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Its all about search strategies and is a must-read for anybody who desires to develop better search techniques or teach search strategies. What he does that you, I, and students ought to care about is craft really fascinating lessons on utilizing a large range of search techniques.
SearchReSearch. And if you get a chance to hear him speak at a conference, take it!
Back to the book, in The Joy of Search youll find stories utilized to explain how to utilize different search methods. To get a sense of what the book has to do with, you can get a free chapter of the book right now from Dans blog. The chapter that is offered is titled Finding a Mysterious Location Somewhere on the planet: How to Use Multiple Information Sources to Zero In on a Resource. In the chapter youll discover about one of my preferred strategies for getting trainees to look at all of the details that is readily available to them in order to form an excellent search method and use excellent search terms.
On a related note, over on Practical Ed Tech I have an on-demand webinar entitled Ten Search Strategies Students Need to Know..