Designing Better Libraries

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Building Block Research on LibLit




For the search I used:
keywords: (student or teenager) AND (research or resources) AND (skills or techniques)
I received 1099 hits.

The Building Block strategy is great to use when someone needs to search a system with a complex search query. This strategy allows the user to break their query into different facets and apply Boolean logic to help with the information retrieval process. I used to enter my entire search query into a single search banner and would come up with zero hits. Now I know how to break my query into different facets, and group keyterms together, for a better search strategy.

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