Suzanne S Bell is the former business librarian at the University of Rochester and a recently retired adjunct instructor for the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Other previous positions have ...
Before the database Early American Imprints, Series I and Series II, from Readex, the same vendor published and sold micro-opaque cards to libraries with full text of the entries from Charles Evans's bibliography and subsequent works.
Introduction to library databases -- How databases work -- Controlled vocabularies -- The searcher's toolkit: part 1 -- The searcher's toolkit: part 2 -- Database interfaces: vendor features and variations -- Social science databases -- ...
"This complete guide provides librarians and students at every level of experience with proven strategies and tools for efficient online searching, covering commonly available subject databases and principles of effective searching"--
Bell shows you how to produce efficient, effective searches using the commercial databases that are most readily available through libraries.
"This book describes the background of how databases work; how they are constructed and in the case of some databases; how they transitioned from the legacy print world to an online environment; how technologies within databases can ...