Information Today articles from November 2006

Information Today archives from November 2006

Lost data: the legal challenges.
November 1, 2006... Another day, another data breach, another lawsuit. On Sept. 22, 2006, a lawsuit was filed against AOL over its release of 19 million search requests affecting 650,000 subscribers. The suit was filed by three AOL subscribers as a class-action...

Ten ways to boost data security.
November 1, 2006... Today, most companies are focusing on data security issues and finding ways to ensure that sensitive information doesn't fall into the wrong hands. According to Paul Giardina, senior vice president for marketing at Protegrity Corp. in Stamford,...

Trials: the new e-book readers.(Sony Reader, and iLiad e-reader )(Product/service evaluation)
November 1, 2006... Despite high expectations, the e-book market just hasn't been very successful until now. Over the years, we've seen many companies come and go in this space. Dedicated e-book reader devices have not been hot sellers either, with hardware...

Google expands offerings with YouTube, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG Music Entertainment.(NewsBytes)
November 1, 2006... Google, Inc. announced that it will acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. After the acquisition, Google reported that YouTube will continue to operate as an independent consumer media company for people to watch...

Swets celebrates 105 years of service.(Swets Information Services)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Swets Information Services celebrated its 105th anniversary on Sept. 26. Although it began as a bookshop in Amsterdam, it is now the world's leading subscription services company with offices in more than 20 countries around the world. ...

Elsevier Partners with group on new journal.(Publishing industry partnerships)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Elsevier announced its partnership with the Institute of Coal Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Science Press on a group project to publish the New Carbon Materials online journal. The new quarterly journal, which will join the...

Law and leverage: Google Book Search's future.(Up Front)
November 1, 2006... Some of my best friends are lawyers. My mother worked all her professional life for lawyers. Shakespeare or no Shakespeare, I don't think we should kill them. That suggestion, by the way, comes from a comical character named Dick Butcher in the...

Partnerships, online video, and more.(NewsBreak Update)
November 1, 2006... Partnerships seemed to be the main game in the information world during the past few weeks. In fact, EBSCO announced two recently. In partnership with Elsevier, EBSCO is offering individual e-journals to academic and government institutions....

Ingenta expands presence in China.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Ingenta recently announced its strategy to provide services in China for its 250 publisher customers. This new approach will focus on localized support with Ingenta's customer service team that now includes dedicated staff in China to offer...

Native English speakers amount to one-third of Internet users.(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Of the more than 1 billion Internet users around the globe, fewer than one-third are native English speakers, according to figures from Byte Level Research. By 2010, that percentage will be less than 25 percent. The top 11 languages include...

Thomson to acquire Solucient, LLC.(NewsBytes)
November 1, 2006... The Thomson Corp. has agreed to acquire Solucient, LLC, a provider of healthcare decision support solutions to nearly 3,000 customers. Solucient, which was owned primarily by VNU Group B.V.; Veronis Suhler Stevenson; and VHA, Inc., will become...

Outsell, Inc's reports forecast B2B, STM growth.(NewsBytes)
November 1, 2006... In Outsell, Inc.'s annual MarketView "B2B Trade Publishing & Company Information: 2006 Market Size, Share, Forecast and Trend Report," analysts see a compound annual growth rate for the segment at 5.9 percent through 2009 with $28.2 billion in...

Ovid offers online access to clinical information resources.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Ovid will provide ClinicalResource@Ovid (a comprehensive point-of-care information solution) to the New York City Health & Hospitals Corp., which is a consortium of public hospitals, nursing facilities, treatment centers, and other healthcare...

Emerald partners with iParadigms.(Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd)(iParadigms, LLC)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd. has partnered with iParadigms, LLC, developers of the Turnitin plagiarism detection product for academic institutions and the iThenticate plagiarism detection product for content publishers. In late September, the...

ClearForest launches new Web services.(NewsBytes)
November 1, 2006... ClearForest Corp. recently launched Semantic Web Services-1 in beta, the first in a series of Web services designed for today's semantic Web. The new service leverages the power of more than 10 years of research and product development in...

Study finds need for more research on journal market.(analysis of journals )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The findings in the "UK Scholarly Journals: 2006 Baseline Report" by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the Research Councils UK (RCUK) revealed that only limited knowledge is available about...

