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This book has the subject heading 'capital punishment.' This heading is the official Library of Congress Subject Heading for this book. Notice that 'death penalty' is not a subject heading. 'Capital punishment' is the official subject heading for 'death penalty'. Because we performed a Search Everything full text search, we did not have to know that 'capital punishment' is the correct subject heading. When we typed in 'death penalty', the book's entire catalog record was scanned for that term. This book was found, because the term 'death penalty' is in the book's title.

When you come across a book that you think matches your research topic well, notice its subject headings. You can use these headings as search terms to find additional sources. The subject headings are hypertext, meaning that if you click on them, the computer will bring up all the items that have been assigned that particular subject heading. This is only an example search. Your actual search may produce different results.