| NEWS BRIEFS |
Publishers Fight Swine Flu With Free Services  |
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ICOLC Questions OCLC WorldCat Policy |
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Intel Hit With Antitrust Fine in Europe |
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Ingram Content Group Formed; VitalSource Bookshelf Gains New User |
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| ProQuest
Boosts Market Outreach |
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NewsMakers
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| FEATURES |
Where
Have All the Archives Gone?
As more newspapers go
all-digital, aggregators are struggling to maintain complete archives.
by Barbara Quint
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Report
From the Field
SLA 2009: 100 Years and Counting
Alignment, the economy, and
new
RDA standards were hot topics at SLA’s centennial celebration.
Text and photos by the ITI
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The
Ghosts of Journals Past
A trial in Australia has
Elsevier re-examining its editorial protocols and establishing
guidelines for its STM journals.
by Barbara Brynko
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| NEWS |
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NewsBytes
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NewsBreak Update
Budget Woes Hit Libraries and Newspapers
by Paula J. Hane
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NewsMakers
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Product News & Reviews
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- Microsoft Acquisition Moves Into World of Life Sciences
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- Spiceworks: Adding Zest to IT
Management
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- Panorama:
Getting the Right Picture
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- Alacra: Adding Onto the
Pulse Platform
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| COLUMNS |
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Focus on
Publishing
California
Charts a New Digital Frontier
Robin Peek analyzes
California’s
plan to reduce education costs with etextbooks.
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Internet Waves
Life After Death
on the Internet
Shirley Duglin Kennedy tells readers how to safeguard their online
identities post-mortem.
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Legal Issues
In
the Courts
George H. Pike explains how the
judicial system has interpreted
copyright law.
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Library Stuff Revisited
The
Joys of Netbooks
Steven M. Cohen offers tips on getting the most out of a netbook.
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Insider’s
Perspective
Getting More Value
From Content
Guest columnist Sid Probstein
explains why agile content networks are
necessary.
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Database
Review
Government
Is Back With USA.gov
Mick O’Leary gives USA.gov a
thumbs up.
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| DEPARTMENTS |
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Up Front
With Barbara Quint
The Unasked Question,
the Unseen Answer
bq laments the potential death
of information browsing.
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IT Spotlight
Perfect
Search Makes
Quick Impact
Marji McClure profiles one
company that is speeding up database search.
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People Line &
the Executive Profile
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Editorial
Quotables
by Dick Kaser
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Letter from the Editor
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InfoToons
by Gib Robbie
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Cool Tools
The Single-Site
Experience
John Carr highlights two
products that provide site-specific web browsers.
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International
Report
Russia
, Saudi Arabia, Korea, and Canada Unveil New
Libraries
Our global correspondent reports
on the latest library news and a new partnership between UNESCO and Sun
Microsystems.
by Jim Ashling
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Words at Work
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| CONFERENCE
CIRCUIT |
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‘Summer
School’ Is in Session
Donald T. Hawkins provides a
sneak preview of the industry’s upcoming conferences.
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Information
Today, Inc.’s Conference Dates
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Report From the Field
LIDA
2009: Focusing on Heritage, Intelligent Access, and Learning
Text and photos
by
Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic and Maja Krtalic
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Report
From the Field
SSP’s Annual
Meeting: Advancing Scholarly Communities in the Brave ‘Now’ World
Text and photos
by
Donald T. Hawkins
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| Conferences
Around the World |
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| COVER NOTES |
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Book Review
Getting to Know the
Factors That Influence Today’s Academic Libraries
Protecting Intellectual Freedom in
Your Academic Library: Scenarios from the Front Lines
by Barbara M. Jones
reviewed by Gwen M. Gregory
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Meet the Editor
David
Myron: Evolutionary Road Warrior
Lauree Padgett takes a look at
the editors behind Information Today, Inc.’s many publications.
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| LinkUp@Home |
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LinkUp@Home:
Your Personal Guide to the Web is “on vacation” this month. But
writers Thomas Pack and David King will be back with more insights,
commentary, and good humor in the next issue of Information Today.
Meanwhile ...
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