Power Search Tips

• Use a question mark (?) to find variant endings of a word. 
• You don't need to use capital letters when searching the Clarke Catalog.
• Remember to select a connector (AND, OR, or NOT). For the most specific results you'll want to leave this as AND.
• Choose from limiting options such as publication date or sorting options such as alphabetizing your results to further customize your search.
• **Hint: Click on the help button on the catalog search screen for more searching tips.

GET READY TO SEARCH . . .

Let's say you're part of a small group doing a presentation for  a class that's talking about diversity and multicultural issues. Specifically, you are supposed to describe a diversity issue and show how it might be approached in a classroom situation.  You realize that just using keywords like diversity or multiculturalism will be too broad.  To see if we have any books about this in the Clarke library. your group has chosen these keywords to hopefully produce a more focused search: (diversity or multiculturalism) and classroom. **Hint: Use parentheses ( ) to group terms to be searched first.

On the next page, you will search for this topic using the Clarke Catalog's Power Search.