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Online Searching is your complete guide to becoming a superstar searcher, wielding advanced searching features, strategies, and tactics for answering questions on any topic under the sun as well as finding answers in trusted, quality sources.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Online Searching in the Age of the Information Explosion
Chapter 2. Accessing Quality Information at the Library Website
Chapter 3. The Reference Interview
Chapter 4. Selecting a Relevant Database
Chapter 5. Pre-Search Preparation
Chapter 6. Controlled Vocabulary for Precision in Subject Searches of Boolean Systems
Chapter 7. Free Text for Recall in Subject Searches of Boolean Systems
Chapter 8. Free Text for Recall in Subject Searches of Extended Boolean Systems
Chapter 9. Known-Item Searching
Chapter 10. Assessing Research Impact
Chapter 11. Search Strategies
Chapter 12. Displaying and Assessing Retrievals and Responding Tactically to the Search System
Chapter 13. Performing a Technical Reading of a Database's Search System
Chapter 14. Interacting with Library Users
Chapter 15. Online Searching Now and in the Future
Glossary
Index
About the author
Karen Markey is a professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her experience with online searching began with the earliest commercial systems, DIALOG, Orbit, and BRS, the first end-user systems, CD-ROMs and online catalogs, and includes today's open web search engines and proprietary systems for accessing databases of bibliographic records, abstracting & indexing entries, full texts, numeric data, and multimedia. Since joining the faculty at Michigan in 1987, she has taught online searching to thousands of students in her school's library and information science (LIS) program. Her research has been supported by the Council on Library Resources, Delmas Foundation (DF), Department of Education (DoED), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and OCLC. She is the author of six books, more than a dozen major research reports, and over one hundred journal articles and conference proceedings papers.
Summary
Online Searching is your complete guide to becoming a superstar searcher, wielding advanced searching features, strategies, and tactics for answering questions on any topic under the sun as well as finding answers in trusted, quality sources.
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Whether you are an LIS instructor or student, or a practicing librarian, the second edition of Online Searching offers a comprehensive and timely guide and a peek under the hood of a shifting and exciting information landscape.
