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Academic Libraries Are Alive and Thriving
Interviews with Four Academic Library Directors
How can academic libraries be prevented from eroding into passive
services and revive digitally to continue as active and interactive
services for college campuses? This is the issue Miriam Drake addresses
with four academic librarians: Barbara Dewey, Ray English, Ken Frazier,
and Paula Kaufman.
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Repealing Murphy’s Law
Using Research to Reduce the Risks of International Trade
When
it comes to international trade, anything that can go wrong often does.
Tom Lister, a specialist in international trade research, shares his
expertise in making global trading a much less risky business, looking
at such areas as sources of global trade data, product regulations and
standards, and country research, providing tables of some of the best
online sources for international trade info.
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High Technology
Online on Everest
Used to be in the not-so-distant past that when you went on a trek to
climb a high peak, no one knew if you were successful until you
returned (or didn’t) to civilization. But high-end technology has made
it possible for trekkers to detail every aspect of their adventure,
which, as Linnea Christiani, Everest conqueror, relays, has its, ahem,
high and low points.
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
As 2007 begins, bq revisits (and offers some possible solutions to) a
problem that has yet to be successfully resolved: how to negotiate
beneficial changes for clients in a world of “freebie” vendors. |
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| COLUMNS
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Internet Express
Serenity Now! Beat the Winter Blues Online
Do you suffer from seasonal affective disorder (aka the winter blues)?
Cheer up, literally, with sites Irene McDermott has found that offer a
range of perker-uppers, from those that deal with exercise and
meditation to gardening and gaming. |
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Both Sides Now
The Frankfurt Book Fair
Most of us probably won’t ever get to experience the Frankfurt Book
Fair in person. But Susanne Bjørner serves as our in-print tour
guide to this mega show, which is the next-best thing to being there.
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Tools of the Trade
Tidying Up and Telling Time
Sheri
Lanza tackles two issues near and dear to her heart: cleaning up a
messy computer Start menu and keeping track of a gadabout husband whose
work rarely takes him to the same time zone twice.
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Best Buys
Before you make those hardware, software, and Internet-related purchases, check out Best Buys. |
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Contacts
Find
the postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers for all the
companies, products, and people mentioned in this issue. |
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