Exercise  6         Searching COCC, Summit and e-book collections

1. Your  research question is: what are the legal issues in the debate of gay marriage?

    a.  First:

• List keywords:
  
  
• Need to combine them with Boolean connectors?  If so, write your search so far here:
  
  
• Need to truncate?  If so, write your truncated terms here:
  
  
• Now combine all of the above and write down your best keyword search is here:
  
  
• Perform this search in the COCC catalog.

    b. In the next few steps you will also identify the subject headings of your topic above and perform a subject search using the COCC Catalog

• After you perform the keyword search above, look carefully at your search results and choose the most relevant book title.
• Click on it.
• Look at the the bibliographic record of this book and identify the best Library of Congress Subject Heading(s) which you would use to further search our catalog on this topic.
• Write down here the best subject heading(s) for the topic:
  
   
• Click on the hyperlink of one of the Subject headings you just provided above.  Which one did you click on?
  
  
• How many results did you get when you clicked on this subject heading (i.e., when you did a Subject search)?

 
2. a. You've heard about this book called, The Stronger women get, the more men love football.  Find the book using Summit.

    b. Looking at the record of this book, what are the Subject Headings that describe what this book is about?

    c. How would you get help from Summit on how to cite this book in a research paper (look for the link in the item record to get a citation)?