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Information Today April 9, 2007 |
Thomson Gale Introduces Demographic Tool for Libraries Thomson Gale has introduced a new online resource called DemographicsNow Library Edition that is designed to offer public and academic libraries an affordable geographic business-intelligence solution.  |
Information Today March 1, 2012 |
New Mapping Capabilities Enhance BusinessDecision CIVICTechnologies, a provider of geographic information system data and market segmentation solutions to libraries, announced a major mapping enhancement that allows public and academic library users to generate detailed and highly visual maps.  |
Searcher February 2002 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Digital Government: Digital Tools for the Electronic Dissemination of Government Information Both FirstGov.gov and American FactFinder are laudable and impressive efforts to bring citizens together with their government using the Web and are positive examples of our taxpayers' dollars at work...  |
Searcher June 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
The U.S. Census bureau in the 21st Century In order to learn more about access and distribution of the Census, I sent surveys to two librarians associated with the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the ALA. While these librarians could not speak for GODORT, they presented some interesting perspectives...  |
Information Today January 27, 2015 |
Gale Introduces New Apps for Analytics on Demand Gale, part of Cengage Learning, added three apps to Analytics on Demand, its Big Data analytics solution for public libraries.  |
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...  |
Information Today October 7, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale ReferenceLink Brings Dialog Back to Public/Academic Library Market Thomson Corp.'s Gale Group subsidiary has a strong presence in the public and academic library markets -- markets that Dialog Corp., another Thomson subsidiary, has generally abandoned for years. Dialog's data is now coming back, but will be supplied and supported by Gale.  |
Information Today June 30, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis Moves Into the Public Library Market In what has to be viewed as a surprisingly low-key launch for a product in a brand new market, LexisNexis rather quietly announced its new Library Express service.  |
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.  |
Information Today February 3, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Update on Gale -- Mobile, Global, and In Context At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting, I caught up with Nader Qaimari, senior vice president, marketing, Cengage Learning, to talk about recent developments at Gale and get a peek at some forthcoming products.  |
Information Today May 17, 2012 |
Wolper to Distribute Gale Products to Special Library Market Wolper, the first subscription agency to sell Gale products, will expand distribution of key resources by offering them to libraries and individuals within corporations, medical and healthcare facilities, government agencies, and nonprofit institutions.  |
Information Today July 9, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Gale Pushes Forward With More `Power to the User' Key enhancements include more customization options, more advanced searching options, enhanced document display, and better navigation.  |
Information Today March 19, 2012 |
Gale Aims to Transform the Online Library Experience With Gateways Designed to represent the unique way in which a community interacts with its public library, Gale Gateways bring together thematic products and services to provide an organized approach to help patrons find and use information.  |
Information Today October 16, 2000 Barbara Quint |
InfoTrac OneFile Gale Group's InfoTrac OneFile Creates Web-Based Periodical Collection for Libraries...  |
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 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 June 28, 2012 |
Gale to Bring National Geographic Treasures to Libraries Gale and the National Geographic Society, one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, announced an extended agreement to create additional library products as part of a new product suite, National Geographic Virtual Library.  |
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 April 11, 2011 |
Gale Offers Free Access to Resources During National Library Week Gale is offering free access to six online resources for use by any library. Free access runs through National Library Week, from April 10 to April 24, 2011.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Rose Holley |
Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries Trove contains metadata for millions of freely accessible items, from more than 1,000 contributing institutions. The focus is on Australia and Australians.  |
Information Today March 12, 2012 |
CIVICTechnologies Launches CommunityConnect CommunityConnect is a SaaS solution that helps public libraries knowledgeably allocate money for resources, services, and collection development by predicting people's needs and interests, neighborhood by neighborhood.  |
D-Lib May 2004 |
Spatial Data Infrastructures and Digital Libraries: Paths to Convergence In a knowledge based economy, the effective use of geographic information (GI) is of critical importance (including a wide range of spatially referenced or referenceable resources).  |
Information Today September 30, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLC's netLibrary Gale Group, a business unit of Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large collection of its reference material available to online library patrons through netLibrary.  |
Information Today January 24, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc.  |
Information Today April 1, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale Group, Dialog Announce Library Marketing Alliance Two Thomson Corp. subsidiaries, Gale Group and Dialog Corp., have announced that they will begin a comprehensive, long-term joint-marketing effort designed to reach the academic and public library markets worldwide...  |
Searcher June 2002 David Mattison |
Counting heads Around the World The Genealogy of International Census databases, part 1...  |
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.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 James Ghaphery |
My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation My Library is a personalization tool that allows the library user to consolidate frequently used library resources and services. Since 1998, My Library has been available as a web page to users of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.  |
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.  |
Information Today June 28, 2010 Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment.  |
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.  |
Information Today July 7, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
Digital Magazine Services for Your Library This Summer The following services help libraries offer e-magazines to their patrons. Read on to compare their features and for a sneak peek of what they're doing next.  |
Searcher January 2003 David Mattison |
Counting Heads Around the World The Genealogy of international Census Databases, Part II: Canada  |
D-Lib March 2003 Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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Gale Introduces New Mobile Apps for AccessMyLibrary Rather than sifting through internet sites that aren't always reliable, AccessMyLibrary apps allow students and patrons instant access to credible library reference sources in seconds.  |
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.  |
Information Today March 20, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest OCLC PICA Expands Open WorldCat for Europe... New Social Services Directory Available Online... etc.  |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations...  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K.  |
D-Lib June 2004 Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet .  |
Information Today May 29, 2007 |
Morningstar.com Library Edition Enhanced Morningstar has added several new features and improved others on Morningstar.com Library Edition, an online database created exclusively for libraries and their users.  |
Information Today July 7, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services.  |
Information Today April 30, 2012 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms."  |
D-Lib May 2004 Michael F. Goodchild |
The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Why the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was established, how it progressed, and how the vision of ADL continues to evolve.  |