Karen Markey

Karen Markey is a professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her experience with online searching began with the earliest commercial systems, Dialog, Orbit, and BRS, the first end-user systems, CD-ROMs and online catalogs, and includes todays open Web search engines and mostra altro proprietary systems for accessing databases of full texts, media, numeric, and spatial data. Since joining the faculty at Michigan in 1987, she has taught online searching to thousands of students in her schools library and information science program. Her research has been supported by the Council on Library Resources, Delmas Foundation, Department of Education, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Science Foundation, and Online Computer Library Center. She is the author of six books, more than a dozen major research reports, and more than 100 journal articles and conference proceedings papers. mostra meno