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Searcher
December 2002
Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license.   |
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. |
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
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. |
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
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Money Searching Have info pros become a niche profession, restricted to collectors of odd services -- like personal valets or nannies? |
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? |
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. |
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? |
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
Jan/Feb 2003
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Readings on Digital Resources, the Internet Economy, and the Dangers of Cyberspace How to Build a Digital Library... The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk... Re-Thinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace... Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers... etc. |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Think Like a Searcher The double-digit increase in online search activity marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Internet consumer behavior. |
Job Journal
April 13, 2008
Alesia Benedict |
Career Pros: Developing All-Star References Good references can become MVPs in your search for work. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Janes & Silverstein |
Question Negotiation and the Technological Environment People seeking answers or providing them now have many more options for "question negotiation", in the broadest Tayloresque sense. Consulting an information professional continues to be one of those options. In fact, such professionals can now be much more accessible. |
Searcher
June 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Factiva Scrambles to Fix Date-Ranging Glitch in Publications Library In an end-user searching world, traditional information industry firms can no longer rely on professional searchers serving as their early-warning system. The firms may have to do more in-house technical checking and build in more protective procedures to avoid such glitches... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary |
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
George R. Plosker |
Conducting User Surveys: An Ongoing Information Imperative Remaining relevant to users is critical to library survival. What better way both to ascertain what users desire and to inform them of capabilities they are unaware of or don't use? Practical tips and suggestions on how to go about doing such a survey |
Searcher
Howard S. Homan |
Making the Case for Patent Searchers? What is a searcher and what do they do? |
Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews Want to be a professional searcher, or at least have the skills of a pro? These books show you how. |
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
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... |
Searcher
May 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
Job Journal
October 12, 2008
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: Five Interviewing Fundamentals Five ways you can improve your interview performance. |
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. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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
June 2003
Barbara Quint |
Cuddly Caveats One should always remember to observe the niceties in dealing with people. Wouldn't you say? Don't you agree? Is it not so? Niceties are particularly important when one has some negative information to impart. Information professionals face this situation every day. |
Job Journal
April 8, 2007
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: New Answers to Old Questions Nine steps towards making your next interview a job-winning performance. |
Searcher
February 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Trust: A Bust? When it comes to information gathering, you can get into a lot of trouble letting trust substitute for the exercise of critical judgment and the discipline of cross-checking sources. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
Information Today
August 23, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Acquires 24/7 Reference Services Two of the nation's leading virtual reference services have merged. The Metropolitan Cooperative Library System has transferred the assets of its popular 24/7 Reference operation to OCLC, the world's largest library network. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
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. |
Job Journal
June 27, 2004
Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: Winning the End Game Jobs are often won or lost after the interview. What to do after the interview. |
Information Today
August 3, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Library Reference Services Are on an Info Quest The patrons of approximately 50 libraries from all over the U.S. are now able to text a question from their mobile phones to 309-222-7740 and a "real, live librarian" will respond within minutes. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2005
Chris Sherman |
The Best Online Reference Sites Looking for an answer to a specific question? Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the American Library Association. AskOxford.com... Cyberschoolbus... etc. |
