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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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
December 2002
Barbara Quint
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
November 22, 2004
Barbara Quint
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. mark for My Articles similar articles
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... 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 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
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... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
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
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
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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
November 2000
Winfred Ark & Sue Park
A Plain Text Metamorphosis: Converting Search Results to HTML Rather than static, ASCII-based text, the Web provides the ability to deliver more dynamic, interactive information... mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
Howard S. Homan
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? mark for My Articles similar articles
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Industry News Thomson ePIBis a new Web-based tool that electronically collects documents from financial databases and assembles a customized Public Information Book in PDF... DialogPRO is a new Web-based information retrieval service that tailors to fit small business owners and managers... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
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
Information Today
May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
August 7, 2001
Eva Perkins
Johns Hopkins' Tragedy: Could Librarians Have Prevented a Death? Looking at this case, it would appear that medical librarians may currently be better prepared than biomedical researchers to conduct medical literature searches and that the best searches would involve researchers and their librarians working closely together... mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
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
Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Deborah Lynne Wiley
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Book reviews of The Web Conferencing Book... The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers... The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication... A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976... mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
April 2012
Barbara Quint
Searcher's Voice - Success and Failure We librarians, we intermediary searchers, kept on amazing clients, one search at a time. We librarians kept pushing vendors to give us databases, not just print tools. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
August 19, 2002
Paula J. Hane
Dialog Expands SourceOne Document Delivery Service Dialog has announced its "re-entry into the document delivery market" with an expansion of its Dialog SourceOne service. Dialog has increased the number and diversity of sources from which articles and reports can be ordered, and has improved the delivery process for documents. 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
Information Today
May 30, 2000
Barbara Quint
Dialog Gets Smart with Outsmart Company Profiles Searchers will soon be able to buy extensive company profiles from Dialog (http://www.dialog.com) that are replete with information extracted from a range of its business databases and arranged in a handsome, downloadable Microsoft Word document. How much? A mere $100 per company. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
January 2002
Marylaine Block
My Rules of Information Information professionals know these simple things, which can make the difference between finding and not finding what you need... 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
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
Searcher
August 2001
Searcher Correspondence Multiple reactions to the denunciation of Double-Fold... more free magazines online at MagPortal... linking to SLA and Carol Tenopir... mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Rich Duprey
Google Graduates to Vertical Search New Scholar service allows searching of peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, technical reports, etc. that would normally be inaccessible. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
March 7, 2005
Laura McBride Felter
DialogLink Adds Chemical Structure Searching and Updated Interface DialogLink 5.0 builds upon the functionality of version 4.0 by providing its users with an updated interface design, improved searching and report output functionality, and the introduction of chemical structure searching. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles