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The Internet Searcher's Handbook: Locating Information, People, and Software, Second Edition
By Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, and Joseph Janes
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1-55570-359-3 . 1999 . 6 x 9 . 172 pp.
Second Edition Revised by GraceAnne DeCandido
Completely revised and expanded, this new edition of the highly acclaimed Internet Searcher's Handbook is ideal for reference librarians, students, and researchers of any kind. The authors provide a step-by-step tutorial for resource discovery on the Internet to help novice or advanced users conduct comprehensive research and find answers to quick reference queries. The Handbook offers in-depth coverage on all useful and usable resources, including virtual libraries, digital resources, bots and intelligent agents, metadata, search engines, web guides, online communities, virtual libraries, Internet directories, and Internet search tools. Numerous quick reference charts for all the major search engines and directories will save hours of frustrating search time and help any reader streamline the searching process.
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Reviews
"Anyone who has ever tried to sift out useful nuggets of information from endless sea of chaff, broken links, and confusing terminology on the World Wide Web should add this book to their list of essential reading....Recommended." Book Report
"Offers new and valuable elements that are outstanding....[Recommended] for all libraries." CHOICE
"If there's room for only one book in the budget about searching the Internet, this one's it....the best, most comprehensive searching guide on the market, a definite acquisition." Public Library Quarterly
"I highly recommend this book to librarians as a guidebook to Internet Resources and to the general public interested in understanding the Internet." Telecommunications Electronic Reviews
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