Resources

 Textbooks

• Bell, Suzanne. S. (2009). Librarian's Guide to Online Searching, 2nd Edition. Libraries Unlimited.
• Berkman, R. (2005). The Skeptical Business Searcher. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
• Chu, H. (2010). Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age. 2nd Edition. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
  
• Devine, J. & Egger-Sider, F. (2009). Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc..
• Hock, R. (2010). The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher. 3rd ed. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
  
• Mann, T. (2005). Oxford Guide to Library Research (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Morville, P. & Callender, J. (2010). Search Patterns. Sebastopol: O'Reilly.
• Sauers, M. P. (2009). Searching 2.0. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishes, Inc..
• Walker, G., & Janes, J. (1999) Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice. Libraries Unlimited.
  
• Introduction to Dialog for Information Professionals. (Traditionally called the "Dialog Lab Workbook").
  

Required or supplementary readings from similar courses

• Affelt, A. (2010). Paving paradise: Database content removal and information professionals. Online, 34(1), 14-16.
• Affelt, A. (2011). Changing semantics and information professionals. Online, 35(3), 34-37.
• Badke, W. (2010). How stupid is Google making us? Online, 34(6), 51-53.
• Ballard, S., & Henry, M. (2006). Citation searching: New players, new tools. The Searcher, 14(9), 24-33.
• Basch, R. (1993). Secrets of the super searchers: Planning search strategies. Online, 17(5), 52-58.
• Bates, M. J. (1979). Information search tactics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 30, 205-214. Retrieved from http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/Information%20Search%20Tactics.html
• Bates, M. J. (1989). The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface. Online Review, 13, 407-424. Retrieved from http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html
• Bates, M. J. (1998). Indexing and access for digital libraries and the Internet: Human, database, and domain factors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(13), 1185-1205. Retrieved from http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/articles/indexdlib.html
• Belkin, N. J. (2000). Helping people find what they don't know. Communications of the ACM, 43(8), 58-61.
• Booth, A. (2008). Using evidence in practice: Unpacking your literature search toolbox: On search styles and tactics. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 25, 313-317.
• Borgman, C. L. (1996). Why are online catalogs still hard to use? Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(7):493-503.
• Braun, T., Wolfgang G., & Schubert, A. (2010). On sleeping beauties, princes and other tales of citation distributions. Research Evaluation, 19(3), 195-202.
• Chen, X. (2010). The declining value of subscription-based abstracting and indexing services in the new knowledge dissemination era. Serials Review, 36(2), 79-85.
• Choo, C.W., Detlor, B., & Turnbull, D. (2000). Information seeking on the web: An integrated model of browsing and searching. First Monday, 5(2). Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/729/638
• Collins, J. (2010). My summer on the content farm. The Awl, (4 Nov), http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/my-summer-on-the-content-farm
• Cromity, J. (2009). Value continuum and professional online search services: The collaborative stage. Online Jul/Aug 2009, 38-40.
• Drabenstott, K. M. (2004). Why I still teach online searching. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 45(1), 75-80.
• Du, J. T., & Evans, N. (2011). Academic users’ information searching on research topics: Characteristics of research tasks and search strategies. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(4), 299-306.
• Falagas, M. E., Pitsouni, E. I., Malietzis, G. A., & Pappas, G. (2008). Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: Strengths and weaknesses. The FASEB Journal, 22, 338-342.
• Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., Gomez, L. M., & Dumais, S. T. (1987). The vocabulary problem in human-system communication. Communications of the ACM, 30(11), 964-971.
• Garfield, E. (1955). Citation indexes for science. Science, New Series, 122(3159), 108-111.
• Gazan, R. (2008). Social annotations in digital library collections. D-Lib, 14(11/12). Retrieved from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november08/gazan/11gazan.html
• Godfrey, K. (2008). A new world for virtual reference. Library Hi Tech, 26(4).
• Haglund, L. & Olsson, P. (2008). The impact on university libraries of changes in information behavior among academic researchers: A multiple case study. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34(1), 52-59.
• Harter, S. P. (1992). Psychological relevance and information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 43(9), 602-615.
• Hearst, M. & Karadi, C. (1997) Cat-a-cone: An interactive interface for specifying searches and viewing retrieval results using a large category hierarchy in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 1997. Online Version
• Herman, S. (2007). SMS reference: Keeping up with your clients. The Electronic Library, 25(4)
• Jacsó, P. (1999). Savvy searching starts with browsing. Online & CD-ROM Review, 23(3), 169-172.
• Jacsó, P. (2004a). Citation-enhanced indexing/abstracting databases. Online Information Review, 28(3), 235-238.
• Jacsó, P. (2004b). Query refinement by word proximity and position. Online Information Review, 28(2), 158-161.
• Jacsó, P. (2005a). As we may search – Comparison of major features of the web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar citation-based and citation-enhanced databases. Current Science, 89(9), 1537-1547.
