| NEWS
BRIEFS |
CrossCheck Enlists 50th
Customer 
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Swets Expands
Partnerships, Brokers IOS–NSTL Deal
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Report Examines College
Students’ Thoughts on Libraries
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FCC
Working on Broadband Plan
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| NewsMakers |
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In Memoriam: Judith F. Krug
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| FEATURES |
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Ten Things You
Need to Know About Twitter
Think short (140
characters maximum) and sweet and learn to Tweet.
by Nancy Davis Kho
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Twitter at a Glance
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In Pursuit of
Data Integrity
With stimulus money at
risk due to fraud, data integrity is more important than ever.
by Phillip Britt
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Early Fraud Attempts
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A Midyear
Report on the State of the Industry
Despite a struggling
economy, the information industry is learning to make the most of
talent, resources, and innovation.
by Barbara Brynko
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Pew Report Highlights the Impact of Mobile
Technology Those who are more
attached to their cell phones are also more attached to the internet.
by Bill Greenwood
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Application Security,
Inc.: Compliance Made Easy
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2009 CODiE Award Winners
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| COLUMNS |
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Focus on Publishing
When a
Newspaper Falls in the Forest …
Robin Peek discusses the
challenges facing the print news industry.
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Internet
Waves
I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted
Shirley Duglin Kennedy
takes a look at the ways Twitter brings people together.
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Legal Issues
Google Books Settlement Still a Bit Unsettled
George H. Pike discusses
new objections that could derail the Google Books settlement.
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Intellectual Property
Why the Frame of ‘Piracy’
Matters
K. Matthew Dames ponders
whether “piracy” is the most appropriate term for IP theft.
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Library Stuff Revisited
People Finding 2.0 Revisited
Steven M. Cohen examines
several metasearch engines for finding biographical information.
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Database Review
Digg and the New ‘Me Generation’
Mick O’Leary explains why
he chose to “bury” Digg.
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| NEWS |
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NewsBytes
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NewsBreak Update
Settlement Opposition, News Options, and Search Developments Top the
News
by
Paula J. Hane
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NewsMakers
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Product News
& Reviews
37 -
Newstex:
Sharing Video Content With LexisNexis
38 -
BetterWorldBooks.com:
Giving Something Back
39 -
Transcepta: Banking on E-Invoicing
40 - Springer Opens
Portal to Researchers
42 - Exemplar: What’s
in a Word?
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| DEPARTMENTS |
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Up Front With Barbara Quint
Peekaboo, I
Don’t See You
bq examines the search
capabilities of several vendor websites.
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Words at Work
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Editorial
Bridging
the Past
by Dick Kaser
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Letter to the
Editor
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InfoToons
by
Gib Robbie
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IT
Spotlight
Wattpad Powers Mobile User-Generated Content Marji McClure highlights
one company that is simplifying the ebook publishing and reading
experience.
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People Line & the Executive Profile
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International Report
Latest
News: George Orwell Blogs About World War II
Our global correspondent
reports on George Orwell’s “blog,” the launch of the World Digital
Library, and more.
by Jim Ashling
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| CONFERENCE
CIRCUIT |
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Publishing Is the ‘Hot’ Topic for Summer Sessions
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
Search: The
Last Frontier
Semantic search was all
the buzz at this year’s Search Engine Meeting.
by Barbara Brynko
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Two Everett Brenner Awards Presented for Best Papers
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Report
From the Field
SIIA NetGain 2009: The Convergence of Content and Technology
There was plenty of news
and trends to Twitter about at the Software Information Industry
Association’s annual meeting.
by Barbara Brynko
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| Conferences
Around the World |
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| COVER
NOTES |
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Book Review
Academic Library Users: What Do They Really Want?
Creating the
Customer-Driven Academic Library
by Jeannette Woodward
reviewed by Gwen
M. Gregory
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Meet
the Editor
Kathy Dempsey: Marketing to Keep Libraries Going
Lauree Padgett takes a
look at the editors behind Information Today, Inc.’s many publications.
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Hopelessly Devoted to … Intranets
by
Eileen Mullan
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