Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and Effectively

Online Searching puts aspiring librarians working in all types of institutions on the fast track to becoming expert searchers, the intermediaries who unite information users with trusted sources that satisfy their information needs.

ISBN-13: 9781538167731

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Inc.

Publication Date: 02-07-2023

Pages: 294

Product Dimensions: 7.02(w) x 9.78(h) x 0.61(d)

Karen Markey is a professor emerita 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 now centers on today’s web search engines and proprietary search systems for accessing surrogate and source databases of full texts, media, and numeric and spatial data. 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 program. Cheryl Knott is a professor in the School of Information at the University of Arizona. Her experience with online searching began in 1988, when she became a reference librarian at the University of Texas and access to online databases involved dialing in via an external modem. For two decades she has taught online searching in undergraduate courses designed for end users and graduate courses designed for master’s students in library and information science programs. Her book, Find the Information You Need! Resources and Techniques for Making Decisions, Solving Problems, and Answering Questions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), is designed for undergraduates.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Textboxes, and Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Age of Search 2. Accessing Quality Information at the Library Website 3. The Reference Interview 4. Selecting a Relevant Database 5. Presearch Preparation 6. Controlled Vocabulary 7. Free-Text Searching 8. Web Search Engines 9. Known-Item Searching 10. Assessing Research Impact 11. Search Strategies 12. Working with Results 13. Performing a Technical Reading of a Database’s Search System 14. Interacting with Library Users 15. Online Searching Now and in the Future Glossary Index About the Authors