The Board
of Trustees minutes include official acts, resolutions, policies, agreements, and other business records pertaining to the governance of Indiana University. The Indiana University Board of Trustees Minutes web site will be continually updated to provide access to past minutes.
The search page is designed to support single or multiple query entries, which can be combined with more than one Boo lean (AND, OR, NOT), exact phrase ("") and stemming (*) (?) operators.
The primary form of searching is full text (keyword) searching of the meeting minutes. Four other fields are also available to help narrow your search: name, year, policy and resolution.
Search Fields: Keyword
Keyword searching of the meeting minutes will result in a full text search against the entire document.
Search Fields: Name
Conduct a names keyword search. You should try various forms of the name such as Last Name, First Name or First Name Last Name.
For example, Wells, Herman; Bill Gates. Enter only the last name if you are unsure of the first name.
Search Fields: Year
To search for years during which the minutes were published/recorded, enter the year as: yyyy
For example, 2001
Search Fields: Policy
Conduct a keyword search within the policy section of the minutes.
Search Fields: Resolution
Conduct a keyword search within the resolution section of the minutes.
Search Filter: Date Range
All years are searched unless otherwise specified. You can narrow your search by entering a month/year date range. Years must be entered as yyyy (e.g. 1982).
AND/OR
More than one term typed per search field will be interpreted as an AND search; all words entered will be searched. Use the Boolean menu to combine terms; AND/OR typed into the search fields will be ignored.
Exact Phrase
Double-quotes ("") should be used to specify an exact search: For example, "Indiana University Foundation" will find all records containing this exact phrase, but it will not find records containing "IU Foundation."
Truncation
Broaden your search by using an asterisk (*) or question mark (?). For example, diploma* will find diploma, diplomatic and so on and worm?an will find woman and women
You can browse the meeting minutes by year or range of years the meeting notes were recorded/published. Minutes are organized in descending chronological order by a range of years, then by year, and finally by month.
By default, the results appear 20 records to a page and are sorted by relevance. The record display contains a linked title, which leads to the full document view of the minutes, date published and linked search matches, which take you to the precise area in the document in which your search term occurs.
Sort
Along with the default relevance sort, you can sort results by date published (reverse chronological order).
By default, you will see the "Table of Contents" document view. This view contains the document's table of contents, organized hierarchically by section headings, which can be used for internal document navigation. To expand a section, click on the "+" next to the heading. To collapse a section, click on the "-" next to the heading. You can also click on "Expand All" or "Collapse All."
Search term matches are designated by the number of hits the term yields within a particular section. The numbers will appear next to the appropriate section in the Table of Contents. If you select a section that contains an occurrence of your search term, the term will appear bolded and highlighted in the document.
If the documents contain more than 1 occurrence of your search term, next to your search term, you will see either a left-pointing arrow, a right-pointing arrow or both (see example below). Click on these arrows to jump to the previous or next occurrence of your search term.
In the "Table of Contents" view, you can also conduct a full text search within a particular document.
Printer-Friendly View
The "Printer-Friendly" view presents the entire text of the document on one page, formatted for printing. To print this page, use your browser's Print function.
