LibGuides: EDFO 325 Global Citizenship : Finding Library Books and Articles

Finding Burman Library Books

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Use Boolean Operators to Focus Your Search

and: limits results to sources containing both terms. Example: poverty and adolescents.
or: broadens results to items containing either one or both terms. Example: teenagers or adolescents
not: excludes a term from the search results. Example: hockey not shinney
parentheses (): groups words together and controls the order in which terms will be searched Example:poverty and (teenagers or adolescents

Use Subject Headings and Keywords Strategically

Keywords	Subject Headings
May occur anywhere in the text or record.	Found in the pre-determined list of terms that describe items in the database
Generally works well for initial searching. Check relevant headings for subject headings.	Use later in the search process to focus results more precisely to the topic.
Often results in many irrelevant results	More relevant results because the subject headings are assigned to describe the contents of item./

Keywords

Subject Headings

May occur anywhere in the text or record.

Found in the pre-determined list of terms that describe items in the

database

Generally works well for initial searching. Check

relevant headings for subject headings.

Use later in the search process to focus results more precisely

to the topic.

Often results in many irrelevant results

More relevant results because the subject headings are

assigned to describe the contents of item./