Search and Retrieval
Read or watch these to prepare yourselves for the session
Watch these two examples of information in video form
Which speaks more to your understanding of information retrieval. This one?
Or, this one?
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Information in article form
Kuhlthau, C. C. (1991).
Inside the search process:Information seeking from the user's perspective.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 361-371.
Croft, W. Bruce, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman.
Search Engines and Information Retrieval.
In Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, 1-12. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010.
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Things to think about
- Do I really know how to effectively use any OPAC?
- What with Google and all its variants, do I really need to know how to effectively use any OPAC?
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