"Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research" provides readers of all skill levels with efficient search strategies for locating, retrieving, and evaluating information on the Internet. Utilizing her experience as a reporter working on deadline, author Barbara G. Friedman offers the most effective methods for finding useful and trustworthy data online, and presents these techniques in a straightforward, user-friendly manner.
Anyone who uses the Internet for research will find much of value here, including techniques that harness the power of advanced searches to optimize search results, avoid advertising clutter, and locate low- or no-cost databases. Screen captures and diagrams illustrate the steps, rationale, and results to accompany various search strategies. This book emphasizes techniques that make the Web work for individuals rather than for advertisers, such as choosing the most appropriate search engine for the job and tweaking its advanced options to narrow a search andoptimize results; identifying cost-free sources of online data; using creative approaches to locate information; evaluating the integrity of online data; and protecting the privacy of the researchers and the researched.
"Web Search Savvy" is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in journalism and mass communications, and it offers practical and useful guidance for anyone researching information online.

"Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research" provides readers of all skill levels with efficient search strategies for locating, retrieving, and evaluating information on the Internet. Utilizing her experience as a reporter working on deadline, author Barbara G. Friedman offers the most effective methods for finding useful and trustworthy data online, and presents these techniques in a straightforward, user-friendly manner.
Anyone who uses the Internet for research will find much of value here, including techniques that harness the power of advanced searches to optimize search results, avoid advertising clutter, and locate low- or no-cost databases. Screen captures and diagrams illustrate the steps, rationale, and results to accompany various search strategies. This book emphasizes techniques that make the Web work for individuals rather than for advertisers, such as choosing the most appropriate search engine for the job and tweaking its advanced options to narrow a search and optimize results; identifying cost-free sources of online data; using creative approaches to locate information; evaluating the integrity of online data; and protecting the privacy of the researchers and the researched.
"Web Search Savvy" is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in journalism and mass communications, and it offers practical and useful guidance for anyone researching information online.

This book, first published in 1995, describes how automation is changing the face of acquisitions as librarians know it and making the future uncertain yet exciting. It documents how libraries have increasingly moved to powerful, second-generation interfaceable or integrated systems that can control all aspects of library operations. The libraries presented as examples show that increasing user expectations, the siren call of cyberspace and network connectivity, and administrative faith in the savings to be obtained from electronic technical services continue to drive the migration to higher-level library management systems.

In this book, first published in 1983, experts in US national, state, and regional network associations provide stimulating discussions of their experiences, problems, and successes. This volume is based on the symposium, 'Networking: Where From Here?'.

This guide enables school librarians and teachers to make the best use of government information available on the Internet. It provides details about necessary hardware and software, as well as guidance on using catalogues, indexes and services from the Government Printing Office (GPO).

The purpose of Real World Microsoft Indexing Services and Search Servers is to provide complete documentation for Microsoft search servers and technologies, specifically Index Server, Indexing Services, Site Server Search, Full Text Search, FrontPage Search Bot, Exchange Content Indexing, SharePoint Portal Server Search, with primary focus on Index Server and Indexing Services. Real World Microsoft Indexing Services and Search Servers will provide a look at these technologies with a focus on programming search pages, optimization of the server and search pages, and server administration. It is designed to assist the novice developer and get him or her up-to-speed, handling the most typical problems in deployment and administration, as well as to provide the more advanced developer, who is handling a more complex search implementation, with the information necessary to perform their duties.

Using the I-Search process, your middle grade and high school students will find new ways to enjoy the process of research. This innovative technique for creating research and term papers avoids the pitfalls and frustrations of traditional research methods by having students write in first person about the topics they're interested in. With step-by-step clarity, this manual will help teachers and media specialists collaborate successfully to make the reading and writing connection click in their schools. Content includes: starting the process; narrowing the topic; using information; assessing progress; writing the final paper; and conducting in-service training. Appendixes provide sample questions, a time frame for keeping students on track, and student instructions for reading a chapter or magazine article for research purposes. The companion CD-ROM includes worksheets, tools, and sample I-Search papers.

Virtual libraries offer a single interface from which users can find out about (and even tour ) the library, examine its catalog, go to online databases, enter an interactive children's room, find out about special collections or community services, and explore the rest of the Web. Now, MCI Cybrarian of the Year Frederick Stielow has written a guide for librarians who are planning, setting up, and maintaining a virtual library. This detailed manual will help even the smallest institution localize Web resources without costly equipment and phone lines. Part I, "Rethinking the Web", considers the Web as a new medium for providing library services and offers advice about rethinking Web design principles in a library context. Part II, "Project Planning and Technical Framework", covers all stages of putting a virtual library online: needs analysis, planning, maintenance, and eventual enhancement and change. Part III, "Collections and Special Resource Development", lays out the principles for electronic collection development and shows how to build special collections ranging from children's sites to multimedia collections. Librarians will find successful strategies here to ensure that the special qualities of their physical library are translated into cyberspace.

When front line librarians improve awareness of under-utilized resources, thereby increasing demand for more of the same, it can also encourage increased funding for the library. The authors' evidence-based approach to effectively promoting electronic resources made the previous edition of this guide a bestseller. Newly expanded and updated, this manual shows library marketing staff how to get the job done from beginning to end and in a variety of library settings. Comprehensive yet to the point, this book includesseven complete programs from both public and academic libraries; an examination of the e-resource life cycle; cutting edge guidance on COUNTER usage reports and other web analytics; advice on making the most of marketing opportunities from learning management systems, discovery services, LibGuides, and more; a step-by-step organization guide, with a variety of feedback and assessment forms which can be used as models; and numerous examples of well-executed plans and outcomes. This book's flexible, step-by-step layout makes it an ideal resource for a wide range of learning styles, institutional environments, and levels of marketing experience.

Cataloging and indexing in library and information science refers to the goal of identifying the most important characteristics of an information source and describing those characteristics using a standard cataloging or indexing system. Libraries have developed sophisticated ways of categorizing information so that library users can most effectively find the materials they need. This book covers a wide range of important issues in the field, including archival finding aids, search engines, the major indexing and abstracting databases, subject guides, vendor-supplied cataloging records, metadata, and much more. Readers will gain an appreciation of the importance of the role of cataloging and indexing of library materials.

Every day 50,000 new pages hit the Net - from the scholarly to the frivolous. If large commercial indexes fall short in meeting the needs of your users, then this text may help. It offers details on how leading international projects use library skills to organize Internet resources.

This work aims to provide a format for taking data traditionally collected by library media specialists and show how it can be used to talk about existing programmes - or to document the need for a programme change.