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Searcher
December 2002
Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license.   |
Information Today
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Over Our Dead Bodies When it comes to the information professional market, there's at least one eternal truth: Info pros support good data, even when it's not to their advantage. |
Information Today
August 4, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
Searcher
October 2001
Barbara Quint |
The Blame Game A young, healthy woman died this year because of a poor literature search. Whose fault was it? And, more important, is she the first and the last? |
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? |
Searcher
March 2002
Barbara Quint |
Guilt and Money As a professional searcher, it is my job to ensure that the client gets value received for their information dollar through the acquisition of the most relevant, accurate, and authoritative information available at the best possible price/time payment... |
Information Today
June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Dialog: Predictions and Reactions With the sale of Dialog to ProQuest, the big questions remain. Can ProQuest do better than Dialog's previous owners? |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library In an end-user searching world, traditional information industry firms can no longer rely on professional searchers serving as their early-warning system. The firms may have to do more in-house technical checking and build in more protective procedures to avoid such glitches... |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Searcher
December 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Long View In a world where most people suffer from information overload and the price for ignorance continues to rise, imagine how useful it would be to scan curated results, stamped with the librarian's seal of approval. It's so obvious. |
Information Today
July 28, 2003
Marydee Ojala |
LexisNexis Nearing Completion on a New Platform LexisNexis has announced that it is "nearing completion" in its efforts to create a platform that will standardize the delivery of its legal, business, and news information using a single technology. |
Searcher
Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
Searcher
March 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - "Real-World" Products and Academic Decisions Any online research tool that has no off-campus existence must be suspect, definitely if the librarians can find competitively priced resources that come close to the same quality. |
Searcher
June 2012
Barbara Quint |
The Doctor Is In Now that everyone's an end-user searcher, now that intermediated searching is such a rarity, what has happened to the reference interview? |
Information Today
August 26, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Dialog Begins New Platform Rollout; New ProQuest Platform Begins Preview Period Since the acquisition of Dialog 2 years ago by ProQuest, customers of the Dialog and DataStar services have been keeping a close watch to see what would happen. |
Searcher
February 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain. |
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. |
Searcher
July 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Elusive Un-Client Now that online information has moved so many of the tasks formerly performed as intermediated searches to end users, professional searchers have the time to pursue new opportunities for service. |
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
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Money Searching Have info pros become a niche profession, restricted to collectors of odd services -- like personal valets or nannies? |
Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews Want to be a professional searcher, or at least have the skills of a pro? These books show you how. |
