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Healey Library Statement on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Healey Library Statement on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

The Healey Library is committed to taking action and making changes as we identify them in order to improve the working and studying environment.

Search Tips

Man with binoculars, searching Successful searching requires two important steps.

  1. Identifying the main concepts of a topic
  2. Searching these concepts with a variety of techniques

There are several search strategies that can be used in many databases and search engines. They include using Boolean logic and punctuation. Try some of these strategies on the pages to the left for a successful search. Also check out our tutorials. 

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