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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? |
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. |
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 December 2002 Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license. |
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 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? |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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? |
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... |
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 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. |
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 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... |
Searcher Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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... |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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 June 2006 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |