| FEATURES
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A Failure to Communicate
EPA’s
Libraries on the Brink
Barbie
Keiser pinpoints how years of missed opportunities through a variety of
venues collectively put the uniquely valuable EPA libraries in a very
vulnerable, possibly untenable, position.
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Librarians as Change Agents
How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress
A new day is dawning on Capitol Hill and Mary Alice Baish says the time
is right for information professionals to get to know the fresh faces
in the House and Senate as well as to reacquaint themselves with
returning legislators who have assumed new positions. Learn how you can
positively impact library issues in the new Congress.
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Mashups, Blogs, Wikis Go
Federal
Creative
Uses of Government and Public Data
Laura
Gordon-Murnane gives Searcher readers tips on how
to use new tools — including APIs, blogs, wikis, mashups, and
the like — to keep their eyes on Uncle Sam.
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Looking
for Venture Capital Firms
A
Searcher Adventure
Jan
Davis and Marianne Coalson check out venture capital industry data
sources that can be found, often for less money, on the Web.
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Searcher's
Voice
Forget the
hole in the ozone. bq’s worried about the holes in the
Internet layers being built on the World Wide Web. |
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What's Next
Radical
Reinvention: Life Beyond the Library
Ready
for a change but want to stay true to your library roots? Sharon Srodin
presents some interesting alternatives through discussions with several
information pros who have found job satisfaction outside the
traditional library. |
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Internet
Express
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Get By with a Little Help from Thousands of Strangers: Self-Help and
Peer-Support Resources on the Web
Everybody
needs help once in a while, and Irene McDermott provides a
plethora of Web sites for those looking for self-help or peer-support
sources on the Web.
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The Better
Mousetrap
MDL
DiscoveryGate: A Great Chemistry Web-Based Search Product
For a change, Edward
Vawter finds a Web-based search product to get excited about:
Elsevier’s MDL DiscoveryGate.
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Tools of the Trade
Color
Your World and Switch Your Cases
Sheri Lanza, who is never happier than when she finds a new way to make
herself even more organized, tells you how Folder Marker can brighten
up and bring order to your desktop and shares another good find: Lower
Case Switcher.
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Webmastery
The
Blogging Experience: Hosts, Add-On Content, and Monetizing
Jennie
Starr continues her examination of (and growing fondness for)
blogs, comparing and contrasting two blog hosting options:
WordPress.com and Blogsome.com. |
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| DEPARTMENTS
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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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