[Asis-l] New Book and Congrats to Amanda Spink and her co-author

[Richard Cox]

Congratulations to Amanda Spink on Web Search book!

Amanda Spink of the School of Information Sciences at the University of
Pittsburgh recently published the new book:
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Kluwer Academic Publishers).

The book provides a valuable synthesis of Web search research including
the
technological, social, organizational, human information behavior, and
human
computer interaction context of Web search.

Here is the publisher's blurb:

Web Search: Public Searching of the Web, co-authored by Drs. Amanda Spink
and Bernard J. Jansen, is one of the first manuscripts that address the
human - system interaction of Web searching in a thorough and complete
manner. The authors provide an examination of Web searching from multiple
levels of analysis, from theoretical overview to detailed study of term
usage, and integrate these different levels of analysis into a coherent
picture of how people locate information on the Web using search
engines.Drawing primarily on their own research and work in the field, the
authors present the temporal changes in, the growth of, and the stability
of how people interact with Web search engines. Drs. Spink and Jansen
present results from an analysis of multiple search engine data sets over
a six year period, giving a firsthand account of the emergence of Web
searching. They also compare and contrast their findings to the results of
other researchers in the field, providing a valuable bibliographic
resource.This research is directly relevant to those interested in
providing information or services on the Web, along with those who
research and study the Web as an information resource. Graduate students,
academic and corporate researchers, search engine designers, information
architects, and search engine optimizers will find the book of particular
benefit.

Richard J. Cox
Professor
Department of Library and Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Voice:  412-624-3245
FAX:    412-648-7001
e-mail: rcox at mail.sis.pitt.edu
homepage: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/~rjc