NEWS BRIEFS |
Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft’s Bid ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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Siperian Secures Expansion Funding ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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Tessera to Acquire FotoNation ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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Collexis Acquires Lawriter ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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Generate and NETSEA Form Alliance ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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NewsMakers ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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FEATURES |
Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook ![Click here for FREE full-text version.](../../pics/Free.gif)
With more than 60 million active members, this social networking site is not for college kids only.
by Thomas Krivak
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Facebook at a Glance![](../../pics/Free.gif)
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Outsell, Inc. Broadens Its Reach With New Acquisition ![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Eduventures adds “Learning Collaboratives” to Outsell’s research and consulting product line.
by Phillip Britt
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Report From the Field
SIIA Information Industry Summit: State of the Industry![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Members gathered for the 7th annual 2-day SIIA Information
Industry Summit in late January in Manhattan for a look at what is on
this year’s horizon.
by Barbara Brynko
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Google: ‘An Engineering Culture With Heart’
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Retrospective: 25 Years Ago in Information Today![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Take a trip down memory lane to the premiere issue of IT.
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Adobe InDesign CS3: Collaboration in Action![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Designers and editors can work in tandem on layouts that marry images with text.
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COLUMNS |
Up Front With Barbara Quint
Invisible Web or Just an Invisible Information Industry?![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
bq tackles the notion of finding information that’s imprisoned for users who need data.
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Focus on Publishing
A Busy Year for NIH![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Robin Peek explores the impact of NIH’s new policy guidelines.
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Legal Issues
Patent Reform in 2008?![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
George H. Pike traces the struggle of the U.S. patent law to keep up with changing technology in the marketplace.
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Internet Waves
Don’t Shoot the Messenger![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Shirley Duglin Kennedy fields her thoughts about comments—some of them negative—on her work online and in print.
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Insider’s Perspective
J. J. Keller: Regulatory/Compliance by the Book![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Guest columnist Webb Shaw offers his insights into the challenges facing regulatory publishers.
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Library Stuff Revisited
Seriously, What’s So Great About Gmail—Part II![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
In the final part of this two-part installment, Steven M. Cohen checks out more details about this Google product.
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IT Spotlight
Magpie Builds Its Brand as It Helps Companies Build Theirs
Here’s how one company tracks data about individual brands on the internet.
by Marji McClure
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Database Review
BUDDIE Winners Expose Federal Laws![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Mick O’Leary celebrates underappreciated databases with his special annual awards.
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DEPARTMENTS |
Editorial
Just Say ‘OK’![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
by Dick Kaser
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Letter to the Editor![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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InfoToons![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
by Gib Robbie |
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International Report
We’re All Members of the Google Generation
Our international correspondent delves into the study about “Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future.”
by Jim Ashling
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Interview With Claudia Lux
IFLA: Libraries On the Agenda
The new president of the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) talks about her plans for the
organization.
by Donald T. Hawkins
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People Line & the Executive Profile![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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CONFERENCE CIRCUIT |
A Plethora of Early Spring Conferences![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Donald T. Hawkins provides a sneak preview of the upcoming conferences around the globe.
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Information Today, Inc.’s Conference Dates |
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Conferences Around the World |
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NEWS |
NewsBytes![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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NewsBreak Update
Social Networking, Openness, and M&A Activity Lead the News![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
by Paula J. Hane
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NewsMakers![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif) |
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Product News & Reviews
30 - Lingoport: Taking the Guesswork Out of i18n
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MuseGlobal Unleashes the Hounds
32 - SIIA Announces 2008 Codie Finalists
33 - Thomson Innovation: One-Click Patent Discovery
34 - Free Pint: The FUMSI Generation
34 - Safari Online: Adventures in Elearning
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LinkUp @ Home |
Visit Link-Up Digital for additional Web-only content! |
Web Users Are Getting Crafty![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
by Thomas Pack |
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CyberSports
Website Chronicles One of Baseball’s Biggest Flakes![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
by David King |
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COVER NOTES |
Book Review
Teenage Brains on the Loose![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
Sex, Brains, and Video Games: A Librarian’s Guide to Teens in the Twenty-first Century
by Jennifer Burek Pierce
reviewed by Gwen M. Gregory
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In Other Words
Serendipity![Click here for full-text options.](../../pics/Full.gif)
A look inside Information Today, Inc.’s other publications
by Lauree Padgett
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