Description
Book SynopsisPrevent information overload with better indexing and retrieval strategies!In the fast-changing world of the Internet, the skills of the librarian are indispensable for managing the overwhelming amount of available data. Internet Searching and Indexing examines the tools and procedures available now and for the future that will help librarians, students, and patrons search the Internet more systematically, while helping information professionals design more efficient, effective search engines and Web pages. This comprehensive volume offers usable information for people at all levels of Internet savvy. Its clear explanations of the various ways search engines are structured will help new users take advantage of their attributes to design more effective retrieval strategies. It suggests practical ways for information professionals to use traditional library tools and concepts to make the Web more accessible. Moreover, it shows how the Web can be tapped as an immense resource to help l
Table of Contents
Contents
- Introduction: Increasing the Odds
- SEARCH ENGINES: CHARACTERISTICS AND EFFECTIVE USE
- A Proposal for Categorization and Nomenclature for Web Search Tools
- Internet Search Engines and Robots: What They Are and How to Use Them
- Internet Search Engines: Understanding Their Design to Improve Information Retrieval
- Signposts on the Information Superhighway: Indexes and Access
- Search Engines for the World Wide Web: An Evaluation of Recent Developments
- CLASSIFICATION AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO WEB ORGANIZATION, INDEXING, AND SEARCHING
- The Relevance of Facet Analysis for World Wide Web Subject Organization and Searching
- Subject Trees on the Internet: A New Role for Bibliographic Classification?
- Classification Schemes Revisited: Applications to Web Indexing and Searching
- SUBJECT CATALOGUING AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB
- Improving Subject Searching in Web-Based OPACs: Evaluation of the Problem and Guidelines for Design
- The Internet as a Tool for Cataloging and Classification, a View from the UK
- USE, the Universal Subject Environment: A New Subject Access Approach in the Time of the Internet
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
