Web Searching Strategies for Health- Related Data
Magic Search Words-Health: Strategies and Search Tactics to Discover the Best of the Internet. See the book review here.
Category «Recommended Books»
New Book on History of the Library
Library: An Unquiet History, by Matthew Battles. See the review in Newsday: “The charm of Battles’ book lies in its historical sweep and its appreciation for the browser’s delight. Cicero to Swift, Bacon to Borges – this is a book full of breezy learnedness. An earnest and passionate bibliophile, Battles traces the varied forms of …
New Book On Competitive Intelligence Research
Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence, The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers. From the press release: Companies operating in today’s unpredictable roller-coaster economy have increasingly turned to Competitive Intelligence (CI) as an effective means of building and maintaining an edge. This book presents leading CI researchers in their own words, revealing their secrets …
Business Statistics on the Web
Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost. “Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more–yet good statistics are notoriously hard to find. In this practical guide, statistics guru Paula Berinstein shows readers how to use the Net to find …
Managing a Website
The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still, reference librarian at Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey.
Locating Personal Info Online
Naked in Cyberspace, How To Find Personal Information Online, 2nd Edition, reviewed by Stephen Lafferty.
Google Hacks Hits New York Times Best Seller List
Kudos to Tara Calishain and co-author Rael Dornfest, whose book, Google Hacks, is on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller List!
Are Wikis the Next Hot Web Tool?
Business Is Toying With a Web Tool puts the spotlight on an innovative, user friendly open-source tool called a wiki, used to create inter-related web pages. Not new to the scene (the technology was first used in 1995), but perhaps ready to be embraced along the lines of blogging applications, wiki technology offers many interesting …
New Book: Google Hacks
Tara Calishain of Research Buzz fame authored a new book, Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools.
Resources on Search Engine Terms
From Microdac News, several recommendations for directories and glossaries of search engine terms, including Search Engine Directory (free) and the Search Engine Yearbook ($$).
Book Review: Librarians, Reference and the Web
Here is a recent review of the Librarian’s Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk by Irene E. McDermott (reference librarian/systems manager at the San Marino Public Library in California).
New Book On Legal Issues for Libraries
Marylaine Block reviews a new book by Mary Minow and Tomas A. Lipinski which focuses on the many legal issues that confront today’s libraries, including the Patriot Act, fair use, web filtering, censorship and web site accessibility. The Library’s Legal Answer Book is targeted at the public library community, but this work by two expert …
