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Searcher archives from January 2006

The home guard.(online searching)
January 1, 2006... What would you do if you had a personal home library numbering in the thousands or even hundreds of thousands of books? Hire a librarian, right?! Well, that's just what every Web user has as the mammoth book digitization projects by Google, the...

Real-time news through InfoDesk.(WEB WISE WAYS)
January 1, 2006... When I'm asked to review a product, I always begin by looking at its Web site. What information is available? What story does it tell? The InfoDesk Web site tells a "funky" story with broken links, old press releases, no pictures of the...

Ajax: not just another acronym or is it?(Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)(extensible markup language)(for developing web applications)(Column)
January 1, 2006... Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) turns the Web on its head, fundamentally altering the idea of what a Web page is supposed to be by changing user interactions with online content. Instead of a series of interconnected discrete pages, Ajax...

Location, location, location: online maps for the masses.(digital map services like Google Earth, Microsoft Maps & Directions, Yahoo! Maps)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2006... You can't find Hogwarts... yet. Or Middle Earth, for that matter. But Google Maps is geographic coordinates with directory information to forge new, improved views of the Earth and, of all places, the moon. Maps called "mashups" display...

Building a new foundation: library funding.
January 1, 2006... 2005 was a busy year for ALA executives. In late February, Michael Gorman, ALA president-elect, and a delegation of other representatives from the Association, the California State Library, and state and regional library associations traveled...

Shhh!!: keeping current on government secrecy.(reports on freedom of information)(web sites)
January 1, 2006... Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, the Bush administration has issued important and far-ranging policy directives that include executive orders, memoranda, and new legislation, all designed to ensure the...

Contacts.(Directory)
January 1, 2006... ACLU 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004 (212) 549-2500 (800) 775-2258 (212) 549-2646 (fax) Internet: aclu@aclu.org URL: http://www.aclu.org/ American Library Association (ALA) 50 E Huron...