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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
Homecoming 
bq longs to rejoin a well-known library association, if only it wasn’t so anti-Google Books! |
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| COLUMNS |
Internet Express
Admitting Impediments: Divorce Resources on the Web
According to the old song, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.” If the breakup
is the dissolution of a marriage, Irene McDermott makes it a little
easier with her collection of online sites that offer a range of legal,
financial, and emotional assistance. |
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Government Online
Data Wants to Be Free Too
Peggy Garvin looks at the “free government data” movement and the
players involved, from the Obama administration and state and local
government to web developers and open access advocates. |
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Tools of the Trade
Less-Own Age, More Usage: Entertainment on the Cheap
Can it be true? Is Dave Rensberger, he of the “if it’s new, I gotta
have it” mentality, now advocating a moratorium on buying and instead
promoting ways to use more services for less, or no, money? |
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| DEPARTMENTS |
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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| FEATURES |
Office Design 2009
A Perfect Storm? 
Mary Colette Wallace looks at how changes in office design are being
impacted by three equally powerful forces—autonomy, demographics, and
technology—and how architectural firms are adapting in order to help
employee performance by enhancing their work environments. |
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12 Incentive Prizes
Tools for Governments
Laura
Gordon-Murnane reports on how a resurgence of incentive prizes,
challenges, and contests is helping to revitalize innovation and
collaborative ventures on a worldwide level.
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Moving to the Big Apple - Part 1
She’d
been fighting it for years, but another dying PC gave Sheri Lanza a
not-so-gentle nudge to go to the “Dark Side” and give some serious
thought to switching over to a Mac. In the first part of her series,
she’s still teetering … but stay tuned.
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The Medical Devices Industry
A Device Is Not a Diagnostic
First
the bad news: There is no way to encapsulate a widely disparate range
of medical devices and products into one neat, tidy industry. Now the
good news: Tara Breton and Claire Stinson, information specialists
within the medical devices realm, can still help searchers find the
information their clients are looking for.
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Embedded Librarianship
The Next Big Thing?
Judith
Siess shares her thoughts and research on a time in the not-so-distant
future in which the world will have no libraries — just librarians.
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