可借阅:*
图书馆 | 资料类型 | 排架号 | 子计数 | 书架位置 | 状态 | 图书预约 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
正在检索... Central | Book | 025.04 K386B | 1 | Non-fiction Collection | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
正在检索... Government Records | Book | ZA 4201 .K46 1997 | 1 | Stacks | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
正在检索... Science | Book | Z674.75 .I58 K46 1998 | 1 | Stacks | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
正在检索... Science | Book | ZA 4201 K46 1997 | 1 | Stacks | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
正在检索... South | Reference Book | REF 025.04 KENN | 1 | Reference Material | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
链接这些题名
已订购
摘要
摘要
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.
评论 (3)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Murray aims to quickly get librarians and others up to speed with the Internet and its various components. She presents step-by-step exercises on accessing the Internet, working with the World Wide Web, creating Web pages, and using such other Internet aspects as electronic lists, e-mail, telnet, and FTP. One chapter is devoted to searching. All exercises are accompanied by screen images; both Netscape and Internet Explorer are used, in Windows and NT environments, yet a Macintosh user probably could follow many of the exercises without too much difficulty. Kennedy aims to show how to approach the Internet and its resources in order to make the best and most effective use of them. She first discusses problems on the Internet: lack of authority control, lack of quality control, and the ephemeral nature of much of the information on it. She then turns to the available subject trees and other types of indexes that can make Internet searching easier. She also covers various aspects of the Internet, including high-quality sites for research, and offers hints and tips on approaching them. All URLs mentioned in the text are listed in an appendix. Turn to Kennedy after mastering Murray.
Choice 评论
What a gold mine for busy Web users! Kennedy, Internet Waves columnist for Information Today, has written a concise book about effective ways to find information on the Internet. Although most of the work is devoted to Web sites, other types of sources are described as well, including gopher, ftp, finger, and Usenet. It is less an "everything you need to know about the Internet" book than an "I know it's out there but I don't know where" book. In the section "What Librarians and Journalists Already Know," Kennedy ties together 91 loose ends by describing The Internet Public Library Reference Center (CH, Sup'97, Sup'98), INFOMINE , and Wired Cybrarian , to name a few. The chatty tone of the title discloses the writing style; it is almost like having an espresso with the author instead of reading her words. Some library jargon slips in, but not enough to discourage nonlibrarians. She covers necessary details about major search engines, virtual libraries, mailing lists, people searching, browser tricks, and Web site quality. Fortunately, Web sites mentioned in the text are available online at the American Library Association site . The book's most likely audience is users who already know a little about the Internet and have searched the Web. It offers something for everyone, whether the readers are undergrads, graduate students, instructors, librarians, or journalists. Highly recommended. K. Condic; Oakland University
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Kennedy, a librarian/journalist and columnist for Information Today, writes, "learning to use the Internet and learning to do research on the Internet are two completely different things." Amen to that! In this practical guide, she aims to answer real searcher questions: Why it is so difficult to find things; where to start; which directory, search engine, virtual library to use; where's the tech support; and how about evaluating resources? Unlike the myriad titles that stress the "joys of getting wired," Best Bet Internet focuses on good old-fashioned reference/research advicematch queries with appropriate Internet tools, know how the tool works, develop search strategies, and evaluate the results. In addition, there are evaluative profiles of more than 500 ready-reference sites. Especially good appendixes include "Web Page Checklists." While the price is a bit steep for a paperback, this solid book, along with Peter Morville's similar and well-reviewed The Internet Searcher's Handbook (Professional Reading, LJ 6/15/96), will save reference librarians precious time.Janet Brewer, Murray State Univ. Lib., KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.