Ottumwa Public Library

Finding Specific Types of Films

By now, you may be feeling like we've shown you too much of a good thing. What if you only wanted to find comedies or action films? This is an easy fix. But, first a little explanation is in order. Why are we telling you to type the word films into the search box anyway? Take a look at the picture below. It was taken from one of our movies. Notice how many times the word films shows up in the genre section? By typing in the word films, we are actually asking the catalog to do a subject keyword search for any subject term that has the word films in it. Based on this, we now know that we can limit our results simply by being more specific in the keyword search we are providing.

1. Based upon what we've learned, let's only search for adventure films by typing the words adventure films into the input box and making sure that the search index is set to Subject Keyword.
   

Here is a list of some of the more common types of movies available at OPL:
Adventure Films, Animated Films,Comedy Films,Documentary Films, Foreign Films,Horror Films, Science Fiction Films, Suspense Films, War Films, Western Films, and many more.