Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching |  | Authors: Jane Devine, Francine Egger-Sider
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.
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ISBN: 1555706339
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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, nontechnical 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. Statistics and summaries of relevant research will help you combat myths like Searching is Easy, or Everything Important is Free. Read this book too, to find out how the best deep Web search tools, including Complete Planet, Closer Look, and the Librarian's Internet Index, are evolving and what it all means for your library's future electronic collection development plans.
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A Rich Resource About a Rich Resource February 25, 2009
L. Fluk (Brooklyn, NY USA)
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[[ASIN:1555706339 Going Beyond Google: The Invisble Web in Learning and Teaching]
This book is cram-packed with ideas, activities, examples, illustrations, pedagogical tools, bibliographical references, Web links and more, all designed to energize serious Internet research. Teaching faculty, instruction librarians, researchers of any stripe, will find in Part I a thoughtful analysis of the nature of the Invisible Web and of why inexperienced researchers so often fail to discover its riches. But the practical strength of this book lies in the energy with which it collocates, in Parts II and III, techniques for using the Invisible Web and for teaching others to do so. For "Stage One" students, it does not shrink from starting with Web search basics, including search of the visible Web; for "Stage Two," it presents the concepts basic to understanding of the Invisible Web. "Stage Three" is for advanced researchers. There follow suggestions for teaching about the Invisible Web in a variety of venues, specialized tools, and lists of useful graphics, audio and video materials, tutorials, and blogs. Rounding out the volume are a case study of a college student researching an economics paper, a chapter sampling Invisible Web research tools such as subject directories, databases, and specialized search engines, and an overview of trends in Internet research, particularly the "shifting boundaries" between the visible and Invisible Web. The riches of the Invisible Web to which authors Devine and Egger-Sider wish to draw attention are matched by the riches of their work on resources and techniques for learning and teaching about the world "beyond Google."
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