Best Bet Internet: Reference and Research When You Don't Have Time to Mess Around

by Shirley Duglin Kennedy

While the Internet has been called the world's library for its enormous store of information, its maze of material can keep researchers from gaining quick and easy results. This guide aims to give... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838907121
• ISBN13: 9780838907122
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: American Library Association
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Best Bet a searcher's roadmap to today's Internet

Shirley's a colleague and friend (disclaimer), but her new work via ALA is a much-needed cut-to-the-answers handbook for busy researchers, librarians, and information professionals. Kudos for the spirit of humor and yep-been-there tales that lace the solid tips and site information with her personal style and elan. I'll keep my copy right beside my autographed copy of Reva Basch's "Secrets of the Super Net Searchers." For serious Internet searching today, this is the guidebook to cyberspace.

Handy Internet Reference Tool for Libraries...or anyone!

As reference librarian at the North Dade branch of the Miami-Dade system, I have found this superior and more up to date than the mass produced guides found everywhere these days including the supermarket. Our two week old copy is already thumbworn as we keep it by our copies of the terminals for patron reference. I think we may order another one and hide for staff use only! Good job Ms. Kennedy...just keep updating the book!

Great Guide for Internet Research

As an instructor of Internet research to audiences at all levels, I appreciate the direct, no-nonsense, and humorous approach Kennedy takes. The author manages to demystify a subject that intimidates many, even some librarians, who would benefit from reading this book themselves before they check it out to their patrons.