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Péter Jacsó Fall 2014

LIS 663 Basic Online Searching Introduction and course overview Googling A ND/OR/NOT professional searching Session 1. Péter Jacsó Fall 2014. Is Google God?. Jacsó. Is G o o gle making us st o o pid?. Jacsó. Topics. The concept and practice of online/interactive searching

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Péter Jacsó Fall 2014

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  1. LIS 663 Basic Online SearchingIntroduction and course overviewGoogling AND/OR/NOTprofessional searchingSession 1. Péter Jacsó Fall 2014

  2. Is Google God? Jacsó

  3. Is Google making us stoopid? Jacsó

  4. Topics • The concept and practice of online/interactive searching • Emphasis on Professional Online Information Services • Controlled vocabulary searching vs. free text searching • Index browsing • Natural language searching • Citation-based searching • Sorting, ranking results • Evaluating search results • Discovering the relevance of most of the library’s databases in one (or two) fell swoop(s) See details in the schedule Jacsó

  5. Objectives • Teaching methods • Research methods • Required readings • Grading • Codes of Conduct • See syllabus Jacsó

  6. Assignments • Form groups of 3-4 students • Each member in the group should work on each questions then discuss and submit ONE paper per group • Follow the guidelines for content, style, format - 1 Initial assignment (group) - 2 Midterm assignment (group) - 3 Term assignment (individual) Jacsó

  7. WHY DO I STILL TEACH ONLINE SEARCHING? • Who needs to be taught about searching when there is Google? • The butcher, the baker the candle-stick maker are all searching • What are they finding? What are they missing? • Convenience above content • "Good enough + convenient enough" thinking • How do you choose your classes? • To make you more efficient than your patrons • To make you a FINDER Jacsó

  8. WHAT I TEACH ABOUT ONLINE SEARCHING? • Google is great, warm, fuzzy and sensitive • So are Bing, Ask, GigaBlast, ExaLead (and so were AltaVista, FAST, Excite) • Google is not a panacea • Google Scholar – the good, the bad, the ugly and the dysfunctional • The invisible part of the Web • The value of proprietary POIS Jacsó

  9. Google NOT Panacea - • Realize the problems with Googling the assignment questions • My humble efforts to grill Google - a teachable moment - or two • Google is great, long live Google, but no monotheistic adulation • Libraries pay millions for digital books, journals & finding tools • Use them & Google, but count your clicks and peeks • Not just a question of natural vs. controlled vocabulary searching • No truncation, field specific indexes for author, journal name • Few proximity ops, filters by date, doc type Jacso

  10. - Google NOT Panacea • Sloppy Links (I plead guilty) • Volatile locations • Perishable, vanishing references • Link-rot • Partial solution – DOI • More about DOI later Falagas, Matthew E., Efthymia A. Karveli, Vassiliki I. Tritsaroli The risk of using the Internet as reference resource: A comparative study. International Journal of Medical Informatics 77(4), 2008: 280-286. Jacso

  11. What are important? • Use of controlled vocabulary - with skepticism • Boolean operations (don't cringe now) • The joy of natural language searching • Search Strategy Building • Browsing, browsing, browsing • Searching, thinking, re-searching, re-thinking, finding • Word-based searching versus citation searching • Your smart and pretty output • Linking is everything • System and databases selection (putting the cart before the horse?) Jacsó

  12. - WHY I DON'T TEACH DIALOG IN 663? • Internships do not require it at UH • So LIS 663 is new and improved • The power and ease of Ebsco, ProQuest/CSA, FirstSearch, Gale • The transportability of your knowledge • Post-course practicing possibility • Dialog is now in 667 – seldom taught Jacsó

  13. BE AMBIDEXTROUS • Information searching • Behavior of Millennials • Google for everything attitude • You “don’t get no respect”? • Work on it • Use and show the power and advantages of POIS Jacso

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