Information Today articles from October 2005

Information Today archives from October 2005

Taking steps for disaster recovery.
October 1, 2005... The devastation that Hurricane Katrina caused when it hit the Gulf Coast at the end of August will last at least several years as families, communities, and businesses struggle to recover. While many southeastern companies were expected to...

In the wake of security breaches.(Legislative Update)
October 1, 2005... Information security breaches at ChoicePoint, Bank of America, and CardSystems Solutions, Inc. (just to name a few) have fueled a fury of legislative activity at the federal and state levels. The actual and proposed laws are designed primarily...

Google wins U.S. keyword case.
October 1, 2005... Can Google or other search engines sell keywords registered as trademarks? For example, can Coca-Cola buy the keyword "Pepsi-Cola" so that every time a searcher enters the term in a search engine, advertisements for Coca-Cola appear? The...

Coming.(World Summit on the Information Society )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) PrepCom-3 Meeting in September was interrupted when the U.S., U.K., and EU challenged the denial of accreditation of Human Rights in China, a nongovernmental organization, above. Stay tuned for...

U.K. National Meteorological Library and Archive implements SirsiDynix Hyperion.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The National Meteorological Library and Archive at the Met Office in the U.K. recently added the SirsiDynix Hyperion Digital Media Archive to its SirsiDynix Unicorn Library Management System. Hyperion will enable the National Meteorological...

Ex Libris announces intention to file IPO.(Initial public offerings)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Ex Libris, a software solution provider to The British Library, University College London, the London Business School, the Russian State Library, the National Library of China, and AstraZeneca, announced its intention to file for an IPO on the...

The Wall Street Journal Online sites win 2005 WebAwards.(2005 WebAward)(OpinionJournal.com)(StartupJournal .com)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Web Marketing Association bestowed honors to The Wall Street Journal Online and its network of sites (OpinionJournal.com, StartupJournal .com, CareerJournal.com, RealEstateJournal.corn, and CollegeJournal.com) in the 2005 WebAward...

Nstein Technologies signs deal with Getty Images.(signed a contract )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Nstein Technologies, Inc. has signed a contract with Getty Images. Nstein solutions will automate caption indexing so customers can access editorial images, illustrations, and films instantly across multiple languages as they are added to the...

Dialog realigns services under new names.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... As part of the Dialog re-organization in August, the business unit serving customers using Dialog and Dialog DataStar products continues to conduct business under the name "Dialog." It is now a division of Thomson Scientific, part of the...

American Capital invests $45 million in TechBooks.(News Bytes)
October 1, 2005... TechBooks announced that American Capital Strategies, Ltd. has invested $45 million in the company. TechBooks management still controls equity interest; American Capital is investing in both equity and subordinated debt of TechBooks. ...

Lockheed Martin to build archives.(award)(Electronic Records Archives)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein has announced the award of a $308 million, 6-year contract to Lockheed Martin to build the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The...

Class of 2006 IFLA/OCLC early career development fellows named.( Information Congress 71st IFLA General Conference and Council.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... OCLC, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) named the IFLA/ OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2006 in Oslo, Norway, during the World Library...

Thomson Gale celebrates Hispanic Heritage.(http://www.gale.com/hispanicheritage)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Thomson Gale has a free Web site (http://www.gale.com/hispanicheritage) packed with history, biographies, literature, and activities to help families and students celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. ...

About that flaw in Google print.(UpFront with Barbara Quint)(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... You know how I've always said that I'm never wrong--occasionally inaccurate, but never wrong? Well, it's finally happened. I was wrong... wrong big-time. Somewhere along the line, I got the impression that Google Print sent digital copies of...

Katrina's aftermath highlights news.(News Break Update)
October 1, 2005... The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29 is still being assessed as I write this in early September. The catastrophe has strained our infrastructures beyond imagination. As a stunned nation pulls together to salvage and rebuild,...

