Sue Feldman ventures
into the conference world of the Association for Computing Machinery to
get a foretaste of the information retrieval tools that are simmering on
the front burner.
[Page 12]
Marydee Ojala flies
across the Atlantic for her yearly trek to the Learned Information show,
checking out what’s new and newsworthy from exhibitors such as Chadwyck-Healey,
Bowker-Saur, Helecon, and Free Pint. [Page 29]
Laura Gordon-Murnane
tells you where to get all the information — the hype, the facts, the personal
tidbits — you’ll want to know before you pull that lever in November. [Page
36]
Mary Colette Wallace
reviews a new design tool available in the form of a free search engine
from Germany’s Brandenburg University of Technology. [Page 48]
Davida Scharf shares
how a medical research library with 250,000 volumes and 3,000 serials titles
set out to make full-text articles available via user-friendly database
searching. [Page 59]
Sheri Lanza closes
out this seven-part series by highlighting the very large expanse of Asia
and the Pacific, a region that includes Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Japan,
and Australia. [Page 65]
bq challenges one
and all to make each day of 2000 an attempt to move beyond all distractions,
good and bad, to get closer to the ultimate goal of Wisdom. [Page 6]
Gary Price selects
Grace York, coordinator of the University of Michigan Libraries’ Government
Document Center and champion of Internet resources for academia, as his
first official “interviewee.” [Page 20]
After attending conference
sessions amidst the smoke-filled Olympia facility, Ulla de Stricker provides
her reactions to Online Information ’99 and offers up a modest proposal
for improving future professional interaction. [Page 27]
Irene McDermott happily
reports that the big news of Internet Librarian ’99 in San Diego was wetware
— human brains are back in the thick of Web technology and Internet services.
[Page
53]
Nancy Lambert bids
an affectionate farewell to Orbit by summarizing its interesting history,
including its merger with Questel, while looking ahead to the enhanced
Questel-Orbit search software. [Page 73]
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