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Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching   |
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. |
Information Today
December 10, 2015 |
Boopsie Adds Zinio Magazines to Library App Boopsie for Libraries integrated the ZINIO magazine service into its mobile platform as a service to give its library customers access to an additional 5,500 magazines |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
October 14, 2010 |
Routledge's Library and Information Science Journals Now on Facebook The Routledge Library and Information Science Facebook page now carries news and special offers from a comprehensive list of journals. |
ONLINE
March 2001
Marydee Ojala |
Distributed Librarianship A growing trend in librarianship is something I like to call "distributed librarianship." I base my definition loosely on distributed computing, where several computers are connected via a network to share aspects of tasks... |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
August 16, 2010 |
Convert to RFID Tags With Tech Logic's uTagIT The uTagIT system provides the convenience and ease of use to encode barcode numbers onto RFID tags. |
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. |
Information Today
October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
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. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
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... |
D-Lib
February 2009
Marcia A. Mardis |
Classroom Information Needs: Search Analysis from a Digital Library for Educators All too often, digital library developers create collections of resources in the absence of rigorous examinations of educator and learner needs. |
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? |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
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
September 4, 2007 |
Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources. |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
October 24, 2013
Marydee Ojala |
A Trenchant View of World War I With the digitization of 1,500 trench journals and unit magazines, ProQuest is filling a research gap by providing access to unique primary sources. |
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. |
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... |
Information Today
December 18, 2008
Barbara Quint |
"Hundreds of Titles," "Dozens of Publishers"--Magazines Going Into Google Book Search As Google Book Search turns more and more into what might be better named "Google Library" (or even "Everyone's Library"), it has expanded to include magazines. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2015
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial - Twenty Years and Counting The world of digital library research and practice has seen great advances since 1995 but much remains to be done. |
ONLINE
Jan./Feb. 2007
Nancy Garman |
That Was Then ... This Is Now Here are a few flashbacks to articles that appeared in a search magazine over the last 25 years. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Social Media, Information Seeking, and Generational Differences Older researchers worry that digital information-seeking behaviors, shaped by social media, will dilute rigorous research, yet they realize that new formats and sources greatly enrich available content. |
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. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2010
Marydee Ojala |
Redefining Information In the digital age, information has escaped from the library. It's not on the shelves, neatly labeled by format. It's not contained by any specific device. It's on mobiles, embedded in social networks, and integral to websites. Search is the oxygen of today's information user. |
Searcher
January 2003
Jessamyn West |
Google Answers Back Or How to Become an Ex Google Answers Researcher |
Information Today
September 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Full-Image Newspaper Collection Launches New Version... Readex Launches New Interface for Newspaper Collections... EOS International Adds FileTrail RFID Tracking... |
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? |
Information Today
May 30, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
First UK Survey of Academics 2012 Issued by Ithaka S+R The survey examines the attitudes and behaviors of researchers at academic institutions across the U.K. with regard to digital technologies, the internet, and open access. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance... The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet... Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools... Super Searchers on Madison Avenue |
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. |
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. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2003
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice: IPI? Yippee! The future for librarians and information professionals. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2005
Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
Information Today
February 19, 2009 |
WebJunction Offers Guide to Library Management Competencies WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, to help library managers be more successful in their work. |
Searcher
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. |
