Use only letters, numbers, question marks, exclamation points, and dashes.
Search words are used exactly as entered:
Two words with a space between them will locate an item that contains
exactly "first word space second word."
If you search titles for "work tests," you will not find any documents.
If you search for "tests," you will find the document "Work Capacity
Tests for Wildland Firefighters Test Administrator's Guide."
Pluralscan be a problem:
If you search titles for "trails," you will not get documents with
"trail" in the title.
If you search titles for "trail," you will get documents with either
"trail" or "trails" in the title.
Author searches work best using just the last name:
A search for "Sharkey" returns all MTDC documents published by Dr. Brian
Sharkey.
A search for "Brian Sharkey" returns no documents.
Year search is the four-digit year a document, drawing,
video, CD or Web site was published or completed.
Keyword searches include words in the title as well
as specific keywords. Keywords have only been assigned to MTDC documents since
1996:
Keywords are chosen using the CAB Thesaurus of technical terms for guidance.
We always include terms and spellings preferred by the thesaurus, but
also include standard American spellings and specialized terms that are
not in the thesaurus.