Wednesday, November 30, 2011

What Are Your Qualifications?

Common words that form titles are no friend of searchers. Hollywood is rife with them: M, Z, Up, etc. Book titles can be equally sweeping and terse. Desi Arnaz wrote A Book--maybe one should be thankful that he at least included the article "a." That'll narrow the results.

Searching for sweeping titles without resort to qualification by form (movie) or author (Arnaz) or the right database can make for a very long slog.

Library titles share the generic guilt. Just try doing a raw search for journals such as The Library or Searcher.

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