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D-Lib June 2003 Miller et al.	Understanding the International Audiences for Digital Cultural Content Building upon earlier meetings in London and Washington, DC, members of the Cultural Content Forum gathered earlier this year in the Italian town of Pistoia. Participants explored ongoing work to better understand audiences for online cultural content.
Information Today June 9, 2003 Barbara Quint	LexisNexis Extends and Expands Answer Products LexisNexis' Enterprise and Library Division has announced an expanded and enriched Company Dossier product and a new Industry Dossier product. The new products meld data from numerous authoritative business reference sources to create reports formatted for use in major software, such as Excel.
Information Today June 9, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Readex to Create Digital Edition of U.S. Congressional Serial Set Early Americana aficionados and government documents librarians will especially have cause to celebrate the forthcoming release on the Web of a key historical government resource.
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google.
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Report Shows Confusion Over Paid Listings Expect to see the issue of how well, or poorly, search engine disclose paid content to come up this month. Reason? Consumer WebWatch will be issuing an "anthropological" report later this month showing confusion about disclosure of paid listings based on a study of 17 web surfers.
Search Engine Watch May 30, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Search Engine Disclosure Ratings In June 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued guidelines to US-based search engines about how they should disclose paid content to searchers. Periodically, Search Engine Watch assesses how well it believes search engines are meeting these guidelines.
Information Today June 2, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Seuss Hopes Northern Light will Rise and Shine Just 16 months after selling Northern Light Technologies (NL) to Divine, Inc. (in a stock deal said to be worth between $12 and $16 million), NL's former CEO, David Seuss, purchased the company back for just $81,000 at Divine's 26-hour marathon bankruptcy auction.
Information Today June 2, 2003 Barbara Quint	EBSCO A-to-Z Service Tracks Journal Access EBSCO, the world's largest subscription agency, has introduced a gateway service that helps librarians and their patrons identify titles to which a library's patrons have full-text access.
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 June 2003 Peter Jacso	Digital Facilitators Digital facilitators assist publishers in digitizing their publications for the Web. They may offer additional services, such as hosting the publishers' digital journal editions, conference proceedings, and monographs.
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