The Reference Guide to Data Sources - Softcover

Bauder, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838912273 ISBN 13: 9780838912270

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2014

Synopsis

This concise sourcebook takes the guesswork out of locating the best sources of data, a process more important than ever as the data landscape grows incresingly cluttered. Much of the most frequently used data can be found free online, and this book shows readers how to look for it with the assistance of user-friendly tools. This thoroughly annotated guide will be a boon to library staff at public libraries, high school libraries, academic libraries, and other research institutions. It offers concentrated coverage of data sources for frequently researched subjects such as agriculture, the earth sciences, econiomics, energy, political science, and transportation; the basics of data reference along with an overview of the most useful sources; Statistical datasets, and how to understand and make use of them; and much more

About this title

About the Author

Julia Bauder is the Social Studies and Data Services Librarian at the Grinnell College Libraries in Grinnell, Iowa, USA. Bauder holds a master's degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Before becoming a librarian, she spent several years as a freelance writer and editor of reference books.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838912273
• ISBN 13: 9780838912270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184