Basic Internet for Busy Librarians: A Quick Course for Catching Up

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Summary: Lucky Librarians
Review: Libraries take up quite a bit of the Internet, and library science is changing with computer technologies. One way to get to and beyond BASIC INTERNET FOR BUSY LIBRARIANS is checking up-to-date magazines and online resources for cyberadvances and choosing among discussion lists for information professionals, such as LawLib-L, LibRef-L, and PACS-L. Another way is becoming comfortable with library homepages on the web. Still another is making sure continuing education trains with the latest concepts and skills. Yet another is working with search engine producers to index and categorize resource records: search tools try different search techniques to bring about lots of search query matches; yet net searching might be more manageable, organized and predictable if search engines worked with the standardized subject headings and search techniques that librarians use. Laura K. Murray's book gets the job done, along with Pat Ensor's THE CYBRARIAN'S MANUAL, Patricia Iannuzzi's TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS, and Evan Morris' THE BOOKLOVER'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET.