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Value-Added Searching, Carol Tenopir
Value-Added Searching, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article discusses the importance of adding value to information products and services for library database searching. It describes something added by human intellectual effort to the basic bibliographic or textual information found in the records. Database searchers can use the value-added information to refine or improve their search. A type of value that is added to database searching is editing and analyzing what the searchers do with the search results before presenting it to the user. The positive points are obvious for professional searchers, but value-added information present trade-offs to the database producer and to the searcher. Most of …
Searching For Books Online, Carol Tenopir
Searching For Books Online, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Online search services that allow reference librarians to search for a comprehensive list of books on a topic are discussed. OCLC's new EPIC service and the advantages it has to offer are discussed.