information about something. Search for genres when you want to find things that belong to a particular genre or format.



Example of Subject: Civil Rights



Example of Subject: Child Psychology



Example of Genre: Western Films



Example of Genre: Short Films



In some cases you may want to search for a genre as a subject if you are looking for resources about that genre. For example, if you are looking for books about westerns, you could search the Subject index for the phrase "Western Films."

A list of popular film genre headings can be found here.

For more complex subject searches, see this tutorial

Call Number

To match a call number to a Media Library item, use the Number search (linked from the right-sidebar of the screen), and specify: Local Call Number.

For a list of call number types, visit Media Library Formats page.

Boolean Operators

The words and, or, not, before, after, near, and within may be included in the search expression to refine the search or to override word adjacency. These operators may be entered in either uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case (e.g., NOT, not, and Not are equivalent).