What to do about Internet Hoaxes.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I was surprised that Reid Goldsborough ("What to Do About Internet Hoaxes," Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web, September IT) did not mention Purportal.com (http://purportal.com) as [a source for] one-stop shopping for the scoop on...

Anonymity, privacy, and full disclosure.(availability of personal information of people and businesses online)
November 1, 2006... Business contact information provider Jigsaw Data Corp. raised a few eyebrows recently with what has been called an audacious approach to community building on the Web. Here's how the Jigsaw service works: Subscribers pay a monthly fee to...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
November 1, 2006... CEO BOARDROOM MY BLOG SAYS... I [heart] BLOGS! IT'S IN MY BLOG... SO, WHAT'S NEXT? I'M UPDATING MY BLOG. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SWEETHEART... JUST GO WITHOUT ME, I'M BLOGGING! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Acrobat 8 rolls out.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2006... What if Adobe Systems, Inc. released an Acrobat upgrade and nary a sound was heard in the publishing forest? The release of Acrobat 8 was quiet, but it wasn't because Adobe didn't try. The release made me wonder what's left in the arsenal to...

A safe harbor against lawsuits.(Legal Issues)(Section 230, Communications Decency Act )
November 1, 2006... Congress first attempted to regulate content on the Internet with the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which became well-known for its efforts to outlaw indecent and obscene speech online. The CDA was eventually challenged on the grounds that...

Your tax dollars?(Internet Waves)(finances of Public libraries)
November 1, 2006... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is closing its Headquarters Library to the public, as well as its own staff, effective October 1. This shutdown is the latest in a series of agency library closures ...

A Wiki of Muppet mania.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Wikipedia)(Column)
November 1, 2006... On my way home from work on the train one evening, I was going through the new additions to my aggregator and I came across a wild dedicated to the Muppets (http://muppet.wikia .com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki). This open page was edited by the masses...

Plagiarism: the new 'piracy'.(Intellectual Property)
November 1, 2006... Ohio University, the oldest public university in the state of Ohio, is an institution with an enrollment of about 20,000 students. For the past year, the university has been besieged by a crippling plagiarism scandal. Based on an alumnus'...

What's new with VNU.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V. to divest unit)(Column)
November 1, 2006... European information services giant VNU has confirmed that it is diversifying one of its most traditional business lines as part of a continuing evolution of the newly privatized operation. In early October, the firm confirmed that it had...

Cream rises to the top with Helium.(Helium, Inc has found a unique way of gathering and filtering online content)
November 1, 2006... With the Internet becoming increasingly user-oriented, everyone has the potential to contribute his or her knowledge to what has become an endless pool of information. As a result, the task of sorting through the information available...

Edgar Online's I-Metrix delivers XBRL interactive data.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... In late September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its decision to bring interactive data or XBRL (interactive data that makes financial statements machine-readable) to the SEC's EDGAR System. EDGAR Online currently...

Search, harvest, and archive the Web.(International REPORT)
November 1, 2006... With the large number of medical information resources on the Internet, you're officially forgiven if you think there is no room for another. So let me introduce SearchMedica, a new search engine designed to provide links to high-quality...

Study reports password security concern.(NewsFlash)
November 1, 2006... A study released by global research firms Nucleus Research and Knowledge-Storm revealed that one in three people (based on 325 U.S. employees surveyed) write down their computer passwords. This undermines security, and the firms urge companies...

Study reveals rise in Internet addiction.(NewsFlash)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Researchers at Stanford University found that about 13.7 percent of U.S. adults who use the Internet find it hard to stay away from the Net for more than a few days at a time. This is higher than any number seen in prior research. In addition...

Video iPods infected with virus.(Norton AntiVirus usage)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Apple announced that some video iPods shipped after Sept. 12, 2006, are infected with the virus RavMonE.exe. It is unknown how many devices are affected, but Apple estimates the number at less than 1 percent. The iPods were infected at one of...

Words to work by.(new tech words)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Here are some new tech terms that will make you sound all-knowing (even if you're not): thinko: A mental typo; a cognitive error or mistake. fan grooming: The process by which bands use MySpace and other social networking sites to...

OCLC Research announced that Ross Singer, an applications developer at Georgia Tech Library, is the winner of the Second OCLC Research Software Contest.(Online Computer Library Center)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... OCLC Research announced that Ross Singer, an applications developer at Georgia Tech Library, is the winner of the Second OCLC Research Software Contest. Singer's winning project, Umlaut, is an OpenURL link resolver that aims to improve access...

Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.(appointmenting a new team members)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. announced three appointments to its management team. Kathryn Harnish is the new director of product management. In this position, she will be responsible for the products Meridian and Analyzer and also...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.(Peter Gregory will join as a editorial director )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced that Peter Gregory will join Wiley-VCH as its editorial director and a member of Wiley's global scientific, medical, and technical board. Gregory will also be editor in chief of the journals Advanced Materials...

Answers Corp.(Robert Formentin joined as a vice president of advertising sales)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Answers Corp. announced that Robert Formentin has joined the company in the newly created position of vice president of advertising sales. In this position, he will be responsible for all aspects of direct advertising sales and operations. ...

Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems AG.(appointment of Jurgen Jedek as a sales manager)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems AG announced the appointment of Jurgen Jedek as an international sales manager. Before this, Jedek was product and business manager at Magirus. Prior to that, he held sales and management positions at...

The Urban Libraries Council (ULC).(People Line & the Executive Profile)(Dennis Martinez has joined as a board of directors)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) announced that Dennis Martinez has joined its board of directors. Currently, Martinez is principal of DMAssociates, a consulting firm specializing in community development strategies and implementation...

Jay Ven Eman, CEO, Access Innovations, Inc.(interview with Jay Ven Eman)(Interview)
November 1, 2006... In 1978, 8-track tapes were all the rage, iPods didn't exist, and if you wanted to communicate with a friend across the country, you had to either pick up the phone or wait 3 days for snail mail. So you can imagine the technological...

Major end-of-year conferences.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
November 1, 2006... It's November, and that means Online Information 2006 is rapidly approaching. This major information industry event, which will be held Nov. 28-30 at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, is billed as "The world's no. 1 event for online...

Fall conference calendar.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
November 1, 2006... 31-Nov. 2 Streaming Media West San Jose, CA htt://www.streamingmedia.com/West 31-Nov. 3 KMWorld & Intranets/Content Management 2006/Taxonomy Boot Camp San Jose, CA http://www.kmworld.com/kmw06

ITI 2007 conference dates.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
November 1, 2006... SpeechTEK West Feb. 21-23, Hilton San Francisco Buying & Selling eContent March 18-20, Camelback Inn, Scottsdale, Ariz. Computers in Libraries Internet@Schools East April 16-18, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Va. Enterprise Search...

Following the eyeballs: publishers at SIIA's new European event keep their eyes on the money.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Global Information Industry Summit)
November 1, 2006... From the moment the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) Content Division's Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), held Sept. 14-15, kicked off in Amsterdam, the message was clear. Opening keynoter Rudd Bakker, CEO of VNU...

Factoids & other snippets.
November 1, 2006... "Two billion hours a week are spent online by the Chinese, far more than anyone else outside the U.S., and it is thought Chinese usage will soon surpass the U.S...." --Karen Christensen, CEO of the Berkshire Publishing Group, LLC "One...

Information architecture: building our practice.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Euro IA Summit 2006)
November 1, 2006... As information architecture (IA) becomes a bigger part of the overall business plan in commercial organizations, the role of information architects is also moving to strategic levels. This movement was one of the trends presented at the Euro IA...

Conference calendar.(Conferences and conventions)(Calendar)
November 1, 2006... November 3-8: Austin, Texas (Hilton Austin). The theme for the ASIST 2006 meeting will be Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All. The meeting will challenge attendees to "explore this moment in the history of information...

Reading resources on the Web: the English language consists of about 40 phonemes, which combine to form syllables and words.(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
November 1, 2006... The Web is a significant boon to reading education, right? After all, kids love to visit Web sites, so they're reading pages of text. And they're always sending each other messages, which is sure to boost literacy, isn't it? Well, this is...

Fantasy golf? Sounds good.(CyberSports)
November 1, 2006... At a newspaper long, long ago and far, far away, when fantasy sports leagues were managed on Big Chief tablets by a little copy editor, your Field Correspondent was asked to sign up. Me? I'd rather eat dirt. Hey, some of us can barely...

The past and future of hard drives.(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
November 1, 2006... The hard drive in a computer (aka its long-term memory) recently celebrated a milestone: It just turned 50. Back in September 1956, IBM introduced the world's first hard drive---the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit. It was 5 megabytes in size,...

