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Library Services
Keyword Search Strategies
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Discovery Tool
100
You will find textbooks and laptops here.
What is the Circulation Desk?
100
This is what you are doing when you are developing alternate keywords for the main concepts of your research question.
What is brainstorming?
100
This is the default organization of the Library's 66 databases.
What is alphabetical by name of the database?
100
This is how works of Fiction are organized in the catalog.
What is by the first three letters of the author's last name?
100

This all-in-one search tool was called Ask S.A.M. last semester.

What is the JJC Discovery Tool?
200
You can receive one-on-one research assistance here.
What is the Reference Desk?
200
A reference book or online tool that provides you with synonyms to use in your keyword searches.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This database will help you to talk like a pirate.
What is Mango Languages?
200

This technique will help you narrow your search to find DVDs only.

What is limiting by format?
200

These authoritative summary articles can only be found in the Discovery Tool.

What are Research Starters?
300
You will need this attached to your Student ID in order to check out materials.
What is the sticker for that semester?
300
This database provides you with a visual web of inter-related terms based on your keyword search.
What is the Credo Mind Map?
300
This is what you must do to ensure you can read the articles you find in your search.
What is limit to full text?
300
This is what you should do when you can't find a title in the JJC Library.
What is change my search to "All I-Share Libraries"?
300
This is a persistent URL which you create to allow you to return to a specific article after you have logged out of your search.
What is a Permalink?
400
These are the online hours for the JJC Library.
What is 24/7?
400
This is when you create a search by stringing together a list of keywords using AND, OR, NOT.
What is Boolean searching?
400
This is a summary that will help you decide if an article might by useful for your project.
What is an abstract?
400
This is the type of search which uses multiple keywords linked by Boolean operators.
What is an Advanced Search?
400
Search tools such as the date range and full-text limiters help in this regard. 
What is narrowing or broadening your search?
500
This is what it will cost to scan information to your email or USB drive.
What is nothing or free?
500
This is a more formal version of a keyword, as it is not in your own natural language, but rather a controlled language.
What is a subject term?
500
You'll want to limit your search for this is your professor requests you use academic journals.
What is Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed?
500
This is the basis for organization of the non-fiction collection cataloged with Dewey Decimal call numbers.
What is by subject?
500
What is the primary challenge for a new researcher using the Discovery Tool?
What is too many results?