Matching search engine/tools with a type of library

[Joe Barker]

Allison--
	May I recommend the searching part of the UCB Teaching Lib 
tutorial?   There is a page that helps people analyze their needs based 
on the characteristics of their inquiry.  Do they need phrase searching? 
or Boolean-equivalent power?  Or truncation?  etc.  This is at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet
/Strategies.html#FeaturesTable

	It doesn't matter what kind of library you are:  each search has 
inherent needs in order to effective with the array of search tools 
available.
	
	Then there are tables showing which tools have the features and 
how one invokes them.  These are at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html

	There are additional detailed instructions for all the search
tools you mention in your question.  Please check it out and feel free to 
use it if it will help.   Any comments or suggestions about the tutorial 
are welcomed..
	Joe Barker,  The Teaching Library, UC Berkeley
	jbarker at library.berkeley.edu
	

On Wed, 28 May 1997, Allison Ho wrote:

> Hello.  I am a Librarianship student at the University of British Columbia, I 
> and I am looking for information to help with a class presentation.
> 
> I am wondering if it is possible to match different (types of) search 
> engines with different types of libraries/library needs.  Our broad 
> categories are public, academic and special libraries, and the five 
> main search engines/tools we're looking at are Open Text, Yahoo, 
> Alta Vista, Hot Bot and InfoSeek.
> 
> Do you have a preference for certain Internet search engines for your 
> library's needs (whether or not they are one of the five I just 
> listed)?  What type of library do you work with, and Why do 
> prefer/think those search engines work better for you/your library?
> 
> This is my first contribution ever to an discussion list, and I did 
> try to look through the list's archives first.  I apologize if I am 
> repeating a recent discussion, or am making some other nasty error.
> 
> Thanks!
> Allison
> 
> 
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> Allison Ho, Graduate Student
> School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
> The University of British Columbia
> Vancouver, B.C., Canada
> E-mail: HO at slais.ubc.ca
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