The database Hacker's Handbook.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... With American corporations losing as much as $300 billion a year to every form of hacking, cracking, physical security breach, and other criminal activity, IT professionals need a resource to explain how to secure databases and protect valuable...

Thomson PPS launches Hypertension site.(http://controlhypertension.org)(Thomson Professional Postgraduate Services)(National Campaign to Control Hypertension)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The National Campaign to Control Hypertension (NCCH) is launching a Web site (http://controlhypertension.org) to serve as a medical education initiative offering programs and activities to enhance clinicians' knowledge of hypertension and to...

Independence Community Foundation gives grant to library for techno-teens.(News Bytes)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Independence Community Foundation granted the Queens (N.Y.) Library Foundation $25,000 to support the Teen 'Net Mentor program. The Queens Library program, founded in 1996, uses teens' knowledge of technology to assist library customers,...

BindView, CSI, IIA form Security Compliance Council.(Computer Security Institute)(Institute of Internal Auditors)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Joining forces to promote a better understanding of global IT security compliance requirements, BindView Corp., the Computer Security Institute (CSI), and The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) have formed a new organization dedicated to...

The IOUG changes name; launches new brand.(News Bytes)(International Oracle Users Group)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The International Oracle Users Group officially changed its name to the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) in mid-September. The name change, which is the first major rebranding effort in the organization's 12-year history, is the result of...

They have our numbers.(LETTER FROM THE EDITOR)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... When the number of people affected by security breaches, stolen identities, and not-so-private databases escalates into the multi-millions, we definitely have a problem. In last month's Letter from the Editor, I reported that one of my...

Consumer terms of service.(Column)
October 1, 2005... The September issue of Consumer Reports magazine (http:// www.consumerreports.org) reported on a study that shows that the Internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. With growing frequency, according to the editors of the magazine,...

InfoToons.(Cartoon)
October 1, 2005... GEEZ! TO THINK THIS LITTLE MINI THING CAN HOLD 1,000 SONGS, EVEN BOOKS... HMMM... THIS SHOULD FIT PERFECTLY INTO MY BACK POCKET. I'LL FINISH LOADING MY SONGS LATER... YIKES! MY MINI WENT THROUGH THE WASHER AND DRYER... LOOK AT...

Open (?) debate on RCUK.(Research Council of the United Kingdom)(Column)
October 1, 2005... Following the open access (OA) movement has been like watching two tennis players fight for a point in a high-stakes tournament. In September, I highlighted the Research Council of the United Kingdom's (RCUK) proposal to require that...

Licenses under wrap.(Legal Issues)
October 1, 2005... Many acquisitions arrive at our library shrink-wrapped. Our acquisitions librarian thinks they come this way to reduce return rates: If you open an item, it's yours. In fact, the invoice is often shrink-wrapped with the book, no doubt to...

The rock of Sisyphus.(Internet Waves)
October 1, 2005... The relationship between information and the mechanisms for its control is fairly simple to describe: Technology increases the available supply of information. As the supply is increased, control mechanisms are strained. Additional control...

Internet companies invest in China.(International REPORT)
October 1, 2005... While Internet usage and e-commerce growth rates may be slowing in the U.S. and Western Europe, China's booming growth and 100 million Internet users have caught the attention of major Internet companies. This summer, several IPOs, joint...

Eugene Garfield turns 80.(interview)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... The founder of ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), now part of Thomson Scientific, was in his office on Monday morning (as he is every day--at least, when he's not traveling the world giving talks to researchers). Eugene Garfield,...

Not for researchers only.(Conference Circuit)
October 1, 2005... With this year's fall conference season in full swing, a number of key conferences have appeared on the horizon, including the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). Designed for those...

Dispatches from Napa.(Association of Information and Dissemination Centers's meeting)
October 1, 2005... "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," according to Jeff Cutler, chief revenue officer at Answers.com. Cutler used this quote from A Tale of Two Cities in his keynote address to kick off the Fall 2005 meeting of the Association...

