On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:13 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > What are the ways to accomplish exact title searches with z39.50? Thank you for all the prompt and helpful replies. The most precise and complete "magic incantation" came from Larry Dixon of the Library of Congress: Exact match in Z39.50 is accomplished by using additional attributes. See the attribute table in the Bath Profile. [1] Below is a real-world example -- user is attempting to locate the journal "Canadian Poetry" and doesn't know any of the unique identifiers associated with it. A keyword search for "Canadian poetry" gets 90 hits -- exact match gets 3. Z> f @attr 1=4 "canadian poetry" Number of hits: 90 Z> f @attr 1=4 @attr 2=3 @attr 3=1 @attr 4=1 @attr 5=100 @attr 6=3 "canadian poetry" Number of hits: 3 This query takes advantage of many additional attribute types/names as alluded to by Tim Shearer: use/title, relation/equal, position/first in field, structure/phrase, truncation/do not truncate, and completeness/complete field. It would have taken me a long, long time to figure this out, and luckily my server supports it. Wow, isn't the Internet cool, and /me wonders, "Did the Bath Profile come from... Bath? [2]" [1] Bath Profile - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/bath/tp-bath2.9-e.htm#a [2] Bath, London, and ancient stone circles - http://infomotions.com/gallery/bath/ -- Eric Lease Morgan Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame