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Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Saturday, May 16, 2020

No Results Found

Barry Schwartz suggests that marketers using Google should be wary of changes in Google's response when no results are found .

-DD

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Facebook Search

Zach Miners provides a review of Facebook's search options .

-DD

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Monday, February 17, 2014

Data Information Literacy Training Being Developed With Institute of Museum and Library Services Funding

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is funding a research project among four research institutions to discern what data information literacy training is needed by graduate students to enable them to produce excellent research. The project aims to develop, implement and evaluate a data information literacy curriculum in conjunction with university faculty.

-DD

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Google's Help Page

Google's help page offers many tips for improve your Google experience.

-DD

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Thursday, July 08, 2010

An Educator's Search Technique's

Marsha Ratzel shares the following techniques with Teacher Magazine readers:

I have learned from my school library media specialists always to use the advanced search. I dutifully type the keywords “student engagement” in one box and "2010" in the "Publication Date" box. I also take a moment to check the box that reads "only" under "Full Text Articles." That way I don’t waste my time chasing an article that I can’t access because the library hasn't subscribed to it. I've also learned that if you hover the mouse over the magnifying glass in the list of articles, you can read the article's abstract without opening the whole thing. This makes it super time efficient and I can easily determine which articles I want to read all the way through. So out of the possible 6,000,000 articles in the database, as in this case, I found seven worth scanning.

-D.D.

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