CONCLUSION
Tips
Additional search tutorials:
Keeping current
Last updated March 30, 2000.
Your questions and comments are welcome.
Please contact Bob Acker at:
or Laurie Sampsel at:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Laurie and I wish to thank Lois Kuyper Rushing, the MLA Education Committee
(of which Lois is the chair), and the MLA Board for asking us to
present this pre-conference workshop.
Special thanks go to Tim Salm, DePaul University Libraries Systems
Department, for creating the layout of this tutorial and providing me
with valuable technical assistance and advice.
Laurie Sampsel provided the content for the Search Engines and Evaluation sections,
as well as providing many valuable links for other parts of this presentation.
Most of the information presented here was originally prepared for a hands-on workshop
at the annual meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library
Association, October 17, 1997, in Minneapolis, MN. I wish to thank Jeff Kosokoff,
my colleague at DePaul, for providing me with the ideas for the general
outline of this presentation. Also helpful were Leslie Troutman
and Lynn Gullickson for their suggestions and input.
I also received many good ideas from music librarians who shared
with me how they use the internet for music reference. And of course we owe
a great debt of gratitude to all those librarians and internet searchers
who have contributed, via the Web or in person, their knowledge of internet
searching. Bob Acker
Know what's out there
Pick the resource that works best for you today
Be flexible
Practice! practice! practice! (not just the answer to the Carnegie
Hall question)
Don't forget about print resources -- not everything is on the Web
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
University of California at Berkeley Library
URL:
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/
FindInfo.html
A Consumers Guide to Search Engines
URL:
www.imagescape.com/helpweb/www/seek.html
WebNovice
URL:
www.webnovice.com
A Four-Point Plan for Internet Success
URL:
www.depaul.edu/~jkosokof/4point
MLA-L listserv (see information above under Listservs)
Internet Scout Project
URL:
scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/index.html
Note: Includes a searchable archive of Scout Reports as well as information
on how to subscribe to the Scout Report and Net Happenings mailing lists.
Search Engine Report
URL:
searchenginewatch.com/sereport/
Note: Subscribe to free "Search Engine Report Newsletter"
e-newsletter
Librarian's Index to the Internet
URL:
sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex
Note: Subscribe to the free "What's New This Week" e-journal.
Includes new sites.
Inside the Internet.
Note: A ZD Journals monthly newsletter. Not free ($69 a year).
Greg Notess' columns
Note: Monthly column "On the Net" published in Online and Database.
"Internet Search Engine Update" from Online.
URL:
www.notess.com
Note: Available free pre-publication on the web.
Search Engine Showdown
URL:
www.notess.com/search/
Note: Visit regularly; it's frequently updated.
Talk to "wired" Colleagues
Attend workshops