Searcher articles from February 2002

Searcher archives from February 2002

"Google: (V.)...". (Searcher's Voice).
February 1, 2002... The other day I was asked to write a letter of recommendation as part of a campaign by a group of benign conspirators to get one of our colleagues a major national award. At the start of the letter, I quoted the closing phrase from the...

Not all laws are free: The importance of the Veeck case. (The Sidebar).
February 1, 2002... Two erroneous assumptions run through the population of Internet users. 1. Everything free is on the Internet. 2. Everything on the Internet is free. When it comes to legal issues, an erroneous assumption older than the Internet...

Wether climate, and Global Warming: A web Review.
February 1, 2002... Many of us now use the weather sites available on the Internet to check out weather conditions in a city to which we plan to travel or where other members of our extended family reside. When inclement weather comes upon us and storm warnings...

Digital Government: Digital tools for the electronic dissemination of government information.
February 1, 2002... During the 1990s, all branches of the federal government worked together to make government information products more accessible to the American public. The White House, Congress, and the Government Printing Office (GPO)worked on plans and key...

The third Wave of the information age: Internet librarian conference November 2001.
February 1, 2002... The tragic events of September 11 really messed up the autumn conference season this past year. The Special Libraries Association cancelled its October get-together in Monterey, California. Even after that, attendance was not what it normally...

Of Quivers and Dolphins: New content handlers. (Behind the Screen).
February 1, 2002... President Kennedy once remarked that Washington, D.C., is a city with the charm of the North and the efficiency of the South. Anyone who has lived in both regions of the U.S. understands how biting a commentary that statement was. I began...

OCLC's March into the 21st Century. (Leading Libraries).
February 1, 2002... "Extending the OCLC Cooperative: A Three-Year Strategy," dated October 23, 2000, outlined OCLC's plans for libraries and OCLC's desire to transform World-Cat from a bibliographic database and online union catalog to a globally networked...

QPAT revisited: A newly revamped Internet patent resource. (The Better Mousetrap).
February 1, 2002... Questel-Orbit has recently mounted the third version of QPAT. QPAT1, one of the early Internet-based patent search services (introduced in April 1996), providing full-text searching of U.S. patents only. QPAT2 added European published...

Archiving the "all Singing, all Dancing" century: Cool-edit 2000. (Tools of the Trade).
February 1, 2002... Irish monks are widely credited with the preservation of Western civilization during the Dark Ages. This view does tend to leave out the various non-European archives that would be tapped during the subsequent slow regeneration of the Middle...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2002... The Blame Goes Around RE: The Blame Game While emphasizing the important contribution of medical librarians to physician literature searching, in her commentary "The Blame Game" [Searcher Magazine, vol. 9, no.9, October 2001,...