AFRS 325: The Black Male in Contemporary Times

Your searchable topics are informed by your assignment prompt. Consider the following example using the Advanced search function in OneSearch:

• Subject ="Black men" OR "African American men" AND "masculinity"

Figure 1:

Figure 1 illustrates multiple techniques to increase the relevance of your search results by using:

• subject searching to ensure your results are reasonably ABOUT your search terms
• the "is (exact)" function from the drop menu to ensure that multiple words are searched as a single term
• the boolean operator "AND" to pull results that contain both sets of terms

Figure 2:

Figure 2 illustrates a catalog record produced by the subject search using the search terms "Black men" and "masculinity". Note how these terms appear in the subjects assigned to the resource, assuring that the resource is sufficiently about the search terms used in the search.