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Online Searching, 4th ed.

Chapter 9BLS Search Example 1 Part 2: The Occupational Outlook Handbook

pp. 203 – 205

Librarian’s Guide to

Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

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Job outlook – and much more! – from the BLS’ Occupational Outlook Handbook Access from anywhere

on the BLS website

…or on the BLS homepage

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There are so many options; so many features and ways to get

into the content. It’s great but a little overwhelming-!

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But we know what occupation we’re interested in.

We could choose “Healthcare” and browse through the resulting list….

Ditto for “R” (for Registered) in the A-Z Index

Or… we could skip all the interesting things you might see as you browsed, and just search for it. (Boring, but efficient)

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Click! and…

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(partial version of the screenshot in the textbook) The main topic of interest is Outlook, so let’s take a

look at that tab.

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(click for graph)

Yes, if you start reading the material here at the OOH, you’ll find the reading level is – well – about high school level? Just remember: this information is for ALL the people, it needs to be accessible.

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Librarian’s Guide to Online Searching, 4th editionCultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

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