Information Technology's building blocks.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
October 1, 2005... So when is the information industry like a LEGO? Just ask Stuart Weibel, research scientist at OCLC. He rolled out his theory in Why Your Library Doesn't Do What You Want It To, a presentation that compared the information industry to...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
October 1, 2005... October 16-19: Nimes, France (Novotel Atria Nimes Centre). Infonortics, Ltd. is sponsoring the 2005 International Chemical Information Conference. According to the announcement, the conference aims to keep attendees up-to-date with the...

The Internet Conference and Exhibition for Librarians and Information Managers.(Internet Librarian 2005)(calendar)(Calendar)
October 1, 2005... October 24-26, 2005 Monterey Conference Center PORTOLA PLAZA HOTEL & MONTEREY MARRIOTT Monterey, California CONFERENCE PREVIEW We are pleased to present the ninth annual Internet Librarian conference and exhibition--the ONLY...

Social networks: the Internet continues to evolve: where is the money in all this? That is what venture capitalists are asking.(Perspectives)
October 1, 2005... The flurry of interest in personal online networking parallels what's been going on in the business and activist worlds. The real work in organizations, according to articles in two recent issues of Harvard Business Review, has already migrated...

Postings of a football helmet fanatic.(CyberSports)
October 1, 2005... Sainted talk-show host Art Linkletter made a career out of compiling books of memorable quotes by children, such as Kids Say the Darndest Things! and Kids Still Say the Darndest Things. But today, it's not kids who are saying the darndest...

iPod heaven.(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
October 1, 2005... When Apple's iPod debuted in October 2001, some people doubted its success. At $399, it was an expensive gadget that only worked for Mac users, who represented less than 20 percent of the marketplace. Then Apple made several smart moves,...

Springer.(Jan Velterop appointed)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Springer announced the appointment of Jan Velterop to the newly created position of director of open access. Most recently, Velterop was publishing director at BioMedCentral, an open access biomedical research publisher. Previously,...

Thomson Financial.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Thomson Financial announced the appointment of Bill Krivoshik as its chief technology officer. He will oversee operational initiatives, network and technical operations, data center management, quality assurance, the content group, business...

BioOne.(Susan Skomal appointed)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... BioOne announced the appointment of Susan Skomal as executive director and COO, starting this month. Most recently, Skomal was the American Anthropological Association's director of publications and the leader of its transition from print...

Dialog has announced the three winners of its 2005 North American Quantum2 InfoStars Awards.(3M Library & Information Services' Tom Koehler,Pall Corp.'s Mary Wassum and Abbott Laboratories' Steven Werkheiser)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Dialog has announced the three winners of its 2005 North American Quantum2 InfoStars Awards. Tom Koehler is senior technical information analyst at 3M Library & Information Services. He was recognized for his work in helping facilitate...

The Internet Society announced that Jun Mural is the recipient of its Jonathan B. Postel Service Award.(Keio University)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Internet Society announced that Jun Mural is the recipient of its Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The award, consisting of an engraved crystal globe and $20,000, honors someone who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data...

Endeavor Information Systems.(Donna Hilicoat and Katrina Anderson appointed)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Endeavor Information Systems announced two staff additions. Donna Hilicoat has been named director of library information management systems and will manage the company's Voyager and Meridian products. Prior to this, she was sales director...

Gordon C. Tibbitts III, president of Blackwell Publishing, Inc. (U.S.).
October 1, 2005... When Gordon C. Tibbitts III entered the publishing industry more than 20 years ago, journals and books were only produced in hard copy form. Now, as president of Blackwell Publishing, Inc.'s U.S. operations, Tibbitts looks forward to steering...

Vinton Cerf joins Google.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Early this month, Google will have its Chief Internet Evangelist in place. Vinton Cerf, aka "father of the Internet," is expected to help the search giant tackle the challenges of information infrastructure (i.e., help organize digitized...

