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Searcher
December 2002
Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license.   |
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
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? |
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
February 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage. |
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? |
Searcher
April 2001
Barbara Quint |
Vendor Knowledge Management Even intermediary searchers these days find themselves doing primarily, if not exclusively, Web-based searching. So how does the dot-com burnout affect us? Well, it increases the critical need for knowledgeable and aggressive vendor management... |
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. |
Searcher
March 2009
Mary Ellen Bates |
Living Large in Lean Times As an independent information professional and a former special librarian, I have gone through several cycles of economic downturn and recovery. |
Searcher
Barbara Quint |
Skydiving In a sense, we professional searchers are a victim of our success. For years, we have urged the world to go online. Now the world has done so. So who needs us to tell them? And who needs us to conduct their searches any more? |
Information Today
April 2001
Barbara Quint |
Possible-Recession Planning: Part Two What would this mean for information professionals and their vendors? At first glance, one can clearly see the ouch factor for already imperiled corporate and institutional librarians... |
Searcher
December 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What Is the Question? It seems these days that article after article, commentary after commentary, even blog after blog keeps asking and answering questions on the future of libraries, librarians, and information professionals. |
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
June 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Critic Insuring data quality requires constant monitoring. |
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
May 2004
Nancy Garman |
Where in the World Fall 2004 offers lots of conference choices for info pros and librarians: Information Architecture... Internet Librarian International... From Search to Research... KMWorld & Intranets 2004... etc. |
Searcher
June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light? |
Searcher
May 2002
Barbara Quint |
Light a Candle The absence of easily and universally accessible contact information on Web sites is more than an inconvenience to users. In e-commerce dealings, the absence can be a deal breaker. Users start to worry about why this vendor won't supply the most basic information about itself... |
Searcher
October 2002
Barbara Quint |
Critical Conditions Technological advances in delivering information relevant and sufficient to serve client needs work best when information professionals assume the driver's seat. |
Searcher
August 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Winds of Change New technological innovations make it easier for librarians to take charge of data dissemination, but first they need to learn a few computing skills. |
Information Today
August 3, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Library Reference Services Are on an Info Quest The patrons of approximately 50 libraries from all over the U.S. are now able to text a question from their mobile phones to 309-222-7740 and a "real, live librarian" will respond within minutes. |
