Finding Good Sources Outside of Google
After the intense, team project I was working on this weekend was finished, I heard a lot of griping from people about how difficult it was for many of the teams to locate a specific piece of information via Google. My team had at least two librarians on it. No one asked me for help trying to find that bit of data. I’m not sure whether anyone asked the other librarian. Granted, it’s not like I was advertising that I am a librarian. For the most part, people’s professions don’t matter much, so we don’t discuss work. I had no idea people were having problems trying to locate the data. I was rather surprised that people spent so much effort combing through Google without results instead of trying other methods. I have not yet tried to search for the data to find out if the path I have in my mind might work, but I would not have begun with Google.
Garrett points to a list of fabulous resources someone won’t necessarily find in Google.
January 20th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
My experience is that some people are better at google than others. I supposed it’s a bit of an art determining which keywords will yield the results you want.
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:06 am
That’s very true. I tend to believe in what a colleague of mine tells the staff of the newspaper where she works: If you’ve been searching the Web for ten to fifteen minutes with unsatisfactory results, go talk to the librarians. Of course, some people could save those ten to fifteen minutes by conversing with a librarian first.