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Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and Effectively
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Product Description 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 interview2. Identifying sources that are likely to produce relevant information for the user’s query3. Determining whether the user seeks a known item or subject4. Dividing the query into big ideas and combining them logically5. Representing the query as input to the search system6. Conducting the search and responding strategically7. Displaying retrievals, assessing them, and responding tacticallyThis 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. Review Extremely up-to-date, including tips on how to search not only authoritative sources but also how to sift through social media with their various degrees of trustworthiness. Markey’s new edition teaches us how to approach reliable information as well as how to handle the fake news epidemic. -- Hermina Anghelescu, Professor & Interim Director, School of Information Sciences, Wayne State UniversityMarkey’s clearly written and well-organized handbook pairs practical tactics with theoretical depth. The second edition of Online Searching is an excellent graduate-level textbook that will continue to be helpful to budding search experts once they enter professional practice. -- Cheryl Knott, Professor, School of Information, University of ArizonaOnline Searching, Second Edition is more than just a basic text for how to search online; it should be in the toolbox of every researcher, from journalist to scholar, everyday person to president. The compelling nature of Markey’s work is matched only by the comprehensiveness of her knowledge of all things to do with subject-related searching, the result of decades of tried and true research, now passed on to the next generations in clear, logical explanations and illustrations. -- Shawne D. Miksa, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of North TexasWhether you are an LIS instructor or student, or a practicing librarian, the second edition of Online Searching offers a comprehensive and timely guide and a peek under the hood of a shifting and exciting information landscape. -- Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Rutgers UniversityIn this second edition of Online Searching, Markey (Univ. of Michigan) provides a welcome update to her comprehensive, highly organized guide. As in the first edition, the current work provides a general introduction to searching for materials online, then guides readers through the most effective methods for using online resources to assist library patrons, including the reference interview, choosing appropriate databases, using controlled vocabulary and Boolean operators, finding effective strategies to refine results, and many other valuable bits of advice and guidance. Added to the
