The first ALIA Top End Symposium: Powering our Territory

Paspaley's pearlers

Julie Adams

'Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment' -Horace.

• Pearl Culturing
• Pearl Growing
• Snowballing

'pratice of gaining knowledge of one document through another, and so on, building outwards like a pearl within an oyster' - Steven Heser

Online or in the print world

• Reverse link checking
• Link checking

• 'Use the link search when you want t o know what websitse are linked to a particular site of interest'

• Backward citations
• Link: http://www.dwnsail.com.au
• Exploding

• 'If you explode a thesaurus term, you will retrieve articles labelled with that thesaurus term or the more specific associated terms, thereby widening the search to retrieve more references'

• University of Glasgow
• Building Blocks

focus on exhausting one concept at a time, finding synonyms for 'dog' for example, and doing the same for each concept your search requires. In the end you 'and' them all together to cast your net as widely as possible:

(dogs or canines or puppies) and (cats or felines or kittens)

- Steven Heser