Here are some basic tips on how to assist with Library Search (or what we call Primo). You can access Primo from the Foley homepage. It is the white search box in the middle of the page:
For this example, we are going to run a search for “food desert.” Running a search from the main page will bring up all available results, whether they are physical items here in the building, physical items available through Summit, or electronic resources such as eBooks and journal articles.
The default scope of your results will be automatically set to “Gonzaga Libraries + Summit”. You can change the scope of your search in the drop-down menu to the right of the search term. For example, if you were only interested in searching for physical items here at Foley, you would change the scope to “Foley Physical Books and Media.”
You will also notice that the left-hand column has a number of filters to refine your results. You can filter your results by categories such as Resource Type, Subject, Author, or Location. You can also filter by “Peer-reviewed Journals” if you are only interested in seeing articles that have been peer-reviewed.
