| FEATURES
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Biographies
of Scientists: A Search Exercise in Futility?
Where can you
go today for accurate bios of scientists? Bob Buntrock profiles some searching
niches and also laments the "Balkanization" of information access.
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16
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Saving
the Information Profession, Google, and the World: The 15th Annual SCOUG
Retreat
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As Carol Ebbinghouse
reports, when life, liberty, and the pursuit of information are at stake,
it's the Southern California Online User Group to the rescue!
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28
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Value-Added
Deliverables: Rungs on the Info Pro's Ladder to Success
What are the benefits
of value-added deliverables? Amelia Kassel provides an in-depth look at
how these enhancements aid the client and the researcher, supplying a variety
of samples and templates to help illustrate the range of value-added options.
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Our
Environment, Part 2
In her continuing
series, Barbie Keiser helps you wade through the vast list of resources
to find the best links for international organizations, governmental agencies,
and NGOs that offer environmental law- and regulatory-related documentation,
publications, research, statistics, and databases.
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Telecommunication
Resources for the Professional
Tara Breton tells
how to find quick and reliable telecom info for clients who need trend
updates, the latest market share revenues, analyst opinions, and the like.
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| COLUMNS
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Searcher's
Voice
Is there ever
a time when nice won't cut it in the information professional's world?
Absolutely, says bq!
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6
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Tools
of the Trade
Attention all
you closet WordPerfect users: Sheri Lanza "reveals" how to carry your WP
tricks into the less-familiar Word system trade.
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10
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Internet Express
Just in time for
the holidays, Irene McDermott singles out some good sites for doing "armchair
antiquing" when looking for hard-to-find collectibles.
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The
Sidebar
Carol Ebbinghouse
reviews the history of freeware and shareware and then moves into the still
murky waters of today's attempts to "liberate" content through movements
such as Copyleft and Open Source.
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Best
Buys
Before you make
that hardware, software, or Internet service purchase, check out Best Buys.
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77
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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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| Index
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