Librarian's Guide to Online Searching - Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

Updates the premier textbook for students and librarians needing to know the landscape of current databases and how to search them.

Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of fee-based and freely available databases and explains how to teach them.

The updated 6th edition of this well-regarded text covers new databases on the market as well as updates to older databases. It also explains underlying information structures and demonstrates how to search most effectively. It introduces readers to several recent changes, such as the move away from metadata-based indexing to full text indexing by vendors covering newspaper content. Business databases receive greater emphasis.

As in the previous editions, this book takes a real-world approach, covering topics from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases. Each chapter includes a thorough discussion, a recap, concrete examples, exercises, and points to consider, making it an ideal text for courses in database searching as well as a trustworthy professional resource.

About the author

Christopher C. Brown is Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Government Documents at the University of Denver, Main Library, USA. He oversees the large government information collection and provides reference services to the university community and members of the general public. He is author of Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know (2017) and Librarian’s Guide to Online Searching, 6th edition (2021). He has taught in the University of Denver Library School for over 20 years.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Brown, Christopher C. Brown
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2021
• EAN: 9781440878237
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-7823-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 252 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 740 g
• Illustrations: 113 bw illus
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; EDUCATION / General, Education, Database Software, COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Databases, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy