| FEATURES
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Easy Wins and Hard Lessons on Intranets from a SharePoint Deployment
Marc
Solomon tells what happens when an analyst sets a goal of building and
refining a system until it’s able to function on its own, using as his
tool Microsoft’s SharePoint system. |
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Google and OCLC Open Libraries on the Open Web
Beth
Ashmore and Jill Grogg compare how traditional OCLC has opened its
content to and through the open Web and how Google Scholar has come to
provide library-type services.
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OpenCourseWare – An “MIT Thing”?
Karie
Kirkpatrick outlines MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, designed to open
up world-class teaching and world-class research to anyone who wants to
learn.
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Getting “Swicki” with It – Pruning Your Search Design
Do
swickis really enable users to return more relevant results? Woody
Evans “kicks the tires” to find out if the components of these
specialized engines are living up to expectation.
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
After
a pair of interesting telephone conversations, bq muses over how
emotion and consequence impact, for better and for worse, the
information cycle. |
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| COLUMNS
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What’s Next
David
Grossman reports on the 2006 SLA annual conference and takes a look at
how Janice Lachance, SLA’s CEO, is helping to shake things up within
this organization.
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Internet Express
Just
in time for the holidays, Irene McDermott devotes her column to
surveying the religious makeup of the U.S. through the multitude of
religion-related sites found on the Web.
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Both Sides Now
Susanne
Bjørner, a self-confessed PBS junkie, reviews the BBC’s online
offerings, which she deems the next-best thing when she finds herself
sojourning on European soil.
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Publishing Trends
Through
in-depth discussions with three players in this evolving industry,
Paula Berinstein investigates the potential of the networked book
becoming the new “in” destination.
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Webmastery
Longing
for a better way to view results than the endless lists provided by
most search engines, Jennie Starr interviews The Hive Group’s Tony
Hewitt to “see” what Honeycomb, its visualization application, has to
offer bleary-eyed info pros.
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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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Correspondence
Raves for Mattison’s article on forestry resources.
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