BOOLEAN OPERATORS ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES 10 TH GRADE

BOOLEAN OPERATORS ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES 10 TH GRADE LIBRARY AND RESEARCH SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR: MS. LOGAN BLOCK: 5 DATE: 12/2/2009

BOOLEAN LOGIC ? WHO? CREATED BY MATHEMATICIAN, GEORGE BOOLE 1815 -1864 WHAT? BOOLEAN OPERATORS, HELP NARROW OR BROADEN SEARCH RESULTS WHERE? ONLINE, DIRECTORIES, DATABASES AND OPAC’S HOW? USE: AND, OR, NOT WHY? CONCISE, UNIFORMED, COMPLETE, ACCURATE

HOW TO USE BOOLEAN OPERATOR? AND: COMBINES SEARCH TERMS, WHICH WILL NARROW THE SEARCH OR: TO RETRIEVE EATHIER TERM, WILL BROADENS THE SEARCH TOPICS NOT: ELEMINATES ALL THE RESULTS THAT HAVE THE SEARCH TERM

SUBJECT SEARCH : FOOTBALL NOT AND: SPORT OR: FOOTBALL NOT: SOCCER OR AND

Truncation: (Wildcard) * WHAT? Truncations OR Wildcard: a search that finds terms with similar spellings, general meanings or plural spellings. Ex. Theater or Theatre LOOKUP Theat* HOW? EX. 1 Theater or Theatre LOOKUP Theat* EX. 2 Dog or Doggy or Dogma or LOOKUP Dog* WHEN? Use Truncations or a Wildcard search whenever you are searching for a key word that has alternative spellings.

ADDITIONAL LEARNING REFERENCES YOUTUBE VIDEO(S): BOOLEAN OPERATORS: HTTP: //WWW. YOUTUBE. COM/WATCH? V=CWHPF 00 JKQG&FEATURE=FVW BOOLEAN OPERATORS: HTTP: //WWW. YOUTUBE. COM/WATCH? V=XSSZPS 3 NH -M WEBSITE(S): UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: NHTTP: //WWW. KNOWLEDGECENTER. UNR. EDU/INSTRUCTION/HELP/BOOLTI PS. HTML COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: HTTP: //DISCOVERY. LIBRARY. COLOSTATE. EDU/HELP/HOME? TOPIC=OPERAT ORS VITUAL LEARNING TUTORIAL(S): COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: HTTP: //LIB. COLOSTATE. EDU/TUTORIALS/TRUNCATION. HTML UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: HTTP: //WWW. LIB. UNC. EDU/INSTRUCT/MATH/SEARCHING/TRUNCATIO N. HTML

WORK CITED PAGE BOOLEAN OPERATORS: ( 2009). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 19. 2009, FROM HTTP: //WWW. YOUTUBE. COM/WATCH? V=CWHPF 00 JKQG&FEATURE=FVW BOOLEAN SEARCH TIPS. (2009). RETRIEVED DECEMBER 1, 2009, FROM HTTP: //WWW. LSCC. EDU/LIBRARY/GUIDES/BOOLSEA. PDF BOOLEAN OPERATORS: (2009 ). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 19. 2009, FROM HTTP: //WWW. YOUTUBE. COM/WATCH? V=XSSZPS 3 NH-M COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY. ( 2009). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 19. 2009, FROM HTTP: //DISCOVERY. LIBRARY. COLOSTATE. EDU/HELP/HOME? TOPIC=OPERA TORS COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY. (2009). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 30. 2009, FROM HTTP: //LIB. COLOSTATE. EDU/TUTORIALS/TRUNCATION. HTML DEFINITION OF TRUNCATION AND BOOLEAN OPERATOR (2009). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 2009, HTTP: //WEB. SIMMONS. EDU/~WATKINS/BOOLEAN. PDF UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO. (2009 ). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 23. 2009, FROM NHTTP: //WWW. KNOWLEDGECENTER. UNR. EDU/INSTRUCTION/HELP/BOOLTI PS. HTML UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: (2009). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 23. 2009, FROM HTTP: //WWW. LIB. UNC. EDU/INSTRUCT/MATH/SEARCHING/TRUNCATION. HT ML