- Author
- Jason, N. H.
- Title
- Electronic Card Catalogs May Be the Best Place to Start Fire Search. Part 1. Where Is the Fire Information?
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Fire Findings, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1-3, Fall 1999
- Keywords
- databases | fire research | fire protection engineering | fire departments | search engines | libraries
- Identifiers
- FIREDOC (http://fris.nist.gov); National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Library catalog (www.nfpa.org/Research/Library/; Federal Emergency Management Administration's (FEMA) National Emergency Training Center (NETC) card catalog (www.lrc.fema.gov); BFRL/NIST Web site (http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs); National Technical Information Services (NTIS) Web site (www.ntis.gov)
- Abstract
- Information is needed on a fire problem. The difficult part is how to start looking for some answers! The most common way is to ask a collague. If they don't have an answer, these days you might search the World Wide Web or post the question on a listserve. A more direct approach is to use a subject-oriented database and in our case that would be a bibliographic fire database. This paper will examine ways to use a bibliographic database and search engines, as well as the differences between the two methods of locating information.