Hello!
1)
Patron or student is interested in literary
criticism of Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables. NOT interested in anything
about the musical theater or movie version.
Okay, the first time I worked with
this request, I did click on full-text but I didn’t see a right side bar and I
didn’t click on Advanced Search and a total of 5,361 popped up. Returning to
the search box, I kept the full-text and did go into Advanced Search and I
smiled, the side bar appeared. With the advanced search I could eliminate musical
and dis-associate other unwanted terms. Choosing the drop down and “not” I
still wasn’t getting better results.
I opened “more” options with the
click of the plus sign, for ‘document type’ and ‘subject’ limiters, clicking
each item as exclude or include, even at that still searches appeared with
theatrical reviews but dropped the number drastically to 730. Removing some of the included into excluded
even happiness and results were lower. But, I redid the entire search as I was
confusing myself. I selected advanced search, in the Document type I chose article,
book, commentary, literary review and speech lecture. A happier result with 305
items, I went back and clicked on Source, such as books, reports and conference
papers searching again with surprising number of zero results. Unclicking the
Source item, I returned to the 305 items. I didn’t search through them all, the one’s I
did, I didn’t see one musical or movie version result. That was my goal and
some interesting items.
2)
Using advanced search and full text typing in
Hurricane Sandy AND impact on libraries requesting last 7 days produced zero
results. Expanding time frame to 3 months locating 30 results and an article in
the School Library Journal. Keep trying! Limiting the subject search to
libraries, results are 3. Dec 2012 and
Jan 7, 2013. Changing time frames seems to be the indicator on number of
results. Am sure there are better ways of searching for this as I’ve heard news
stories on destruction of libraries, just not sure how to get those results
here.
1 comment:
Thanks for your Proquest post. The limiters on the right hand side of the page on a search (they show up after you've done a basic or an advanced search)are a great way to limit results. It sounds like you were successful in limiting the information returned.
Regarding the impact of libraries and Hurricane Sandy. It sounds like you found good information. Impact does not need to imply damage. Excellent use of the date limiters--they can really provide a picture of when the topic was in the news!
Thanks,
-Julie
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