Vast Active Library and Information Science blog. From a recent library science graduate in Wellington, New Zealand. A focus on reference and current awareness tools and issues, especially free, web-based resources.

 
Walt Crawford has an excellent article in EContent, discussing the problems of swamping when searching large datasets. Amazon's look-inside-the-book function leads to searches returning many extraneous hits, as does Google, and federated searching only makes things worse. He suggests some ways that searchers can overcome swamping.



| posted by Simon at 10:26 am