Another PPT for the MILI class, this one giving Google tips and tricks

1. MILI 2011-2012
LeAnn Suchy
leann@metronet.lib.mn.us

2. Students want
one-stop shop
Don’t often think
of additional
keywords or
search strategies

3. Worksheets you
can use with
students
Identifying
Keywords, Syno
nyms, &
Key Phrases

4. Creating An
Effective
Search
Statement
Worksheet

5.  Googlebot “crawls” billions of
web pages and indexes them
 The indexed pages are searchable
 Results are relevancy ranked
 Over 200 factors determine
relevancy, including popularity

7. Do not need “and” between terms
Ignore most punctuation, all caps
Order matters, most prominent first

8. Use quotes for exact phrases
- to include and exclude words

9. Either OR (must type in caps)
Use parentheses to enclose concepts

10. Limit to website with site:
Limit to domain with site:
• com, edu, org, gov

11. Don’t forget the minus symbol to
exclude some domains

12. Limit to type of file

13. Google
can be
your
dictionary
with
define:

14. Google can be your calculator

16. Many other
ways to
search:
intitle
intext
allinurl
related pages
author
source

20. Other useful Google
searches:
News
Scholar
Books

24.  Some articles will be pay per view
 Older materials not all inclusive;
only some information available
 News in ELM databases a bit
different. If the database has
coverage of the paper, you will get
full tex.

28.  Many items are not full text, it is
a discovery tool
 But they do have links to libraries
 Quality of the scanned items is
good, but you may find some that
are hard to read

31.  Not all items are full text – many
are citations or lead you to places
you can purchase full text
 Don’t assume you have to purchase the
item, bring the citation to the library or
look in the ELM databases for it