Searcher articles from September 2002

Searcher archives from September 2002

The eternal watchdog. (Searcher's Voice).
September 1, 2002... The answer to one question still eludes me, even after all the work done to put together last month's issue on "The Third Millennium Information Professional." What exactly will information professionals--librarians or professional searchers or...

A healthy flow of information. (Web Wise Ways).
September 1, 2002... Consultant I am an information junkie and I suspect many of you are, too. As a very young girl, I can remember the first bookmobile that stopped in our rural area. My brothers, sisters, and I left the bookmobile each time, loaded down with...

SLA 2002: putting knowledge to work.
September 1, 2002... Conference events held this year are being affected by economic shock waves rippling across the globe. Corporate downsizings, reduced budgets, and refocused agendas have led fewer people to attend workshops and conferences held outside of their...

MLA 2002: "big D" means digital and documents in Dallas.
September 1, 2002... The 2002 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting started off on a high note with an emotioal and moving presentation by Beck Weathers, M.D., who recounted his near-death experiences at the top of Mt. Everest. Weathers delivered the John P....

Our environment: Part I, general sources.
September 1, 2002... For children of the '60s, environmental issues remain high on our list of priorities. We all took the required earth sciences classes, though some of us did so to satisfy science coursework requirements while avoiding the more difficult (and...

Company directories: past, present, and future.
September 1, 2002... Once upon a time, a librarian had a select number of company directories on the shelves in the corporate library. Primarily, she used the directories to find addresses and phone numbers of client and target companies. And company employees...

Doing it right: how some universities encourage the creation of prime research Web sites.
September 1, 2002... One day while researching, I used four different Web sites: the Making of America collection [http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/], the Internet Public Library [http://ipl.org/], Statistical Resources on the Web...

Tales of a searcher's life: a comedy of errors or a test of patience?
September 1, 2002... A searcher's life is filled with anecdotes, tales of high-quality data producers having an off day or of dreary, time-consuming slogs to uncover essential pricing information. Though the tales told in this article are anecdotal, I report them...

The past in your pocket: digital heritage print collections in Canada and abroad.
September 1, 2002... Digital libraries are everywhere, and, even as standards, staffing, clients, funding, and Nicholson Baker's Double Fold critique are sorted out, the digital domain remain part of every library's future. This article surveys the digital library...

A searcher abroad.
September 1, 2002... Barbara Quint suggested I write a travelogue for searchers abroad. I write this little piece after the first of 2 weeks in India. I came over with my wife as part of an interuniversity exchange to discuss digital libraries. My audience...

URL inclusion programs: new revenue generator for search engines. (Emmerce).
September 1, 2002... In the beginning, there were eyeballs. Back at the start of the Internet craze, the revenue model seemed simple: Get as many people to visit your site as possible--accumulate eyeballs. Sell advertising to set in front of those eyeballs (at...

Revenge of the killer pop-ups. (Tools of the Trade).
September 1, 2002... Okay, how's this for irony? While doing research on the Internet for this article about pop-up ads, I clicked on an article about pop-ups. Lo and behold, in addition to the article, I received three pop-up ads. Someone, somewhere is obviously...