Searcher articles from July 2002

Searcher archives from July 2002

Lessons of a Searcher's life. (Searcher's Voice).
July 1, 2002... "The Third Millennium Information Professional: Tasks, Tools, Triumphs"! The theme of this special issue has been an exciting and inspirational one to develop. All the authors and columnists and staff at the publisher, Information Today Inc. --...

Educating tomorrow's information professionals today.
July 1, 2002... By 2017, some 68 percent of today's librarians will have retired, according to recent estimates in the news (Lynch). President and Mrs. Bush have launched an initiative through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to recruit "a...

A day in the life of an information broker; or "so, you're tired of a steady paycheck?".
July 1, 2002... Have you finally had one of those days when you just want to tell your boss to take this job and...? Do you spend more and more time fantasizing about how much more fun you could have as your own boss, setting your own schedule, and doing your...

Beyond the information audit: checking the health of an organization's information system.
July 1, 2002... Information audit, needs assessment, knowledge inventory -- all are names for a process that examines the secret life of information within an organization. Where does the information come from? Where does it go? How is it used? How...

Back to the future: a look at the past to get a glimpse of the future. (Leading Libraries).
July 1, 2002... Back in early 1978, while interviewing for a job at the RAND Corporation's Library, I vividly remember the interviewer asking for my predictions as to the future of libraries. Being a fairly recent, and idealistic, library school graduate at...

The info pro's survival guide to job hunting.
July 1, 2002... When I wrote "An Information Industry Survival Guide" for Information Today in 1998, the future looked bright despite what the editor termed "a number of interesting developments in the information industry." Those interesting developments were...

Building a brand: got librarian?
July 1, 2002... While stranded in the Nashville airport some months ago, I had the opportunity to examine a selection of books in the airport newsstands. I picked up one book entitled Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management. The book belongs to a...

Staying on top of your game: a learning strategy. (Web Wise Ways).
July 1, 2002... Information professionals (a.k.a. librarians) come from a wide variety of academic backgrounds and life experiences. Most librarians have a master's degree in library science, but some do not. Of those who went to library school, no two...

Visibility: decloaking "the invisible librarian".
July 1, 2002... If anyone dares to doubt the fact that librarians have become largely invisible, they have only to look to the recent Washington State Library debacle to realize their error. In case there are actually any librarians left in the U.S. who...

The lisnews.com first annual top Librarian Personalities on the Web: Web librarian and assistant professor Ohio State University Libraries.
July 1, 2002... In every field, a select group of people will stand out from the crowd thanks to their outstanding personalities. In normal social settings, a good personalities easy to define; on the Web, it becomes more difficult. Our group of top...

The graying of the library profession: a survey of our professional association and their responses.
July 1, 2002... Question: What do library professionals and Elvis fans have in common? Answer: We're all getting older and there's no one taking our place. Yes, Elvis would have been 67 in January and a recent New York Times cover story reports that...

A resume that works.
July 1, 2002... Scoring an interview is a challenge for almost every job seeker these days. The number of job seekers seems to exceed the number of job openings. After 10 years of rapid declines in the unemployment rate, every month brings news that the...

Would you hire you?: Continuing education for the information professional. (The Sidebar).
July 1, 2002... The interview of your life. Things are going very well, you have built a genuine rapport with the interviewers, everyone is smiling. Then come the closing questions: "How do you continue your education?" "What have you learned lately that has...

Independent researcher doesn't mean independently wealthy: solos and subscriptions. (Emmerce).
July 1, 2002... Being an independent researcher can be lonely sometimes, especially when you're interested in an online information service and you discover that it only offers institutional subscriptions, meaning you're going to have to sell your plasma for 6...