I took this week off from the office to work on my next searching book which is due in August. Content is being created as a somewhat slow yet steady pace. Two full chapters are done along with the introduction. The chapter on Wikipedia should be done by noon today. The first draft won’t be complete by the end of the week but I’ll have established enough momentum to get it (the first complete draft) done in time.
Also, I’ve suggested that the title be changed from what the publisher came up with The Reference Librarians Guide to Mastering Internet Searching to Searching 2.0. This is because this is my second book on searching and, more importantly, since much of what I’m writing is very influences by both Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 I keep thinking that the book is teaching the reader how to search Web 2.0 using Library 2.0 strategies, hence Searching 2.0. Any comments on the new title are welcome.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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The first title makes more sense to the less techy types.
The first title makes more sense to the less techy types.