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Finding historical government documents using Summon

As you may remember, a search in Summon includes the library’s catalogue and is particularly useful for finding historic government documents in print (there is also some indexing of online government content). A key to finding the information is to use multiple keywords and to use Boolean operators OR and Truncation. In Summon, we can use a filter to limit to just government documents under Content Type, as shown for the following search: ("food security" OR "food supply" OR "food policy") (Canad* OR "British Columbia")