Online articles from November 1997

Online archives from November 1997

Changing places: building new workplace infrastructures.(Editorial)
November 1, 1997... "You can't miss it," the student told me twenty-five years ago when I happened on to an unfamiliar college campus, "it's two turns to the left and, well, it just looks like a library." Freshly out of a graduate library education program,...

Sizing up HotBot.(Evaluation)
November 1, 1997... Face it. As professional online searchers we've become a bit spoiled. We've gotten pretty picky about what we expect from search interfaces. If a system doesn't have all the basic features, plus several bells and whistles, we're ready to give...

Where did they hide my company?
November 1, 1997... It is axiomatic among business researchers that locating information on companies in which you can buy shares on a public exchange will always be easier than finding anything at all about the business started last week by your neighborhood...

Dialog Select: Dialog for knowledge workers - on the web.
November 1, 1997... DIALOG has a rich history of end-user products. Starting over a decade ago with the well-crafted, but premature Business Connection, it moved along through the elaborate DIALOG Menus, the KR OnDisc series, Custom DIALOG, ScienceBase, and...

Technically speaking: nuts and bolts images from IHS.(IHS Engineering Resource Center) (includes related articles)
November 1, 1997... Technical documents--specifications, standards, parts catalogs, and industrial vendor catalogs--are some of the least glamorous information one can imagine. Without them, however, there would be no industry, no construction, no consumer...

The new alchemy: using droids & agents to treat information overload.
November 1, 1997... Farcast processes quickly and almost effortlessly: it is easy to create, change, stop, restart and remove Droids. Information overload is a'90s affliction as prevalent as the common cold. The Internet is virtually turning that cold into...

New jobs emerging in and around libraries and librarianship.
November 1, 1997... "Opportunities will be best for librarians outside of traditional settings." --Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996-97 edition [1] Opportunities have never been better for the librarian in a nontraditional setting. The Internet and...

Interviews with infopros: Sarah Warner, manager of content licensing, Amulet Inc.(Interview)
November 1, 1997... The information world inhabited by librarians is changing dramatically and quickly--and librarians are keeping up with it. With this issue, ONLINE begins an occasional series of interviews with various information professionals who are doing...

What business are you in? (Or who pushed humpty-dumpty?)(Column)
November 1, 1997... The World Wide Web is my most significant new tool for facilitating personal workflow. While waiting for pages to download and hosts to establish contact with each other, I once again find myself with time to think, to ponder, to dream. ...

Do digital libraries need librarians? An experiential dialog.
November 1, 1997... Editor's Note: A year ago, I received the call that every editor lives for: Out of the blue, an interested reader picks up the phone and offers to write an article on a timely and important topic. In this case, it was Lisa Matson, a librarian...

Telecommuting from an electronic cottage: negotiating potholes and toll booths.
November 1, 1997... One of the newest and most exciting business trends for today's workforce is telecommuting. According to industry expert Tom Miller, the home-based work force is "predicted to surge at an annual growth rate of 20% through 1997, resulting in more...

Telecommuting technologies and experiences.
November 1, 1997... When I heard about the telecommuting focus of this issue of ONLINE, I rushed to ask two guest columnists, both of whom I worked with at various times during my career at AT&T, to give us the benefit of their experiences with telecommuting....