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Information Today October 15, 2009 |
Dialog Reaches Out to Unemployed Librarians The company is waiving standard Dialog startup and service fees, offering free Dialindex service, and throwing in a 10% discount on Dialog usage to librarians and information |
Information Today November 24, 2008 Barbara Quint |
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way--In Time: Reference Extract Experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content. |
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... |
InternetNews August 19, 2008 David Needle |
Can Semantic Search Change Our Lives? Does making search a more natural process and getting relevant results quicker sound life changing? |
Information Today April 1, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Alternative Search Engines Offer Rich Options There's actually a thriving world of alternative search engines out there that savvy searchers know to exploit. |
Information Today August 2, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
Expand Your Search Engine Options While Google continues its domination of the search market, some enterprising folks continue to seek out alternatives -- for additional features, interface preferences, spam avoidance, or privacy and security reasons. |
Information Today August 4, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
Options, We've Got Search Engine Options! With Ask.com scaling back and Yahoo! in disarray, will it come to a web search showdown between Google and Microsoft? |
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. |
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 2007 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Help! How do you move commercial Internet organizations to improve what's being offered for free? |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Anders Bylund |
It's All Semantics, Says Google Google makes big improvements to its searches -- by catching up to a rival? |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
InternetNews June 17, 2009 David Needle |
Search Heavyweights Debate What's Next Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others focus on advances in semantic search and how results can be made more effective. |
Information Today November 17, 2011 |
New Resources From NoveList to Connect Library Patrons to Services The NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services. |
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. |
PC World August 23, 2007 Ed Albro |
Beta Watch Hakia, a new search engine in public beta, tries to make the highlighting experience better in two ways... Better 3D browsing in SpaceTime... Microblogging plus file transfers with Pownce... |
Inc. May 2007 Max Chafkin |
Search for Tomorrow An army of fledgling companies is lining up to take on Google. Could the world's biggest search engine possibly be vulnerable? |
Searcher 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? |