Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

My former boss, David Dodd, and his librarian wife Diana Spaulding have built a couple of Google custom searches for K-12 school research topics: one on American History and one on Islam.  You can read more about it on David’s blog, Librarian in Tie-Dye.  If you’re curious about how Google Custom Searches work, read this review on SearchEngineWatch by Chris Sherman.  This is a very interesting project–and a direction that libraries could take that I hadn’t thought too much of before.  Custom searches could go a great way toward helping our users get the most out of their web searching.