Note that Search It offers useful filters for your results — located on the left side of the results page.
Search It has some awareness of items available in other libraries. If you limit your Material Type to Books, but search the Books, articles + more tab, then you will find some books not owned by K-State Libraries. The library can try to get these for you for free by borrowing from another library.
Subject headings are controlled vocabulary used to organize books and journal articles into pre-defined themes or subjects. They provide a focused alternative to keyword searching.
Any (keyword) search contains jazz --> over 1 million results
Subject search contains jazz --> over 200,000 results
Subject search is exact Jazz -- History and criticism --> around 500 results
Find a book's subject headings by clicking on the "Details" tab.
Try these subject headings in Search It: