Searcher articles from March 2009

Searcher archives from March 2009

Searcher's voice: life lessons.(EDITORIAL)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Life's funny. You try to learn from experience, but some of the lessons experience teaches may seem illogical, even anti-logical. But the lessons keep working over and over again. Take inanimate objects, for example....

Picture yourself on the web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
March 1, 2009... A pal from my alma mater, Occidental College, has started using my quiet morning library as a place to do her script reading job. She is charming and brilliant; I am delighted to know her again. She pulled me aside one day to tell me the news....

The social web and civil life: the future of participatory politics in America.(LiveLinks)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The web has been creeping up on civil life and into politics for quite a while. The Clinton White House established an official web presence in 1996, and FirstGov.gov (the official U.S....

360-degree decision support for global executives: Economist Intelligence Unit.(LiveLinks)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the September 2008 issue of Searcher, I reviewed Business Monitor International, a respected source of political risk information ["Tools for Cross-Border Business Decisions: Business...

Living large in lean times.
March 1, 2009... It's getting so that I am afraid to open the morning paper. I can always seem to count on at least one headline with bad news about the economy. "Oil Closes at Record High"; "Builders' Confidence at Record Low"; "Unemployment at Four Year...

Building on 2.0: Internet Librarian 2008.(Conference news)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Once again the siren call of Internet Librarian drew more than 1,200 information professionals to Monterey, Calif., for 3 days of storytelling, info sharing, and intense networking Oct. 20-22, 2008. Of all the...

Welcome to Shanghai: the 4th Shanghai International Library Forum.
March 1, 2009... The 4th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF) [http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2008/english/english/ htm], a biennial conference initiated in 2002, convened in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 20, 2008, for registration, followed by sessions from...

The art of the deal: the power and pitfalls of consortial negotiation.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the face of the rising costs and complex licenses that accompany electronic resources, librarians have taken a variety of different approaches to negotiating good deals with low bottom lines and a minimum of...

Find a way to offer Playaway: a new kind of audio book: when historians look back on library services in the early 21st century, one of the major trends they may discuss is the renaissance of the audio book.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the end of the 20th century, print publishing sales were flat; however, the popularity of audio books has grown exponentially in the last 8 years. Easy to use, they fit well into a wide variety of busy lifestyles....

Contacts.(Directory)
March 1, 2009... Beth Ashmore Samford University Library 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229 (205) 726-2038 Internet: bashmore@researchinglibrarian.com URL: http://www.researchinglibrarian.com Association of Independent...