Information Today articles from December 2008

Information Today archives from December 2008

Forecast 2009: what's on the horizon.(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... The second half of 2008 was a chapter for the history books. More budget tightening followed a series of industry M&As, all before Wall Street began weathering its highs and lows amid global economic unrest. With continued shifts in power,...

The mouse turns 40.
December 1, 2008... We tend to view history as a once-familiar path that is no longer well-maintained. But along that path, specific mileposts occasionally arise that are so profound that they remain clearly visible across the spans of time. Backtrack to 1968...

Taking the byte out of cybercrime.
December 1, 2008... The growth of spam, malware, phishing, and other cyberattacks on the internet has given rise to a new cross-disciplinary group designed to help combat the problem. The Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) held its first...

Google Book Search settles landmark lawsuit, readies more content.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers, and a group of authors and publishers settled their class action lawsuit against Google Book Search in late October after filing the suit on Sept. 20, 2005, and negotiating terms for...

EBSCO Publishing acquires NISC, Inc.(NewsBytes)
December 1, 2008... EBSCO Publishing expanded its database offerings through an acquisition from National Information Services Corp. (NISC), Inc. The deal brings several NISC databases into the EBSCO fold, including Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Gender...

Dow Jones teams up with Transparency International.(NewsBytes)(Dow Jones & Company Inc. )(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Dow Jones & Co. is partnering with Transparency International for the next 2 years. Under the agreement, Dow Jones will supply information resources to bolster Transparency International's research and will support the organization's...

GPO launches three business units.(NewsBytes)(Government Printing Office)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) created three new business units: print procurement, sales and marketing, and operations support. The print procurement unit handles transactions on behalf of federal customers to commercial vendors;...

Settlement reached in German digital delivery case.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... subito e.V., the Free State of Bavaria in Germany, the Borsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, and the International Association of STM Publishers reached a settlement agreement, ending litigation concerning the legality of digitally delivering...

Personal Communications Devices targets Latin America, Caribbean, Fiji.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Personal Communications Devices, LLC is expanding its presence in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Fiji with a new line of mobile devices. The handsets will include features such as color screens, built-in digital cameras, Bluetooth...

Credo offers discounted service to BCR members.(NewsBytes)(Bibliographical Center for Research Inc.)(Credo Reference Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Credo Reference is expanding its reach via a new agreement with the Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR), a nonprofit that provides member libraries with training, products, discounts, and consultation services. Under the agreement, BCR...

iContact gets $5 million in funding.(NewsBytes)(North Atlantic Capital Corp.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Portland, Maine-based venture capital firm North Atlantic Capital is providing $5 million in debt funding to iContact. The money will go toward sales and marketing to speed up customer acquisition and expand the size of iContact's staff to deal...

Tech Logic products boost new Vancouver library.(NewsBytes)(North Vancouver City Library and Civic Centre )(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The North Vancouver City Library and Civic Centre opened its doors Sept. 20, and Tech Logic's products were a big part of the day. The company's RFID-based security gates, staff workstations, Combo Station self-checkout system, and UltraSort...

SAGE partners with CAPES, wins APEX award.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... SAGE and the Brazilian consortium CAPES are teaming up to provide online access to SAGE's science, technical, and medical journals at 124 CAPES institutions. The journals are available in full-text format and can be retrieved via the SAGE...

Planning ahead for all the readers on your gift list.(Up Front With Barbara Quint)
December 1, 2008... The other day I was talking with a friend and colleague about the article "Print on Demand Goes Local" by Jill Grogg (http://newsbreaks.infotoday .com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50991). It describes how the University of Michigan libraries are...

More research-sharing tools and search engine improvements.(NewsBreak Update)
December 1, 2008... My Sept. 4 NewsLink Spotlight article (http://news M breaks.infotoday.com/nb Reader.asp?ArticleId= 50584) on new research sharing tools touched a key interest among readers. It garnered more comments than any article we've posted. Many comments...

Wiley-Blackwell, COPE team up.(NewsBytes)(Committee on Publication Ethics)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Wiley-Blackwell and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) are now working together. The partnership gives Wiley-Blackwell editors access to COPE's information and educational services. They can also attend meetings to discuss ethical...

Thomson Reuters brings web of knowledge to Turkey, names new board member.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge platform is headed for Turkey. The Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre signed a 3-year agreement that will make the platform available at all Turkish and TR of Cyprus universities as well as...

