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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