| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Searcher
April 2001
Wallace Koehler |
Dot-Lib for Libraries -- Can It Happen? Ask ICANN If museums have their own gTLD, why not libraries? That's simple enough, but reaching that goal may be a bit more complex...   |
Searcher
February 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain. |
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
Jul/Aug 2003
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice: IPI? Yippee! The future for librarians and information 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? |
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
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
June 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. |
Information Today
September 2000
Barbara Quint |
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it. |
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. |
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
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
December 2002
Barbara Quint |
Unpleasantness On negotiating an information service license. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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? |
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? |
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. |
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... |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010 |
Correspondence Letters from SLA's CEO and a Searcher-reading SLA member about a recent article and Searcher's Voice column, respectively, on matters concerning the Special Libraries Association. |
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. |
Searcher
December 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse |
The 2001 Scoug Retreat Southern California Online Users Group's annual retreat is a unique professional experience. Participants include librarians, information professionals, database vendor staff, content specialists, independent information brokers, academics, and corporate types... |
Searcher
August 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - A Great Idea!! The Google Custom Search Engine lets knowledgeable users identify the sites and/or search strategies that they know will retrieve high relevance, high quality content matching the interests of their user communities. |
Information Today
January 19, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Shares Its Strategic Vision The nation's leading library services vendor, OCLC, has released a strategic vision report. The 2003 Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition report reviews global issues affecting the future of libraries, museums, archives, and librarians. |
Searcher
December 2000
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice: More or Less I'm not happy. And I don't know any professional searcher who is these days, at least not while we're practicing our profession. This whole information revolution thing is way out of hand. It's always too much or too little... |
Searcher
February 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries... |
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... |
Searcher
February 2006
David Grossman |
What's Next Much of the compilation, organization, management, and dissemination of information is currently happening outside the walls of the traditional library and that this phenomenon will continue to proliferate. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Searcher
August 2002
Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target. |
Searcher
January 2001
Barbara Quint |
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight? |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help? |
Searcher
December 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What Is the Question? It seems these days that article after article, commentary after commentary, even blog after blog keeps asking and answering questions on the future of libraries, librarians, and information professionals. |
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
March 2009
Mary Ellen Bates |
Living Large in Lean Times As an independent information professional and a former special librarian, I have gone through several cycles of economic downturn and recovery. |
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
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
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
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
Searcher
August 2002
Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
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
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Searcher
March 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Rats!! Search services are losing not just individual items but archives of whole titles -- in some cases, of whole publishers. |
Searcher
April 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Lost Art of Sourcing Librarians and information professionals need to build or at least contribute to the building of advanced search engines that recommend the best information for specific tasks. |
D-Lib
May 2003
James W. Marcum |
Visions: The Academic Library in 2012 The future of the academic library is a topic of continuing concern for the profession, but usually the boundaries of projected visions are set firmly in the issues of the day. What means might be found to break open those constraints and encourage visions projected further into the future? |
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. |
