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Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 |
Hardcopy Recommended Reading on the Technical Aspects of Librarianship  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on the Library Field A look at two books to help you find business information on the Web, a great student guide to Google, and a book for those techies looking to implement RDF.  |
ONLINE January 2001 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading This month, I focus on service, with a book to help you select and manage electronic resources, and one to improve your customer service. Then research secrets are revealed in the financial area with the latest Super Searchers book, and failures are avoided in the digital library initiatives...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation... The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology Is Transforming Work... The Practical Library Trainer... The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher... etc.  |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Newer, Fresher Google Hacks One of the best books about Google has just been updated with new content and useful tools that make it even easier to exploit the full power of the popular search engine.  |
Information Today April 22, 2002 Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy Recommended reading on webmastering, classification, and legal issues  |
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.  |
ONLINE May 2000 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy, Recommended Reading on Virtual Libraries Virtual libraries, digital libraries, hybrid libraries--whatever you call them, they're a part of our life. This month, we examine a collection of books to help you get or stay up-to-speed on the latest issues in cyber-librarianship....  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2003 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Readings on Digital Resources, the Internet Economy, and the Dangers of Cyberspace How to Build a Digital Library... The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk... Re-Thinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace... Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers... etc.  |
Information Today March 20, 2008 Michael LoPresti |
Google Books Reaches Out With New API Google announced the release of a new application programming interface (API) that enables external websites to connect directly to any of the texts in the Google Book Search index.  |
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 May/Jun 2002 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Innovation, Usability, Strategies, and Resources Leading for Innovation and Organizing for Results... Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-on Guide... Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Researchers... Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business Strategies for Every Budget...  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Wireless Networking Made Easy: Everything You Need to Know
to Build Your Own PANs, LANs, and WANs... PC Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer... etc.  |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.  |
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.  |
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.  |
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.  |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Paul Miller |
Coming Together Around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms To achieve the vision of Library 2.0, in which libraries become ever more relevant as visible and accessible providers of valuable content and context, many of the models in evidence today will require dramatic change.  |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Super Searchers on Madison Avenue In the high pressure world of advertising, researchers need to be both good and fast. Some of Madison Avenue's best information sleuths share their secrets.  |
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?  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.  |
Search Engine Watch April 5, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Hacking Google Maps If you like using Google Maps and want to a relatively easy way to get more out of the service, Google Maps Hacks makes an excellent addition to your hardcopy searching library.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Book reviews of: Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest... Web Search Garage: The Definitive Guide on How Best to Search the Internet by Tara Calishain... Google and Other Search Engines by Diane Poremsky... etc.  |
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.  |
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?  |
D-Lib February 2007 Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions.  |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.  |
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Book reviews of The Web Conferencing Book... The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers... The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication... A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976...  |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.  |
Search Engine Watch May 20, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Everything Google Underneath its simple, sparse interface, Google is loaded with useful tools and services, though they're not always easy to find. A new book How to do Everything with Google offers an insider's guide to maximizing the power of the search engine.  |
ONLINE November 2000 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy A look at a few books that define our progress into the digital age, covering the broad topics of digital libraries and organizing information. Then in cyberspace, we get inspiration by stories of folks on the Net, and learn how to get started in ecommerce ourselves...  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 George R. Plosker |
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians Does the word "library" adequately convey the utility and value of what librarians, and in this case, corporate or special librarians, contribute to their organizations?  |
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.  |
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.  |
Search Engine Watch May 4, 2005 Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services.  |
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.  |
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.  |
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Patriot Act in Libraries... Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers... The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources... etc.  |
Information Today October 27, 2003 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database.  |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.  |
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 June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library?  |
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.  |
Searcher April 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Great Equalizer Chatter about Google's library digitization project continues to fill the electronic conversations and trade press of librarians.  |