Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and EffectivelyOnline Searching puts the aspiring librarian on the fast track to becoming an expert searcher who unites library users with trusted sources of information to answer their questions. To accomplish this, it ushers you through online searching as a seven-step process: (1) determining what the user really wants in the reference interview, (2) identifying sources that are likely to produce relevant information for the user’s query, (3) dividing the query into big ideas and combining them logically, (4) hypothesizing whether a known item or a subject will satisfy the query, (5) representing the query as input to the search system, (6) conducting the search and responding strategically, and (7) displaying retrievals, assessing them, and responding tactically. For key concepts, Online Searching enlists multimedia, representing visually what is difficult to convey via words alone. When you analyze Online Searching’s real search topics, search online, and compare your results with its suggested answers, you’ll experience the seven-step online searching process first-hand. Included are specific recommendations about what you should teach end users about online searching and a method for quickly and efficiently familiarizing yourself with a new database and search system. Including short video demonstrations, Online Searching is your go-to guidebook for ramping yourself up from novice to expert searcher. |
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Contents
1 Online Searching in the Age of the Information Explosion | 1 |
2 Accessing Scholarly Professional and Educational Information | 15 |
3 The Reference Interview for InDepth Queries | 27 |
4 Selecting a Relevant Database | 49 |
5 PreSearch Preparation | 75 |
6 Controlled Vocabulary for Precision in Subject Searches | 85 |
7 Free Text Searching for Recall in Subject Searches | 113 |
8 KnownItem Searching | 141 |
10 Search Strategies | 183 |
11 Displaying and Assessing Retrievals and Responding Tactically to the Search System | 201 |
12 Performing a Technical Reading of a Database and Its Search System | 217 |
13 Interacting with Library Users | 231 |
14 Online Searching Now and in the Future | 255 |
Glossary | 267 |
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About the Author | 297 |
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Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and ... Karen Markey Limited preview - 2019 |
Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and ... Karen Markey No preview available - 2015 |
Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and ... Karen Markey No preview available - 2015 |
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