So much information, so little

The following guidelines will help you search for information more productively:

          I.  Getting Started

         II.  Use Search Engines

Search engines have a variety of ways for you to refine and control your searches. Some of them offer menu systems for this. Others require you to use special commands as part of your query.

        III.  Search Querying

+        use a '+' immediately in front of any word you want to require to be in the document.

          Example:  Hawaii+hotels+oceanfront

-         use a '-' immediately in front of any word you do not want to be in the document.

          Example:  depression-great

"  "     use double quotation marks to identify a phrase. A phrase is two or more words that must appear

          in exactly the same sequence with no other words in between.

          Example:  "School dress code"