xxiii, 247 pages : 28 cm +
While library users, students, and researchers find pathfinders a valuable and time-saving resource, creating them is labor-intensive. Paula Wilson, "Tech Talk" columnist for "Public Libraries, has designed this new manual to help you easily and effectively create customized products for your library. She not only provides a template and guide for creating, presenting, marketing, linking, and cataloging Web-based pathfinders, she has also collected 100 pathfinders featuring leading articles, indexes, and databases. All 100 are downloadable and ready to be customized to fit your community and collection. Topics include Health, Genealogy, Taxes, Travel, Art, Computer Science, Women's Studies, American History Current Events, and more
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index
Anatomy of a pathfinder : bibliographic units and other categories ---- Part I. Creating pathfinders. 1. Exploring pathfinders --- 2. Writing pathfinders --- 3. Presenting pathfinders on the web ---- Part II. 100 ready-to-use pathfinders. 1. Adoption --- 2. Advertising --- 3. African-American history --- 4. American folklife --- 5. American history --- 6. Ancient cultures --- 7. Ancient Egypt --- 8. Animals --- 9. Anthropology --- 10. Antiques and collectibles --- 11. Asian-Pacific American heritage --- 12. Automobile repair --- 13. Biographies --- 14. Biology --- 15. Biomes --- 16. Book reviews --- 17. Business plans --- 18. Buying a car --- 19. Career information and job hunting --- 20. Celebrations around the world --- 21. Chemistry and chemical engineering --- 22. College search --- 23. Company information --- 24. Computer science and software engineering --- 25. Consumer information --- 26. Contemporary issues --- 27. Countries --- 28. Cover letters and resumes --- 29. Criminal justice --- 30. Current events --- 31. Decades --- 32. Decorative arts identification --- 33. Demographics --- 34. Diseases --- 35. Economics --- 36. Education --- 37. Elections --- 38. Elections for kids --- 39. Engineering --- 40. English literature --- 41. Environmental studies --- 42. Etiquette --- 43. Exploration and discovery --- 44. Financial aid and scholarships --- 45. Finding forms --- 46. Finding people --- 47. Gardening --- 48. Gay and lesbian studies --- 49. Genealogy --- 50. Geography --- 51. Geology --- 52. Government information --- 53. Grants --- 54. Health and wellness --- 55. Hispanic heritage --- 56. Inventors and inventions --- 57. Legal information --- 58. Linguistics --- 59. Literary criticism --- 60. Military science --- 61. Moving and relocation --- 62. Multicultural literature --- 63. Music --- 64. Mythology --- 65. Native American heritage --- 66. Natural disasters --- 67. Obituaries --- 68. On this day in history --- 69. Patents, trademark, and copyright --- 70. Personal finance --- 71. Psychology --- 72. Public administration and policy --- 73. Quotations --- 74. Religion --- 75. Research tools --- 76. Saints --- 77. Science experiments --- 78. Small business start-up --- 79. Social welfare --- 80. Space exploration --- 81. Space shuttle --- 82. Standards and specifications --- 83. Summer Olympics --- 84. Terrorism --- 85. Test preparation --- 86. Theater --- 87. Travel information --- 88. U.S. civil rights --- 89. U.S. civil war --- 90. U.S. Congress --- 91. U.S. constitution --- 92. U.S. income tax preparation --- 93. U.S. presidents --- 94. U.S. Supreme Court --- 95. Weather --- 96. Winter Olympics --- 97. Women's tudies --- 98. World history --- 99. World War I --- 100. World War II
While library users, students, and researchers find pathfinders a valuable and time-saving resource, creating them is labor-intensive. Paula Wilson, "Tech Talk" columnist for "Public Libraries, has designed this new manual to help you easily and effectively create customized products for your library. She not only provides a template and guide for creating, presenting, marketing, linking, and cataloging Web-based pathfinders, she has also collected 100 pathfinders featuring leading articles, indexes, and databases. All 100 are downloadable and ready to be customized to fit your community and collection. Topics include Health, Genealogy, Taxes, Travel, Art, Computer Science, Women's Studies, American History Current Events, and more
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