New organization sets sights on open access.(NewsBytes)(The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association )(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is now live. The organization's goal is to support open access (OA) journal publishers by facilitating an exchange of information, setting industry standards, advancing business and...

Kennet Partners invests in Recommind.(NewsBytes)(Kennet Venture Partners)(RecomMind Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Global investment firm Kennet Partners will provide the first institutional funding for Recommind. The company--which provides enterprise search, email management, and e-discovery systems to Fortune 500 companies--will use the funding to ramp...

New podcast series to promote online information conference.(NewsBytes)
December 1, 2008... The Online Information 2008 Conference is launching a series of podcasts titled Talking With Talis. In the programs, Talis technology evangelist Richard Wallis conducts one-on-one interviews with information industry leaders such as Stephen...

SLA praises EPA for library reopenings.(NewsBytes)(Special Libraries Association)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Special Libraries Association (SLA) applauded the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to reopen regional libraries in Chicago; Dallas; Kansas City, Mo.; and Washington, D.C. A professional librarian will staff each library for...

Playing a different tune.(Recording Industry Association of America)
December 1, 2008... On Feb. 21, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on behalf of its member record companies, sent a new wave of 401 prelitigation settlement letters to 12 universities. On May 23, a jury in Alexandria, Va., rendered a guilty...

Letter from the editor.(Editorial)
December 1, 2008... As 2008 draws to a close, we've experienced some unexpected highs and lows in the IT industry as the world economy weathered its own pain points. That's why the timing was right to ask some of our top industry analysts for their insights for...

Two shots at reality.
December 1, 2008... I have two stories to share with you this month, based on some recent travels. Crossing the virtual divide. Guest speaker Martyn Lewis, chairman of Teliris (a company that provides "tele-presence" solutions, which is much the same as...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] HMM... NOW FOR THE TRUTH. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED]

With growth comes growing pains.(Focus on Publishing)(Open Access Day )
December 1, 2008... Open access (OA) had quite a good year in 2008. The first international Open Access Day was held on Oct. 14, sponsored by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Public Library of Science (PLoS), and the Students For Free...

Sunlight disinfects.(Internet Waves)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2008... Once upon a time, I was a young reporter. Now I am a middle-aged news researcher. To put it mildly, the news business has changed over the decades in between. And I could use too many column inches here bemoaning and/or defending all these...

Anti-spam legislation setbacks.(Legal Issues)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2008... I n the fall, I gave a report on email at a University of Pittsburgh faculty meeting. Among the statistics I reported was that in March 2008, the University of Pittsburgh email servers received 505 million email messages. Of that number, more...

37signals rolls out simple collaboration solutions.(IT Spotlight)(37signals )(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... Here's a high-tech company that offers a variety of enterprise solutions so firms can collaborate and manage any project. FOUNDER 37signals was founded in 1999. But the company was a web design firm, not the web-based project...

A busy time at Internet Librarian.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2008... I have been attending the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, Calif., for many years, and it's always a pleasure to see old friends and meet new ones. I don't travel that much these days (I've been keeping busy with a growing business...

IT budget relief strategies.(Insider's Perspective)
December 1, 2008... [This column lets experts in the information technology industry discuss the challenges and trends in their special niche in the marketplace.--Ed.] Business executives face a monumental dilemma as they find themselves caught in tough...

Retrospective: 25 years ago in Information Today.(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2008... When I was getting ready to put the premiere issue of Information Today to bed in November 1983, I decided to write a story titled "Why a newspaper?" Here's how it started: As I was putting my thoughts together for this little...

Winter wallpapers from Flickr and slices of YouTube.(COOL TOOLS)(http://marco gomes.com/wallpapr/en)(Website overview)
December 1, 2008... The Web 2.0 world of user-generated content is often praised for the democratization of creation. The work of professional writers, artists, photographers, and directors can appear side by side with the work of talented amateurs who create out...

Association of Research Libraries.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announced its board of directors for 2008-2009. Thomas C. Leonard has been elected to a 1-year term as president of ARL. Currently, he is the Kenneth and Dorothy Hill University Librarian and a...

