Lesson 4 - Proquest

1.  Les Miserables:

  To limit the results, I chose Reviews under Document Type and Novels under Subjects. That reduced the selection to forty. I then chose Literary Criticism within the Novels subject area which reduced the results to eight.

2.  Hurricane Sandy and libraries:

  I decided to use advanced search, and inserted hurricane Sandy in one search box and libraries AND librarians in another search box. I decided to leave both boxes at all fields + text to get as many hits as possible. I narrowed the results by using the publication date bar graph and choosing Oct 2012 and up. I also sorted the results by publication date – most recent first. The most recent article out of eleven was published February 13, 2013.