Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction / Edition 4

Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction / Edition 4

by Suzanne S. Bell
     
 

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ISBN-10: 161069998X

ISBN-13: 9781610699983

Pub. Date: 02/03/2015

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited

This groundbreaking textbook and guide for library school students and librarians will help you—regardless of experience level or environment—learn the ins and outs of working with online databases, the best tactics for effective research online, and the methods for conveying these search skills to others.
• Features discussions of databases by

Overview

This groundbreaking textbook and guide for library school students and librarians will help you—regardless of experience level or environment—learn the ins and outs of working with online databases, the best tactics for effective research online, and the methods for conveying these search skills to others.
• Features discussions of databases by discipline, including social science, science, medicine, and humanities, covering both bibliographic and numerical databases• Provides readers with a toolkit of fundamental search skills to increase research effectiveness• Presents advice and techniques for both virtual and in-person teaching• Offers a companion website with additional information and exercises• Includes new "Additional Resources" sections for each database chapter, providing exposure to more database names and vendors, as well as a new section on discovery services

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9781610699983
Publisher:
Libraries Unlimited
Publication date:
02/03/2015
Edition description:
New Edition
Pages:
320
Sales rank:
255,462
Product dimensions:
7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction to Library Databases

Chapter 2: Database Structure for Everyone: Records, Fields, and Indexes

Chapter 3: The Searcher's Toolkit: Part 1

Chapter 4: The Searcher's Toolkit: Part 2

Chapter 5: Social Science Databases

Chapter 6: Databases for Science and Medicine

Chapter 7: Bibliographic Databases

Chapter 8: Humanities Databases

Chapter 9: Numerical Databases

Chapter 10: Focus on People

Chapter 11: Choosing the Right Resource for the Question

Chapter 12: Evaluating Databases

Chapter 13: Teaching Other People About Databases

Chapter 14: Database Teaching Opportunities

References

Index

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