diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 1668dbd..abedaab 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## NEXT
 
+### Added
+
+* Include AttrJson::Record::QueryScopes in Kithe::Model https://github.com/sciencehistory/kithe/pull/120
+
 ## 2.1.0
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/app/models/kithe/model.rb b/app/models/kithe/model.rb
index b9b56a8..c53aefb 100644
--- a/app/models/kithe/model.rb
+++ b/app/models/kithe/model.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class Kithe::Model < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   include AttrJson::Record
   include AttrJson::NestedAttributes
+  include AttrJson::Record::QueryScopes
   include AttrJson::Record::Dirty
   include Kithe::Indexable
 
diff --git a/guides/modelling.md b/guides/modelling.md
index 7ff7065..ff4bdf7 100644
--- a/guides/modelling.md
+++ b/guides/modelling.md
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ Note that you can provide validations on your compound models. Kithe provides so
 
 See the [attr_json](https://github.com/jrochkind/attr_json) gem for more documentation on definining metadata with attr_json.
 
+Kithe::Model includes AttrJson querying methods, so for instance:
+
+    Work.jsonb_contains("author.first" => "John")
+
 ### Race conditions and optimistic locking
 
 One down-side of storing all attributes serialized in a json hash, is that every save to db with Rails will overwrite the entire json_attributes column. If you have two processes/threads whose execution overlaps, one trying to update (eg) a "publisher" attribute and the other a "language" attribute -- one of the updates could be lost.