Fire Publications - Electronic Card Catalogs May Be the Best Place to Start Fire Search. Electronic Card Catalogs May Be the Best Place to Start Fire Search. Electronic Card Catalogs May Be the Best Place to Start Fire Search. Jason, N. H. Fire Findings, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1-3, Fall 1999.
Information is needed on a fire problem.
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.