Contents notes provide extra information about a book. A good way to generate useful keywords is to look for terms which appear frequently in your readings or discussions. When you have found a title which looks promising, examine the full record for subject headings used and or notes that indicate the book contains bibliographies or other useful materials. When a subject heading is assigned to a book, it is assigned at the most specific level. It is important to look under as many potentially useful headings as possible.
Bibliographies are essential resources for locating research materials.
Keep your mind open to new ideas and new sources of information at all times. In order to perform searches well, you need to know how to do a Boolean Search. Boolean searching is a way of combining terms so that you retieve what you really want. It is an effective way to decrease your search results. OR means one of the terms must be present in the record.