| NEWS
BRIEFS |
Twitter Collects $100 Million
in Venture Funding  |
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Data Conversion Laboratory,
Unlimited Priorities Join Forces |
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Summon’s New Clients
Go Live |
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Swets Opens Beijing Office
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EBSCO Enters Ejournal
Partnerships |
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| FEATURES |
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Public Libraries Step Into Job-Search
Niche
In the current
economic climate, job-seekers are turning to a familiar source for
help: public libraries.
by Michael Baumann
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Staying in the Game
by
Barbara Brynko
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Harris v. Blockbuster :
Questioning ‘Terms of Use’
A Texas court case serves
notice to websites: Take care in wording your terms of use; otherwise,
it may not be enforceable.
by David Mirchin
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Facebook’s Beacon Extinguished
by
John Carr
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Social
Media: Investing in What Works
These sites continue to
take off in the workplace, but not all businesses are finding them as
useful as the user-generated buzz proclaims.
by Lin
Grensing-Pophal
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FTC Addresses Bloggers
and Online Reviews
by
Kurt Schiller
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Employers Crack Down on
Social Networking
by
Kurt Schiller
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Phishing Scams Edge Into
Social Networks
by
Kurt Schiller
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| DEPARTMENTS |
Up Front With Barbara Quint
The Perils
of Content Crunching
bq warns about forgetting
context when looking for information.
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IT
Spotlight
Vitrium Adds Sales Power to PDFs
Marji McClure profiles one
company that offers a tool to boost document usage analytics and
information gathering.
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Editorial
Good News,
at Last
by Dick Kaser
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Letter from the
Editor
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InfoToons
by
Gib Robbie
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International Report
Implications of Google Agreement for Europe
Our global respondent
takes the Google Book settlement and its impact across the pond.
by Jim Ashling
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People Line & the Executive Profile
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Words at Work
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| COLUMNS |
Focus on Publishing
OA Journals Are Advancing
Robin Peek looks at the
much-celebrated Compact of Open Access Publishing Equity and offers
some insight into what it means.
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Internet
Waves
Social Net
Working
Shirley Duglin Kennedy
takes a look at the right way to approach social media.
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Legal Issues
Baseball and the Search for Electronic Records
George H. Pike examines what the BALCO case means for the
government’s ability to seize electronic data records.
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Intellectual Property
Five Immutable Canons of Copyright
K. Matthew Dames provides
the rules you need to know in the often-confusing world of copyright
law.
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Library Stuff Revisited
With Liberty and Free Court Documents for All
Steven M. Cohen combs the
web for case law documents as more and more become available.
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Database Review
Social
Score Cards Give U.S. Poor Grades
Mick O’Leary
drills down into reports that suggest Americans aren’t as
well-off as we may think.
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| NEWS |
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NewsBytes
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NewsBreak Update
Hyperlocal News, Ebook Readers, and Search Engines Top the News
by
Paula J. Hane
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NewsMakers
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Product News
& Reviews
35 - Lock-and-Load Security for PCs
36 -
Newstex: The Voice of Authoritative Content
38 - Safari
Books Online: More Power for Digital Library
39 -
Walkshed: A Walk in the Park
39 -
Connotate: Letting Agents Do the Work
40 - Altus:
Giving Enterprises an Edge With Video
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| CONFERENCE
CIRCUIT |
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Preholiday Industry Events
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
Really
Strategies User Conference: A Publisher’s Toolbox
by
Barbara Brynko
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Report From the Field
Change: The Fall 2009 ASIDIC Meeting
Text
and photos by Donald T. Hawkins
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| Conferences
Around the World |
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| LinkUp@Home |
| Visit
Link-Up
Digital for additional Web-only content! |
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Let’s Get This
Party Started—On the Web
by Thomas Pack
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Cybersports
An
Ode to Odious Ballparks
by David King
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| COVER
NOTES |
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Book Review
I’m Not a Lawyer, I Just Play One at the Library
Licensing Digital Content: A
Practical Guide for Librarians (Second Edition)
by Lesley Ellen Harris
reviewed by Gwen
M. Gregory
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Meet
the Editor
Hugh
McKellar: Riding the KMWorld Wave
Lauree Padgett takes a
look at the editors behind Information Today, Inc.’s many
publications.
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