Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs » (New Edition)

Keeping up with the ever-growing Web, along with professional resources and information for customers, can be an overwhelming challenge for busy librarians.

What if you could keep current in one hour per day or less? What if you didn't have to surf? What if the information you selected proactively arrived in your in-box? What if you had effective sorting and saving tools to capture your preferred portion of this flood of data?

Illustrating ways to overcome the daunting deluge of information, author and librarian Steven M. Cohen shows you how to use all the new cool tools. A passionate proponent of using cutting-edge technology to access and organize information, Cohen is the liberian's very own web guy search engine. Keeping Current offers expert guidelines and insightful evaluations of software and products that help librarians do their jobs better, easier, and faster.

This practical guide supports reference librarians as well as subject specialists in public, special, school, and academic libraries.