Online Searching: A Guide To Finding Quality Information Efficiently And Effectively

✍ Scribed by Karen Markey

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 421
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Online Searching puts aspiring librarians on the fast track to becoming expert searchers who unite users with trusted sources of information that satisfy their information needs. To unite users with such sources, master this seven-step online searching 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. Determining whether the user seeks a known item or subject
4. Dividing the query into big ideas and combining them logically
5. Representing the query as input to the search system
6. Conducting the search and responding strategically
7. Displaying retrievals, assessing them, and responding tactically
This second edition addresses the implications of new technical advances that affect expert intermediary searchers such as the library's "everything" search, the choice between classic and discovery OPACs, and the role of digital object identifiers (DOIs) and Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs) in known-item searching. It also advises expert searchers about how today's hot-button issues such as social media, fake news, and truth in the post-truth area figure into the searches they conduct for others and what they teach library users about online searching. Online Searching contains numerous figures and sample searches to illustrate complex concepts, questions and answers to reinforce key ideas, a sample database to show how online searching works, a technical reading to familiarize yourself with new search systems and databases, and a glossary to facilitate quick look-ups. The e-book features enhanced video content. Online Searching is your go-to guidebook for becoming an expert searcher.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures, Textboxes, and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Online Searching in the Age of the Information Explosion
2. Accessing Quality Information at the Library Website
3. The Reference Interview
4. Selecting a Relevant Database
5. Presearch Preparation
6. Controlled Vocabulary for Precision in Subject Searches of Boolean Systems
7. Free Text for Recall in Subject Searches of Boolean Systems
8. Free-Text for Recall in Subject Searches of Extended-Boolean Systems
9. Known-Item Searching
10. Assessing Research Impact
11. Search Strategies
12. Displaying and Assessing Retrievals and Responding Tactically to the Search System
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 Author

✦ Subjects

Electronic Information Resource Searching, Information Retrieval, Library & Information Science: General