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Use a Name Search
to look for organisations by their name, such as:
Aged and Disability Care Information Service
Red Cross
Seniors Bureau
Centrelink
Richmond Fellowship
Advocacy Tasmania
Aged Care Assessment Team
Tasmanian Deaf Society
Clarence Community Health Centre
W.P. Holman Clinic
Some organisations are commonly known by an acronym. You can also use acronyms for Name searches,
such as:
ACAT
COTA
BIRCH
You can also look for particular services offered by organisations when they are known by a name,
such as:
Carer Payment
Seniors Card
Wandering Person Registry
Carer Support Kit
Transport Access Scheme
If you are not sure of the exact name but are sure you do know some words in it, use this box.
It will look for any organisations with a name containing ALL of the words
you type in. They must all be present, but they can be in any order.
For example, if you type bruny community
into this box, the search will find any organisation with both the word "bruny" and
the word "community" in its name, such as the following:
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Bruny Island Community Health Centre
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Bruny Island Respite Community House
If you are not sure of the exact name, but can think of some words that might be in it use this
box. It will look for any organisations with a name containing ANY (at least one) of
the words you type in.
Normally, the more words you put in the more records it the search is likely to find.
If you know the exact Name use the this box.
This box looks for exact matches. You can put in either the whole name, or part of the name -
but in either case all of the words need to be in the name in exactly the same order that you type them.
This box is best when used together with the browse button to the right of it.
You can use the browse button here to look though a list of names to paste in.
If you want to build your own search using Boolean syntax you can use this box.
The Browse button next to the Name box will open a window with a list of all of the Names of organisations.
You can browse through the entries, select items from the list
and paste them directly into the Name search box.
The Browse window is a Java applet.
The preferences on your Internet browser need to be set to allow
Java applets to run for this function to operate.
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Subject (Type of Service)
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Use a Subject Search
to look for organisations by the kind of service they offer, such as:
respite care
in home respite care
day care
home nursing
home maintenance
residential aged care facilities - high level care
residential aged care facilities - low level care
aids and equipment
units
physiotherapy
It will look for any organisations with subject headings containing ALL of the words
you type in. They must all be present, but they can be in any order.
Normally, the more words you type in, the more specific your search will be
and the fewer the records that are likely to be found.
For example, if you type respite aged
into this box, the search will find any organisation with both the word "respite" and
the word "aged" in its subject headings, such as the following:
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RESPITE CARE - Aged people
This will look for any organisations with a subject heading containing ANY (at least one) of
the words you type in.
Normally, the more words you put in the more records it is likely to find.
This box looks for exact matches: all of the words in exactly the same order that you type them.
This box is best when used together with the browse button to the right of it
(see"Browsing Subjects" below for more help on using the browse button).
If you want to build your own search using Boolean syntax you can use this box.
The Browse button next to the Subject box will open a window with a list of all of the subject headings
that have been used to index records.
You can browse through the entries, select items from the list and paste them directly into the Subject search box.
The Browse window is a Java applet.
The preferences on your Internet browser need to be set to allow
Java applets to run for this function to operate.
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A Cross Search
looks through both Name and Subject information as well as the full descriptive parts of records at the same time. This facilitates a more comprehensive examination of records for information that may not be covered by the controlled list of subject headings used in subject searches.
This will look for any organisations containing ALL of the words
you type somewhere in the name, the subject or the descriptive parts of the record.
They must all be present, but they can be in any order.
Normally the words will be higlighted in the found records when displayed.
(They may not necessarily be visible -
sometimes, for example, they might be in subject indexes which are hidden from view).
Normally, the more words you put in, the more specific your search will be
and less records are likely to be found.
This will look for any organisations containing ANY (at least one) of the words
you type somewhere in the name, the subject or the descriptive parts of the record.
Normally, the more words you put in the more options you make for a possible 'hit', and
a greater number of records is likely to be found.
This box looks for exact matches.
The search will look for the words you type in exactly the same order that you type them.
If you want to build your own search using Boolean syntax you can use this box.
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You can limit search results to a particular geographical area or region by adding information to one of the Area Search boxes.
You can look for organisations either by their location or by the area that they provide services to.
The Browse button next to the Area boxs will open a window with a list of all of the Areas
that have been used to index records.
You can browse through the entries, select items from the list and paste them directly into the Subject search box.
The Browse window is a Java applet.
The preferences on your Internet browser need to be set to allow
Java applets to run for this function to operate.
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Try the QuickLink Topics
section for pre-packaged, commonly used searches arranged under key topics such as Accommodation, and Respite.
Please make sure that you are aware of the Scope of this
Directory, it is primarily concerned with organisations and services in
Tasmania, Australia. Please also read our Disclaimer.
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