FEATURES
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Just How Deep Is It?
Fundraising Researchers Wade In
Looking
for big money? Cecilia Hogan, fundraising researcher, gives some
history of her craft and shares some popular Web resources for locating
capital gift donations. |
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DOIs, URLs, LoCKSS, and Missing Links
For
all that is wonderful about the seemingly infinite resources on the
Web, there is a catch, and as Nick Tomaiuolo notes, it’s a biggie:
Sources sited on the Web vanish into cyberspace and often cannot be
tracked down anywhere. Tomaiuolo offers some possible solutions to dead
links and lost information.
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Phone Search
The Search Goes On
Risa
Sacks, information researcher extraordinaire, tells how her phone
skills worked to her advantage in the follow-up to a project she wrote
about in the March 2005 issue of Searcher. Lessons learned we can all use.
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Open Access for Physics
Interview with Marc Brodsky
Miriam
Drake interviews Marc Brodsky, the executive director of the American
Institute of Physics (AIP), about what role open access will play in
the disbursement of physics research on the Web.
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Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher
Classical Music Databases and Web Resources
In
honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart, David Mattison
has composed a review of noteworthy Web databases and online resources
that cover the European classical music from Mozart to today.
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EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
In the Age of the Internet, bq muses as to whether finite boundaries or
limited resources still exist within the librarian’s realm, and, if
not, what this kind of unbridled access can mean to patron services. |
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COLUMNS
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Internet Express
Do you work at a public library that’s in need of funding? Irene
McDermott provides a plethora of Web resources to help your institution
raise money. |
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Tools of the Trade
Sheri Lanza reviews Jarte, free word processing software that can match
Microsoft Word in the basics but isn’t overloaded with often
unnecessary extras.
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DEPARTMENTS
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Correspondence
Praises
for Grossman; corrections for NTIS and LSSI; Wikipedia versus
Britannica, round 2; more on Imperato; and an “Internet Discussion”
between Wallace Koehler, Valdosta State University, and Vinton Cerf,
Google/Regus.
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Best Buys
Before you make those hardware, software, and Internet-related purchases, check out Best Buys.
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Contacts
Find
the postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers for all the
companies, products, and people mentioned in this issue.
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