Information Seeking Strategies
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 15
Seminars: 15
Tutorials: 30
ECTS credit: 6
Lecturer(s): izr. prof. dr. Merčun Kariž Tanja, prof. dr. Bartol Tomaž
• Use of different types of information retrieval systems (web search engines, digital libraries, library catalogues...)
• choice of resources in systems according to need, context,
• search strategies, search tactics,
• query formulation,
• advanced use of Boolean operators, thesauri and controlled vocabularies,
• evaluation of the query and the information retrieved.
• Tools to organise the resources found.
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White, R. W. (2016). Interactions with search systems. Cambridge University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 158319363