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ONLINE Jan./Feb. 2007 Marydee Ojala |
Time for an Anniversary Party The information professionals' use of online technologies and electronic content predates the personal computer and the World Wide Web.  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Expect the Unexpected Leaving ourselves open to serendipitous results, not restricting our searches to where we think the answer is, and relying on our instincts, not just logic, are important information professional behaviors.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Talk About My Generation Let's not have age wars interfere with the basic mission of the information professional--getting information to the people that need it, when they need it, and in the form they need it. Whatever their generation may be.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2007 Marydee Ojala |
Silos, Us, Them, and User-Generated Content Despite our best efforts, information silos are likely to continue, and users, whether they generate content or not, will need our help to find what they need in whatever silo it's stored.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2010 MaryDee Ojala |
Past, Present, and Future of Online A fundamental shift, from forcing users to change their behavior so they conform with system requirements to information professionals adapting user behavior as the norm and altering products and services to them, is happening in the present.  |
ONLINE Marydee Ojala |
Search Is Not Static Since search is not static, information professionals should strive to understand the changes, evaluate their benefits (or detriments), and devise search strategies to accommodate them.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2007 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Dangerous Assumptions When searching, even information professionals who should know better sometimes assume.  |
Searcher October 2001 Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines...  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both.  |
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?  |
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.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2005 Marydee Ojala |
All Generalizations Are False, Including This One A look at popular generalizations regarding librarians, blogs and more.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Marydee Ojala |
Information Professionals as Technologists It's the combination of people and technological knowledge that will further our success as technologists.  |
CRM November 2013 Patrick Gibbons |
Hungry for Customer Intelligence Customer experience professionals must satisfy appetites company wide.  |
Searcher February 2002 Barbara Quint |
Google: (v.) How long before the executives at Google.com hear the verb "to google" used around the old water cooler or see it written in print? Will they —-- like Xerox Corporation or Coca Cola Inc. before them —-- initiate a campaign of lawsuits to protect their brand name?  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2007 Marydee Ojala |
Making Sense of Search Has search really become irrelevant? How do we, as information professionals, make sense of search?  |
Information Today March 25, 2010 |
Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection.  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 Marydee Ojala |
Search Soirees I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2006 Marydee Ojala |
Journeys and Transformations It's important for information professionals to focus on the possibilities for transformation that exist in their milieus.  |
IndustryWeek December 16, 2010 |
Quality Pros' Salaries Edge Up The overall average salary for U.S. full-time quality professionals in 2010 is $85,289.  |
Information Today September 29, 2015 |
Spiceworks Offers Concierge Service This is a free, personalized resource for helping IT professionals manage their projects of any size and at any phase.  |
Information Today December 1, 2008 |
Free Resource--Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine has launched online and is freely available in beta. More than 650 world experts have provided a definitive resource on the latest therapeutic options in women's medicine.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Homepage: Empowering Researchers Putting powerful information tools in the hands of millions of Office 2003 users raises the possibility that there are no more "end users," that we're all researchers now.  |
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.  |
CIO December 21, 2012 Anita Bruzzese |
How IT Pros Can Improve Their Interpersonal Skills IT professionals can improve their ability to communicate with business colleagues by participating in interdepartmental meetings, moving into business units and joining Toastmasters.  |
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2008 Cory Levine |
Finding Qualified Tech Professionals Is Difficult New survey finds that in areas like Web development, database management, wireless networking and applications engineering, qualified professionals are in short supply.  |
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?  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2012 Marydee Ojala |
Value, Vision, and Big Data Librarians understood Big Data before Big Data was cool -- and before it gained such popularity. Information professionals must seize these opportunities and convince those outside the profession that we bring significant value to the Big Data world.  |
Searcher January 2007 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Help! How do you move commercial Internet organizations to improve what's being offered for free?  |
Searcher October 2001 Barbara Quint |
The Blame Game A young, healthy woman died this year because of a poor literature search. Whose fault was it? And, more important, is she the first and the last?  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Ownership, Access, Retrieval, and Sharing Today, it's about sharing. Collaboration tools are in vogue. Online discussion lists and blogs encourage the sharing of thoughts, opinions, expertise, and even links to journal articles.  |
Global Services November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Buy-side Sourcing Careers The real change between now and 2010 for outsourcing professionals is likely to be less in terms of what they do, and more in terms of the recognition of their role and its importance.  |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement.  |
Food Processing September 2013 Larry Bagan |
How Food and Beverage Industry Professionals Consume Media Industry professionals seek pertinent information for solutions and reward media that fulfill specific needs.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Information, Short and Sweet Counterbalancing the "large" of popular culture are the "small" of instant analysis, 90-second sound bites, and in-depth reports that last all of 2 minutes. Should information professionals worry about research being reduced to the bare-bones minimum?  |
Information Today July 12, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces Energy & Power Source The database is designed to support the informational needs of energy and power industry professionals at all levels as well as academic researchers.  |
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 October 1, 2015 |
IEEE Creates Networking and Collaboration Tool Suite IEEE introduced IEEE Collabratec, a suite of online tools designed to help global technology professionals network, collaborate, create, and find new career opportunities from a centralized hub.  |
Searcher February 2001 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2013 Charles R. Chaffin |
Making the Case for CFP Standards While the planning profession has evolved considerably, there is still work to be done.  |
Searcher June 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Critic Insuring data quality requires constant monitoring.  |
Fast Company May 2000 Gina Imperato |
Nerds Need Apply The scoop on five nerd sites for jobs, IT news, etc.  |
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?  |
CIO September 28, 2011 Rick Swanborg |
CIOs Need a New Generation of Business Problem-Solvers A company's capacity for innovative, cost-effective IT depends on up-and-coming leaders who understand people, processes and technology.  |
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...  |
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.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Unusual Power Web Searching Commands These are tools that you may never use or may only try once in a year of searching. But for those who like to dig deeper, who seek the hard-to-find information nuggets, using these commands can help you mine the Internet for information in ways that others will never consider.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Words to the Wise The strain of finding just the right word, whether it's for an article or a search statement, is not the most satisfying of endeavors. In fact, it can be hugely frustrating. Sometimes it's not as enjoyable as we'd like.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2009 Pamela Rollo |
Disruption and Vision: Allies of Innovation In this Dickensian year, some information professionals are indeed finding a silver lining, deciding it is time to innovate, to take advantage of the rifts in the status quo, to leave old practices behind, and to improvise.  |