Searcher articles from February 2005

Searcher archives from February 2005

Tick, tock.(Searcher's Voice)
February 1, 2005... We've all known in our hearts that it was coming. Some of us have looked forward to it with near-parental pride. Some of us have turned our backs, stuffed cotton in our ears, and covered our eyes with both hands (but those in that position...

Search, blog, succeed: lessons from the Internet Librarian 2004 Conference--Monterey.
February 1, 2005... When you're driving on the 101 Freeway in a Porsche Carrera, it's not always easy to remember mother's advice, "Don't forget to smell the roses." For roses, and most everything else, pass in a blur. One has to slow to a crawl, about 60 mph in...

Blogs of war: a review of alternative sources for Iraq war information.
February 1, 2005... For better or worse, the information coming out of war zones has increased and accelerated. Along with other technological advances in war fighting and surveillance, the Internet, specifically blogs, has driven this evolution. Blogs,...

Finding love on the web.(Internet Express)
February 1, 2005... And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself Beloved on the earth. --"Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver I spent my...

Under budget, on time, and in sync: how to stage successful rollouts.
February 1, 2005... How do project leaders galvanize support for an effort that will require sacrifice and an ultimate change in the way end users search, receive, and even collaborate on the content they pull? As information pros, we are often called upon to...

Metasearching: the good, the bad, and the ugly of making it work in your library.(Leading Libraries)
February 1, 2005... Metasearching seems like such a simple idea from the patron's point of view. Many a library patron has probably longed for the day when the electronic age really has arrived in their library and has made "one-stop" digital shopping possible. On...

Google Scholar, Scirus, and the scholarly search revolution.(The Better Mousetrap)
February 1, 2005... Most busy professionals like to know up front what the bottom line is, so they can decide whether a piece deserves a chuck of their reading time. So let's have the bottom line of this Better Mousetrap column appear first. Read on! As of...

Parallel lives and miracles: computing abroad.(Both Sides Now)
February 1, 2005... I arrived at my winter home in Spain in early November, and within 2 weeks, I had my office up and running. First miracle: The ADSL line, finally operational last year after 2 months of frustrating, iterative efforts, is still working! ...

From Johannes Gutenberg to Project Gutenberg.(Both Sides Now)(Poem)
February 1, 2005... Un libro es un milagro. Tantas alas blancas en un solo cuerpo de pajaro. Asi que quienes dicen que un ordenador es tambien un milagro, acaso tienen una piedrecita, un calculo biliar en la imaginacion, que les...

Are you aware of Wordware?(Tools Of The Trade)(MSWord utility)
February 1, 2005... Some among us have wished MS Word had more functions, but I would maintain all of us have wished it had functions easier to find, easier to understand, and easier to use. A few weeks ago I was doing what I refer to as stream of consciousness...

My prayers answered.(Tools Of The Trade)(a macro for WWFormat Text)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... After completing this article, I received an e-mail from Andrew Freeman of AMF Software. Apparently, he took my comments about WWFormat Text to heart and worked on modifying the macro. The new macro allows for selection of a portion of a...

All the news that's fit to print: (and then some!).
February 1, 2005... Google News or Yahoo! News Extra Extra: Read all about it! According to the latest research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project [http://www.pewinternet.org], 29 percent of Internet users--about 43 million people--go online to...

World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council in Buenos Aires.(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions )
February 1, 2005... With nearly 4,000 participants from 121 countries, the World Library and formation Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council took place from August 22-27, 2004, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was the first World Library Information...

Contacts.(Directory)
February 1, 2005... Christopher Allbritton Internet: chris@back-to-iraq.com AMF Software (Wordware) 309 Greenwich Avenu Suite C325 Warwick, RI 02886 (401) 633-7991 URL: http://www.amfsoftware.com Apple Computer Inc. 1...