1. Today in class we discussed how the library codes work and how to use them to find books. We then searched for books that related to our topic and were sent out into the library to find them. We also discussed the final and how it would be similar to the HW for November 14th.
2. "Words" can include content of the article where as "subject headings" refer to the title and headings of the article.
3. Words give more results because they are less specific for location but can often produce irrelevant results. Subject heading searches generally result in a lower number of results but they are usually more concentrated on the topic.
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In item 2, words are found in any part of the article and are "natural language." Subject headings are "structured language" and these structured words and phrases are applied to the items being cataloged. In those cases, what you search are the subject headings, not the title. It may be that the title might contain one of the words, but that's not what you're searching.
Item 3 is generally correct, although there are always exceptions!
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