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NO CARD CATALOGS HERE ROO FOUR DESIGN. Searches  Computers cannot search without direction  Tries to match exact terms  Failed searches  Combining.

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1 NO CARD CATALOGS HERE ROO FOUR DESIGN

2 Searches  Computers cannot search without direction  Tries to match exact terms  Failed searches  Combining concepts

3 BOOLEAN SEARCHING Separate searches by : ‘And’ ‘Not’ ‘Or’ Can broaden or narrow your search

4 Library Homepage  Databases by title  Academic search complete  Choose additional databases  Research topic by typing terms

5 Databases  Academic search complete  Search additional libraries/ databases  Can choose more than one database to search

6 Example key words: Youth Violence  Narrow search by using key words with Boolean phrases  Can exclude words to search by using ‘not’  Can search by treating the words separately by using ‘or’  Which Boolean phrase you use can change the number of search results


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