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Conveying the sense of research as an adventure, the Web content manager for a Canadian news broadcast moves from generalities to specifics of dotcom and non-dotcom searches. Nicely referenced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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• Introduction: What's It All About?(p. 7)
• Part I The Adventure of Research(p. 13)
• Chapter 1 The Great Game(p. 14)
• Chapter 2 The Journey Begins(p. 21)
• Chapter 3 Who, What, Where, When, and Why (Plus How)(p. 27)
• Chapter 4 The Matrix and the Nexus(p. 36)
• Chapter 5 Serendipity(p. 41)
• Chapter 6 Rashomon(p. 45)
• Chapter 7 Time Factors(p. 54)
• Part II Tools(p. 61)
• Chapter 8 Outlines and Chronologies(p. 62)
• Chapter 9 Tracking Characters(p. 68)
• Chapter 10 Online or Offline? Use Both(p. 75)
• Part III Mostly Online(p. 83)
• Chapter 11 Almost All You Need to Know About Internet Research(p. 84)
• Chapter 12 Taming a Search Engine(p. 90)
• Chapter 13 The State of the Search Engine(p. 98)
• Chapter 14 Advanced Search Toolbox(p. 108)
• Chapter 15 E-mail(p. 120)
• Chapter 16 Newsgroups and Discussions(p. 132)
• Chapter 17 Evaluation, Evaluation, Evaluation(p. 137)
• Chapter 18 Evaluation, Evaluation, Evaluation: Site Verification(p. 149)
• Part IV Mostly Offline(p. 157)
• Chapter 19 File It(p. 158)
• Chapter 20 People Who Need People(p. 168)
• Chapter 21 The Interview(p. 177)
• Chapter 22 The E-mail Interview(p. 197)
• Chapter 23 Books and Libraries(p. 204)
• Chapter 24 Archives(p. 220)
• Chapter 25 Freedom of Information(p. 233)
• Chapter 26 A Picture Is Worth...(p. 242)
• Chapter 27 A Mirror Up to Nature(p. 251)
• Afterword(p. 263)
• Appendix(p. 265)
• Notes(p. 267)
• Bibliography(p. 272)
• Index(p. 279)

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CHOICE Review

Rowland's book on the adventure of research is a pleasure to read. His premise is that creative research by journalists, scholars, dramatists, novelists, or anyone with a propensity for investigation has a common element. Research, he believes, tells a story: fiction or nonfiction, the underlying structure is the narrative, whatever postmodernism, which Rowland dismisses, may say. Pursuing research as a quest transforms information seekers into creative explorers--guides who leave coherent clues for others to follow. Rowland himself tells a good story, blending details from his reporting in Canada and the US with solid advice about working with librarians, archivists, and government bureaucrats. As a journalist he focuses on people, offering tips about tracking characters, conducting interviews, following discussion lists, and using e-mail and the Web to advantage. The book's layout, editing, and indexing suffer from camera-ready production, and Rowland gets some details wrong ("biography" and "history" are not narrower terms in Library of Congress subject headings). But the book is affordable and meant to be read and contemplated, not consulted as a reference work. It belongs in academic and public libraries, suitable for readers at every level of the research quest. P. E. Sandstrom; Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Robin Rowland is the Web Content Manager for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s prime time news broadcast, "The National." He also teaches at the Tyerson Polytechnic