Name: News Search, Blogs and Feeds: A Toolkit (Chandos Information Professional Series) (in English)
Price: 67.58 USD
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Author: Lars Vage; Lars Iselid
ISBN: 9781843346029

portada News Search, Blogs and Feeds: A Toolkit (Chandos Information Professional Series) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Chandos Publishing

Author

Lars Vage; Lars Iselid

Synopsis "News Search, Blogs and Feeds: A Toolkit (Chandos Information Professional Series) (in English)"

This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring. Presents effective tools to evaluate news search engines and databasesHarness the power of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds in online news search and monitoringLearn how to navigate and critically question the news found in the blogosphere