Changes to the CLIO Catalog Search

We’ve made two adjustments to the CLIO Catalog search based on feedback from faculty, students and librarians. Stemming has been disabled.  Stemming, or lemmatization is a default feature of some SOLR databases.  It functions by reducing a word to its “stem” and then adding all possible suffixes.   Before the change, a search for Methodism retrieved  […]

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Search tips for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan languages

Our librarians in the Starr East Asian Library have prepared tips for searching the CLIO Catalog in: Chinese Japanese Korean Tibetan These guides are linked from the Catalog guide, and also from the Guides tab. For more detailed information, please consult: Chinese Studies homepage at http://library.columbia.edu/locations/eastasian/chinese.html or ask the Chinese Studies Librarian, Chengzhi Wang (cw2165@columbia.edu) […]

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