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Jul/Aug 2011
Marydee Ojala
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. 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
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
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. 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
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
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Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching 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
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
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
Information Today
December 10, 2013
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010
Correspondence Letters from SLA's CEO and a Searcher-reading SLA member about a recent article and Searcher's Voice column, respectively, on matters concerning the Special Libraries Association. mark for My Articles similar articles
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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
February 2010
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Homecoming What drove me into severing my long membership with the Special Libraries Association was its decision to launch its second century by joining the opposition to Google Books. 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
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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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April 2004
Barbara Quint
Governance The concept of universal service to all has been the impossible dream of librarians. Now technology has brought us the opportunity to make that dream a reality. But our governance reins us in, holds us back, keeps us from reaching up and out to that grand goal. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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 2001
Wallace Koehler
Dot-Lib for Libraries -- Can It Happen? Ask ICANN If museums have their own gTLD, why not libraries? That's simple enough, but reaching that goal may be a bit more complex... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
September 2002
Barbara Quint
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
Searcher
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
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
Jul/Aug 2003
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice: IPI? Yippee! The future for librarians and information professionals. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
Searcher
February 2001
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain. mark for My Articles similar articles
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December 2009
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
June 17, 2010
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. mark for My Articles similar articles
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December 2012
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - The Long View In a world where most people suffer from information overload and the price for ignorance continues to rise, imagine how useful it would be to scan curated results, stamped with the librarian's seal of approval. It's so obvious. mark for My Articles similar articles
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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
February 11, 2002
Rebecca Lenzini
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... 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
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
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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
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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... 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
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
June 2001
Barbara Quint
Don't Burn Books! Burn Librarians!! A Review of Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper... 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
April 2006
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - What's Happening?!? Librarians need to make sure that everyone knows, wherever they live or work, that if you need to know anything, anything at all, you start with your librarian. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
March 2012
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Branding What does this have to do with the daily lives of librarians? We have serious branding problems. mark for My Articles similar articles
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
January 2001
Barbara Quint
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight? mark for My Articles similar articles