Boolean Rhapsody

Hi all,

After consecutively spending a week straight in the Scott library I have come to the conclusion that I do not particularly like the use of Boolean Logic. My Partner and I tried it, of course, and after two days of attempting to get the correct wording we gave up. 

What is the Boolean Logic? Boolean logic is the use of “AND,” “NOT” and “OR” in between keywords to help narrow down a search result. The use of “AND” is to make sure the keywords are both found in the search results. The use of “OR” is to have either one of the words come up in the search results. While “NOT” is used to indicate that neither of the words should be included in the search.

Boolean Logic is supposed to be helpful by narrowing down search results but I prefer to use short phrases. I believe the reason behind my use of phrases it is because that is how I have been taught to search at a young age. I also think it is because sometimes the keywords do not bring up helpful results, even after background research and the use of the thesaurus.  Although, the idea of Boolean Logic does make sense and should be useful, but I don’t think it is useful for me. Perhaps, I will give it another try but for now I will stick with searching with short phrases.