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VOLUME 20 • NUMBER 1 • January/February 2012
Searcher
The Magazine for Database Professionals |
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
Leverage 
It’s a new year, and bq says it’s time for librarians and info pros to start asserting a little “Leverage.” |
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| COLUMNS |
 Internet Express
A Small Public Library Goes Open Source
Thinking about testing out the open source waters but reluctant to
stick your toe in? Irene McDermott says it’s not as scary as you think.
Her library went open source with Koha and, as she reports, is so far
doing swimmingly. |
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The Better Mousetrap
Searching Wars:
Google Scholar Versus Web
of Knowledge Versus … ?
Bob Buntrock, no stranger to citation searching (he was a user of The Science Citation
Index print version!), evaluates Google Scholar Citations and Web of
Knowledge/Science. He also shares some of his insights on past and
present searching wars.
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The Sidebar
Class-Action Copyright Settlements: To Be or Not to Be
Carol Ebbinghouse, Searcher’s resident law librarian, takes a
close look at three current class-action copyright cases — the
Freelance case, the Google Books case, and the HathiTrust case. In
doing so, she examines how the core issue of rightsholder compensation
could impact future U.S. copyright laws. |
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| FEATURES |
Language Translation in the Internet Age
‘My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels’
Nancy K. Herther picks up her series on how the internet is engulfing
all areas of communications by focusing in on language translation. She
questions if real-time speech-to-speech translation is still a pipe
dream or is becoming a reality by checking out some of today’s current
crop of translation software.
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Datastreaming Our Way
Rich Oppenheim offers help in data storage overload. Whether
consolidating and saving personal or business information, he says it
helps to follow the four P’s: Plan, Prioritize, Prepare, and Proceed.
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Content, Connections, and Conversations
Internet Librarian 2011
Cindy Shamel uses the 2011 theme to report on the 15th annual IL
conference. From “Content” comes ebooks; “Connections” means
supersearcher secrets plus learning and navigation betas; and
“Conversations” brings playtime to the forefront of how to keep
current.
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In the Company of Librarians
The Charleston Story
In the late 1990s, the distribution of resources via the web was
changing and complicating collection development for reference
librarians. A group of librarians addressed these new challenges
through the creation of periodicals and conferences from The Charleston
Company. George Machovec and Katina Strauch, both on the staff of The Charleston Advisor, tell how this publication and corresponding conference came into being.
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