Searcher articles from May 2006

Searcher archives from May 2006

Think like a searcher.(Searcher's VOICE)
May 1, 2006... I read a scary statistic the other day. Last year it seems the number of Americans going online only increased 3 percent. That wasn't the scary statistic, though. Since the final count of Americans on the Internet still amounted to some...

Spring training--scale up those searching skills!(THE BETTER MOUSETRAP)
May 1, 2006... Vacation weeks are scheduled and milestones mapped for meeting this year's all-important job objectives. Now's the time to augment your online database searching skills--or at least, gather information on what classes are available to help you...

Interview with Bonnie Carroll executive director, CENDI.(Commerce, Energy, NASA, NLM, Defense and Interior)(Interview)
May 1, 2006... Tell me about current CENDI projects. CENDI is a cooperative interagency group. We work on a broad range of issues including policy, standards, education, and operations. In the policy area we obviously are very interested in open access as...

Arrange some, delete some--task arrange and AM-DeadLink.(TOOLS OF THE TRADE)
May 1, 2006... This month we're going to look at two completely unrelated software programs. I chose the first because I am a creature of habit. Once I set things up the way I like them, I want them to stay that way--no surprises, no changes. I find that...

The digital humanities revolution.
May 1, 2006... When did the revolution in humanities teaching begin? Certainly the widespread integration of computer and Internet technology into higher education advanced the process. Humanities educators became determined to adopt computational analysis of...

RTR (Real Time Research) for ATS (Alla Time Shopping).
May 1, 2006... For the past several months I've been working on a book called Real Time Research: Automated Internet Searching (Prentice Hall, coming soon to a bookstore near you, yadda yadda yadda). Though I have been fascinated by search engines for a...

Is Google news really news?(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... This is the story of how Google News can fail as a trustworthy news source. Provided are case studies showing how easily people can insert self-serving, unedited content into Google News. Google News needs to bolster its usefulness and its...

Now just who is Daniel Imperato?(Is Google News Really News?)
May 1, 2006... I have fantasized for some time about writing a Wikipedia entry on some arcane topic with a mix of fact and fiction, just to see if I could get it past the volunteer editors. Does that speak ill of me? Or is it just a little healthy curiosity?...

Beyond ERIC: the early years: part three: resources for higher education and lifelong learning.(Education Resources Information Center)
May 1, 2006... This installment in our series of articles concerning education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult. As such, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for...