WebSearch University presents Searchers Academy is your chance to interact with search experts as they share their ideas and expertise during a full-day workshop at Computers in Libraries 2020. Moderated by Marydee Ojala, Editor-in-Chief of Online Searcher magazine, you're guaranteed to come away with a new attitude and new resources and tools for more effective and strategic searching.
Monday, March 30: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Now that our smartphones can not only search the web for us but also predict the fastest route to work, how do info pros set themselves apart from anyone with access to Google? This full-day workshop looks at what is innovative, creative, and digitally transforming in advanced web search, research, and analysis. Searchers Academy allows you to interact with a series of industry experts who share their ideas and expertise in the field of research on the web and in social media. There’s always something new to be learned from these leading-edge info pros. Participants should have basic experience with web searching, but even searchers with an extensive searching background will come away with a new attitude and new resources and tools for more effective and strategic searching. Expect to have your assumptions challenged about effective search techniques, strategies, and approaches. Academy topics include the following:
Marydee Ojala, Editor, Online Searcher
Mary Ellen Bates, Principal, Bates Information Services, Inc.
Greg Notess, Professor Emeritus of Librarianship, Montana State University
Gary Price, Co-Founder, infoDOCKET & FullTextReports