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1. Booleon search terms - do you teach them? (Loretta Sullivan)
2. Re: Booleon search terms - do you teach them? (Cathy Andronik)
3. Re: Booleon search terms - do you teach them? (Dawn M. Zillich)
4. CASL WRAD sign-up - LAST CALL!
(CASL Vice President - Jenny Lussier)
5. Re: Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
(Juliann T. Moskowitz)
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:19:28 -0500
Subject: [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if you teach Booleon search terms (and,or, not) for more effective searching when using keywords? Can someone clarify for me (I feel awful about not knowing) why when trying these search terms they do not always work? Are they only effective when using databases vs. using a search engine to look something up? My TIS and I were trying them in hopes of helping students learn these strategies, but did not find anything that worked the way we wanted when we tried them. Am I missing something? Thanks for your help!
Respectfully,
Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Bennet Academy
Manchester, CT
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:52:11 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
I think Boolean searching works better in databases than it does on the internet, just because of the way the two are set up to search.
A high school English teacher called me in to help her class. The students were creating TED-type talks about the subject of their choosing. They were required to include, I believe, at least three sources from databases. Many of the topics were VERY specific (along the lines of "academic achievement of African American children growing up in urban single-parent families")--things where databases sent them in wrong directions very easily because of one inaccurate search term, and many hits on the internet were anecdotal or short memoirs rather than solid facts and statistics. The teacher realized the students' questions were above her expertise with our databases; I sat in on a research session for a few minutes and realized that Boolean searching would help enormously. That assignment probably led to the most genuine appreciation I'd ever gotten from our students. I still use as an example the debate I had with a student on a video clip she wanted to use for her report on . . . I forget the details, something about the health effects of hydration. She wanted to use a Youtube clip of a guy in a tricked out convertible telling the person behind the camera how much he was enjoying a drink of water. I asked what point she was trying to make with that particular video; her point was more academic and health-centered, and I challenged car-guy's credentials for reliability. Interesting discussion.
Hope this helps.
Cathy Andronik
Retired (Brien McMahon HS, Norwalk)
Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if you teach Booleon search terms (and,or, not) for more effective searching when using keywords? Can someone clarify for me (I feel awful about not knowing) why when trying these search terms they do not always work? Are they only effective when using databases vs. using a search engine to look something up? My TIS and I were trying them in hopes of helping students learn these strategies, but did not find anything that worked the way we wanted when we tried them. Am I missing something? Thanks for your help!
Respectfully,
Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Bennet Academy
Manchester, CT
For all other technology assistance (including laptops and iPads), go to the IT Helpdesk or call / text 860-682-0607, Monday - Friday from 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:01:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
This is what I use when teaching students a better way to use Google if they really don’t want to use Google Scholar:
Searching specific Website:
Use the following example shows how to search only within a single site:
Example: Lent site:http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/
Book Review site:nytimes.com
Searching topic in title:
The query intitle:term restricts results to documents containing term in the title.
Example: flu shot intitle:advice will return documents that mention the word “advice” in their titles, and mention the words “flu” and “shot” anywhere in the document (title or not).
Putting intitle: in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting allintitle: at the front of your query. In other words, allintitle: google search Tips.
Example allintitle:death penalty catechism
Narrow or widen a search:
Adding a plus or minus sign allows you to narrow or widen your search.
Examples: “civil war” +US +history
“civil war” +US +history -Wikipedia
Cancer -Lukemia
Searching topic in inurl:
Example: inurl:cancer
(Words in the Text) + Title, URL etc.
If you want to find a webpage where one term appears in the text of that page and another term appears elsewhere on the page, like the title or URL, then type in that first term followed by intext:followed immediately by the other term.
Example: “linear algebra” intext:google
Specific Document Types:
Find results that are a file type, (presentations, images, documents, etc).
Example Search: "marketing strategies" filetype:ppt
Ongoing research?
Set a Google alert so you get continuous updates. Visit Google News Initiative.
Hope this helps,
Dawn M. Zillich, librarian
St. Paul Catholic High School
“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next
year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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Subject: [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
I wanted to know if you teach Booleon search terms (and,or, not) for more effective searching when using keywords? Can someone clarify for me (I feel awful about not knowing) why when trying these search terms they do not always work? Are they only effective when using databases vs. using a search engine to look something up? My TIS and I were trying them in hopes of helping students learn these strategies, but did not find anything that worked the way we wanted when we tried them. Am I missing something? Thanks for your help!
Respectfully,
For all other technology assistance (including laptops and iPads), go to the IT Helpdesk or call / text 860-682-0607, Monday - Friday from 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:25:53 -0500
Subject: [CASL-L] CASL WRAD sign-up - LAST CALL!
Good morning!
If you or your teachers are still interested in signing up for CASL's World Read Aloud Day events tomorrow, there is still time. Sign-ups will be closed at 4pm today.
Sign up here!
If you sign up, you will receive an email on Tuesday evening with the links to the sessions.
Thank you!
The CASL WRAD team
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:51:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
I've taught Boolean searching from middle school up to university students. When I taught the concept to middle schoolers I had them stand up or sit down based on the boolean operator. Examples: everyone with jeans AND sneakers stand up. Everyone with jeans
OR sneakers stand up, etc. I think the visual representation helped them to understand it a little better.
Juliann T. Moskowitz
Instruction and Information Literacy Librarian
Wahlstrom Library
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if you teach Booleon search terms (and,or, not) for more effective searching when using keywords? Can someone clarify for me (I feel awful about not knowing) why when trying these search terms they do not always work? Are they only effective
when using databases vs. using a search engine to look something up? My TIS and I were trying them in hopes of helping students learn these strategies, but did not find anything that worked the way we wanted when we tried them. Am I missing something? Thanks
for your help!
Respectfully,
Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Bennet Academy
Manchester, CT
For all other technology assistance (including laptops and iPads), go to the IT Helpdesk
or call / text 860-682-0607, Monday - Friday from 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot
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