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

3. 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 BOOLEAN LOGIC ?

4. 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

5. SUBJECT SEARCH : FOOTBALL AND: SPORT OR: FOOTBALL NOT: SOCCER NOT ANDOR

6. 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.

7. YOUTUBE VIDEO(S): BOOLEAN OPERATORS: HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=CWHPF00JKQG&FEATURE=FVW BOOLEAN OPERATORS: HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=XSSZPS3NH-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=OPERA TORS 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 ADDITIONAL LEARNING REFERENCES

8. BOOLEAN OPERATORS: ( 2009). RETRIEVED NOVEMBER, 19. 2009, FROM HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=CWHPF00JKQG&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=XSSZPS3NH-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, 20, 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 WORK CITED PAGE