Wow! This Librarian and These Librarians are Magic! The World Wide Web and Its Use in a Medium Sized Public Library

Charton, Michael

Untangling the Web / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljbi:14977)

Abstract:

The purpose of this talk is to show the growing use of the world wide web to answer questions in the public library. With web access, we can answer many more questions within our own library than we could answer before. Before, for many of our question s, I would have to refer a patron to a larger library or one in a particular specialty. I can now give more and more examples of questions that can be answered with a web search, such as particular companies, that have web pages, and detailed information on cities for example through sites such as City Net., etc. I will cover ways of looking for different web sites using search engines, such as Yahoo and Webcrawler, their advantages and disadvantages. I will give different web sites I have found while doing searches, and the ways I am indexing them, so you can have the information in ready reference for frequent searches.

Creation: 1996
Keywords: Bibliotecas públicas ; World wide web ; Internet

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