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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 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.
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.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Marydee Ojala	The HomePage: Disruptive? Who You Calling Disruptive? Disruptive technologies, those that require a complete rethinking of an existing business model, are endemic to the library and information world.
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 Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price	Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching
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 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 Jan/Feb 2011 Marydee Ojala	Phone Home Should information professionals worry about mobile devices? I should think not. Information professionals excel at adopting and adapting to new technologies to advance knowledge and share knowledge.
Registered Rep. November 27, 2013 John Kador	Ten Best Business Books of 2013 The WealthManagement.com list of the Ten Best Business Books, now in its second year, recognizes the most useful business books for financial professionals.
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?
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2007 Marydee Ojala	The HomePage - Dangerous Assumptions When searching, even information professionals who should know better sometimes assume.
Searcher 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.
Information Today January 2001	What's Ahead for 2001? Information Today has asked a group of information industry movers and shakers about the present state of the industry, as well as where they think it's going. The contributions below range from the serious to the not-so, but we're sure you'll find them all thought-provoking...
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.
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.
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.
T.H.E. Journal October 2000	FYI - RFQ4.com RFQ4 announces the launch of RFQ4.com, a Web page devoted to providing college and university purchasing professionals with timely and relevant information...
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.
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?
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 December 22, 2003 Susanne Bjorner	Lights Come Down on the Longest Running Online Show in New York Information Today, Inc. (ITI), producer for the past 24 years of the National Online Meeting in New York City each May, announced that it is skipping the industry-wide conference in 2004 and will return in 2005 with a "reinvented" event that will bring in "the new breed of information buyers."
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?
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2003 Marydee Ojala	Certifying Information Professionals The issue of certification for librarians and other information professionals is one of long-standing -- it's never been completely resolved and is not destined to fade into the sunset.
Searcher May 2010 Matarazzo & Pearlstein	Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions.
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 May 2008 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy.
Information Today December 14, 2009	SLA Is Still SLA; Membership Votes No on Name Change Special Libraries Association members failed to approve a proposal to change the organization's name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals.
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 Sep/Oct 2011 Marydee Ojala	Strength in Numbers Libraries worldwide are under threat. Yet information professionals should not despair. We bring a unique perspective to these dual challenges, and we have strength in numbers.
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.
Searcher February 2004 Barbara Quint	The Great Divide A combination of forces is putting pressure on the information profession. Oddly enough, one of the pressure points is librarians themselves.
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 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.
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.
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.
ONLINE May/Jun 2005 Marydee Ojala	All Generalizations Are False, Including This One A look at popular generalizations regarding librarians, blogs and more.
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.
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 Jul/Aug 2012 Marydee Ojala	Information Consumption If information is being created merely to be consumed, it lacks several components that would make it searchable, findable, and discoverable. Consumption implies impermanence.
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2012 Marydee Ojala	HomePage: Weathering the Storms of Filters and Walled Gardens Professional research requires professional tools. It's up to information professionals to provide search filters that match the information needs of clients but do not algorithmically create unnecessary filter bubbles.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2011 Marydee Ojala	The New Normal for Online Research We need to embrace the new normal and take advantage of new technologies to flourish as information professionals. The new normal isn't about survival; it's about transformation and creative approaches to data, information, and knowledge.
Searcher February 2001 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain.
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 October 26, 2009 Cindy Shamel	SLA Name Change: Can the Name Convey the Value? Last week, Special Libraries Association leadership announced that members will soon vote on a new name.
Information Today December 2001 Donald T. Hawkins	Frankfurt Book Fair and IBLC Symposium The FBF is concerned with all aspects of book publishing, and it is the largest trade show in the world...
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.
Information Today September 25, 2008	Search Engine hakia Asks Librarians to Suggest Credible Websites Semantic search engine hakia announced an open call to librarians and information professionals to participate in a new program to unlock credible and free web resources to web searchers.
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?
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.