LIS 520
readings
Janes, Joseph, “Fundamentals of Searching Digital Resources”,
(PDF) Chapter
1 of The Internet Searcher’s Handbook, by Peter Morville, Louis
Rosenfeld and Joseph Janes; revised by GraceAnne A. DeCandido (New York:
Neal-Schuman), 1999.
Morville,
Peter, “In
Defense of Search”, Digital Web July 2002
Bates,
OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students, “How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students’ Web-Based Information Choices”, July 2002 (pdf)
“Trying
to Elude the Google Grasp”,
Price, Gary, “Specialized Search
Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues”, Searcher 10 (9),
42-47, October 2002
Mostafa, Javed,
“Seeking
Better Web Searches”, Scientific
American 1/24/05
Hof, “Is
Google Too Powerful?” Business Week 4/9/07
Pan, et
al (2007). In Google we trust: Users'
decisions on rank, position, and relevance. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication,
12(3), article 3.
questions to prepare for class discussion
Look at the dates of the Search
Engine Tutorials below. Are you surprised? Why?
Why would some people say that
searching “stinks”?
Can you think of or find
examples of the phenomena
How might you design a system to
work with the
How would explain why the effect
in section 5 of Bates’ article is true?
And why would information expertise be ignored,
as described in section 7?
In the OCLC white paper, is
there anything you would have expected to see but was missing in the list at
the bottom of page 7?
Consider the questions at the
end of the OCLC paper, particularly the 3d, and the last 4. We’ll discuss those as well.
Searching
Options You may find these of use in Searching Assignment 3.
Finding
Information on the Internet (UC Berkeley Library)
Yahoo
category on Searching
the Web
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
Searching
Stuff
Search Engine
Tutorials (Search Engine Watch)
Other
Stuff to Know About