Exercise 6

Keyword and Subject Searches using the COCC Catalog

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

    a.  Performing a keyword search using the COCC Catalog

• List keywords:
• Need to combine them with Boolean connectors?
• Truncate?

        Your best keyword search is:

    b. Identifying subject headings and performing a subject search using the COCC Catalog

• Now perform the keyword search above using the COCC Catalog as you wrote it down 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.  Your subject  is:  drug abuse among pregnant women

    a.  Performing a keyword search:

• List keywords:
• Need to combine them with Boolean connectors?
• Truncate?

        Your best keyword search is:

    b. Identifying subject headings and performing a subject search using the COCC Catalog

• Now perform the keyword search using the COCC Catalog, as you wrote it down 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)?