Library Resources on Popular CultureFebruary 6, 2014

How to Start a Search Focus/narrow your topic

Indian movies Pick out most important words/concepts

India and movies Find synonyms for these words/concepts

Examples: Movie or film or cinema or ? India or Bollywood

Search Tips AND

Narrows your search by adding more requirements India or Bollywood

OR Expands your search

India or Bollywood

NOT Narrows your search

India not Bollywood

Search Tips Quotes

Use for phrases “Indian cinema”

Truncation Use * to find word variants Film* brings back film, films, or

filmography

Combine Search Operators Use parentheses () to organize them:

(Movie* or film or cinema or “motion pictures”) and (India or Bollywood)

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