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September 2004
Coffman & Arret
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
August 2004
Coffman & Arret
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 1 Add it all up and one can see that virtual reference built on chat technology is a pretty expensive proposition. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
July 16, 2006
Paula J. Hane
OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
May 2010
Matarazzo & Pearlstein
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
May/Jun 2005
Marydee Ojala
All Generalizations Are False, Including This One A look at popular generalizations regarding librarians, blogs and more. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
July 5, 2005
Barbara Quint
OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
February 2007
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries... mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
March 28, 2013
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
April 2009
Barbara Quint
The News Hole Time to step up, info pros! You serve your community through library websites. Those websites should include a news service that keeps people informed on activities in and around the community. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
March 2001
Barbara Quint
On Myths: A Letter to Non-Subscribers As for that misty mystical myth of some Golden Age of Libraries where all truth was handmade and hand delivered and all patrons were gratefully enriched by the blessed hands of librarians scattering largesse throughout the land...pull the other one, I'm starting to walk funny... mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
March 2008
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Gerolimos & Konsta
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
October 11, 2004
Barbara Quint
All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web Excited by the pilot program, the management of the world's largest library vendor has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
January 2005
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! Whatever librarians and information professionals do to help the new services, make sure they know it's our help that brought it about. Copy them with information on what you're doing and what you need. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
February 21, 2008
Barbara Quint
Virtual Reference Service From GPO and Depository Libraries--GIO: Ask a Librarian A formal agreement between the U.S. Government Printing Office and a network of 20 depository libraries has relaunched and expanded the scope of a virtual reference service called Government Information Online. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
May 2008
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
September 2000
Barbara Quint
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
October 2007
Anna Gold
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
November 17, 2011
New Resources From NoveList to Connect Library Patrons to Services The NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
August 7, 2006
Barbara Quint
Amazon Library Processing Prepares Books for Library Shelves Now libraries can order books and other media, such as CDs and DVDs, from Amazon and receive the material ready to go from box to shelf. mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
November 5, 2012
Cindy Shamel
Internet Librarians--The Power to Transform Libraries The 16th annual Internet Librarian conference recently concluded in Monterey, California. More than 1,000 registrants and 215 speakers tackled the topic of the Transformational Power of Internet Librarians mark for My Articles similar articles