Reference Survival - Worksheets 2 and 3

WORKSHEET 2

‘Remember the “Gin and Tonic’
Practice this on a friend and note the relationship to Boolean Searching


1. Mix your friend a Gin and Tonic.What did you give them?

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2. Give them either Gin or Tonic. What did you give them?

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3. Give them Gin not Tonic. What did you give them?

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WORKSHEET 3

Fill in the gaps on the following statements.

A database is made up of ……………………...

The major points of access are keyword, subject, ……………….… and title.

Keyword searching allows you to ……..………. Terms and concepts to retrieve records.

Boolean operators can be used to make a better defined ……..……..……

‘Adolescent or teen’ will retrieve records that contain either the word adolescent or the word teen or ………….….. of the words

Nesting preserves the ‘……….……….’ of your keyword search.

Truncation is used to find ……..…………….form of words in a keyword search

Stopwords are not keywords in a search and may stop a computer search. List three common stopwords . …………..…….. ………………….….... …………………………

Limiters let you ………......…….. the focus of your search.
List two common limiters ………………………………....... ………...…………………….