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Sample Review Exercises

1. Define or describe the following key terms:
Think in terms of explaining each term to a friend or your instructor in a way that will show that you understand the practical working definition of each term.
  • Query

  • Search term

  • Search Strategy

  • Boolean Logic

  • Limitors

  • Relational Operators

  • Hit

  • Library Information Service

  • Electronic Database

  • Robot Programs

  • Advanced Search

  • Interlibrary Loan

  • Library Express

  • Online Catalog

  • ERIC

  • Electronic Journals

  • Primary Sources

  • Inquiry-Based Learning

  • The Big Six Skills for Problem Solving

  • Scaffolding

2. Pick a topic of interest to you, such as a research paper for another course or a topic in which you are interested, and use the Library Information System to locate articles and citations for to your topic. Try to do all (or as much as possible) of your research on-line.
3. Pick a topic of interest to you and visit Unified Web Searches at www.search.com. Try to locate information on this topic from several web search engines. Decide which ones are most likely to work best for you in the future.

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