General Searching Tips
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When searching:
- Start with simple search terms
- Try to be as specific as possible
- Expand your terms to get more results
- Narrow your terms to get fewer results
- Use “quotation marks” around words you want to be together in a phrase
- Use AND for including more than one word or phrase
- Use OR to indicate search instructions
- Use NOT to eliminate words or phrases from your search
Tip:
Google is a good place to start any research. Google’s spell checker can help you find the correct spelling of unfamiliar words. It can also help you find industry specific terminology.
Once you have an overview from a source such as Google, you can explore your career in more detail using library job search databases.