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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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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
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
Jul/Aug 2003
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice: IPI? Yippee! The future for librarians and information professionals. 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
February 2003
Barbara Quint
The L-Word Technical service librarians have tales of patrons in awe of their ability to capture a book lost to the ages, to discover the unknown gems that completed the perfect bibliography. 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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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
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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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December 2008
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - What Is the Question? It seems these days that article after article, commentary after commentary, even blog after blog keeps asking and answering questions on the future of libraries, librarians, and information professionals. 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
Searcher
February 2007
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries... 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
October 2002
Barbara Quint
Critical Conditions Technological advances in delivering information relevant and sufficient to serve client needs work best when information professionals assume the driver's seat. mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
November 2000
Bob Ainsbury & Michelle Futornick
The Revenge of the Library Scientist Business professionals would be surprised at just how suited librarians are to the dot com world... mark for My Articles similar articles
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June 2006
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. mark for My Articles similar articles
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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
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
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching mark for My Articles similar articles
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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
August 2002
Barbara Quint
CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc. 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
Information Today
April 2001
Barbara Quint
Possible-Recession Planning: Part Two What would this mean for information professionals and their vendors? At first glance, one can clearly see the ouch factor for already imperiled corporate and institutional librarians... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
April 2011
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - The Lost Art of Sourcing Librarians and information professionals need to build or at least contribute to the building of advanced search engines that recommend the best information for specific tasks. 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
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
ONLINE
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
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
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
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
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
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February 2012
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage. mark for My Articles similar articles
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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
December 2000
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice: More or Less I'm not happy. And I don't know any professional searcher who is these days, at least not while we're practicing our profession. This whole information revolution thing is way out of hand. It's always too much or too little... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
December 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse
The 2001 Scoug Retreat Southern California Online Users Group's annual retreat is a unique professional experience. Participants include librarians, information professionals, database vendor staff, content specialists, independent information brokers, academics, and corporate types... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
February 2009
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - The Downs and Ups of Fear Librarians, libraries, and their vendors should join to create tools that can help people everywhere survive the hard times and get the recovery going. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Nancy K. Herther
Playing the Numbers: NISO/NASIG Focus On Best Practices for Library Usage Statistics The National Information Standards Organization, and the North American Serials Interest Group co-sponsored a webinar intended to "effectively understand and apply usage data," which is an important skill for librarians. 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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
May 19, 2011
Elsevier Launches Apps for Library Idea Challenge The international competition encourages librarians and information professionals to conceptualize solutions to the challenges that they and their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of information. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
June 25, 2007
Barbara Quint
OCLC Gets Sociable: New Social Networking Initiatives OCLC has nonetheless begun adding social networking features to its WorldCat.org site and redesigning WebJunction, its existing outreach and training service to librarians, for greater interactivity. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
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January 2002
Barbara Quint
Now or Never! This is the best chance librarians will ever have to break the chains that have bound them and their budgets. No one knows better than the wise information professional how inevitable the final victory of the Web is... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
March 2009
Mary Ellen Bates
Living Large in Lean Times As an independent information professional and a former special librarian, I have gone through several cycles of economic downturn and recovery. 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
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
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
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September 2011
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Have I Got a Deal for You? As volatile changes continue to rock the publishing world, librarians dealing with collection purchasing decisions are buffeted by new content delivery modes (ebooks are the latest storm center) and shifting revenue models. mark for My Articles similar articles