Bing Google WHAT PATRONS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SEARCH

摘要

It's information overload. The amount of material available online is almost incalculable. This includes scientific data, advertisements, social media posts, government documents, and personal websites. The internet has the power to give users access to quality information from scholarly sources. It also has the power to lead the user down a rabbit hole of misinformation. The art of internet searching is not to simply Google a term and then click on the first website that appears, but rather to hone a search so that the user can discover highquality information from good sources. Librarians are in a perfect position to guide patrons through the mountains of digital bits to the relevant and authoritative sources.