Unlimited Priorities.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Corilee Christou to join Unlimited Priorities )(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Unlimited Priorities announced that Corilee Christou has joined the company. Previously, she was at LexisNexis, where she developed the first aggregator subscription-pricing program and managed the initial information professional support team....

National Information Standards Organization.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(National Information Standards Organization to appoint Jeremy Frumkin, Julia Blixrud, Anthony O'Brien )(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced three new committee appointments. Jeremy Frumkin is now chair of NISO's Architecture Committee. Frumkin is head of emerging technologies and services at Oregon State...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced that first lady Laura Bush presented the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to the winning museums and libraries at a White House ceremony in October.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced that first lady Laura Bush presented the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to the winning museums and libraries at a White House ceremony in October. The National Medals...

Kim Anderson, Chief Bibliographer and Vice President of Marketing, Blackwell.(People Line & the Executive Profile)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kim Anderson doesn't have just one role at Blackwell; he has two. Anderson joined Blackwell in 1990. During his tenure at the publishing company, Anderson held positions as regional sales manager, district...

Book fair breaks attendance record while Europe looks to the future.(International REPORT)
December 1, 2008... Visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair put global recession fears on hold while attending the annual publishing jamboree. The world's largest book fair drew record attendance in October despite the worldwide economic turmoil. The 60th annual...

Business pros still love print.(NewsMakers)(Survey)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... American business executives still love to see their news in print, according to a survey by Ipsos Mendelsohn. The survey polled about 8,000 senior and C-suite execs who are responsible for $1.4 trillion of business spending and earn $246...

Hana Levay wins Swets Scholarship.(NewsMakers)
December 1, 2008... Hana Levay, assistant information resources librarian at the University of Washington in Seattle, won the 2008 Swets' Charleston Conference Scholarship. She was awarded a $1,000 scholarship to attend the Charleston Conference in South Carolina...

SLA inducts three info pro luminaries into SLA Hall of Fame.(NewsMakers)(Special Libraries Association)(Toby Pearlstein)(Dana Lincoln Roth)(Sue O'Neill Johnson)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Special Libraries Association (SLA) announced that three information professionals were inducted into the Hall of Fame for their work and contributions to the field of librarianship and information management. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

What's ahead for 2009.(Conference Circuit)
December 1, 2008... In my December 2007 column, I presented an in-depth statistical analysis of the year's conferences. Although I'm not doing that this year, I will note that 665 information industry conferences--an increase of 86 (or 15%) over 2007--are listed...

Conference dates for 2009.(Conference Circuit)(Brief article)(Calendar)
December 1, 2008... Internet@Schools East March 30-31 Hyatt Regency, Crystal City * Arlington, Va. Computers in Libraries March 30-31 (Preconference workshops begin March 29; postconference workshops begin Apr il 2) Hyatt Regency,...

Highlights from IL 2008.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Internet Librarian )
December 1, 2008... For those who attended this year's Internet Librarian Oct. 20-22 in Monterey, Calif., you undoubtedly came back with a bounty of new ideas. If you didn't attend all the sessions you wanted to or couldn't attend the conference at all this year,...

RSuite CMS 2008 User Conference.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More enterprises are now offering ways to get an up-close-and-personal look at their products in order to let customers see how these products actually perform in real life and in real time. Really Strategies, Inc....

Conferences around the world.(Conference Circuit)(Conference news)(Calendar)
December 1, 2008... For information on ITI's conferences, turn to page 26. December 2-4: Boston (The Westin Copley Place). Industry experts from top technology, enterprise IT, analysis, and consulting firms are ready to help attendees implement Web 2.0...

Lessons from Lubuto.(Lubuto library )
December 1, 2008... While budget trimming and economic unrest may be causing a collective angst for many industrywide, Jane Kinney Meyers is keeping a spirit of giving alive this season. In fact, her "season" lasts year-round for Africa's street kids, many of them...

AI Association honors 'Classic Paper'.
December 1, 2008... In 1990, Steve Minton, Mark Johnston, Andrew Philips, and Philip Laird submitted a paper that revolutionized artificial intelligence (AI).And nearly 2 decades later, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) honored...

Safari Books Online launches Apple mobile, retools online library.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... Safari Books Online announced the debut of Safari Bookbag, which allows chapter and full-book PDFs to be downloaded to the iPhone and iPod touch. The new service, which is the first offer by an online publisher to open its entire library to...

