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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
The Care and Feeding of Vendors 
When
it comes to discovery services for libraries, bq urges librarians to do
whatever it takes to get vendors to see the light in moving toward the
true path of universal access. |
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| COLUMNS |
Internet Express
Some Thoughts on Drupalization
Web designer Walter Nelson is a self-proclaimed Drupal “evangelist” who
is filling in for Irene McDermott as she works on a new book. He shares
some observations about this open source content management system to
help you decide if it’s a good fit for your requirements. |
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Library Mobile
'A' Is for 'Apple' and 'App'
Gerry McKiernan reviews products designed to take advantage of Apple’s
prominence within the smartphone market and its domination of worldwide
app sales. |
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Medical Digital Medical Gadgets: The Blending of Physical and Virtual Realities 
Stephanie Ardito takes a look at some of the newer medical gadgets,
from those designed to help users stay fit, lose weight, get rid of
migraines, and monitor their diabetes to those that would enable the
deaf to “hear” and people with pacemakers to keep their batteries
charged just from walking or even breathing. |
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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 |
The Construction Industry Online
Part 1. Commercial Building and Industrial Construction — Private Sector 
In
the first of her three-part series on the construction indusry, Angela
Kangiser addresses the types of data available online for private
construction, focusing on the two top fee-based national data
providers, McGraw-Hill Construction and Reed Construction Data.
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U-Content
When Off-the-Rack Won’t Do, Create a Custom Search Engine 
Not finding what you need from the existing gaggle of search engines?
Nick Tomaiuolo gives you some of the best aids for creating your own
UGC (user-generated content) using such tools as Gigablast Custom Topic
Searches, Rollyo, Eurekster swickis, and especially Google Custom
Search engines.
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For Our Next (Charitable) Trick, We’ll Need a Volunteer
Cecilia Hogan helps the new wave of the charitable-minded,
aka virtual volunteers, hook up with the projects and causes near and
dear to them that may be hundreds or thousands of miles away physically
but just a click away online. |
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Using i-Google to Help Digital Immigrants Manage Business Information Brad
Matthies offers reference librarians and subject specialists a way to
move clients who are not adept at finding business information safely
and efficiently along the digital superhighway using i-Google as their
guide.
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