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VOLUME
17 • NUMBER 9 • October 2009
Searcher
The Magazine for Database
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Librarians Go
Green in an Era of Tight Energy 
Bill Becken shares how
librarians are joining the ranks of those aiming to leave a smaller
carbon footprint while showing how an ever-increasing set of electronic
tools can make that aim a bit challenging.
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U-Content
Citizen
Journalism
Continuing
with his ongoing series on user-generated content, Nick Tomaiuolo takes
a look at the realm of citizen journalism, or CitJ, and the role it
plays in covering, and creating, the news.
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 Information
Warfare
Part
1, What You Need to Know
In the first
installment of her new series, Deborah Liptak gives an overview of
warfare from an historic perspective and then in the context in which
it is known today, information warfare, investigating who does IW and
why and highlighting recent worldwide examples of IW.
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Commons and
Creativity
Woody Evans compares the
common good and copyright to see if a balance, or common ground, if you
would, can be found between free enterprise and free period, especially
in the electronic age.
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Information Literacy Training for All
More Outliers
Who knows more
about the myriad challenges of homelessness than women who have been or
who currently are without permanent residence? In this segment of her
series on bringing information literacy to those on the fringe and
beyond, Lark Birdsong calls in the experts who put together an
extensive self-help list for those who are trying to get back on their
feet and off the street.
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's
Voice
The Course of Inquiry
This month, bq ponders what influence, if any, universal online has had
on the way the human mind processes and looks for information. |
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| COLUMNS |
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The
Medical Digital
The Swine Flu Pandemic:
Authoritative Information Versus Community Gossip
A new column by Stephanie C. Ardito, which will examine medical
information in the digital age, kicks off with a very hot topic, the
swine flu pandemic, and the broad range of internet sources,
authoritative and otherwise, that spread almost as quickly as the virus
itself.
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Internet
Express
Keeping in Touch While
Traveling in Europe
Or, What I Did on
My Summer Vacation
Lucky Irene McDermott spent part of her summer traveling in Europe. She
shares tips she learned for maintaining her electronic connections,
from cell phones to Facebook, while out of the country.
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Correspondence
Kurzweil Responds;
Bertolucci Adds; Oppenheim Corrects
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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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