Foreword to the Revised Edition by Marilyn Lutzker
Foreword to the First Edition by Edward Sagarin
Preface
Introduction
Before You Start
Communication, Information, and Information Flow
Efficiency in Research
Bibliographic Searching
Using the Internet
Locating Information
The Library Catalog
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Annual Reviews
Indexes and Abstracts
Newsletters, Newspapers, and News Broadcasts
Documents, Reports, and Conference Proceedings
Statistics
Printed Bibliographies
Some Special Problems
Research in Legal Resources
Research in Forensic Science by Katherine B. Killoran
Historical Research with Primary Sources: Nineteenth-Century America
Resources for the Study of Criminal Justice in Other Countries
Appendixes, Glossary, and Indexes
Appendix A: Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings in Criminal Justice
Appendix B: Useful Directories
Appendix C: Selected Major Criminal Justice Commission Reports
Glossary
Author and Title Index
Internet Resources Index
Subject Index

BONNIE R. NELSON is Associate Librarian for Information Systems at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice library. With expertise in both criminal justice and computer information systems, she is the author of several articles and books on library resources and library automation.

Library research has changed dramatically since Marilyn Lutzker and Eleanor Ferrall's Criminal Justice Research in Libraries was published in 1986. In addition to covering the enduring elements of traditional research, this new edition provides full coverage of research using the World Wide Web, hypertext documents, computer indexes, and other online resources. It gives an in-depth explanation of such concepts as databases, networks, and full text, and the Internet gets a full chapter. The chapters on bibliographic searching, the library catalog, and comparative research are almost totally new, and chapters on indexes and abstracts, newsletters, newspapers and news broadcasts, documents, reports and conference proceedings, and statistics reflect the shift to computerized sources. The chapter on legal resources discusses the wealth of legal information available on the Internet. A new chapter on library research in forensic science corrects an omission from the first book.
With the growth of computerized indexes and the Internet, more and more researchers are admitting that they feel inadequate to the new tools. Librarians themselves are struggling to keep abreast of the new technology. This book will help students, practitioners, scholars, and librarians develop a sense of competency in doing criminal justice research.