LIS4361 - Assignment 3
1. Familiarize yourself with the Advanced Search features of Google: http://www.google.com/advanced_search .
Keep a log of your Google search testing. The more searches in your log, the more impressed I will be! Examples:
| Google Advanced Search String | Results |
|---|---|
| colorado site:edu filetype:ppt | 21,700 results in July 2012 [14,700 results in Sept. 2009; 14,200 results in Sept. 2008; 57,100 results in Sept. 2007; 16,200 results in April 2006] |
| allintext: "social security reform" site:gov filetype:pdf | 19,600 results in July 2012 1,900 results in Sept. 2009; 1,350 results in Sept. 2008; 803 results in Sept. 2007; 638 results in April 2006] |
| Google Advanced Search String | Results |
|---|---|
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2. Using your diagnostic abilities, make a recommendation as to the best general search engine for your intests. Support your case with search results from the one you recommend and from at least two other search engines.
3. Use Google Custom Search (http://www.google.com/cse/) to create your own custom search engine.
a) identify search engines you want to search. Content must be Google-crawlable. In other words, it cannot be a dynamic, hidden Internet type of database (like most library catalogs).
b) create your search engine. Paste your CSE URL into your homework.
c) you can use a Google Custom Search in your pathfinder if you like.
4. Create 2 Google Alerts for yourself. See http://www.google.com/alerts. Past the first results (one from each of your alerts) you get back into your homework.
5. Read: Darnton, Robert. "The Library in the New Age." New York Review of Books 55, no. 10 (June 12, 2008, 2008), http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 .
6. Read: Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/futures2025.pdf).