Searcher articles from April 2005

Searcher archives from April 2005

The great equalizer.(Google Inc.'s library digitization)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Chatter about Google's library digitization project continues to fill the electronic conversations and trade press of librarians. Stephen Abram's "The Google Opportunity" in Library Journal (February 1, 2005) challenged librarians to rise to...

The passion of the blog.(Internet Express)(Column)
April 1, 2005... In the same way that I have willfully ignored the Michael Jackson trial, I have tried to close my eyes and ears to the hype about blogs. "Blogs will change Internet publishing! They will give voice to the Common Man." I'm a reference librarian....

RedLightGreen and Open WorldCat: changing the world of academic search.
April 1, 2005... Well-timed for the start of the fall 2004 academic year in North America and elsewhere, the providers of two of the world's largest bibliographic databases--OCLC and RLG--released two amazing products for locating books and other cataloged...

Open access: unfinished business.(services)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Hard to believe, but despite its length, last month's Sidebar column did not begin to cover all the ongoing activity in the open access movement. Neither will this month's column, but we will try to give readers the tools to follow it on their...

Online before the internet: early pioneers tell their stories: part 9: the federal government's role.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Since June 2003, Searcher has published interviews with four pioneers who were instrumental in the development of early commercial online systems (Carlos Cuadra, SDC; Roger Summit, Dialog; Richard Giering, LexisNexis; and Jan Egeland, BRS). In...

Is management consulting for you? Part two--setting up shop.
April 1, 2005... This second article in our three-part series addresses business planning and marketing issues for those who have decided--after reading the first article and evaluating the success factors and realities involved in consulting--that this field...

Linking users to open access.
April 1, 2005... One of the more dynamic issues confronting information professionals today is open access (OA). While exciting because of the much greater access to information it offers compared to its toll-based counterparts, open access can also vex...

Hardware.(Best Buys)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... Best PCs: Desktops, Dell Inc.'s Dimension 8400 ($2,999); Falcon Northwest's Mach V ($7,545); Polywell Computer Inc.'s Poly 939N-FX55 ($2,995); Velocity Micro Inc.'s Vector SX-V ($999); Apple Computer Inc.'s iMac G5 ($2,103); Notebooks, Toshiba...

Software.(Best Buys)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... Best Antivirus Software: Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 ($49.95) Source: Sean Portnoy, "Infection Protection," Computer Shopper, January 2005, pp. 110-2. Best Security Suite: Zone Labs LLC's ZoneAlarm Security Suite...

Miscellaneous.(Best Buys)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... Best VoIP Service: AT&T's CallVantage ($29.99 per month) Source: Craig Ellison, "Talk Is Cheap," PC Magazine, February 8, 2005, pp. 107-10, 112-4, 116-7. Best E-Commerce Kits: Yahoo! Inc.'s Merchant Starter ($51.90 a month plus $50...

Second thoughts on Google Desktop.(Correspondence)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 1, 2005... I've been thinking about Google Desktop Search (GDS) ever since I wrote my Tools of the Trade column "Does Your Desktop Do the Google?" ]Searcher, March 2005]. While I still maintain it is useful for some, I've realized there's an important...

Contacts.(information technology services industry)(Directory)
April 1, 2005... Adobe Systems Inc. (Video Collection 2.5 Professional) 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 536-6000 (800) 833-6687 (408) 537-6000 Internet: ir@adobe.com URL: http://www.adobe.com Apple Computer...