Asked about bibliographic search skills for application I’m applying for a postdoctoral role in the UK, and I am asked to have ’bibliographic search skills’. I’m sort of at a loss as to what that means, specifically – does anyone know? I’m assuming it doesn’t just mean ‘can read a bibliography’. I have a Ph.D., so I’m sort of embarrassed not to know what this means, but there you go.
I would assume 'bibliographic search skills' means the ability to find appropriate literature 'from scratch' as @Tobias suggests. If that's the case, can I recommend a book that helped me with my literature searching, and can be read easily within a day:

Booth A, Papaioannou D &amp; Sutton A (2012) Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review. Sage Publications Limited.


It's written from a health science perspective, but I found it useful in the social science to identify search terms, databases, perform searches, and filter results.