Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 Kenning Arlitsch	Digitizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for a Full Color, Publicly Accessible Collection Aside from the intended audience of insurance companies, the maps have been of value to genealogists, demographers, environmentalists, urban planners, historians, and laypersons, and it is no surprise that attempts have been made in recent years to digitize the maps.
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.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002	In Brief IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Web Site Launched... OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data... ARCHway: Access to the UK's Best Archaeology Libraries and Their Journals... etc.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002	Clips and Pointers Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries... National Academies to Release First Phase of Counterterrorism Study This Summer... Proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Virtual Communities... etc.
Information Today July 15, 2002 Paula J. Hane	Verity Releases New Software with Pre-Built Taxonomy Option from LexisNexis The LexisNexis Content Organizer combines LexisNexis' pre-built taxonomies and concept definitions with Verity K2E's classification capabilities.
Information Today July 15, 2002 Barbara Quint	NTIS Provides Free/Cheap Electronic Delivery of Technical Reports The National Technical Information Service is the federal government's leading delivery outlet for scientific and technical reports, especially those produced under government contract. On its Web site, NTIS has begun electronic delivery of all its reports dating to 1997.
Information Today July 8, 2002 Paula J. Hane	AltaVista Launches AltaVista Prisma Technology AltaVista has announced the launch of AltaVista Prisma, a technology that aims to help users refine their queries and retrieve better search results.
Information Today July 8, 2002 Richard W. Wiggins	FTC Warns Search Engine Companies Responding to a 2001 accusation by a consumer watchdog group that search engine companies engaged in deceptive advertising by failing to clearly label favorable links on hit lists, the Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to seven companies suggesting that they alter their behavior.
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.
Searcher August 2002 Chris Dobson	Beyond the Information Audit Checking the health of an organization's information system.
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