Helping hands for Katrina relief.(victims relief)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... IT companies across the board joined relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina throughout the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama region. * McGraw-Hill Construction developed the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Resources Directory, an...

Outsell, Inc. releases IT growth forecast.(News Makers)
October 1, 2005... Outsell, Inc. recently released "FutureFacts: 2006 and Beyond," a special report forecasting trends in the information industry. This industry is expected to reach $358 billion by 2008, spurred on by innovations from Yahoo!, Google, Baidu,...

Thomson NETg offers podcast series.(Podcast Series )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Thomson NETg introduced a new hosted Podcast Series highlighting trends and best practices in corporate and organizational employee training and development. Podcasting allows users to subscribe to a feed and to download audio files on an...

Zinio launches digital network, announces merger.(digital media)(Blue Dolphin Group)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Zinio Systems, Inc. launched the first global distribution channel for published digital media. The Zinio Global Newsstand Network (http://global.zinio.com), which features localized online newsstands of foreign and domestic titles in the...

Grokker's new 'look' on Web searching.(search engines)(http://www.grokker.com)
October 1, 2005... Search engine news is dominated by the big players--Google, Yahoo!, and MSN--so it's easy to miss important developments from smaller players such as Groxis (http://www.grokker.com). In May, Groxis announced that it was partnering with...

Infonortics offers The Google Legacy.(Google's future)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... If you want to know all about Google, here's your chance. Google is not just about search--search is merely one application you can load on its processor, according to Internet technology expert Stephen E. Arnold in The Google Legacy...

Wiley launches Library of Mass Spectra.(Wiley Registry 7th Ed./NIST 2005 Mass Spectral Library)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced the publication of the Wiley Registry 7th Ed./NIST 2005 Mass Spectral Library. The library consists of more than 461,000 mass spectra and combines the Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Data (7th edition) and the...

Bowker partners with Libraries for new ISBN-13 standard.(ISBN-13 standard)(http://www.bowkersupport.com/isbn13)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Bowker launched a new Web site (http://www.bowkersupport.com/isbn13) to help library professionals through the transition to the new global ISBN-13 standard, which will be effective Jan. 1, 2007. The International ISBN Agency recently...

LexisNexis CopyGuard provides anti-plagiarism solution.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2005... LexisNexis U.S announced the launch of LexisNexis CopyGuard to detect plagiarism and copyright infringement and to protect intellectual property. The LexisNexis CopyGuard product was co-developed with iParadigms. It enables users to verify...

SwetsWise online content adds publishers.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Swets Information Services signed six new publishers to SwetsWise Online Content. SwetsWise, the Web-based modular service for subscription service and online information, offers more than 18.5 million searchable references and links to...

Thunderstone's simple search solution.(Expansion Programs International Inc.'s Thunderstone Search Appliance version)
October 1, 2005... The mission at Thunderstone Software, LLC has been to create a simpler enterprise searching experience with the Thunderstone Search Appliance version 5.4. But in early September, there was a momentary news flurry when Google seemingly removed...

Thomson launches Sundance Choice Literature.(Sundance Choice Literature)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Thomson Higher Education announced the launch of Sundance Choice Literature, a database that provides professors with customized options for teaching literature, fiction, poetry, and drama courses. Source: Thomson Corp....

Xrefer adds Financial Times World Desk Reference.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Xrefer agreed to add Dorling Kindersley's Financial Times World Desk Reference to Xreferplus' Ready-Reference service. The Financial Times World Desk Reference provides a complete overview of the modern world with more than 25,000 facts and...

EBSCO creates International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference.(International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center)(EBSCOhost)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) is now available via EBSCOhost. This database, which offers information on security and counter terrorism, is designed to enhance general knowledge of security and...

Swets partners with Taylor & Francis.(partnership)(Swets Information Services)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Swets has partnered with Taylor & Francis to launch the new Social Science and Humanities eCollections of e-books. eCollections are designed to provide a way for libraries to arrange access to a large number of e-books at low cost and to...

