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Welcome back! LIS1001 Information and Technology for Searching May 2017, Ulrich Werner, Lecturer Your first assignment Some of you have a problem. In this course 102 students 15 points 1 13 points 1 10 points 1 5 points Identified

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Welcome back!

LIS1001 Information and Technology for Searching

May 2017, Ulrich Werner, Lecturer

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Your first assignment

Some of you have a problem.

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In this course 102 students 15 points 1 13 points 1 10 points 1 5 points Identified the Quagga … 0 points 4 CFC 10

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… and this time, it was so easy.

Just read what you see.

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Narrowing a search to get the best results

Level 1

Created by: Tasha Bergson-Michelson Kathy Glass

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You need photographs of Manchester United in action

How do you find that?

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YouTube

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Google Books

Looking for full‐text (“free”) books?

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Operators

NOT OR site: filetype: define:

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Narrowing a search to get the best results

Level 3

Created by: Tasha Bergson-Michelson Kathy Glass

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Martin Luther King: I have a dream

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But: Why a standard search on Google? Remember: Garbage in = garbage out

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Always: Analyze your search results and re‐define your search terms.

That’s the secret of those students who get best marks for their assignments.

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Assignment

I read at http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ that the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is endangered from extinction. Should I use that in my homework? Please reason in detail.