Florida On Florida is a catalog of digital materials related to Florida. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts. The materials in Florida On Florida come from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies throughout Florida. To see a list of the collections included, click Collections.

Searching

Two searching options are provided in Florida On Florida: Simple search and Advanced search.

Simple search lets you search for a single word or phrase in a specific field of the record.

Advanced search lets you search for combinations of up to two terms or phrases using Boolean connector terms (i.e., AND, OR, NOT).

The specified fields you can choose among are:

Entire record: Search for all the fields in the record that describes the digital material.
Title: Search for titles of books, maps, photographs, postcards, and manuscripts etc., in the title field of the record.
Creator: Search for authors of books, creators of photographs, institutions responsible for a pamphlet, etc., in the author/creator field of the record.

Searching Tips
Search by Author: Author names may be in inverted order or not, so if you don't find appropriate resources using one method, e.g., Eric Eustace Williams, try it inverted, e.g., Williams, Eric Eustace.

Word variations: Use an asterisk(*) with a word stem to find variations on the word, e.g., searching for "work*" will match works, worker, working, etc.

Punctuation: All other punctuation, other than *, will be ignored, e.g., searching for work? will retrieve records containing both work? and work.

Phrase search: If you enter more than one word in a search box, the words will be treated as a phrase and searched together, e.g. entering "alachua county" will find records that have the word "alachua" next to "county" only.

Capitalization: Capitalization is ignored, e.g., Alachua and alachua are searched the same way.

Search Results
There is a search summary box at the top of your search results page which repeats the words you used in your search, tells you how many records you found, and how many matches you found in the records. It also serves as navigation between detailed results for each collection. Simply click on the linked number of records under any collection name to see detailed records for that collection.

Search results will return all of the fields present for a particular record.

Title: The title of a book, a map, a photograph, a postcard, and a manuscript, etc.
Creator: The author of a book, creator of a photograph, etc.
Contributor: An additional author, creator, institution, etc. Contributors can be editors, illustrators, etc. Publisher: Where the resource was originally published.
Publication Date: The year the resource was originally published.
Type: The type of resource, e.g., "text," "image."
Format: The particular format of a resource type, e.g., if the resource type is "text," the resource format may be "HTML."
Language: The language(s) the resource was originally written or spoken in.
Note: Any information that doesn't fit into other fields is generally placed in a note. This field may provide information on table of contents, history and related information.
Subject: The subjects that have been used to describe the topical nature of a resource by a resource publisher.
URL: The link that takes you to the resource itself.
Availability: The access and copyright information for the resource, as determined by the institution that manages the collection.
Collection: The record is contributed and managed by a collection. View a list of the collections that Florida On Florida harvests their records from.

Sorting and Sort Thresholds

By default, records are sorted by author, last name first. If there is no author, the results are sorted alphabetically by title. For results sets up to 1000 records, you may change the sort to a chronological or reverse chronological sort by using the pull down menu in the upper right-hand corner of your results screen. This feature will not work with results sets larger than 1000 records. If you have more than 1000 records in your result section you will see a message that says "threshold exceeded" in place of the sort menu.