 When you see
an article marked with the LiveLinks
icon, click the icon to link to a
collection of URLs appearing in the
article. We hope that our print
subscribers will find the ability to
download sets of URLs into their
Favorites or Bookmarks folders a
useful new service; and that
non-subscribers will become
subscribers!
[SUBSCRIBE NOW] |
| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's
Voice
On the
Edge 
bq concedes that perhaps it's time
to reconsider her long-held view
about librarians and "techie-ness"
and how the twain should only meet
rarely.
|
Page 4 |
| COLUMNS |
|
The Sidebar
Technology Transfer Heats
Up
In her column on
technology transfer, Carol
Ebbinghouse addresses the problem
of how to bring inventors, both
individuals at their workshops and
those working at federal
laboratories, nonprofits,
businesses, and universities,
together with those capable of
developing and marketing the
inventions.
|
Page 8 |
|
Internet
Express
Show Me How: Instructional Videos
on the Web
More and
more people are turning to the web
for "how-to" tutorials. Irene
McDermott highlights video search
engines and companies that are
producing instructional video
content available through
searchable collections. She covers
everything from user-generated
content to commercially produced
tutorials.
|
Page 49 |
|
Both Sides Now
Mohammed Cartoons: The Online
History of an International
Controversy
It took
close to 3 years and a lot of
searching for original
documentation to verify what she
found online, but Susanne Bjørner
is finally looking at the Danish
Mohammed cartoon crisis and asking
the question, "What have we
learned?"
|
Page 55 |
| DEPARTMENTS |
|
Contacts
Find the postal and electronic
addresses, phone and fax numbers
for all the companies, products,
and people mentioned in this
issue.
|
Page 63 |
|
FEATURES |
|
The Ebook Reader Is
Not the Future of
Ebooks
According to
Nancy Herther, the third generation
of ebook readers is upon us. Using
a plethora of sidebars, tables,
images, and an extensive timeline,
Herther summarizes the first two
ebook generations (what worked and
what largely didn't) and wonders if
the third time is the charm or if
history will just repeat itself -
hardly ever good news.
|
Page 26 |
|
Cybersquatting Gives the
Web a Bad Name Again
Wallace Koehler lifts up the rug to
investigate the components of the
dirty practice known in the U.S.
legal circuits as cyberpiracy,
which has been growing at an
alarming rate, and tells what to
expect in the future with the debut
of new top-level domain names from
ICANN.
|
Page 12 |
|
Tools for Cross-Border
Business Decisions
Business Monitor
International
Jan Davis reviews Business Monitor
International, a highly respected
source for accessing accurate and
unbiased political and company risk
data and analysis.
|
Page 16 |
|
The World Without
Wires
Rich Oppenheim
previews the closer-than-ever world
without wires, which has to do with
digital data transmission, not
electrical power, by profiling a
few wireless gadgets and offering
tips on keeping your data protected
in this new, "always-online"
environment.
|
Page 22 |
|
Evolution to
Revolution to
Chaos?
Reference
in Transition
In a research world
where the real action has moved
from the back office to the front
desk, Stephen Abram says the time
has come to prioritize long- and
short-term strategies around
serving the "real" customers by
employing a new suite of 2.0 tools
centered on human relationships and
offers a baker's dozen of future
reference scenarios.
|
Page 42 |
| |
images are available now in full-text (HTML or PDF) on this site. 
FEED
