Re: SEC

[Maureen Irwin <msirwin@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I've been using SIRS for years, and online for several.  Because Boolean is
a *keyword* search, it takes a lot of practice to come up with good searches
using unique terms.  And there will always be some results that are
irrelevant due to the nature of the English language.  But I have been much
more succesful with SIRS than with, say, Gale Student Resource Center simply
because of the size and scope of the database. Do you have any luck with
subject searches? Are you looking for a particular nugget of information or
an article about . . .?  The latter is likely to be successful, but because
the database is limited, the former may not be.



Any book you have not read is a new book ;-)

Maureen S. Irwin
Library Director
Rye Country Day School
Rye, NY 10580
maureen_irwin@rcds.rye.ny.us
msirwin@hotmail.com


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