1. AND, OR, NOT Presented by Brenda Levert LM 565:91 Jan. 30, 2010

2. Relationship between search terms Named after George Boole You can use Boolean Logic to refine your search

3. Boolean Logic 1.Boys AND Blue shirts___?__ 2.Boys OR Blue shirts ___?__ 1 6

4. Class Activity 1. Boys and Green shirts ___?___ 2. Boys or Green shirts ___?___

5. The Boolean Machine

6. Quotation marks require the search tool to treat your keywords as a phrase. Example: “Benjamin Franklin”

7. AND: Used to combine two keywords. Both must be present in the results Example ANDTelevisionViolence

8. Other Boolean Operators OR: Requires either term to be present in the search results Example: Colleges OR Universities CollegesUniversities OR

9. Other Boolean Operators NOT: Excludes terms Example: college NOT university collegeuniversity

10. Behavior FelinesCats (cats OR felines) AND behavior

11. Truncation (*) symbol Comput* compute computer computing computation

12. Review AND OR NOT

13. Reference ADAM. (n.d.). Boolean Searching. Retrieved January 24, 2010 from http://adam.ac.uk/info/boolean.html#bool http://adam.ac.uk/info/boolean.html#bool Delaware Tech Library. (2004). Boolean Searching and Truncation. Retrieved January 26, 2010 from http://www.library.dtcc.edu/wilmlib/BooleanTruncation%5B1%5D.pdf http://www.library.dtcc.edu/wilmlib/BooleanTruncation%5B1%5D.pdf Online Library Learning. Center. (n.d.). Boolean Search. Retrieved January 25, 2010 from http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit04/primer04_08.phtml http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit04/primer04_08.phtml Paul Meek Library. (n.d.). Boolean Searching on the Internet. Retrieved January 26 from http://www.utm.edu/departments/acadpro/library/information_pages/boolean.html#Boolean Searching on the Internet Schrock, Rockwell. (n.d). The Boolean Machine. Retrieved January 27, 2010 from http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3K/boolean/ All Images Microsoft Clip Art