"Run on the bank": It seems like a phrase that would only be searched by academic librarians doing research on the Great Depression. However, a search of all publications on Factiva reveals at least 450 mentions of the phrase since March 2008. Mortgage meltdown reveals more than 1,000 hits. And the granddaddy of them all seems to be subprime crisis, which was used by authors more than 4,000 times in less than 2 months.rnThe current state of banking and lending in the U.S. poses a unique research situation for information professionals in industries as varied as financial institutions, law firms, government agencies, and consultancies. How did we get here? Did we see this coming? Why or why not? How can economic adjustments be made so that this doesn't happen again? Researchers need to have a specific set of tools and search strategy templates at the ready, because if the obvious search terms are used, we will be inundated with repetitive information. The challenge is to search the most widely respected sources using exacting, pinpointed strategies in order to uncover the most highly relevant information.
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