| Best Bet Internet: Reference and Research When You Don't Have Time to Mess Around Contributor(s): Kennedy, Shirley Duglin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0838907121 ISBN-13: 9780838907122 Publisher: American Library Association OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1998 Annotation: While the Internet has been called "the world's library" for its enormous store of information, its maze of material has kept researchers from gaining quick and easy results. For those with no time for wild goose chases through cyberspace comes this handy guide to quality research and reference sites. With the skeptical eye of a journalist and a librarian's sensibility, author Shirley Duglin Kennedy has compiled and profiled more than 500 ready-for-reference sites. She also examines the best subject directories, offers tips on the various search engines at your fingertips, explains how E-mail discussion lists and news groups can aid in reference, evaluates and categorizes each site, and suggests when to use such often forgotten tools as gophers, veronica, and jughead. As an Internet trainer in libraries, Kennedy knows firsthand the frustration librarians feel when applying their professional research skills to the Internet. This book offers tips and tricks designed to help librarians satisfy their patrons on the spot. Anyone can surf the 'Net, but utilizing the information superhighway as a practical information-gathering tool is another matter entirely. Kennedy wades through the rising sea of information -- and misinformation -- and delivers the goods. When there's not time to mess around, reach for Best Bet Internet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Reference - Computers | Internet - General |
| Dewey: 025 |
| LCCN: 97022091 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 8.48" W x 10.89" (1.10 lbs) 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While the Internet has been called the world's library for its enormous store of information, its maze of material can keep researchers from gaining quick and easy results. This guide aims to give tips for quick reference. The author has compiled and profiled more than 500 ready-for-reference sites. She examines the best subject directories, offers tips on the various search engines at your fingertips, explains how E-mail discussion lists and news groups can aid in reference, evaluates and categorizes each site, and suggests when to use such often forgotten tools as gophers, veronica and jughead. This book offers tips and tricks designed to help librarians satisfy their patrons on the spot. |