Searcher articles from March 2007

Searcher archives from March 2007

To the ozone and beyond.(libraries)(Google Book Search)
March 1, 2007... In the course of Jill Grogg and Beth Ashmore's research for this month's article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged. Of course, it's apocryphal. All the best stories are. If you don't believe me,...

Radical reinvention: life beyond the library.(information technology)
March 1, 2007... To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.--Henri Louis Bergson Constant change imposes a pressure on all of us to keep up and adapt. These are the hallmarks of today's fast-paced,...

I get by with a little help from thousands of strangers: self-help and peer-support resources on the Web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
March 1, 2007... We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.--W. H. Auden I have a friend, I'll call her "Pam," who has a drinking problem. When she told me about...

A failure to communicate EPA's libraries on the brink.(Environmental Protection Agency)
March 1, 2007... A year ago, I wrote a brief article for an Infotoday.com NewsBreak entitled "Will Budget Constraints Sound a Death Knell for EPA Libraries?" [http://www.infotoday.com/news breaks/nb060221-2.shtml]. Since then, numerous articles in various...

Librarians as change agents: how you can help influence public policy in the 110th Congress.
March 1, 2007... The November 2006 midterm elections brought a sea change to the balance of power in Washington. While it was expected that the Democrats would take over leadership of the House of Representatives, their victory in the Senate had been far from...

Mashups, blogs, wikis go federal: creative uses of government and public data.(Freedom of Information Act)(libraries)
March 1, 2007... Government secrecy, warrantless wiretapping, removing documents from government Web sites, the closing of EPA libraries, the increased use of "sensitive but unclassified" designations for documents not classified but treated as such, the...

MDL DiscoveryGate: a great chemistry Web-based search product.(THE BETTER MOUSETRAP)(MDL DiscoveryGate)(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2007... It's not often that I get excited about a Web-based search product. I've seen my share of them over the years and they are usually lacking many of the features that would make them useful for performing database research. However, after...

Color your world and switch your cases.(use Folder Marker to change the file icons)
March 1, 2007... Any idea as to how many folders are on your computer? I can't count how many I have; I figure it's somewhere up there in the gazillions at least. And they're all yellow. No distinguishing features. Nothing to differentiate one from another....

The blogging experience: hosts, add-on content, and monetizing.(WEBMASTRY)(Column)
March 1, 2007... Technorati, one of the top search engines for blogs, claimed it was tracking 63.2 million blogs as of late December 2006. That's a lot of bloggers. What surprises me most about the blogosphere, though, is the vast number of free publishing...

Looking for venture capital firms: a searcher adventure.(online directories)
March 1, 2007... Once again, venture capital (VC) is a hot topic. For the first time since the "dot-bust" 5 years ago, the venture capital industry is ratcheting up investment levels. Private equity firms have money to spend; startups are trying to find those...

Contacts.(libraries )(Directory)
March 1, 2007... ABIL Inc. 2501 Fox Harbor Court Richmond, VA 23235-2829 (804) 353-3964 URL: http://www.anxietysupport.org American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 53 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 940 Chicago, IL 60604 ...