HOCKEY BIOGRAPHY

• person's name
• organization with which that person is directly associated (eg. NHL)
• area of prominence and biography
• use truncation and Boolean operators (and or not) as required

eg./
wayne gretzky
nhl
hockey and biograph*
hockey and encyclopedia*

- Browse:

• 920s General Biographies

within areas of prominence
eg./ 796.96s = Hockey

VAUGHAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Books / Videos

• use KEYWORD search

• use WCI search as example

• use "SEARCH FILTERS" to delimit location

• sort results if necessary

• most search engines will extrapolate variations of a word if the "main" word is used (eg./ the singular vs. plural form of a word)
• use quote marks " ..." to enclose phrases as necessary

eg.
guy lafleur
hockey goalie statistics
"wayne gretzky" accomplishments

alternately use
ADVANCED GOOGLE SEARCH

Above example see forced:
OR to combine similar terms on ONE line
" ... " to show exact phrase

player OR goalie OR coach ncaa OR nhl OR "junior a"

hockey profiles OR legends OR heroes

MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL DATABASES

• Select preferred package of databases:
  from YRDSB's Trillium Databases (Home access requires password)

  • including Ebscohost's Canadian Points of View

  or directly from
    - InfoTrac by Thomson / Gale - includes all our Gale ebooks (Home access requires password)
   - or -
              from Vaughan Public Libraries - Online Databases (VPL membership required)

• Select appropriate database(s) within preferred package

• Choose "Advanced Search" tab

• Ensure Fulltext selected

• type keyword(s):

  • combine keywords needed with AND operator

  • search most important keywords in Subject field (or broaden search to default fields if necessary)

  • use truncation as required

  • cluster similar concepts if necessary to optimize on line limitations

  • check assigned subject headings of highly relevant articles for alternate keywords

  • no one perfect strategy -- play around for the one that works best for given search

Infotrac ARTICLES and SEARCH ALERTS may be emailed directly to user

eg.

default sort  is

try sorting by: 

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OTHER SAMPLE NEWS SEARCHES

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