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BOOLEAN OPERATORS

BOOLEAN OPERATORS. ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES 10 th grade library and research SCIENCE Instructor: MS.LOGAN BLOCK: 5 Date: 12/2/2009. BOOLEAN LOGIC ?. Who? Created by Mathematician, George Boole 1815-1864 What? Boolean operators, help narrow or broaden search results

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BOOLEAN OPERATORS

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  1. BOOLEAN OPERATORS ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES 10th grade library and research SCIENCE Instructor: MS.LOGAN BLOCK: 5 Date: 12/2/2009

  2. BOOLEAN LOGIC ? 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

  3. 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

  4. SUBJECT SEARCH : FOOTBALL AND: SPORT OR: FOOTBALL NOT:SOCCER

  5. 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.

  6. ADDITIONAL LEARNING REFERENCES 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/booltips.html Colorado state university: http://discovery.library.colostate.edu/Help/Home?topic=operators 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/truncation.html

  7. WORK CITED PAGE 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=operators 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/booltips.html University of north Carolina: (2009). Retrieved November, 23. 2009, from http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/math/searching/truncation.html

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