1 / 13

Boolean Operators

Boolean Operators. AND, OR, NOT. Presented by Brenda Levert LM 565:91 Jan. 30, 2010. Boolean Logic. Relationship between search terms Named after George Boole You can use Boolean Logic to refine your search. Boolean Logic. Boys AND Blue shirts ___ ? __

cricket
Download Presentation

Boolean Operators

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT Presented by Brenda Levert LM 565:91 Jan. 30, 2010

  2. Boolean Logic • Relationship between search terms • Named after George Boole • You can use Boolean Logic to refine your search

  3. Boolean Logic • Boys AND Blue shirts ___?__ • Boys OR Blue shirts ___?__ 1 6

  4. Class Activity 1. Boys and Green shirts ___?___ 2. Boys or Green shirts ___?___

  5. Boolean Operators The Boolean Machine

  6. Boolean Logic • Quotation marks require the search tool to treat your keywords as a phrase. Example: “Benjamin Franklin”

  7. Boolean Operators AND: Used to combine two keywords. Both must be present in the results Example • Television AND • Violence

  8. Other Boolean Operators OR: Requires either term to be present in the search results Example: • Colleges OR Universities Colleges Universities OR

  9. Other Boolean Operators NOT: Excludes terms Example: college NOT university college university

  10. Other Boolean Operators (cats OR felines) AND behavior

  11. Truncation (*) symbol • Comput* • compute • computer • computing • computation

  12. Review AND OR NOT

  13. Reference • ADAM. (n.d.) . Boolean Searching. Retrieved January 24, 2010 from http://adam.ac.uk/info/boolean.html#bool • Delaware Tech Library. (2004). Boolean Searching and Truncation. Retrieved January 26, 2010 from http://www.library.dtcc.edu/wilmlib/BooleanTruncation%5B1%5D.pdf • Online Library Learning. Center. (n.d.). Boolean Search. Retrieved January 25, 2010 from http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit04/primer04_08.phtml • Paul Meek Library. (n.d.). Boolean Searching on the Internet. Retrieved January 26 from http://www.utm.edu/departments/acadpro/library/information_pages/boolean.html#Boolean Searching on the Internet • Schrock, Rockwell. (n.d). The Boolean Machine. Retrieved January 27, 2010 from http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3K/boolean/ • All Images Microsoft Clip Art

More Related