Ex Libris Group reveals updated Primo solution.(Product News & Reviews)(Primo Solution version 2.1)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Ex Libris Group unveiled version 2.1 of its Primo discovery and delivery solution. The new installment features enhanced user interface customization options, increased front-end functionality, enhanced availability information, extended...

MarkLogic Server 4.0 unveiled.(Product News & Reviews)(Mark Logic MarkLogic Server Version 4.0)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The latest version of the Mark Logic MarkLogic Server is now available. Version 4.0 adds several new features to the program, including geospatial support, entity enrichment, large-scale alerting, enhanced content...

I love YouTube.(Database Review)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2008... I love YouTube. Every video in the world is on there. Well, at least videos on everything in the world are on there. It's easy to use; there's no annoying computer back talk about "unsupported file type." And everybody else loves YouTube. It's...

AccuWeather.com brings weather info to BlackBerry home screens.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... AccuWeather.com is offering a free subscription service for the BlackBerry smartphone that places an icon on the phone's home screen displaying weather conditions. Users can also click on the icon to access hourly forecasts, 10-day forecasts,...

Thieme Publishing brings Pharmaceutical Substances up-to-date.(Product News & Reviews)(Thieme Publishing Group)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Thieme Publishing Group revealed Pharmaceutical Substances version 3.1, an updated reference guide to pharmaceutical compounds and FDA-approved active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The new guide features 51 new and 1,300 fully updated...

New Experian credit scoring model now available.(Product News & Reviews)(Experian Information Solutions Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Experian launched Intelliscore Plus, a new B2B credit scoring model. The model will help clients minimize risk and predict future business delinquency with advanced statistical techniques and more than 800 commercial and owner variables, such...

WorldCat adds French records, links to Questia eBooks.(Product News & Reviews)(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)(Bibliotheque Nationale)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat. Bibliotheque nationale de France and OCLC signed the document during the IFLA World...

Thomson Reuters launches integrated solution suite, and more.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Thomson Reuters announced the launch of a suite of web-based global corporate business intelligence solutions that gather assets and expertise from across Thomson Reuters. Corporate professionals can log in once and access all the information,...

Near-Time: adding social networking to the equation.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... Near-Time has now integrated social networking into its enterprise service on the Near-Time platform. Reid Conrad, CEO, says the Enterprise 2.0 collaboration is working well and the most recent enhancements are making it even better. "We've...

New collaboration project targets publishers, repositories, and researchers.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), supported by the European Union (EU), will investigate the effects of the systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (aka Green Open Access) on reader access, author...

CS3 Connector integrates RSuite with Adobe CS3.(Product News & Reviews)(Really Strategies)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RSuite CMS is targeting Adobe InCopy users with its CS3 Connector. The product integrates with Adobe CS3 to make XML and InCopy documents accessible in RSuite directly from InCopy. This enables users to manage their...

Access Innovations and Dow Jones partner for enhanced indexing solution.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... Access Innovations, Inc. and Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group announced a joint marketing agreement. The two companies gather machine-automated indexing (M.A.I. from Access Innovations) and a powerful thesaurus tool (Dow Jones' Synaptica) for...

Wiley-Blackwell to publish Heterocorporation journal.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Wiley-Blackwell is taking over publishing duties for Heterocorporation's Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry in January 2009. The journal, established in 1964, covers synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry research in the heterocyclic...

H.W. Wilson unveils fifth Reference Shelf 2008 title.(Product News & Reviews)(H.W. Wilson Co.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] H.W. Wilson released the fifth of six titles in its Reference Shelf 2008 series: The Next Space Age. The book examines today's impetus for space exploration, projects underway worldwide, new players in the space...

Recommind service simplifies Legal Hold process.(Product News & Reviews)(RecomMind Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Recommind is helping enterprises deal with the legal implications of the global financial crisis with Insite Legal Hold. Using the service, enterprises can explore information where it resides before it is collected and placed on hold in...

LISjobs.com launches new website.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... LISjobs.com has been redesigned to bring the site in line with current web standards while adding new content and features. Highlights of the redesign include better integration of the LISjobs.com forum and other interactive site features,...

Serials Solutions adds features to 360 Search, 360 Counter, WebFeat.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Serials Solutions introduced two enhancements to its 360 e-resource access and management services. The first enhancement is a federated search connection development framework for 360 Search and WebFeat that...