FBI applauds Microsoft for quick action against Mytob/Zotob worm.(NewsMakers)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... In late September, James E. Finch, FBI Cyber Division assistant director, awarded certificates to nine Microsoft Corp. employees for their "Exceptional Ser vice in the Public Interest." Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general...

Lifetime Achievement Award honors Ross Atkinson.(NewsMakers)
November 1, 2006... The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) and EBSCO Information Services recently created the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award. It honors Atkinson, who is a distinguished library leader, author, and scholar...

Factiva: Dow Jones buys Reuters' interest.(NewsMakers)(Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive L.L.C., Reuters Group PLC)
November 1, 2006... Dow Jones & Co. signed an agreement to acquire Reuters' 50percent interest in Factiva, establishing Dow Jones as the sole parent company of Factiva at 100 percent. Alan Scott, Factiva's chief marketing officer, said the acquisition was a...

Gore selected as SLA keynote speaker.(NewsMakers)(Al Gore to open the Special Libraries Association conference)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... SLA announced that former U.S. vice president Al Gore will be the opening keynoter at the 2007 SLA Conference to be held June 3-7 in Denver. Gore is expected to spend some additional time autographing copies of his third book, The Assault on...

Google enhances Blog search, Google Earth.(Product News & Reviews)
November 1, 2006... Google, Inc. announced the addition of a pinging service for its Google Blog Search to alert users when blogs have been updated. The pinging service is billed as a one-time notification feature, so users can ping as often as their blogs change....

Thomson Scientific redesigns patent database.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Thomson Scientific has enhanced the full-text patent collections in its Aureka and PatentWeb products. The new service, which will include deeper data indexing, new search and display fields, and more patent coverage, offers researchers "more...

Google Book Search has far to go.(Database Review)
November 1, 2006... Over the past 2 years, trade journals, magazines, and newspapers have been publishing articles about Google Book Search (http:// books.google.com). But even if you had read every one of them, you still wouldn't know much about the project...

LexisNexis File & Serve launches first integrated online destination.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S. announced the expansion of its LexisNexis File & Serve to offer attorneys a one-stop online destination for paper filing, paper service, service of process, electronic filing, and electronic service. The service lets litigators...

Scopus debuts PatentCites and WebCites.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Scopus recently launched two new features to its collection: PatentCites and WebCites. PatentCites lets users track how primary research is practically applied in patents. It identifies citations from patent sources that cite Scopus articles on...

EBSCO releases SUSHI 1.0 server.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... EBSCO recently released its updated SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) server, now in production within EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS). As a partner in the development of the NISO (National Information...

Ovid adds Oxford University Press publications.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Ovid expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP) to add more than 180 titles in medicine, neurosciences, and social and behavioral sciences to Books@ Ovid. Among the new OUP books on Books@Ovid are nearly 150 titles in the brain...

ITI releases new title: Teaching Web Search Skills.(Product News & Reviews)(Greg Notess's Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques And Strategies Of Top Trainers )(Information Today, Inc.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Fans of Greg Notess will welcome his latest book: Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers from Information Today, Inc. Notess, a trainer and teacher since 1991, tapped into the expertise of scores of search...

Preparing for the unexpected.(Product News & Reviews)(Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc. survey over disaster preparedness by companies)
November 1, 2006... Although we don't like to think about it, disasters can strike any company at any time. Earthquakes (think the Big Island of Hawaii), hurricanes (think Katrina), or even fires, floods, or flu can cause problems for companies of any size. A...

ProQuest selected to preserve Virginia's historic newspapers.(Product News & Reviews)(Library of Virginia)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The Library of Virginia is partnering with ProQuest Information and Learning on the digitization of historically significant newspapers. The library is one of six pilot sites to receive funds from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),...

Auto-Graphics integrates Quova Technology for libraries.(Product News & Reviews)
November 1, 2006... Auto-Graphics, Inc. announced that Quova, Inc.'s GeoPoint service will be integrated with Auto-Graphics'AGent library automation platform. Auto-Graphics' library partners with AGent's new IP geo-location feature can now offer instant, remote...

Chemical Abstracts Service enhances SciFinder.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) now provides access to information on enzymatic reactions and other biotransformations through its SciFinder research tool. Researchers can find a wide range of information in the literature and patent records...

Really Strategies debuts RSuite CMS.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Really Strategies, Inc. has introduced RSuite, a content management suite (CMS) powered by MarkLogic Server that is designed especially for publishers. The out-of-the-box system offers all the basic CMS features: a central storage facility,...

