Research Catalog

Title

Going beyond Google : the Invisible Web in learning and teaching / Jane Devine, Francine Egger-Sider.

Author

Devine, Jane, 1947-

Publication

New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., c2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Egger-Sider, Francine.

Description

xi, 156 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Google isn't up to the task when it comes to serious research, and though your patrons and students have heard of the "invisible," or "deep" Web, they have no idea how to tap into it. You need practical tools and strategies for teaching them about the Web sources and specialized databases they will never find using everyday search engines. This book will show you in simple, non-technical terms how to integrate the invisible Web into teaching opportunities wherever they occur -- in a one-on-one "teaching moment" at the reference desk, or in a formal course. Estimated at 500 times the size of the visible Web, the invisible Web and the search skills needed to plumb its depths should be a part of every information literacy and research skills course. With this book you get expert teaching tips and scripts for informal instruction, plus model activities and assignments for the classroom.

Subject

• Invisible Web
• Invisible Web > Study and teaching
• Internet searching
• Database searching
• Information Services
• Teaching
• Research Design
• Computer Literacy
• Databases as Topic

Genre/Form

Popular Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Characteristics of the Invisible Web -- Use of the Web for research -- Introducing students to the Invisible Web -- Further exploration of the Invisible Web -- Internet research strategies : an example -- A sampler of tools for mining the Invisible Web -- Visible versus Invisible Web : shifting boundaries.

ISBN

9781555706333 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008050850

OCLC

183266276

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library