Business Information Alert articles from April 2000

Business Information Alert archives from April 2000

Filling an Information Gap for the Caribbean: Librarian Creates Web Service.
April 1, 2000... Global information providers are doing an excellent job linking us to information that is useful where there is strong commercial appeal. However, knowledge and service gaps exist, and these can translate into vibrant commercial niches for...

From the Editor.
April 1, 2000... What do you do when your spouse gets a job far away in another country? Well, one entrepreneurial librarian built himself a business. Stephen Bromberg was not new to the profession when he started his business; he had lots of varied experience...

Who was that Masked Librarian?
April 1, 2000... Fantasy and fact. Information professionals dream of riding into quandaries packing expert research skills and saving the day, leaving the board of directors awestruck in their dust. The fact is that librarianship, always a derivative...

That Bowling Alley Guy.
April 1, 2000... "Give me a personal computer, a phone line, and a good search engine--you can keep that library turn it into a bowling alley." At first I thought that James Cramer, a high-profile hedge fund director and journalist/entrepreneur, must have a...

ASPS.
April 1, 2000... By the way, have you noticed all the ASPs creeping into URLs lately? You are looking at the newest Internet industry. ASP is the acronym for Application Service Provider, a one-to-many service, delivering a packaged software product bundling...

What Else is New?
April 1, 2000... This year DowJones, in a joint venture with Excite@Home, will launch a small business portal called work.com. It will include free and fee-based business applications. Work.com appears to be an expanded version of dowjones.com. Dowjones.com...

Cases in Corporate Acquisitions, Buyouts, Mergers & Takeovers.
April 1, 2000... Kelly Hill, ed. 1999. Gale Group. Hardcover. l,507p. ISBN: 0-7876-3894-3. $295. Merger and acquisition activity (M&A) has flourished in the U.S. for many years with recent industry figures at over $800 billion. Keeping abreast of the...

Only Connect.
April 1, 2000... Trevor Haywood. Bowker Saur. 1999. Hardcover. 296p. ISBN 1-85739-216-7. [pound]35. From the beginning of time, man has been driven by the need to connect with others, and this doesn't change in the 21st century. In Only Connect, Trevor...

The Legal and Regulatory Environment for Electronic Information, 3rd ed.
April 1, 2000... Charles Oppenheim. 1999. Infonortics. Softcover. 231p. ISBN: 1-873699-53-0. $85. Don't let the imposing title put you off. Charles Oppenheim's "in-depth briefing" is as readable as law librarian Laura Gassaway's seminars on copyright...

Handbook of Internet Stocks: Millennium Edition.
April 1, 2000... Brad A. Armbruster, et al, eds. 1999. Mergent FIS. Softcover. 236p. ISBN: 156429031X $19.95. Mergent FIS, the company formerly known as industry stalwart Moody's Investors Service, began publishing the Handbook of Internet Stocks in August...

Creating a Virtual Library: A How-To-Do-It-Manual for Librarians.
April 1, 2000... Frederick Stielow, ed. 1999. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. Softcover. 200p. ISBN: 1-55570-346-1. $55. This manual is designed to assist librarians and archivists with creating their own Web pages complete with useful links and resources....