Greg R. Notess

Greg R. Notess is reference team leader and a professor at Montana State University. He has been writing, speaking, and consulting about Internet information resources and search engines since 1991 and about screencasting since 2005. A three-time Information Authorship award winner, he is the “On the Net” and “Search Engine Update” columnist for ONLINE. Greg is the author of several books, including Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers and the first three editions of Government Information on the Internet. An internationally known conference speaker on search engines and other Internet topics, he has spoken at conferences such as Internet Librarian, Online Information, Web Search University, the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, and international meetings in London, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Pretoria, Montreal, Copenhagen, Sydney, Zagreb, and several locations in India. He has consulted for several major (and minor) search engines and maintains Search Engine Showdown which reviews, compares, and analyzes web search tools. He also runs the LibCasting blog which focuses on screencasting and libraries.