The forum entitled “Strategies in Effective Searching of Information” was presented by Dr. Angelina P. Resurrection, Director of Libraries, Rizal Technological University held on July 16, 2008 at the Jose Rizal University, Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong and was sponsored by the Ortigas Center Library Consortium.
The speaker showed several samples of search engines such as yahoo, google, msn and websites used in searching the internet. She made mentioned web harvesting also known as web mining, scraping, crawl or spidering, its purpose and the need to digitize and preserve it as add on to the library collection. Websites offering free access of general references like dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, manuals e-books databases, serials articles were also sighted. The forum was well presented but the topic is ideal for library orientation for Freshmen College.
The audience of the forum was a variety of librarians from different college and universities, special libraries in Metro Manila. Some of them were working in libraries with sufficient library resources. In holding a forum the sponsors must be selective on the topics and the target audience.
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