| FEATURES
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Opening
the Portal to Better Relationships
When academic
librarians invited themselves into their university's new portal, they
unlocked the door to better campus communication and collaboration.
By Tom Ipri and James H. Sell
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Page 6
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Little
Boy Blue Goes High-Tech: Providing Customers with Topic-Driven Content
Looking for a way to organize your Web links to maximize patron usage
and minimize
staff time? This article tells how the Kansas City Public Library's Web
team
created Subject Guides--Web pages that contain a variety of content
focusing
on a single topic--to help users quickly find information.
By David King
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Libraries
and Nonprofits Add Up to Profitable Community Partnerships
"Hey! You got your
nonprofit in my library!" "You got your library in my nonprofit!" Read
about how staffers at the Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute,
Ind., decided to create and host Web sites for local nonprofit
organizations. Two great resources that work great together.
By Jeanne Holba Puacz |
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Establishing
and Expanding a Web Community Called NorthStarNet
An Illinois
library system started an online community 10 years ago with a mere
four libraries. Now, more than 50 libraries and nearly 900 local
organizations belong to the community. With a new "town hall" (server
and admin tools), it continues to thrive.
By Alan Minarik and Christina
Stoll |
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16 |
| COLUMNS
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The
View from the Top Left Corner
So
Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
By Michael Schuyler |
Page
24 |
The
Systems Librarian
Plotting
a New Course for Metasearch
By
Marshall Breeding |
Page
27 |
Building
Digital Libraries
New
Technology's Surprising Security Threats
By
Terence K. Huwe |
Page
30 |
Online
Treasures
By Janet
L. Balas |
Page
33 |
| DEPARTMENTS
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Editor's Notes
Opening
Doors to Relationships
By Kathy
Dempsey
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Newsline
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46 |
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Noted & Quoted
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Page
52 |
ask techman
by D. Scott
Brandt |
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54 |
| SPECIAL
SECTIONS |
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How to Write for CIL
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23 |
Helping You
Buy: PC Management Software
By Richard Wayne |
Page
37 |
| ADVERTISING
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