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)?