EBSCOhost offers Royal Society of Medicine journals.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... EBSCO Publishing announced that it will offer full-text coverage for 14 of the Royal Society of Medicine journals on specific EBSCOhost databases. This content, including deep backfiles, is expected to be available on EBSCOhost by early 2007....

Convera: a new product platform for professionals.(Product News & Reviews)
November 1, 2006... The time spent on research is not always fruitful. In fact, only 17 percent of Internet users admit to finding the information they were looking for when using a search engine, according to a 2005 Pew Internet & American Life Project report....

Nature Publishing Group offers access through ATHENS.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) recently announced that nature.com is now ATHENS-compliant. Academic and medical communities can now access online subscriptions remotely through ATHENS. All NPG publications are ATHENS-compliant, including...

Endeavor Information Systems offers Endeavor Analyzer.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Endeavor Information Systems announced the availability of Endeavor Analyzer, which is an analysis and reporting module. This Web-based reporting system provides enhanced insights into operational and institutional data to bring business...

Wiley expands partnership with Skyscape.(Product News & Reviews)(John Wiley & Sons Inc. )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced an agreement with Skyscape, Inc. to offer InfoPOEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters) evidence-based medicine summaries to its customer base of more than 575,000 Skyscape subscribers and medical...

BeNetSafe service eases parents' concerns of Internet safety.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Many parents are concerned about the popularity of social networking online since their children spend after-school hours glued to their computer screens. News reports of online predators on these sites have triggered greater concern. ...

Blue Dot adds new features to Social Discovery site.(Product News & Reviews)(Blue Dot Inc.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Blue Dot, Inc. recently announced enhancements to its Social Discovery site to help users share information with friends and to encourage social interaction. The new features include personal messaging, improved social search, and compatibility...

Spymac Leapfrogs to Web 2.0.(Product News & Reviews)('Spymac Leapfrog' the new version of 'Spymac')(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Spymac announced that Leapfrog, the newest version of its Mac site and services, combines Web 2.0 features into one package. Spymac Leapfrog lets users video chat, post, and find movies for the newly enhanced iPods; networking is easy through a...

University of Wisconsin-Madison joins Google Books Library Project.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) has become the latest library to join the Google Books Library Project, according to Google. By joining the Google project, UW-Madison will expand the accessibility of its 7.2 million public...

Reaching out to the library community.("Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries and Librarianship")(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries and Librarianship by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell Chicago: American Library Association, 2006 ISBN13:9780838909171 168 pages $32 softcover For this book review column, I'm used to reading case studies...

The next generation.(In Other Words)(podcasting and vodcasting, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)(Column)
November 1, 2006... For all you Trekkies: Don't get too excited. This column isn't about those who served on the Starship Enterprise. Instead, I'm boldly going where no one has gone before (at least within this column), highlighting next-generation tools and...

Ex-chairwoman of HP, four others face charges.(Patricia C. Dunn, Hewlett-Packard Co)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Patricia C. Dunn, the former board chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), and four other people face indictments for felony charges related to the company's spying case: use of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information...

"The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets - Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust".(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets--Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust By Jeffrey M. Stanton and Kathyrn R. Stam If you think the information stored, used, and shared...

"Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide".(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide By Randolph Hock; Foreword by Mary Ellen Bates With its many and diverse features, it's not easy for any individual to keep up with all that Yahoo! has to offer. Fortunately, Ran Hock--"The...

"Teach Beyond Your Reach: An Instructor's Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More".(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Teach Beyond Your Reach: An Instructor's Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More By Robin Neidorf Distance learning is enabling students of all kinds to earn college and...

"Cashing In with Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers".(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Cashing In with Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers By David Meerman Scott; Foreword by Michelle Manafy Gimmicky Web sites are out. Content is in. In Cashing In with Content, award-winning...

"Net Crimes and Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists, 2nd Edition".(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Net Crimes and Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists, 2nd Edition By J. A. Hitchcock Foreword by Vinton Cerf In this revised and expanded second edition of her popular book, cybercrime expert J. A. Hitchcock...

"Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide".(New Titles for the Information Professional)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide By Michael Sauers Libraries increasingly use blogs and RSS feeds to reach out to users, while librarians blog daily on a range of personal and professional topics. The way has been paved by the...