Exercises

Exercise 5: Use the Dialog Bluesheets to answer the following questions to check your understanding of the material in Lesson 5.

The typical Dialog Bluesheet includes:
1. Field tags, formats, and a file description
2. The phone number of the database producer
3. Costs
4. All of the above
Write search strategies for the following information requests using the Basic Index when appropriate:
1. Find a survey on executive compensation. You want to restrict the search to the title and descriptors.
2. Find an article about e-commerce where Microsoft is one of the main companies mentioned in the article.

Click the Check Yourself icon to see answers to these questions, then go on to the Summary.

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Learn More #1:

There are two ways to put the search strategy together:

We can put all of the search terms together in one search statement. If this method is used, and we use AND and OR operators in the same search query, we must group the synonyms using parentheses.

Example: s (threat? or hazard?) and (radon or asbestos)

We can create a separate set for each concept and then group the sets together.

We are using Method 2 in our search strategy.