Exam 3: Browsing Subject Guides

Subject guides organize information from the more general to the more specific.

Looking for "last updated" or "created" date of a Web page is a good way to gage its scope.

The ____________________ of a Web site is the range of topics covered.

Comment on the relative size of subject guides and how pages are selected for inclusion in them.

WWW Virtual Library is an example of a distributed subject guide.

Browsing a subject guide is when you drill down or click through the hierarchy of topics.

Item 1 in the figure above points to subtopics.

Subject guides group information by topic.

Clicking through the hierarchically arranged topics in a subject guide is called "______________".

A good trailblazer page not only provides useful links, it also provides them in a logical and organized way.

Subject guides are relatively small when compared to the whole world wide web.

A(n) ____________________ or page that shows the sources of information is a good way to check up on the objectivity or accuracy of a Web site.

The easiest way to find information in a subject guide is to ____________________.

Web pages called ____________________ pages link to sites covering all aspects of a topic and are often indexed in subject guides.

Subject guides' relatively small size is one of their major weaknesses.

All Web pages are totally objective.

Subject guides are especially useful when you know a great deal about your search topic.

What are evaluative criteria?

Because distributed subject guides have many contributors, they may be of somewhat ____________________ quality and may lack standardization.

Subject guides do not have local search engines.