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Tutorials: Quick Search (search box on the library homepage)

Videos and handouts on how to use the Advocate Health - Midwest Library website and our other online resources

About the Quick Search

The large search box on the library's website is the library's discovery tool, called Summon. It works like Google, but your search results come from Summon's "central index" that contains billions of item records for books, articles, book chapters, and all different types of content that might be in a library. It’s a great tool to use when you need to quickly find content on a topic – which is why we call it Quick Search. 

Use Quick Search to discover:

  • articles,
  • print and electronic books,
  • book chapters,
  • conference proceedings,
  • dissertations,
  • journals and more.

Using Quick Search

Quick Search Tutorial   14:35
Learn how to use the Quick Search, the search box available on the library homepage.

Available to Advocate Health teammates only