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                            | How a Spark of Innovation
                                  in Fayetteville Changed the RFID and Self-Check
                                  ParadigmEver wish that you could take a library tech
                            vision and convince vendors to help make 
your idea reality? This article proves that persistence pays off. It explains
how the spark 
of an idea was patiently fanned until it became something really hot!
 By Louise Levy Schaper
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                            | XML, the DNA of the
                                  Knowledge Management EvolutionMore and more library do-it-yourselfers are finding
                            that XML is the right building block 
for their organic projects. This team used it to build a consortiumwide knowledgebase
                            and explains how you could do the same.
 By Jan Hayes, Christina Stoll, and Dawne Tortorella
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                            | Using Web Server Logs
                                to Track Users Through the Electronic Forest ![[Full Text]](../../pics/Free.gif) If you really want to know what your users are
                            doing and which of your sites they're 
accessing, you can track their electronic movements via logs from your Web servers.
                            If you don't want to pay for an off-the-shelf package,
                            you can read about how
this 
author adapted an open source tool instead.
 By Karen A. Coombs
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                            | DEPARTMENTS | 
                           
                            | Editor's NotesHappy Anniversary to Us!
 By Kathy Dempsey
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                            | Newsline  | Page 38 | 
                           
                            | Newsline Reports LITA National Forum 2004:  Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been?
 By Steve McCann and
Stephen Meyer
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                            | Noted & Quoted | Page 50 | 
                           
                            | ask techman by D. Scott Brandt
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