Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
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Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

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Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

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Understanding and navigating online databases is an essential skill for today's librarians, but staying current in this changing landscape can be a challenge. The fifth edition of this vital book ensures that you meet that challenge. Today's librarians not only need to know about existing databases and how to perform searches within them but must also be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of the fee-based and freely-available databases that are available, some of which are new to this edition, and explains their underlying information structures as well as updates to some standard databases. In addition, it covers search strategies, provides criteria for evaluating databases, and discusses how to teach others about databases. As in the previous edition, this book takes a "real world approach, " covering everything from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases. Each chapter includes a thorough discussion, recap, concrete examples, exercises, and points to consider, making this an ideal text for courses in database searching as well as a trustworthy professional resource.

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Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Year
2018
ISBN
9781440861574
Edition
5
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Library & Information Science
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction to Library Databases
  9. Chapter 2: How Databases Work
  10. Chapter 3: Controlled Vocabularies
  11. Chapter 4: The Searcher’s Toolkit: Part 1
  12. Chapter 5: The Searcher’s Toolkit: Part 2
  13. Chapter 6: Database Interfaces: Vendor Features and Variations
  14. Chapter 7: Social Science Databases
  15. Chapter 8: Government Information Databases
  16. Chapter 9: Humanities Databases
  17. Chapter 10: Science, Engineering, and Medical Databases
  18. Chapter 11: Numerical and Statistical Databases
  19. Chapter 12: From Bibliographic Databases to Full-Text E-Books
  20. Chapter 13: Web-Scale Discovery Databases
  21. Chapter 14: User Behaviors and Meeting Information Needs
  22. Chapter 15: Evaluating Databases
  23. Chapter 16: Teaching Other People about Databases
  24. Glossary
  25. Index
  26. About the Authors