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LIS 675 Assignment One

LIS 675 Assignment One. A Group Presentation by: Cassandra Caldarone, Bryan Freiberg & Mishalla Spearing. Advanced Search Interfaces. Amazon.com . Global Books in Print. Search Results. Search Observations. Both databases: satisfactory job finding print items.

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LIS 675 Assignment One

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  1. LIS 675Assignment One A Group Presentation by: Cassandra Caldarone, Bryan Freiberg & Mishalla Spearing

  2. Advanced Search Interfaces Amazon.com Global Books in Print

  3. Search Results

  4. Search Observations • Both databases: satisfactory job finding print items. • Both lists included items from various perspectives. • Overlap considerable but not overwhelming. • GBIP didn’t have any digital items. • Neither database returned audio books. • GBIP had many duplicate items due to binding differences with no clear way to eliminate them.

  5. Currency • Currency was a wash with both databases returning several items with 2010 publication dates. • Retrospective coverage was substantially greater in Amazon with items dating back to 1993.

  6. Subject Headings • LC - nada, nunća, zip, zero • Other subject headings - GBIP • Bowker • BIC (Book Industry Communication) • BISAC (Book Industry Study Group) • Other subject headings – Amazon • Search cluster subject tags • Folksonomy tags

  7. AMAZONSUBJECTHEADINGS

  8. Folksonomy: Amazon’s Social Tagging

  9. Global Books in Print:Dewey Classification

  10. Amazon’s Unique Features: • Front/Back Cover • Table of Contents • First Pages • Citations

  11. Table of Contents

  12. First Pages

  13. Citations

  14. Details, Details, Details…

  15. Global Books in Print

  16. Reviews

  17. Independent Review Snippets

  18. Submit Corrections Feature

  19. Submit Corrections Feature

  20. Content Feature

  21. Book Recommendations:Global Books in Print Pro-Terrorism Anti-Terrorism Yahya, Harun. Islam Denounces Terrorism. 1 ed. Riyadh: TahrikeTarsile Qur'an, 2002. Print. A., Mark, and Ph.D. Gabriel. Islam and Terrorism: What the Quran Really Teaches About Christianity, Violence and the Goals of the Islamic Jihad. New York: Charisma House, 2002. Print.

  22. About the Author…

  23. Book Recommendations:Amazon Pro-Terrorism Anti-Terrorism • Shah, Asma, and Manjeet Singh. Institute of Terrorism: Islam. British Columbia, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2007. Print. Fadl, KhaledAbou El. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. New York: Harperone, 2007. Print.

  24. Table of Contents First Pages

  25. Back Cover Excerpt

  26. Our Verdict • Having Both is advantageous – more is better, no? • Is GBIP worth the subscription fee? • Amazon model: something good enough in an infinite universe of information. • GBIP model: finite but substantial quantity of relevant information. • If Amazon has no competition, will it have incentive to remain “excellent”?

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