| FEATURES
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Delivering Services to
Patrons’ Doorsteps 
People have become accustomed
to the convenience of ordering products and services online and having
them delivered right to their doorsteps. Librarians can give that same
great service by using e-mail notification systems and LAMP
applications.
By Robert P. Rynkiewicz
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Preparing for the Birth
of Our Library Blog
Really good blogs
don’t just happen naturally. Just as expectant parents need
to do a lot of planning before baby’s arrival, bloggers-to-be
need to plan and prepare before taking on the day-to-day
responsibilities of their own little ones.
By Joanna Blair and Cathy
Cranston
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The
Nuts and Bolts of Delivering New Technical Reports via
Database–Generated RSS Feeds
You keep hearing about how great RSS is and how easy it can be to
implement. But exactly what is the code like, and what challenges might
arise? This corporate librarian explains the nuts and bolts of how she
set up RSS feeds to push her library’s valuable reports out
to the people who need them.
By Qin Zhu |
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| DEPARTMENTS
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The Systems Librarian
Addicted to Data
By Marshall Breeding
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Page
29 |
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AccessibleIT
Is Web Conferencing Software
Ready for the Big Time?
By Lori Bell and Tom
Peters
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Page
32 |
Building
Digital Libraries
Some Best Practices for
Personalizing Outreach
By Terence K. Huwe |
Page
36 |
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Online Treasures
The Social Ties That Bind
By Janet L. Balas
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Page
39 |
| DEPARTMENTS |
Editor’s
Notes
Librarians Are Getting Pushy
By Kathy Dempsey |
Page
4 |
| Newsline |
Page
42 |
| Books
to Check Out |
Page
49 |
Tech
Tips for Every Librarian
How and Why to Try a Blog for
Staff Communication
By Rachel Singer
Gordon and Michael Stephens |
Page
50 |
| Noted
& Quoted |
Page
52 |
| SPECIAL
SECTIONS |
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Helping You Buy
Link Resolver Tools
By Ross Singer
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Page
15 |
| CIL
2006 Conference Preview |
Page
45 |
| ADVERTISING
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| Index
to Advertisers |
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