Libraries Make Tool Known to Assist Students' Searching

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:06:11 -0400
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: DATABASE: SEARCHING: TECHNIQUES : INTERNET: SEARCH: TECHNIQUE:
              Libraries Make Tool Known to Assist Students' Searching

DATABASE: SEARCHING: TECHNIQUES : INTERNET: SEARCH: TECHNIQUE: Libraries
Make Tool Known to Assist Students' Searching


Libraries Make Tool Known to Assist Students' Searching
By JC Romero
Staff Writer
The Exponent Online
Purdue University
<http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/
showstory.php?date=2004/10/26&section=campus&storyid=libraries>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/4mxd3>

If Google were your boyfriend or girlfriend, you might say that he or she
is superficial and opinionated.

Michael Fosmire, associate professor of library science, said that the
lack of depth and reliability in Googles search results should make
students wary. To help give students access to information that has gone
through some process of peer review, Fosmire assisted the library in
creating a "megasearch" tool.

The megasearch tool can be accessed at the Purdue libraries homepage
www.lib.purdue.edu under the "Articles and Databases" menu. It allows
students to search several research databases, such as Lexis-Nexis,
simultaneously.

Students have developed the expectation of finding the information they
are looking for in a short amount of time, so the megasearch is an attempt
to break down the barrier students sometimes face when looking for quality
information. As Fosmire said, "Libraries aren't in the position of making
it more difficult for students to fill their information needs."

When the tool is used, it initially provides 100 results for each database
that is queried to keep students from being overwhelmed.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

While this Megasearch tool is only available to those at Purdue
University, the page where one finds this tool may be viewed at this URL:

<https://www2.lib.purdue.edu:2443/
login?url=http://yoda.lib.purdue.edu:20018/>

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<http://tinyurl.com/6bkt8>


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