Onvia: drilling into sound research.
October 1, 2005... Onvia Business Builder, a new tool from Seattle-based Onvia, is an enterprising online network designed to connect companies in search of bid requests and requests for proposals from government agencies. This subscription-based service gives...

Pegasus, Evertrust offer InveStoreAce.(software solution)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Evertrust and Pegasus have teamed up to offer InveStoreAce. The tiered storage solution aims to help organizations with long-term retention, management, protection, and disposition of fixed content and reference information. Source:...

Nstein gives support with Business Intelligence Tools.(business services)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Nstein Technologies, Inc. can help companies extract meanings, relationships, and facts from text and data mining initiatives and generate alerts with its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). Nstein powers the Global...

Project MUSE celebrates 10 years.(Johns Hopkins University Press )
October 1, 2005... Ten years ago, the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) and JHU's Milton S. Eisenhower Library collaborated on a project to make all of JHUP's academic journals available online through a service called Project MUSE. "The initial...

H.W. Wilson focuses on Women's Rights.(Women's Rights )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... H.W. Wilson added Women's Rights to its popular Reference Shelf book series. The book explores issues in gender equity, considers women's rights from global perspectives, and focuses on healthcare and mortality and other topics. Source:...

Wildlife & Ecology studies worldwide offered on EBSCOhost.(Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide is another product of the ongoing part nership between EBSCO Publishing and the National Information Services Corp. This database, offered via EBSCOhost, is the world's largest index to literature on wild...

Schuman releases how-to for PDAs.(Product News & Reviews)
October 1, 2005... With more people using personal digital assistants (PDAs), librarians and information professionals can find ways to incorporate these devices into their operations. Using PDAs in Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual, published by Neal-Schuman in...

UtiliCat: unified storage approach.(ONStor Inc. and 3PARdata Inc. combinely develops UtiliCat)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The information age has ushered in a major challenge: How does an enterprise store data safely while still providing efficient access for users? ONStor, Inc. and 3PARdata, Inc. came up with UtiliCat, a new enterprise storage solution...

Serving the needs of information professionals.(Susan G. Fowler )(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Information Entrepreneurship: Information Services Based on the Information Lifecycle by Susan G. Fowler Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004 ISBN: 0-8108-5258-6 116 pages $25 softcover We used to hear plenty about knowledge management, but...

Moving into fall.(In Other Words)
October 1, 2005... Well, I'm moving--even if it is only 5 miles down the road to another town. As I labored over Labor Day weekend, getting my current abode ready for the realtors, I felt a combination of the anxiety and exhaustion that arise during a stressful...

Cashing In with Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... 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,...

Yahoo! to the Max: An Extreme Searcher Guide.(Randolph Hock)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... 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...

Theories of Information Behavior.(Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne McKechnie)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Theories of Information Behavior Edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne McKechnie This unique book presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share,...

The Accidental Library Manager.(Rachel Singer Gordon)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Accidental Library Manager By Rachel Singer Gordon Most librarians enter the field intending to focus on a particular specialty, but eventually need to take on certain supervisory or managerial responsibilities in order to move...

The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Strategies from Library Leaders.(Gwen Meyer Gregory)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Strategies from Library Leaders Edited by Gwen Meyer Gregory The role of academic librarian is far from cut-and-dried. For starters, there are the numerous job classifications: staff or...

Choosing and Using a News Alert Service.(Robert Berkman)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Choosing and Using a News Alert Service By Robert Berkman There are dozens of competing firms that offer an e-mail-based news alert service. But how to know which one is best? This comprehensive new guide explains how these tools work...

Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies.(Rob Kling, Howard Rosenbaum, and Steve Sawyer)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies By Rob Kling, Howard Rosenbaum, and Steve Sawyer This book presents a sustained...

The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources By Robert Berkman Foreword by Reva Basch This is the experts' guide to finding dependable, high-quality company and...