Search tips:

Here's a really helpful one: You may find something in your search, but when you go to the page, it is very long and you can't find the item on the page easily - use the "Find" command in your browser menu! (Your browser is the program you use to view webpages, probably Internet Explorer or Netscape or maybe Firefox or Safari or Opera or something like that) The "Find" command is usually under the "Edit" menu, and probably has a keyboard command of "control-F" on a PC, or "command-F" on a Mac. That will take you right to what you are looking for on a page! Hit "Find Next" to see where else it occurs on the page until you've found all occurrences.

Things to keep in mind for more effective searching:

• Try the navigation pull-down menus first! For example, if you are looking for jobs, don't do a search for jobs, just go to our jobs page! (If you do a search, everything with the word jobs in it will show up, including archived job announcements)

• Spelling counts! If you do not get results, check your spelling.

• Use synonyms - for example, if you aren't finding any results with "college," try "university."

• Information on pdf files will now show up in a search - but if you know something was in a newsletter or conference packet, try looking at the newsletters page or the conference history page to find it.

• Use the Advanced Search if you need a result with ALL words (any order) or an EXACT PHRASE - the usual Google techniques (putting + in front of each word or using quotation marks around an exact phrase) don't work with the simple Atomz search. Be sure to select the type of search you want.

• I'll answer right away - I'll find it for you, or add it if it isn't on the site and should be, and let you know where it is!

• I get reports from both Atomz and FreeFind on what searches have been run, and the results, and I try to add information to the site based on what people have been looking for, so if you don't find something right away, come back and try again! (or you could and ask that it be added to the website) - Webmaster