Library 160: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Information

A powerful feature of keyword searching is that you can search for variations of a word with the use of * (called a truncation symbol).

For the topic of transportation in Hawaii, using the * will expand your search in a helpful way. For instance,

transport* and Hawaii*

Will let you retrieve:

transport
transports
transported
transporting
transportation

for your first term and

Hawaii
Hawaii’s
Hawaiian

for your second.