Field Trips

Visit to Library in Blacksburg on 9/7/95

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Activities summary:

• VTLS session overview with students using Macs
• First Search demonstration on a PC
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts on the Internet
• Instruction on constructing a search by stating the topic of the search and identifying the concepts in the search
• Explanation of how to make a list of free-text terms and thesarurus terms associated with each concept and to decide how the terms are to be linked with Boolean operators to produce an effective search

Other information:

• WITH, NOT and NEAR can be used in Boolean queries.
• University Libraries Homepage, that leads to VTLS and First Search
• Science Reference Homepage, which leads to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (Note: we can only access the titles we subscribe to in paper and these are indicated by Bold Type on the List of Journals link.)