The Online Searcher

Online searching is one of the fastest growing services in libraries. While such services represent great potential for expanding reference services, they also present new and different service issues librarians must deal with. This collection of 30 articles focuses on both librarians and end users as searchers. The contributions cover education and training, the online interview, information search tactics, optical disc systems, and applications of artificial intelligence, ethics, quality control, legal aspects, future directions for online searching and much more.