Exam 3: Finding Specialty Information

Clicking through topics and subtopics arranged hierarchically is known as "____."

____________________ reference sources are similar to their print counterparts on library shelves.

By clicking your way through the hierarchy of topics, from the most general to the most ____________________, you see which sites were deemed best by the guide's contributors.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you provide when you describe portals to your readers.

In a subject guide, if the path you drill down doesn't yield the results you need, navigate back and try another path.

The visible web is approximately ____ times larger than the visible or surface web.

The first web subject guide was ____.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you want to cover when you write about how subject guides can be accessed.

____________________ are summaries or reviews of the contents of a web page, written by the subject guide contributors, usually experts in the field.

Subject guides are especially helpful when ____.

Discuss finding places on the web.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the basic information you want to cover when you write about distributed subject guides.

Portals originated in the education sector.

A ____ library, such as ipl2, exists solely to bring together valuable web sites and reference tools on just about any topic.