Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction - Softcover
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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. * Provides professional development to librarians looking to acquire or improve their proficiency in an essential professional skill * Offers additional professional guidance in the form of recaps, concrete examples, exercises, and points to consider * Empowers students and librarians to search online effectively * Discusses databases in the context of real-world problems
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"As this book often serves as a textbook, each chapter concludes with a set of exercises and references to other sources. Overall, this is an indispensable book for learning about databases. Recommended for all libraries." - ARBA
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Christopher C. Brown is reference technology integration librarian at the University of Denver, Main Library, Denver, Colorado. He is also the library's coordinator of government documents. Suzanne S. Bell is the former business librarian at the University of Rochester and an adjunct instructor for the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her previous positions have included computer science librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology and at Carnegie Mellon University, Internet education specialist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and economics librarian at the University of Rochester. Bell has a master's degree in library science.
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- PublisherLibraries Unlimited
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1440861560
- ISBN 13 9781440861567
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number5
- Number of pages400
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