Document (#3732)

Author

Morton, D.

Title

Refresher course : boolean and (searching or retrieval)

Source

Online. 17(1993) no.1, S.57-59

Year

1993

Abstract

Offers a course designed to sharpen rusty searching skills for infrequent searchers or as a simple introduction to search concepts for end-users. Advises upon the reasons for using Boolean operators; when to use them; Boolean basics; system defaults; using the OR operator, the AND operator, the NOT operator and XOR; oder of processing for Boolean operators anf the future of Boolean

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