Searcher articles from November 2006

Searcher archives from November 2006

Emotion and information.(Searcher's VOICE)
November 1, 2006... I had two interesting conversations the other day, both with strangers. Let me rephrase that. Both with colleagues I hadn't met before. The first was with Jeff Cutler, a veteran of the online information industry now serving as chief revenue...

The new SLA: conference report 2006.(Special Libraries Association partnering with Information Today Inc.)
November 1, 2006... At last year's Internet Librarian meeting, one speaker asked the audience how many of them belonged to SLA. Almost every hand in the auditorium shot up. As a longtime SLA member, I found the results of that straw poll extremely disturbing. If...

Peace on earth to people of good will: religion, the United States, and the web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
November 1, 2006... We all remember that ghastly day in September 2001 when Islamic terrorists murdered thousands of Americans. According to Osama bin Laden, the attack was part of a worldwide holy war between Muslims and the "atheists and infidels" of the United...

Easy wins and hard lessons on intranets from a SharePoint deployment.
November 1, 2006... Beyond End Users Much like our colleagues in IT, we in the info pro community tend to focus on objectifying our roles as knowledge gurus and treat everyone else as "end users." Like most simplifications, the term "end user" is more helpful...

News, the BBC, and creating the future.(British Broadcasting Corp.)
November 1, 2006... Whenever anyone asks me what I miss most about the United States, now that I am living the largest part of the year in Spain, the answer is easy: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Watching this evening news program on the Public Broadcasting...

The book as place: the "networked book" becomes the new "in" destination.(PUBLISHING TRENDS)
November 1, 2006... Remember when bookstores were simple spaces filled only with shelves and a checkout counter? Hushed as a proverbial library they were and serious places of business. Then, about 15 years ago, an odd thing happened: Suddenly, you were not only...

Is a picture worth a thousand words?: graphical displays of search results.(WEB MASTRY)
November 1, 2006... For years, we've sifted through search engine results displayed in long lists. Our eyes screen for keywords, scanning for context to determine if the source has credibility, before we click into the result. But, is there a better way to view...

Google and OCLC open libraries on the Open Web.(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)
November 1, 2006... Has Google gone library or has the library gone Google? As the pencil-thin line between library resources and the free Web becomes harder and harder to detect, just who is influencing whom in pursuit of the perfect scholarly research interface?...

OpenCourseWare an "MIT thing"?(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Website overview)
November 1, 2006... In late 2000, the faculty-led Council on Educational Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced a plan to open their course content to the rest of the world at no cost. MIT's then-president, Charles Vest, was...

Getting "swicki" with it: pruning your search design: in a world awash with powerful search tools, specificity is an increasingly important value in online searching. Google it? Sure, and get back 247,000,000 pages. The first 10 of which you'll see, the first three of which you'll look at, and the first one or two of which you'll use, right? Manipulation of metadata wins the day again.
November 1, 2006... Using your old pal, Boolean logic, you can, of course, get a lot further along. But even so, many highly relevant pages will remain hidden to googling (in whatever search engines), because, perhaps, your answers lie in an asocial site that...

Contacts.(universities and colleges)(Directory)
November 1, 2006... American Bible Society 1865 Broadway New York, NY 10023 (212) 408-1200 Internet: info@americanbible.org URL: http://www.american bible.org Beth Ashmore Samford University 1808 Lane Drive Leeds, AL 35094...

Out of the woods.(CORRESPONDENCE)
November 1, 2006... Lucky me! The article, "Can't See the Forest for the Trees--International Web Resources and Databases on Forestry" by David Mattison, was published in the April 2006 Searcher magazine within a week of my client asking me to find out if there...