• Jacsó, P. (2005b). Options for presenting search results: Part 1. Online Information Review, 29(3), 311-319.
• Jacsó, P. (2005c). Options for presenting search results: Part 2. Online Information Review, 29(4), 412-418.
• Jacso, P. (2008a). Amazon, Google Book Search, and Google Scholar. Online, 31(1), 51-54.
• Jacso, P. (2008b). Google Scholar revisited. Online Information Review, 32(1), 102-114.
• Jacsó, P. (2011). Google Scholar duped and deduped: The aura of “robometrics.” Online Information Review, 35(1), 154-160.
• Jansen, B. J., Zhang, M., & Schultz, C. D. (2009). Brand and its effect on user perception of search engine performance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 60(8), 1572-1595.
• Johnson, P. E. (2003). Digital reference as an instructional tool: Just in time and just enough. Searcher, 11(3): 31-33.
• Kansiger, A. (2003). After the research: Information professionals’ SECRETS for delivering results. Online, 27
• Kangiser, A. (2011). What ‘value-added deliverables’ means today. Online, 35(1), 20-24.
• Korah, A., & Cassidy, E. D. (2010). Students and federated searching: A survey of use and satisfaction. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 49(4), 325-332.
• Lawlor, B. (2003). Abstracting and information services: Managing the flow of scholarly communication—Past, present, and future. Serials Review, 29(3), 200-209.
• Miller, T. (2005). In defense of stupid users. Library Journal, 15 March 2005. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA509607.html
• Milstead, J. L. (1998) “NISO Z39.19: Standard for Structure and Organization of Information Retrieval Thesauri” http://www.bayside-indexing.com/Milstead/z39.htm
• Milstead, J. L. (1998) “Use of Thesauri in the Full-Text Environment”, http://www.bayside-indexing.com/Milstead/useof.htm
• Murphy, J. (2010). Using mobile devices for research: Smartphones, databases and libraries. Online, 34(3), 14-18.
• Notess, G. R. (2009). Forget not the forums. Online, 33(2), 41-43.
• Notess, G. R. (2011). Content farming, quick creation and declining information quality. Online, 35(3), 46-48.
• Novotny, E. (2004). I don’t think, I click: A protocol analysis study of use of a library online catalog in the Internet Age. College & Research Libraries, 65(6), 525–37.
• Ojala, M. (2003). When bad searches happen to good searchers. Online, 27(1), 58-60.
• Othman, R., & Halim, N. S. (2004). Retrieval features for online databases: Common, unique, and expected. Online Information Review, 28(3), 200-210.
• Perkins, E. (2001). Johns Hopkins tragedy: Could librarians have prevented a death? Information Today. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbreader.asp?ArticleID=17534
• Pollitt, A. S. (1997). Interactive information retrieval based on faceted classification using views knowledge organization for information retrieval, Proceedings of the 6th International Study Conference on Classification, University College, London 16-19 June 1997 FID/CR
• Pollitt, A. S. (1998). The key role of classification and indexing in view-based searching. International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control Vol 27 No 2 April/June 1998 pp 37-40. http://poseidon.hud.ac.uk/external/research/CeDAR/pollifla.html
• Quint, B. (1991). Inside a searcher's mind: The seven stages of an online search: Part 1. Online, 15(3), 13-18.
• Quint, B. (1991). Inside a searcher's mind: The seven stages of an online search: Part 2. Online, 15(4), 28-35.
• Roth, D. (2009). The answer factory: Demand media and the fast, disposable and profitable as Hell media model. Wired, 17.11. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
• Schwarzwalder, R. (1997). Adding value to your online results. Database Magazine, 20
• Shultz, M. (2006). Mapping of medical acronyms and initialisms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) across selected systems. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94(4), 410-414.
• Spencer, B. (2011). Lesson plans for Google Search specificity. Online, 35(3), 29-33.
• Stern, D. (2009). Harvesting: Power and opportunities beyond federated search. Online, Jul/Aug, 35-37.
• Swanson, D. (1988). Historical note: Information retrieval and the future of an illusion. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39(2), 91-97.
• Tann, C., & Sanderson, M. (2009). Are web-based informational queries changing? Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 60(6), 1290-1293.
• Tennant, R. (2001). Digital libraries - The convenience catastrophe. Library Journal, 15 December 2001. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA185367.html
• Tenopir, C. (1999). Human or automated, indexing is important. Library Journal, 124(18), 34, 38.
• Tenopir, C. (2001a). The power of citation searching. Library Journal, 126(18), 39-40.
• Tenopir, C. (2001b). Why I still teach dialog. Library Journal, 126(8), 35-36.
• Tenopir, C. (2002a). Sorting through online systems. Library Journal, 127(8), 32, 34.
• Tenopir, C. (2002b). Disappearing databases. Library Journal, 127(20), 38, 40.
• Tenopir, C. (2008). Online databases - The past catches up. Library Journal, 15 July 2008. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6573363.html
• Wagner, A., Tysick, B., & Tysick, C. (2007). Onsite reference and instruction services: Setting up shop where our patrons live. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 26(4): 60-65.
• Wells, H.G. (1937). The idea of a permanent world encyclopedia. Encyclopedie Francaise. https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html
• Wilson, P. (1992). Searching: Strategies and evaluation. In For information specialists: Interpretations of reference and bibliographic work (pp. 153-181). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
• Xie, I., & Wolfram, D. (2009). A longitudinal study of database usage within a general audience digital library. Journal of Digital Information, 10(4), Retrieved from http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/304/505.