Boolean Searching Strategies

Boolean Searching Strategies
Section.1
1. Caramel NOT Nuts = Twix, Caramel Kisses, Caramels
2. Chocolate OR Caramel = Twix, Caramel Kisses, Snickers, Kit Kat, Caramels
3. (Chocolate AND Caramel) NOT Cookie = Caramel Kisses, Snickers
4. Chocolate OR Nuts = Twix, Caramel Kisses, Snickers, Kit Kat
5. Cookie AND Chocolate = Twix, Kit Kat
6. Chocolate NOT Caramel = Kit Kat
7. Nuts OR Caramel = Twix, Caramel Kisses, Snickers, Caramels

Section. 2
1. Go to the library home page (http://library.csueastbay.edu).
Run a Keyword search on the following term: Colonialism
How many hits did you get? 353
Who is the author of the first work on your results list? Cohen, Benjamin B.
What type of work is this? Ebook

2. Click "modify search" to go to the library catalog’s Advanced Search page. Add United States to the second search box. Leave colonialism in the first box.
How many results did you get? 47
Find the result authored by Kharem, Haroon.
What's the title of this work?
A curriculum of repression: a pedagogy of racial history in the United States
What is the Call Number? LC2741 .K53 2006
Where in the library would you go to get this book? (hint--check the library floor plans by following the Maps link at the very bottom of the library home page)
In upper mall “Da-L, N-PQ Book Stacks
Use the information in the record for this work to create an APA citation.
Refer the APA Citation Guidelines handout from week 2 for help.
Kharem, H. (2006). A curriculum of repression: pedagogy of racial history in the United States. New York, Retrieved February 17th, 2009, from Cal State University Library

3. Click "another search" (button next to "modify search.") Type colonialism in the first search box. In the second search box, type ("United States" OR Britain). Remember that OR widens your search results, instructing the catalog to return all results with "united states" or "Britain" somewhere in the record, and also the term "colonialism."
How many results did you get? 72
What is the title of the first work on your results list?
Open your eyes : deaf studies talking
Why did the catalog pull up this record (where did it find a match for your search phrase?)
Because it have the word: Colonialism, and the decline of deaf clubs in the United States.
List two subject headings for this work (hint: try "more details")
Deaf -- Congresses
Deaf -- Social conditions -- Congresses
4.Use the information in the record for this work to create an APA citation. Refer the APA Citation Guidelines handout from week 2 for help.
University of Minnesota (2002). Open your eyes: deaf studies talking, Deaf Studies Think Tank. Retrieved February 17th, 2009, from Cal State University Library

5. Now start over and run a search for a video about global warming (search and sort by date).
What is this video's call number?
VHS6566
Where in the library would you go to get this?
Reserves