Searcher articles from September 2004

Searcher archives from September 2004

Going the distance.(Searcher's Voice)(career planning)
September 1, 2004... Have you ever played the "Before" memory game? That's the one where you guess someone's age by what they can remember back to living without. "I can remember before sushi came to L.A." vs. "I can remember before pizza came to L.A." Or, "I can...

Rubinstein's return: inventor of WordStar and Quattro Pro now takes on search.(InteSoft Systems, LLC)
September 1, 2004... A brisk walk through one of the WebSearch University or Search Engine Strategies conferences leaves two impressions. First, search is of intense interest to people who want traffic on their Web sites. Second, most attendees have the eagerness...

Looking for good art: web resources and image databases: Part one: general and U.S. tools.
September 1, 2004... Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Guides to art resources are legion. Almost every university and college that teaches...

Wrap it up with the web: canning and preserving via the internet.(Internet Express)
September 1, 2004... An Englishman asked an Iowa farmer how he dealt with his astounding harvest. The reply: "We eat what we can, and what we can't, we can." The British fellow, highly am used with this response, reported it to his countrymen thus: "They eat what...

Evaluating DialogLink 4.0.(The Better Mousetrap)(Product/Service Evaluation)
September 1, 2004... In early 2002, when DialogLink 3.0 was released, the launch received little press coverage. In fact, "Mousetrap" could only find a handful of mentions of 3.0 in a generous multifile search on Dialog itself. The most important improvement in...

Sweltering at ALA in Orlando.(American Library Association)
September 1, 2004... Oppressive humidity in Orlando in late June slowed but did not stop the parade of librarians up and down International Drive following their various pursuits at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference. This yearly summer event...

Musings on the SLA 2004 Annual Conference.
September 1, 2004... Neither of us had ever visited Nashville before, but it is quite a town. It has plenty of music, good food, history, and a good dose of humidity. Downtown Nashville is home to the historic Ryman Auditorium (Grand Ole Opry) and the Country Music...

To chat or not to chat: taking yet another look at virtual reference.
September 1, 2004... In our first exciting episode ("To Chat or Not To Chat: Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference." Searcher. July/August 2004; http://www.infotoday. com/searcherljul04/arret_coffman:shtml), we took a look at the history of chat reference in...

Best buys.(Buyers Guide)
September 1, 2004... Hardware Best Laptop Computers: Averatec Inc.'s AV3225HS ($999); Hewlett-Packard Company's Compaq Presario R3000Z ($1,099) Source: Cisco Cheng, "Sweet Deals in Laptops," PC Magazine, June 8, 2004, pp. 30-2. Best Notebook...

Contacts.(Calendar)
September 1, 2004... Acer Inc. (TravelMate 8000) 2641 Orchard Parkway San Jose, CA 95134 (408) 432-6200 (800) 733-2237 (408) 922-2933 (fax) URL: http://www.acer.com Acronis Inc. (TrueImage 7.0, Privacy Expert Suite 7.0) 395...