Markey, Karen. Online Searching: A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and Effectively. 2015. 297p. ISBN 978-1-4422-3885-5. Available at PROF 025.04 MAR on the library shelves.
With the wealth of information available online, retrieving valid and reliable resources to answer a question has become progressively harder. Searchers have to be knowledgeable in advanced searching techniques, and must determine the accuracy and accountability of the information they look at. Librarians are ideally positioned to provide search and information location services to patrons due to their training, but with the evolution of search engines and the multiplication of databases, these tasks are becoming harder.
In Online Searching, Markey presents the best techniques to retrieve information online. She proposes a process comprised of seven steps, from finding out the information needs of a patron, locating sources that will best suited to find this information, creating research facets that can be looked for, determining if a wide subject search or a specific item will better meet the information need, develop a research query to be used in the appropriate sources, conducting the actual search, and sifting through results to assess and determine their validity before presenting them to the patron.
New searchers and experienced librarians alike will appreciate Markey’s techniques and will feel better equipped to effectively conduct an online search and locate the appropriate information.
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