Boolean and Catalog Search Exercise

Boolean and Catalog Search Exercise
Part I: Boolean Searching Strategies

The following candies are records in your database. They have the following properties:

Twix contain chocolate, cookie, and caramel
Caramel Kisses chocolate and caramel
Snickers contain chocolate, caramel, and nuts
Kit Kat contain chocolate and cookie
Caramels contain caramel (!)

1. Caramel NOT Nuts= Twix, Caramel kisses, Caramels
2. Chocolate OR Caramel= Twix, Caramel Kiss, Snickers, Kit Kat, Caramels
3. (Chocolate AND Caramel) NOT Cookie= Caramel kisses, Snickers
4. Chocolate OR Nuts= Twix, Caramel Kisses, Snickers, Kit Kat
5. Cookie AND Chocolate= Twix, Kit Kat
6. Chocolate NOT Caramel= Kit Kat
7. Nuts OR Caramel= Twix, Caramel Kisses, Snickers, Caramels


Part II: Searching the Library catalog

1. Go to the library home page (http://library.csueastbay.edu). Find the library catalog link from the quicklinks menu on the left side of the page.
Run a word search on the following term: Colonialism
How many hits did you get? I received 352 links.
Who is the author of the first work on your results list? Benjamin B. Cohen is the author if the first one.
What type of work is this? This is an e-book.
2. Click "modify search" to return to the catalog search page. Add "United States" to the second search box. Leave colonialism in the first box.

How many results did you get? I received 47 results.
Find the result authored by Kharem, Haroon.
What's the title of this work? A curriculum of repression: a pedagogy of racial history in the United States/ Haroon Kharem.
-What is the Call Number? LC2741 .K53 2006
-Where in the library would you go to get this book? (hint--check 'maps' page accessible from the menu at the bottom of the library web page)
I would look in Learning Commons. Location on the book stacks.
-Is this book checked out? This book is on the shelf.
-Use the information in the record for this work to create an APA citation. Refer the APA Citation Guidelines handout from week 2 for help.
Kharem, Haroon. (2006). A curriculum of repression: A pedagogy of racial history in the United States/ Haroon Kharem. New York: P. Lang.

3. Click "another search" (button next to "modify search.") Type colonialism in the first search box. In the second search box, type ("United States" OR Britain). Remember that OR widens your search results, instructing the catalog to return all results with "united states" or "Britain" somewhere in the record, and also the term "colonialism."

How many results did you get? I got 47 results.
What is the title of the first work on your results list? Open your eyes: deaf studies talking.
Why did the catalog pull up this record (where did it find a match for your search phrase?)
The content has the words Colonialism and United States in the content description.
List two subject headings for this work (hint: try "more details")
Deaf – social conditions – congress
Deaf – congresses
Use the information in the record for this work to create an APA citation. Refer the APA Citation Guidelines handout from week 2 for help.
Deaf Studies Think Tank (2002: Gallaudet University), & Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964. (2008). Open Your Eyes: Deaf studies talking/ H-Dirksen L. Bauman, editor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

4. Return to the library homepage. In the main search box under find books, run a keyword search on global warming, then "modify search"
Place the following limits on your search
Location: "Reference Collection"
Sorted By: Date
What is the title of the most recent work (top of the list)
Endangered species
Where in the library would you find this?
In the QD- TA Stacks, located in the Reference Stacks.
Look carefully at this record. Why did the catalog pull up this book (where did it find a match for your search phrase?)
It found a match in the content description. In the description the word global warming is used multiple times.

5. Now start over and run a search for a video about global warming.
What is the most recently produced video in the library?
The most recent video in the library was produced in 2006.
What is this video's call number?
The video’s call number is DVD 572.
Where in the library would you go to get this?
I would go to the reserves section that has the DVD’s.