Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice

by Joseph Janes, Joseph Janes

Designed to assist beginning searchers, whether they are students or practitioners, this text offers a comprehensive introduction to online systems that primarily provide information in the form of bibliographic citations. Walker and Janes give basic how-to information on the use of online systems, discuss topics for which there are no accepted paradigms, and present alternative points of view within a framework of previous research. Expanding on their immensely popular and critically acclaimed first edition, the authors have added extensive new material addressing Internet search and retrieval techniques as well as the more traditional Dialog and Lexis-Nexis services. Invaluable as a textbook for students in online retrieval courses, practicing librarians, and online searchers in library settings, this book can be used as a quick reference tool and as a handy guide for in-service training. Information seekers who want to perform their own searches for bibliographic information using an online sea

Genres: Nonfiction, Library Science, Science, Librarianship

312 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 1999

Reviews

[Kaelie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kill me now.

ETA: Okay, I've read it. As a library school textbook, it could've been much worse. If you need to learn Dialog this is an excellent tool, and the authors are not too full of themselves -- which is to say the book is written in normal, almost conversational language without any author ego-tripping, which is a nice change.

[Melissa Rosales · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, it wasn't totally AMAZING. but I like this book. It's heavy on Dialog. A large percentage of it focuses on command-based queries of DialogClassic, proximity and Booleaning and whatnot... which is amazing?

"We want to search for concepts, but we are forced to search for words."

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

SOOOOOO fucking boring. i despise library school