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ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2008
Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia.   |
Information Today
September 4, 2007 |
Call for Librarians to "Slam the Boards" on Sept. 10 To raise library services awareness, librarians are being urged to "slam the boards," such as Yahoo! Answers, Amazon's Askville, The Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others -- answering as many questions as they can using authoritative sources. |
Information Today
November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services. |
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. |
Information Today
September 23, 2014 |
SirsiDynix Jump-Starts the Library Conversation SirsiDynix announced a series of webinars and downloadable website content that will address topics pertaining to libraries' value, visibility, and usage. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2008
William Badke |
What to Do With Wikipedia Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. |
Search Engine Watch
July 19, 2010
Eli Goodman |
How Search is Making us Smarter Online search has clearly evolved to become the de facto answer delivery system for our questions. How search opens learning opportunities to us every day. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Think Wikipedia Is Sexist? They Want To Pay You To Help Change That A United Nations University study from 2010 found that only 13% of Wikipedia's editors are female, while other surveys have yielded an even lower number. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
John C. Dvorak |
Why Wikipedia Just Gets Better You don't think I'm here as a Wikipedia booster without some deeper commentary, do you? There has to be something wrong with it, since the idea is utopian, and utopian ideas are bound to fail in the long term. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007 |
The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google Wikipedia depends on the search results from Google to succeed. But, how? |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Michael Szajewski |
Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets This case study examines the use of Wikipedia by the Ball State University Libraries as an opportunity to raise the visibility of digitized historic sheet music assets made available in the university's Digital Media Repository. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 10, 2014
Peter Houston |
Fixing Wikipedia Will Pharma join a growing effort to make the world's leading online health information resource more relevant to providers and safer for patients? |
Information Today
June 28, 2010 |
Reference Universe now links to CQ Researcher and to CREDO Reference Reference Universe is an information service designed specifically to unlock a library's reference collection. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Mapping Places in Wikipedia Wikipedia is a high quality online source of information, but does not do a good job displaying images or maps. Placeopedia attempts to fill that gap by mapping Wikipedia location entries on Google maps. |
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
June 2, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Provides Enhancements for Patrons and Librarians They will offer a redesigned web patron interface for easier browsing and the ability for librarians to reclassify ebooks' age ranges. |
Information Today
July 10, 2008 |
RezEd: New Online Learning Hub for Virtual Worlds RezEd is an online community for educators, parents, librarians, and others to get informed, connected, and inspired. |
Wired
January 18, 2008 |
Expired-Tired-Wired What's new and old in air travel, gambling, Wikipedia writing and TV science fiction. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Lally & Dunford |
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
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. |
Information Today
September 3, 2015 |
Gale Announces Academic Library Survey Results The survey on academic libraries shows that closer collaboration between librarians and faculty members is necessary for improved communication between the two groups. |
Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
Information Today
September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface. |
Information Today
July 16, 2015 |
EBSCO Health Gives Wikipedia Access to Its Clinical Reference Solution Up to 300 Wikipedia editors who meet the qualifications set out by this partnership will get free accounts for DynaMed Plus. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
Searcher
April 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Great Equalizer Chatter about Google's library digitization project continues to fill the electronic conversations and trade press of librarians. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2008
Tim Beyers |
A Rebel Begs for a Bailout Wikipedia's founder begs for donations to keep the encyclopedic Web site advertisement-free. |
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? |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
Information Today
February 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Five Librarian Bloggers to Follow If you already know about these passionate authorial librarians, read on for some insight into why they started their blogs and what advice they'd give to those thinking about blogging. |
Information Today
December 18, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Censorship and Wikipedia--An Instructive Tale What if, one fine morning, you went to your favorite Wikipedia page only to see a "404 page not found" error message? |
Information Today
May 2002
Ana Arias Terry |
Ninth National PLA Conference The Public Library Association, an organization with more than 9,000 members, hosted nearly 7,900 participants and 400 exhibitors at its national conference in Phoenix. I found the programs educational and the general session keynote speech an unexpected treat... |
Search Engine Watch
March 18, 2011
Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 25, 2010
Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2006
Jon Evans |
Information Free-for-All The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could become the main source of chemical information in 5-10 years, according to a professional chemist. |
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2006 |
Digging for Historical Prices If you want to find out how much a certain stock was trading for on a certain day in history, perhaps to calculate how much it's grown since then, you need some historical prices. |
