Thanks to Kate Sheehan (Loose Cannon Librarian) for live blogging the sessions she attended today with Mary Ellen Bates at the Greenwich Library. Wow, tons of terrific search tips in these posts! Check ‘em out. Mary Ellen Bates at Greenwich Library Mary Ellen Bates 45 search tips in 60 minutes Advanced Search Secrets with Mary [...]
Posts under ‘Search Tools’
RSS feeds for web searches
Most of us have a few (or many!) topics that we do repeat searches on in the big search engines. This might be a research topic you’re trying to keep up to date on, your library’s name or even your own name. An RSS feed for a subject search can save you some time by [...]
Kindernet – Children’s Search Engine
Just heard about Kindernet, a new children’s search engine. Though the layout isn’t the jazziest at the moment, the search results look useful and age appropriate. The developer left a comment on Phil Bradley’s blog indicating that they’re working on a new look for the site. Looking forward to seeing how this project develops. From [...]
Viewzi – New Search Tool
Viewzi takes your search terms, tries to figure out what you’re looking for and get the most relevant results. Sounds like every search engine, right? Viewzi’s twist is in the variety of different “views” within the search results and the highly visual presentation. The results are grouped into categories or “views” like shopping, weather, photos, [...]
Time to Clean Up Your Web Site & Give Your Customers What They Want
Curtis Rogers’ post The Library’s web site shouldn’t be a PUZZLE to Patrons (which is in part a summary of a post from The Marketing Blog) makes some great points about our how we can use our library web sites to engage our customers. Is your web site cluttered? Does the navigation make sense to [...]
GoGooligans revisited
After I posted some concerns about GoGooligans last week, the developer of GoGooligans responded to these and those expressed by others over at flickr. As a result, he’s deleted the “hey kid – click this button when your parents or teachers aren’t looking” feature. Thank you!! And he’s updated some search terms and phrases to [...]
