• The Advanced Internet Searcher's handbook. Library Association Publishing. Details on my home page.

• Teaching the Internet to Library Staff and Usersby William D Hollands revised and adapted by Phil Bradley
  More information on this title can be found here.

• Internet Power Searching - the Advanced Manual
  • This is the American title for the Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbook published in the US by Neal-Schuman.

• The Business and Economy Internet Resource Handbook (editor). Library Association Publishing, October 2000 ISBN: 1856043517
  There is a review of it on the LA website that you can read.

• Going Online, CD-ROM and the InternetASLIB, 1997 ISBN 085142 391 4
  • This is an updated version of the following title and is designed to be a useful book for beginners who are not sure of the best way, or best sources available to assist them in answering queries using electronic databases.
    • "This title should be found in the library of any organisation thta offers online and CD-ROM searching facilities" (review of earlier edition)
    • "concise, clear...up to date" Learned Publishing(review of earlier edition)

• Going Online and CD-ROM. ASLIB, 1994 ISBN 0 85142 323 X
  • Out of print.

• How to set up a CD-ROM workstation. ASLIB 1994
  • What it says, really. Practical advice and guidance on how to change an existing pc into one that has a cd-rom drive on board.

• UKOLUG Quick guide to the Internet. UKOLUG 1995
  • All you ever needed to know about the Internet in 74 pages. Practical and aimed at the UK Information Professional. Its was nominated for the Eurolug award 1996, so someone likes it!
    • "a good introduction for newcomers [and] excellent briefing material for librarians" (LA Record 98 (8) August '96)

• How to write and design WWW pages (with Anna Smith). ASLIB 1995
  • Practical advice and guidance on getting your own home pages up and running. This one covers both the design and writing elements, as well as how to publish the thing once you've finished.

• UKOLUG Quick Guide to CD-ROM Networks. UKOLUG 1996
  • What you need, what you must consider, case studies, product information and so on.
    • "good basic background reading" (Managing Information)
    • "provides some very practical information and advice" (Assignation 14 (2) Jan '97)
    • "This has to be one of the best guides available on this subject" (LA Record 98 (12) Dec '96)

Articles etc

Information technology in the information centre. In Handbook of special librarianship and information work ASLIB 1998
I also write a column in the most excellent online magazine Ariadne on search engines.
Another column that I write is a monthly Internet Q&A column in the CILIP Update magazine.
I also present articles at various exhibitions and conferences - the outline text for the talk I gave at the UKOLUG 2000 conference being an example.
I've also spoken at: Online Information 2003 "Using advanced search engine features to improve quality results"
Online Information 2002 "Writing for people, writing for search engines"
Internet Librarian International 2003 Getting better search results - evaluation
ITI Conference Proceedings Keeping the customer satisfied 1995 CD-ROM technology - where it has been, where it is, where it is going

Other articles include:
Key issue: What are weblogs? Serials for the international serials community, Volume 17 No. 1 March 2004
Spam, the great experiment Library and Information Update Volume 1 No. 9 December 2002
Corporate websites; is yours doing the job effectively? Business Information Review, Volume 19 No. 3 September 2002
Hoaxes, viruses and chain letters Research Computing News, New York School of Medicine Volume 6 No. 2 November 1998
Scoping the Internet Records Management Bulletin Issue 84, February 1998
Intelligent Agents Managing Information Jan/Feb 1999
Towards a common user interface ASLIB Proceedings Volume 47 No. 7/8 July/August 1995
CD-ROM trends and the business librarian Business Information Review, Volume 12 No. 1 July 1995

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