Searcher articles from February 2004

Searcher archives from February 2004

The Great Divide.(Searcher's Voice)
February 1, 2004... As seems to happen so often lately, the other day I found myself musing on the future of libraries, librarianship, and librarians. As my musings continued, words from the Bible came to my mind--never really a good sign-lines from Matthew...

I cover the waterfront ... and the Internet librarian 2003 conference.
February 1, 2004... Hey! I spent the first week of November 2003 in Monterey, California, at the Internet Librarian conference. It was an invigorating experience. I learned a lot of new things and enjoyed the weather in Monterey, which was perfect. It rained...

Arhk, Arhk! The sea lions bark.(in Monterey)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Monterey [http://www.monterey.org] is a splendid place to visit. It boasts not only a charming "Old Fisherman's Wharf" pier featuring several spots to sample New England clam chowder [http://www.montereywharf.com/home.html], but a mile-long...

Monterey Bay Aquarium.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... http://www.mbayaq.org We happened to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium on an afternoon when no flocks of school children were there. It was the oddest experience. We could get as close as we cared to any display. I snuck up to watch a large...

Lights! Camera! Action! Motion picture and video databases.
February 1, 2004... For the first 5 years of my career at the BC Archives, I worked as an audio recording and moving image archivist. Back then, the government produced most of the films and video recordings we acquired and preserved for public access. Part of my...

Beyond google and singing fish, or other ways to find moving image collections.(Lights! Camera! Action!)
February 1, 2004... Staff at many academic and public libraries assemble bibliographies on film and video in all genres. The best of these bibliographies in an academic environment come from the libraries of universities that teach film (cinema), communications,...

Catalog moving images.(Lights! Camera! Action!)
February 1, 2004... Not surprisingly, the International Federation of Film Achieves (FIAF) [http://www.fiafnet.org], established in 1983 in France, produced the earliest set of cataloging rules specifically designed for film archives. You can download three Adobe...

Selected non-DVD digital video players.(Lights! Camera! Action!)(Buyers Guide)
February 1, 2004... The technical aspects surrounding the creation or use of digital video on a computer are beyond the scope of this article. lf your computer cannot play a digital video file or streaming video format, you will quickly discover whether your...

Sci-tech print-alternative offerings.(The Better Mousetrap)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... Offering alternatives to print does not simply mean issuing e-books; it can also mean adding value to research through customized tables, proximity searching, or even new data. Converting a Quark XPress document into an e-book isn't exactly...

The nonprofit phenomenon: internet resources for nonprofit organizations.
February 1, 2004... Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) play an increasingly important role in U.S. society. NPOs currently number over 1 million and employ close to 11 million people, or about 7 percent of the entire U.S. workforce. This number does not include the...

Euromonitor's GMID has it all.(Global Market Information Database)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... My first brush with Euromonitor came from using its market research database on Dialog, File 762: Euromonitor Market Research [http://library.dialog. com/bluesheets/html/bl0762.html]. The Dialog Bluesheets describe the Euromonitor Market...

Oh, the places linking will go! A state of the union report.
February 1, 2004... The linking revolution is well underway. For the information professional, it's akin to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. With the release of OpenURL v. 1.0 and the explosion of commercially available as well as homegrown link resolvers, information...

Hardware.(Best Buys)(Buyers Guide)
February 1, 2004... Best Home PCs: Hewlett-Packard's Pavillion zd7000 (notebook; $2,618); Sony's VAIO PCV-W5OOGNI ($1,999.99); eMachines' T2865 ($928); Velocity Micro's ProMagix DX-W ($3,240) Source: Stephanie Chang, "The Coolest PCs," PC Magazine, November...

Software.(Best Buys)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
February 1, 2004... Best Microsoft Office Software: Office 2003 Professional Enterprise Edition; OneNote 2003 ($199) Source: Jon Udell, "Office 2003 XML," InfoWorld, October 6, 2003, pp. 40-2, 44, 46, 48. Best DVD-Authoring Software: Sonic Solutions'...

Miscellaneous.(Best Buys)
February 1, 2004... Best Cell Phone Games: Jamdat Mobile's Bejeweled and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Street Source: Peter Suciu, "Gaming at the Cellular Level," PC Magazine, October 2003, pp. 104-5. Best Music Download Service: RealOne Networks Inc.'s...

Broken links are bad.(We want to make this as simple as possible: True)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... At CrossRef, we foresee a day when broken links are a thing of the past. As the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications, CrossRef has already linked millions of articles from thousands of journals, and is...

Contacts.(Directory)
February 1, 2004... Ableton (Live 2.1) Schonhauser Allee 6-7 D-10119 Berlin Germany (4930) 288 763 0 (4930) 288 763 11 (fax) Internet: contact@ableton.com URL: http://www.ableton.com Steven Abram Micromedia ProQuest...