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REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES

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Librarian’s Guide to
Online Searching

Cultivating Database Skills for Research
and Instruction

6TH EDITION | CHRISTOPHER C. BROWN

“ and graduate students aiming to learn the art of searching
This is a wonderful introductory textbook for undergraduate
library databases and using search engines on the open Web.
It is also very valuable for practitioners seeking to brush up
on their searching skills. As someone who has used each prior
version of this textbook for many years, I highly recommend
this extremely useful book to students and faculty as well
as to practicing librarians and information professionals
more broadly. ” June 2021, 371pp, 7x10
—Beth St. Jean, Associate Professor, College of Information Studies, Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7873-2
University of Maryland, College Park, February 16, 2021 $80.00, £60.00, €69,00
eBook: 978-1-4408-7824-4
Paperback: 978-1-4408-7823-7
An indispensable book for learning $60.00, £45.00, €52,00
about databases.
SAMPLE T OPICS
• Controlled • Google Search Tools
Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be able to Vocabularies
teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide • Database • Library Instruction
introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of fee-based and freely available Instruction • Licensing Databases
databases and explains how to teach them. • User Behaviors
• Database Interfaces
The updated 6th edition of this well-regarded text covers new databases on • Database Searching • Web-Scale
Discovery Tools
the market as well as updates to older databases. It also explains underlying • Evaluating
information structures and demonstrates how to search most effectively. It Databases
introduces readers to several recent changes, such as the move away from
metadata-based indexing to full text indexing by vendors covering newspaper
content. Business databases receive greater emphasis.
CHRISTOPHER C. BROWN , professor,
As in the previous edition, this book takes a real-world approach, covering is reference librarian and coordinator of
topics from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases. Each government documents at the University of
chapter includes a thorough discussion, a recap, concrete examples, exercises, Denver, Main Library.
and points to consider, making it an ideal text for courses in database
searching as well as a trustworthy professional resource.
FEATURES
• Helps librarians and students understand the latest developments
in library databases
• Looks not only at textual databases but also numerical, image, video, and
social media resources
• Includes changes and trends in database functionality since the 5th edition

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