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Leveraging Library Resources

Leveraging Library Resources. Global Operations Management Prof. Sameer Prasad University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Library Carol Elsen University Library March 30, 2009. Leveraging Library Resources. Objectives

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Leveraging Library Resources

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  1. Leveraging Library Resources Global Operations Management Prof. Sameer Prasad University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Library Carol Elsen University Library March 30, 2009

  2. Leveraging Library Resources • Objectives • To leverage Library business literature databases and article retrieval services • To learn search techniques that will make your searches more efficient, to retrieve more relevant results and be as comprehensive as possible Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and that they dwell therein. Zora Neale Hurston

  3. Leveraging Library Resources Search Tips • Search Connectors • Use And, Or, Not to connect concepts in a search • Truncation • Use truncation to find a variety of word endings

  4. Leveraging Library Resources Search Tips • AND searches • green purchasing (finds 59results) • green purchasing and international (finds 11results) And makes searches more specific Use And when you get too many results Operations global

  5. Leveraging Library Resources Search Tips • OR searches • disaster relief (finds 678 results) • disaster recovery (finds 25results) • disaster relief or disaster recovery (696 results) Ormakes searches broader Use Or when you don’t find enough results Disaster relief Disaster recovery

  6. plant location gardening Leveraging Library Resources Search Tips • NOT searches • plant location (finds 130 results) • plant location not gardening (finds 20 results) Not makes searches more relevant Use Not when you find irrelevant results

  7. Leveraging Library Resources Search Tips • Truncation • operations (finds operations) • operat* (finds operate, operation,operations, operating, operational, etc.) Truncation expands searches Use Truncation to find multiple forms of a word

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