| FEATURES
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Location,
Location, Location: Online Maps for the Masses
If you haven’t had the time or a reason to check out Google Maps and Google
Earth, Paula Berinstein has done it for you. She takes you on a tour, giving
you good directions for how to use the basic Google Maps app, making your own
map, utilizing "mashups," and even compares Google Maps to Yahoo! and Microsoft
map offerings. |
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Building a New Foundation:
Library Funding
Steve
"Amazon: The World’s Largest Library" Coffman has taken to task a new
issue: how to turn the no-longer-effective standard for library funding into
a more viable means of keeping libraries in the black. He looks at a wide range
of alternatives, from the self-serve model of the Singapore National Library
to making libraries more like bookstores (and stealing all their English-major
employees), transforming libraries into totally electronic entities, and providing
patrons with downloadable, printable (for a fee) text. |
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Shhh!!: Keeping Current
on Government Secrecy
It’s no secret that since the terrorist
attacks of September 2001, access to federal documents
and information has been highly curtailed. In her
article, Laura Gordon-Murnane looks at the repercussions
of this diminished access, which includes a noticeable
increase in the number of FOIA requests. She also
provides an exhaustive list of government watchdog
organizations, sites to go to for FOIA news, librarian
and historical advocacy groups, links to other blogs
and listservs that supply government information,
and sites that offer additional guides and other
resources. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
 Now that end users have access to hundreds of thousands
of books thanks to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, the
GPO, Project Gutenberg, et al., not to mention
all the open Web content available, bq wonders
if these users know that they need librarians more
than ever before. And, if not, how to make this
crystal clear.
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| COLUMNS
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Web Wise Ways
Jill Hurst-Wahl checks out Info Desk, a current
awareness distribution service, to see how well it
actually works and the kind of security, training,
documentation, add-ons, and product support it provides. |
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Behind the Screen
You may have used Ajax-enabled sites—sites
in which application-style interaction with Web content
is enabled without having to click from one page
to another—and not known it. Jessamyn West
looks at this new app, how it works, and what it
means for searchers. |
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Contacts
Find the postal and electronic address, phone and
fax numbers for all the companies, products, and
people mentioned in this issue. |
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