EBSCO adds textile database, announces backfile project.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Textile Technology Complete, EBSCO Publishing's new full-text database, is now available. The database offers coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Textile Technology Complete is the...

Vivisimo: ramping up velocity.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... A year after Vivisimo, Inc. introduced Velocity Search Platform 6.0, the company is now back on track with Velocity 7.0, the latest version of its flagship enterprise search platform. This version of Velocity puts search control back into...

OECD enlists Elsevier for Scopus database.(Product News & Reviews)(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)(Reed Elsevier N.V.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is now using Elsevier's Scopus database to enhance its research performance analysis. Scopus provides OECD with insight into worldwide research productivity trends and...

Semantra 2.5 unveiled for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Semantra released Semantra 2.5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The product, a business intelligence and analytics tool that lets users search enterprise databases, features ubiquitous data access, summary analytics, linking to public data, improved...

AIP begins Scitation redesigns for six clients.(Product News & Reviews)(American Institute of Physics)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is conducting content redesigns for six clients using its Scitation online publishing platform. The redesigns will include Web 2.0 features such as embed codes for bloggers, a social bookmarking system,...

MuseGlobal: making a connection with Oracle.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... MuseConnect for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search is the latest innovation to join the MuseGlobal product line. It may actually take longer to pronounce its full name than to integrate the product into an enterprise platform. MuseGlobal...

Ask.com launches retooled search engine.(Product News & Reviews)(IAC Search & Media)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Ask.com is rolling out a new version of its search engine. Now, results come from the web as well as from "structured" sources of data, such as television listings, that deal with topics including entertainment, health, and jobs. The new site...

NationMaster.com makes correlation tools free.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NationMaster.com's correlation tools can now be accessed for free. The tools let users compare any two statistics from a database of more than 5,700, resulting in correlations useful to journalists, writers,...

New CISProMobile uses Windows CE 5.0 to ease inventory woes.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... A new version of ChemSW, Inc.'s CISProMobile integrates Windows CE 5.0 with the CISPro Chemical Inventory System. Using a handheld software client, CISProMobile users can enter inventory data into a Windows-compatible handheld device, such as a...

hakia introduces new search engine interface.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... hakia unveiled a new user interface for its semantic search engine. The new interface displays credibility-stamped results alongside regular results as well as three new tabs on the right side of the screen: my hakia, h-CLUB (login), and hakia...

Inmagic's Presto gets more social.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... Inmagic, Inc. has come a long way since it started in 1984, and the company is keeping pace with changes that social networking has generated in the industry. With the latest version of Presto, Inmagic is taking social networking to an all-new...

Capital IQ nabs data from FDIC, Standard & Poor's.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Capital IQ added data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and Standard & Poor's Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD) to its Capital IQ Platform. Users can now access financial information on more than 8,000...

FindLaw RSS feed keeps lawyers up-to-date.(Product News & Reviews)
December 1, 2008... FindLaw is launching an RSS feed that will deliver court opinions to subscribers within hours of their release. The opinions, which can be tracked by practice area, come from 23 jurisdictions, including the U.S. Supreme Court, all federal...

Web dishes up recipes for home-cooked savings: the web offers enough free recipes to fill several dozen filing cabinets....(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
December 1, 2008... To save money, about 45% of Americans are eating out less often this year, a nearly 12% increase over last year, according to BIGresearch, an Ohio-based consumer research firm. But some of us (especially those of us who don't cook often)...

Site blends wine, the spirit of giving, and sports.(CyberSports)
December 1, 2008... Someone finally came up with a way to meld two of your Field Correspondent's favorite things. No, it's not Hero Sandwiches in Your Sleep. It's EventWines.com. The online wine seller is offering California wines with specialty...

Getting back to basics on Main Street U.S.A.(Cover Notes)
December 1, 2008... The Small Public Library Survival Guide: Thriving on Less by Herbert B. Landau Chicago: ALA, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8389-3575-0 159 pages; $38 You may think of small public libraries as stereotypical facilities: the heart...

Back tome again.(In Other Words)
December 1, 2008... For those of you who have read this column on a regular basis over the years, you've probably gleaned a few insights into what makes me tick. You may recall all the song titles I have borrowed for subheads (usually with a word or two altered),...