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Identify and access a database
Constructing Searches

 Conducting a search - review of last session:
- identify sources of information – databases,
etc.
- access – password, step by step
procedures
- OHS consideration

Session Topic: Constructing Searches
Session aim:
To learn the concepts and techniques in
constructing searches in an online TAFE
database, to help develop skills and
knowledge in searching library and
information databases.

 Session outline:
- Develop right search strategy
- Basic and Advanced searches – definitions,
commonalities and differences
- Boolean search operators
- Simultaneous demonstration/application
- Assessment

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 Constructing Searches
Develop search strategy
Identify key concepts or ideas.
Use alternative keywords for each concept.
Understand the concept and use of available
search tools.

Basic and Advanced Search:
 Basic search –offers a few, commonly used
fields for a simplified search experience.
 Advanced search – offers more in-depth
search via additional fields

 Basic and Advanced search commonalities:
 Can be toggled between from within the
same search page of the database by clicking
the "Advanced Search" or "Basic Search" link
as appropriate.
 You can click the Search button or type
Return/Enter to perform your search.

 Clear button : This will clear all criteria from
the searchable fields.
 Use of Boolean operators, limiters and
expanders are available

 Basic and Advanced search differences:
 Use of Boolean operators hard to specify in
Basic search.
 Additional fields feature in Advanced search:
easy to use Boolean operators to specify how
search term is to be treated or where in the
results should the term appear.

Search Library and Information Databases : Constructing searches

 Booleans ‘AND’, ‘OR’ and ‘NOT’
 Boolean logic defines logical relationships
between terms in a search.
 Operators are used to create a very broad
or very narrow search.

 Demonstration
 Basic Search
 Advanced Search
 Use of Boolean Operators [and, or, not]

 Summary:
Constructing searches starts with the
development of search strategies - analysing
and breaking down the topic’s concepts into
keywords or using relevant alternative words
to use in the search. It also involves
understanding the concepts of different types
of search functionalities that will enable us to
broaden or narrow our search.

 Training Competency:
At the end of this unit, the trainees will
develop skills and knowledge in searching
and retrieving information from an online
database. The unit focuses on ANZRC
database available within the TAFE Adelaide
Library campus, and the skills necessary to
formulate effective search strategies to meet
the trainee’s information needs.

 Reminders:
 Session 3 ‘Refining Searches’ – (for external
students) online at
http://sweetsuccessle.blogspot.com.au/
 Click on the ‘Training’ tab and then the link
on session 3. All hand-outs and instructions
are available on this link.
 Email: zulsilago_10@hotmail.com

 "There's a way to do it better -- find it."
- Thomas Edison

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