Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Specific Facet Search

My search query was in the Books in Print database for supernatural beings in young adult literature. I used the status "in print" and "book" format.

I thought that supernatural beings would be the most specific facet for this search; I did a search for that term and received 106 results.

Then I thought that my original query was quite specific so I did a search on that. The results for supernatural beings in young adult literature was 4.

I learned that sometimes the shorter query term isn't necessarily better. More terms can mean more specificity, in some cases.

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