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Searcher
June 2003
Bjorner & Ardito |
Online Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories The technology of early online was a confluence of systems, databases, and people. Although they worked together to grow a new industry, the individuals and companies instrumental in early online also competed with each other.   |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2005
Marydee Ojala |
Ownership, Access, Retrieval, and Sharing Today, it's about sharing. Collaboration tools are in vogue. Online discussion lists and blogs encourage the sharing of thoughts, opinions, expertise, and even links to journal articles. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Marydee Ojala |
ONLINE's Got a Brand New Tag: Exploring Technology & Resources A publication for information professionals changes its tag line to include technology and resources. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Marydee Ojala |
Search Soirees I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2012
Marydee Ojala |
Value, Vision, and Big Data Librarians understood Big Data before Big Data was cool -- and before it gained such popularity. Information professionals must seize these opportunities and convince those outside the profession that we bring significant value to the Big Data world. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2004
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Expect the Unexpected Leaving ourselves open to serendipitous results, not restricting our searches to where we think the answer is, and relying on our instincts, not just logic, are important information professional behaviors. |
Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
Information Today
June 2001 |
IT Report from the Field: The 15th Annual AIIP Conference The 15th Annual Association of Independent Information Professionals Conference was held April 19-22 in New Orleans. The theme for this year's conference, "Network in New Orleans," was quite appropriate... |
Searcher
January 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Help! How do you move commercial Internet organizations to improve what's being offered for free? |
Searcher
September 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Bob Ainsbury & Michelle Futornick |
The Revenge of the Library Scientist Business professionals would be surprised at just how suited librarians are to the dot com world... |
Searcher
December 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse |
The 2001 Scoug Retreat Southern California Online Users Group's annual retreat is a unique professional experience. Participants include librarians, information professionals, database vendor staff, content specialists, independent information brokers, academics, and corporate types... |
Information Today
February 11, 2002
Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
Information Today
September 4, 2007 |
Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Searcher
April 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Happening?!? Librarians need to make sure that everyone knows, wherever they live or work, that if you need to know anything, anything at all, you start with your librarian. |
Information Today
January 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Internet Librarian 2000 The 2000 edition of the fourth annual Internet Librarian conference convened November 5--9 in Monterey, California, the site of the first event, and drew 100 top companies to the exhibit hall, as well as over 2,100 attendees... |
ONLINE
Jan./Feb. 2007
Marydee Ojala |
Time for an Anniversary Party The information professionals' use of online technologies and electronic content predates the personal computer and the World Wide Web. |
Information Today
October 15, 2009 |
Dialog Reaches Out to Unemployed Librarians The company is waiving standard Dialog startup and service fees, offering free Dialindex service, and throwing in a 10% discount on Dialog usage to librarians and information |
Searcher
March 2011
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
Information Today
November 2000
Donald T. Hawkins |
Online World 2000-The End of an Era When Susan M. Klopper asked me to be one of the four panelists in the Schmoozin' with Susan: (W)Rap Session at the end of the Online World 2000 conference, I didn't know that it would be the last wrap session in the 22-year history of this event... |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Eugene Garfield Celebrates 75 Years ISI has announced that Eugene Garfield, founder and chairman emeritus of ISI, celebrated his 75th birthday at the company's headquarters in Philadelphia. Over 500 ISI employees and the staff from The Scientist, a news journal for life scientists, where Garfield serves as president and editor in chief, joined him... |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2010
Marydee Ojala |
Redefining Information In the digital age, information has escaped from the library. It's not on the shelves, neatly labeled by format. It's not contained by any specific device. It's on mobiles, embedded in social networks, and integral to websites. Search is the oxygen of today's information user. |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Searcher
April 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Success and Failure We librarians, we intermediary searchers, kept on amazing clients, one search at a time. We librarians kept pushing vendors to give us databases, not just print tools. |
Information Today
September 2000
Barbara Quint |
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. |
Searcher
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? |
Information Today
August 2000
Paula J. Hane |
IT Report from the Field: 21st National Online Meeting It's hard to believe that the National Online Meeting (NOM) celebrated its 21st year as one of the information industry's premier events |
Information Today
August 2002
Elisabeth Winter |
E-Libraries Comes into Its Own Pamela Cibbarelli served as E-Libraries conference chair, and as in past years her expertise brought diversity and timeliness to the slate of presentations. |
Searcher
February 2006
David Grossman |
What's Next Much of the compilation, organization, management, and dissemination of information is currently happening outside the walls of the traditional library and that this phenomenon will continue to proliferate. |
ONLINE
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
Searcher
August 2002
Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target. |
Searcher
October 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
D-Lib
May 2003
James W. Marcum |
Visions: The Academic Library in 2012 The future of the academic library is a topic of continuing concern for the profession, but usually the boundaries of projected visions are set firmly in the issues of the day. What means might be found to break open those constraints and encourage visions projected further into the future? |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002
James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. |
