Searcher articles from September 2006

Searcher archives from September 2006

Hard times.(for information industry)
September 1, 2006... No one can deny that these are difficult times for traditional publishers and information services. Competing with voluminous, universally available search services pouring data upon a waiting world at no visible cost--in other words, living in...

DynaMed for better health: evidently EBSCO.(EBSCO Information Services)(Column)
September 1, 2006... When I initially hit upon the idea to feature a database in the health field, I envisioned a well-written, straightforward topic such as The Better Mousetrap column on the INSPEC database ("The Better Mousetrap... can be built by engineers,"...

Movement on my monitor: video on the Web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
September 1, 2006... Since 1994, we have known Web pages as a kind of "window shade," as my UCLA library school teacher Esther Grassian described it. A click of a mouse opens a connection to the Internet and pulls data down until a Web page is fully loaded. Then...

Beyond Google: the importance of orphan works and Section 108 reform to information professionals.
September 1, 2006... CopyCense.com Raise your hand if you know that Google is being sued over its Google Book Search (formerly Google Print) project. Of course, you know about this--everyone knows about this. Google announced in December 2004 that it would...

Around the fundraising campfire: stories of dismal failure, near misses, and great success.
September 1, 2006... Headline: Alumnus Gives $10 million to State College; First Visit to Campus in 20 Years Readers pass by stories of war and political high jinks to savor tales of luck gone good. Filled with anecdotes of accidental meetings, impulsive...

CrossRef at the crossroads.
September 1, 2006... For many, CrossRef appears to be an example of what wonderful things can happen when an industry has the foresight to band together and come up with a standardized solution to current and growing problems. By recognizing that bilateral linking...

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: error and misinformation in media.(Cover story)
September 1, 2006... This past winter, a media brouhaha sent shock waves around the world. On Jan. 8, 2006, The Smoking Gun, an investigative blog owned by Court TV, outted author Jonathan Frey for lying big-time in his Oprah-approved memoir, A Million Little...

All the right numbers: strategies for locating industry sales.
September 1, 2006... "What is the size of the global pharmaceuticals market for the last 10 years?" Do questions such as this sound familiar? Clients and patrons often ask researchers for the total sales of an industry. Sometimes clients or patrons are more...

Job well done.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... Editor's comment The following exchange of messages show how good information can do a world of good. I was away when the above issue [June 2006 issue of Searcher with the cover story on post-Katrina relief; also available free at...

White is right?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... Responding to a disagreement with remarks published by Herb White in Library Journal appearing in the June 2006 Searcher'sVoice ("Cassandra Grumbles"; http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/ jun06/voice.shtml): Being a career-long fan of Herb...

Contacts.(Directory)
September 1, 2006... Beth Ashmore Samford University 1808 Lane Drive Leeds, AL 35094 (205) 726-2038 Internet: bashmore@researching librarian.com URL: http://www.researchinglibrarian.com Association of Professional Researchers for...