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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100 Ready-to-use Pathfinders For The Web: One Hundred Ready-to-use Pathfinders For The Web

A. Paula Wilson

Neal-Schuman Publishers, Incorporated

United States, United States of America

Pap/Cdr edition, November 21, 2004

New York, 2004

[curator]associate-francis-boyer@archive.org[/curator][date]20180507204213[/date]

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.

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. All are in XHTML (presented in Cascading Style Sheets for easy conversion to any library's web site). This will help to make pathfinders a simple and effective part of your library's services

In this book/CD-ROM resource, Wilson (Maricopa County Library District) presents 100 customizable pathfinders for helping library users find the information they need. Topics most often asked about in all kinds of libraries are covered, including career resources, health and wellness, and government information. Presented in a uniform, user-friendly format, the pathfinders list essential print and electronic materials, from dictionaries and periodicals to databases, primary sources, and call numbers. The CD-ROM contains all of the pathfinders as Cascading Style Sheets for Web sites and as Word documents for handouts. The electronic templates include spaces for inserting local information. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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