Searching In The Peabody Database

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Searching In The Peabody Database
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"Help! I'm trying to find programs about the
Black Panthers. I got this huge list of search
results and I can't understand them."
Does this scene look familiar?
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Have you every gotten a search results list that
was longer than your last vacation?
In this session, you will learn how to construct
a search that will retrieve the records you want
without also retrieving 10,000 that you don't
need.
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What We Already Know

• Sources of data
• Entry forms
• Credits captions
• Supplemental material

• Fields in the database
• What goes in each field
• What you WON'T find in a record

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What's New in This Session
We'll take all that information we have and apply
it a daily work problem answering research
questions about the Collection.
-Good search strategy finds what you need and
eliminates what you don't.  -Some of the
principles you learn here will help you search in
GIL and on the Web.
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We Will

• Talk about where to look in the record

• Look at strategies for combining searches

• Practice some strategies for developing
• precise searches

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"My wife said to get capers. Do you know where
those are? Do you know what those are?"
"It's a lot easier to find what you're looking
for if you know what it is and where they keep
it."
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What We'll Learn

• How to translate a reference question into a
  search
• strategy
• What fields to focus your search on in order to
  best
• find different types of information

You know it's in there but you can't find it.
How frustrating! This will help you to find what
you need right away.