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Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching   |
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 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
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
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. |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
D-Lib
September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
George R. Plosker |
Conducting User Surveys: An Ongoing Information Imperative Remaining relevant to users is critical to library survival. What better way both to ascertain what users desire and to inform them of capabilities they are unaware of or don't use? Practical tips and suggestions on how to go about doing such a survey |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2009
Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
Searcher
May 2010
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2012
Cindy Shamel |
Thriving in the Age of Empowered End Users: A Panel Discussion at SLA As librarians and information professionals, we have an excellent track record for adapting to the ever-changing industry landscape. |
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. |
Searcher
August 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - A Great Idea!! The Google Custom Search Engine lets knowledgeable users identify the sites and/or search strategies that they know will retrieve high relevance, high quality content matching the interests of their user communities. |
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. |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Searcher
January 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk. |
D-Lib
April 2006
Lorcan Dempsey |
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Libraries collectively manage a long tail of research, learning and cultural materials. However, we need to do more work to make sure that this long tail is directly available to improve the work and lives of our users. |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Information Today
May 2003 |
Computers in Libraries 2003 It's always interesting to see how the "hot technologies" change from year to year at Information Today, Inc.'s annual Computers in Libraries conference. |
D-Lib
June 2003
Kenney et al. |
Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers This paper presents the results of a modest study to compare and contrast its digital reference services with those of Google Answers. The study provided an opportunity for librarians to gain insights into how Google's approach to service development and delivery has made it so attractive. |
Information Today
May 2002
Ana Arias Terry |
Ninth National PLA Conference The Public Library Association, an organization with more than 9,000 members, hosted nearly 7,900 participants and 400 exhibitors at its national conference in Phoenix. I found the programs educational and the general session keynote speech an unexpected treat... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
Information Today
August 2001
Marshall Breeding |
IOLS Conference Morphs into E-Libraries While tradition and continuity are important, conferences need to evolve over time if they are to remain relevant... |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
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... |
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. |
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
October 2007
Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today
December 2000
Tom Hogan |
IT Interview: Jay Jordan Settles In at OCLC Jay Jordan became president and CEO of OCLC about 2 years ago, following the retirement of K. Wayne Smith, who had achieved living legend status during his 10-year tenure---a tough act to follow... |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010 |
Correspondence Letters from SLA's CEO and a Searcher-reading SLA member about a recent article and Searcher's Voice column, respectively, on matters concerning the Special Libraries Association. |
D-Lib
April 2000
Suzanne Cohen, John Fereira, Angela Horne, Bob Kibbee, Holly Mistlebauer, & Adam Smith |
MyLibrary: Personalized Electronic Services in the Cornell University Library Library users who are Web users expect customization and interactivity. MyLibrary is a Cornell University Library initiative to provide numerous personalized library services to Cornell University students, faculty, and staff. |
Information Today
June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
August 2002
Paula J. Hane |
InfoToday 2002 Context and convergence were popular topics at this New York information industry event. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Searcher
August 2002
Carol Tenopir |
Educating Tomorrow's Information Professionals Today It is a great time to enter the information professions, but one that poses challenges for LIS schools and employers, as a new generation of information professionals comes on the scene and prepares to tackle jobs in a variety of environments. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2000
William Y. Arms |
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation? |
Searcher
January 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect. |
D-Lib
December 2003
Connaway & Lawrence |
Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study The research reported in this article is an attempt to identify resource allocations for an all-paper library and the all-digital library that provides ejournals, eBooks, electronic maps, and digital audio, video, and images, based on information gathered from a group of research librarians. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Information Today
January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Searcher
March 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - To the Ozone and Beyond In the course of research for an article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged. |
D-Lib
December 2001 |
Clips & Pointers The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections... Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits... Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment... Resources for Professional Education & Grant Writing... etc. |
D-Lib
November 2001
Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library... |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
