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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...  |
ONLINE May 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this....  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides.  |
Information Today March 13, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Librarians' Internet Index Faces 50 Percent Budget Cut... EBSCO Publishing Introduces Literary Reference Center... RLG Announces ArchiveGrid... etc.  |
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.  |
D-Lib January 2000 David S. Carter |
The Internet Public Library ...The IPL has as its purpose to challenge and redefine the roles and significance of libraries in a distributed and digital world....  |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories.  |
AskMen.com January 31, 2001 Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time...  |
ONLINE July 2000 Chris Sherman |
Humans Do It Better: Inside the Open Directory Project many who take on the daunting task of cataloging the Web find themselves hopelessly ensnared. The crew of the Open Directory Project (ODP) has avoided this unfortunate fate, and in the process have seen their efforts gain an unprecedented acceptance.  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching  |
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library.  |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2000 |
Yahoo Changes Listings Significant changes to the look and functionality of Yahoo are few and far between, which can be a relief given how some other search engines can seem to be constantly altering themselves....  |
D-Lib November 2001 John C. Matylonek |
Organizing Ready Reference and Administrative Information with the Reference Desk Manager As reference desk responsibilities become increasingly complex and communication becomes more problematic, a web database to collect and manage this non-academic, local information can be very useful...  |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries.  |
Information Today October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation.  |
Information Today September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface.  |
Information Today January 24, 2008 Barbara Quint |
"Hey, Buddy! Want to Read A Good Book?" Cengage Gale's Books & Authors Despite the rise of recommendation engines on every online bookstore site, readers' advisory services still persist as a basic function of public library reference operations.  |
Searcher August 2002 Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target.  |
Information Today February 19, 2009 |
WebJunction Offers Guide to Library Management Competencies WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, to help library managers be more successful in their work.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2002 |
Library of Congress Launches International Resources Guide The Library of Congress has launched a new online international project called Portals to the World, a guide to Internet resources dealing with the countries and regions of the world...  |
Searcher May 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print.  |
Searcher October 2002 Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching  |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology.  |
D-Lib October 2000 John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems...  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking.  |
PC Magazine February 26, 2009 Neil Randall |
Windows 7 Libraries Before your new operating system can be useful, you need to understand how it organizes your data.  |
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.  |
Information Today October 2000 |
brarydog.net Launches Web Portal for Students The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC) has announced the launch of brarydog, a gateway to the Web that's designed especially for students...  |
Information Today September 4, 2007 |
Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources.  |
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.  |
Information Today March 18, 2010 |
Credo Reference Links Up With EasyBib.com With all the databases, websites, and print sources available, compiling research, writing a paper, and citing resources can be difficult and time-consuming for many students.  |
Search Engine Watch April 4, 2000 |
Google Adds Directory Users continue to rave about the quality of Google's search results, and that's testimony that its link analysis system works well at delivering relevant information. Now Google is applying link analysis in a new way, to the human powered information of the Open Directory.  |
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.  |
Searcher August 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Fear of Success There is terror that haunts the careers of so many librarians, the notion that some promotional effort, some marketing strategy designed to prove the library's worth will actually succeed and end up putting unendurable pressure on finite library resources.  |
Search Engine Watch August 16, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Who's Who in Social Search Many players, big and small, are working in the social search space. Here's a look at who's doing what to harness the power of human beings in improving search.  |
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 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.  |
PC World September 1, 2000 Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods....  |
Information Today February 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
Five Librarian Bloggers to Follow If you already know about these passionate authorial librarians, read on for some insight into why they started their blogs and what advice they'd give to those thinking about blogging.  |
Information Today March 8, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Pursues Invisible Web Content for Its Search Engine Having launched a major challenge to Google's dominance of the Web search engine field Yahoo! has now added a Content Acquisition Program that offers enhanced coverage to both commercial and noncommercial data sources.  |
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 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.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 25, 2010 Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally.  |
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do?  |
D-Lib January 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Making Good Use of Digital Library Content and Services A description of changes that have occurred over the past few years in the information center of one research organization.  |
ONLINE July 2000 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Altavista integrates OpenDirectory and Looksmart; Excites launches Photo Search; Google adds new directory, several new features; Inktomi extracts 5x10^6 record GEN3 database; etc.  |
Information Today September 4, 2014 |
GPO Designates First Digital-Only FDLP Member Sitting Bull College Library became the first digital-only member of the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library Program.  |
Information Today February 2006 K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship.  |
Information Today July 21, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink.  |