Subject Guides Think about which library you would call or visit for a particular question. An academic library would be your choice if you were researching the history of automobiles, but if you wanted a current car-buying guide, you'd call a public library. These are big sites that have nearly exhaustive links to all sorts of places on the web arranged by subject. These are the overused database search engines that try to find every reference to a particular item anywhere on the net.
Single engines are standalone sites.
MetaCrawler parcels your query out to several single engines and then assembles the results. For Novices Skillman Library internet novices guide Maintained by Therese Heidenwolf, reference librarian. Patrick Crispen's Home Page , home of the Internet Roadmap Workshop, Roadmap96, and TourBus. The goal is to provide novices with an easy onramp to the information superhighway.