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Searcher
June 2012
Barbara Quint |
The Doctor Is In Now that everyone's an end-user searcher, now that intermediated searching is such a rarity, what has happened to the reference interview?   |
Searcher
April 2001
Barbara Quint |
Vendor Knowledge Management Even intermediary searchers these days find themselves doing primarily, if not exclusively, Web-based searching. So how does the dot-com burnout affect us? Well, it increases the critical need for knowledgeable and aggressive vendor management... |
Searcher
July 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Elusive Un-Client Now that online information has moved so many of the tasks formerly performed as intermediated searches to end users, professional searchers have the time to pursue new opportunities for service. |
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
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Cuddly Caveats One should always remember to observe the niceties in dealing with people. Wouldn't you say? Don't you agree? Is it not so? Niceties are particularly important when one has some negative information to impart. Information professionals face this situation every day. |
Searcher
April 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - `Look, Ma, No Hands!!' Consumer-based information professionals will blend services from multiple suppliers and educate clients both in how to search effectively themselves and how to recognize when they need the help of professional searchers. |
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? |
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... |
Searcher
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. |
Searcher
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Money Searching Have info pros become a niche profession, restricted to collectors of odd services -- like personal valets or nannies? |
Information Today
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Over Our Dead Bodies When it comes to the information professional market, there's at least one eternal truth: Info pros support good data, even when it's not to their advantage. |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Think Like a Searcher The double-digit increase in online search activity marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Internet consumer behavior. |
Searcher
Barbara Quint |
Skydiving In a sense, we professional searchers are a victim of our success. For years, we have urged the world to go online. Now the world has done so. So who needs us to tell them? And who needs us to conduct their searches any more? |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library In an end-user searching world, traditional information industry firms can no longer rely on professional searchers serving as their early-warning system. The firms may have to do more in-house technical checking and build in more protective procedures to avoid such glitches... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Searcher
March 2002
Barbara Quint |
Guilt and Money As a professional searcher, it is my job to ensure that the client gets value received for their information dollar through the acquisition of the most relevant, accurate, and authoritative information available at the best possible price/time payment... |
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? |
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. |
Searcher
May 2002
Barbara Quint |
Light a Candle The absence of easily and universally accessible contact information on Web sites is more than an inconvenience to users. In e-commerce dealings, the absence can be a deal breaker. Users start to worry about why this vendor won't supply the most basic information about itself... |
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. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2012
Cindy Shamel |
Thriving in the Age of Empowered End Users: A Panel Discussion at SLA As librarians and information professionals, we have an excellent track record for adapting to the ever-changing industry landscape. |
D-Lib
May 2000
Lawrence Rudner |
Who Is Going to Mine Digital Library Resources? And How? As use of the Internet grows as a research tool, patrons have become increasingly less dependent on librarians and other expert intermediaries. Examining the quality of on-line searches, the author argues that researchers and other internet users do not look for and hence do not find the best resources. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Marydee Ojala |
ONLINE's Got a Brand New Tag: Exploring Technology & Resources A publication for information professionals changes its tag line to include technology and resources. |
Searcher
June 2001
Seymour Satin |
Negotiating: From First Contact to Final Contract The information professional's job description changes so rapidly from day to day, it's hard to keep up. From researcher to Web designer to information guru, the latest skill set all information professionals need is how to negotiate... |
Information Today
August 4, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
Searcher
February 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 9, 2007
Davis & Malhotra |
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations Family relationships are complicated, even more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2011
Eli Goodman |
Q&A Search: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How Each of these question search terms tell their own story. A look at why the consumer experience on your website, and the ensuing return visitation if satisfied, is so important in the Q&A space. |
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. |
Information Today
August 18, 2003
Barbara Quint |
CAS Pursues Patent Searching Market with Science IP Chemical Abstracts Service has long had a custom search service available to do intermediated searches, primarily sophisticated searching of chemical files. Now, CAS has re-named and re-targeted its custom search service to focus on patents, both within and outside the chemical field. |
Searcher
Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
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... |
Searcher
August 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - 'Concierge' Librarian We may face competition from other specialist information professionals, but maybe the enemy will be us or at least someone we can hire. It's the information profession we are defending, not just librarians. |
Searcher
February 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - New Platforms No platform -- new or old, no marketing policy -- end-user or enterprise -- should ever prevent someone from getting the information they want. |
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. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Dialog Begins New Platform Rollout; New ProQuest Platform Begins Preview Period Since the acquisition of Dialog 2 years ago by ProQuest, customers of the Dialog and DataStar services have been keeping a close watch to see what would happen. |
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... |
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... |
