Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction, 4th Edition - Softcover

"Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction is an ideal Library Science curriculum textbook and a critically important addition to professional and university library instructional reference collections." - Midwest Book Review

This groundbreaking textbook and guide for library school students and librarians will help you-regardless of experience level or environment-learn the ins and outs of working with online databases, the best tactics for effective research online, and the methods for conveying these search skills to others. * Features discussions of databases by discipline, including social science, science, medicine, and humanities, covering both bibliographic and numerical databases * Provides readers with a toolkit of fundamental search skills to increase research effectiveness * Presents advice and techniques for both virtual and in-person teaching * Offers a companion website with additional information and exercises * Includes new "Additional Resources" sections for each database chapter, providing exposure to more database names and vendors, as well as a new section on discovery services