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Welcome to the basic and boring (but useful) blog of library and online resource links. The goal of this blog is to provide easy access to those resources which I have found to be helpful over the years for those occations when I don't have access to my saved favorites menu.



I anticipate that this blog will be weeks in the making, and will undergo many edits as I figure out what works and what does not. Please understand this is a work in progress, and is not in any way intended to be a complete list of resources.



If you have stumbled upon this page, I hope you find some of these resources helpful!



Sincerely,

The Library Geek

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Search Engines & Boolean Searching


GOOGLE
Ok - we all know about Google. It's a great resource for looking up information. To take your Google searching to the next level, you are going to want to use Boolean searching or Google-specific shortcuts. Google Guide is a great reference for advanced Google searching. Here is their "Cheat Sheet" - a quick reference of some commonly used advanced Google search techniques. You can also check out this cheat sheet provided by Google, which also includes Boolean operators.

INTERNET LIBRARY/LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET
These two wonderful sites merged, serving as a search engine to quality content. Includes options to search newspapers and magazines; content for kids and teens; lists of resources by subject as well as "special collections"

BOOLEAN SEARCHING
Using operators such as "and" "or" and "not" to narrow search results.
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