1. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Uncovering the Web

2. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Can your favorite search engine find all there is to find on the Web?

3. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. It finds all we need to find, right guys?

4. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Think again. Search engines access a relatively small part of the Web, known as the “free Web” A large portion of the Web, inaccessible to the search engines, is known as the “Invisible Web”

5. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. What’s not on the free Web? Around 90% of the books on our library’s shelves, still under the protection of copyright The full-text of many magazine and newspaper articles Expensive reference and nonfiction books, like literary criticism, and in- depth biographical and historical works

6. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. And why can’t we get this stuff for free? Isn’t the free stuff on the Web just as good?

7. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Publishing is a business! Serious authors are in the business of earning money for their hard work Publishers also expect a return on their work and investment Copyright laws protect “intellectual property” from theft

8. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Your teachers expect quality! Material from the subscription services is likely to be viewed by your teachers as more authoritative You may have to defend some of the sources you find on the free Web You may want to dig deep on the free Web for some harder to find sources.

9. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. I’d like to see an example of that!

10. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Free Web databases! For example: Say you are looking for photographs of the Battle of Gettysburg You may find some good ones through an image search on your favorite search engine But did you know there is a database DEVOTED to Civil War photographs?

11. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Search engines cannot pick up those photos of Gettysburg in that rich database because the database content is not searchable until you are actually in the database.

12. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Try this database! Selected Civil War Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

13. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. But how do you find a database like that? Use the word database with your search terms. Use a tool like Librarian’s Index to the Internet (lii.org) to identify specialized databases Use a search tool specifically designed to pick up items the other search engines miss- a search tool for the Invisible Web Look for portals, or gateway sites, relating to your subject area

14. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Other Web content may be invisible to your search engine: Files not written in html (some search engines can locate alternate formats) Sites requiring a login, like the free New York Times Book Review Longer files with content beyond the reach of robots or spiders Pages created by a search Private information owned by a company or organization Pages that are new or not frequently linked to

15. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Some search tools for the Invisible Web Invisible Web Directory http://invisible-web.net/ http://invisible-web.net/ CompletePlanet http://www.completeplanet.com/index.asp http://www.completeplanet.com/index.asp Incy Wincy http://www.incywincy.com/ http://www.incywincy.com/ OAIster Search Interface http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/index.html http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/index.html Pinakes Subject Launchpad http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

16. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. And... The Invisible Web also includes subscription, or proprietary databases!

17. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Presenting: The subscription databases available to you here at school and through passwords at home!!!

18. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. [Insert icons, links, descriptions of your favorite subscription databases in the next few slides!]

19. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. This is the good stuff Ignoring these databases is like asking your folks to get premium cable and watching basic cable stations all the time. It’s a real waste!

20. From: Valenza, Joyce K. (1998). Power Tools recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for your school Library Information Program. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Any questions?