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Poquette, Bonnie L. – Library Journal, 2009
Americans still marry in great numbers, with over two million nuptials occurring every year. With the average U.S. wedding costing between $20,000 and $30,000, these celebrations represent a great financial and emotional investment not only for the engaged couple but for their loved ones as well. Besides the financial obstacles, weddings present…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Marriage, Guides, Library Role
Breeding, Marshall – Library Journal, 2010
In a year when a difficult economy presented fewer opportunities for immediate gains, the major industry players have defined their business strategies with fundamentally different concepts of library automation. This is no longer an industry where companies compete on the basis of the best or the most features in similar products but one where…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Networks, Electronic Libraries
Wyatt, Neal – Library Journal, 2009
Libraries are not so unlike market giants Netflix, Amazon, and Pandora. Despite their significantly different business models and missions, they share an interest in facilitating the search for information, including what to read, view, and listen to next. Librarians, too, want their patrons to be able to use their tools to make connections among…
Descriptors: Libraries, Online Systems, Librarians, Access to Information
Jacso, Peter – Library Journal, 2009
In the journal "The Chronicle of Higher Education," an article by Geoffrey Nunberg criticizes Google's Book Search (GBS), emphasizing that disturbing errors are endemic. He recognizes that for mainstream "googling" purposes, "they don't really care about metadata provided by a library catalog." In perhaps his most discouraging point, linguistics…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Engines, Access to Information, Educational Research
Hennessey, Christina L. – Library Journal, 2007
As the days grow longer and warmer with the approach of summer, everyone's thoughts turn to the outdoors and the clear blue of water sports. While recreational choices range from in-the-water activities like water polo to under-the-water sports like free diving, and on-the-water diversions like water skiing, this article focuses on print, video,…
Descriptors: Water, Aquatic Sports, Electronic Libraries, Online Searching
Brown, Stephanie Willen; Hammond, Chelsea C. – Library Journal, 2008
This article reports that the Scopus Student Ambassador (SAm) program, funded by Elsevier, permitted the University of Connecticut (UConn) Libraries to hire graduate students to teach citation searching, using both Scopus and Web of Science, to other graduate students. The training does not cost the libraries anything, and it is free for graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Libraries, Social Work, Citations (References)
Avet, Traci – Library Journal, 2006
Exploring resources in order to determine their full potential in information-seeking is a necessary part of the ongoing education and training of information professionals. One should explore every resource available in order to make the best judgments when relevant queries are introduced. In this article, the author stresses that one key to…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Library Services
Albanese, Andrew Richard – Library Journal, 2006
This article observes that it's not hard to understand why Google creates such unease among librarians. The profession, however, can't afford to be myopic when it comes to Google. As inescapable as it is, Google is not the Internet. And as the web evolves, new opportunities and challenges loom larger for libraries than who's capturing the bulk of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Information Technology, Libraries, Internet
Rochkind, Jonathan – Library Journal, 2007
The ability to search and receive results in more than one database through a single interface--or metasearch--is something many users want. Google Scholar--the search engine of specifically scholarly content--and library metasearch products like Ex Libris's MetaLib, Serials Solution's Central Search, WebFeat, and products based on MuseGlobal used…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Databases, Web Sites, Academic Libraries
Webster, Peter – Library Journal, 2007
For years, patrons have been able to access library services from home and in the library building, but in the world of Google, Yahoo, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook, library web sites and catalogs are too often not the first place people go to look for information. The innovative use of toolbars could change this. Toolbars have been popular for…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Library Facilities, Library Services, Internet
Williams, Lesley – Library Journal, 2006
In a survey of a representative sample of over 3300 online information consumers and their information-seeking behavior, survey findings indicate that 84 percent of information searches begin with a search engine. Library web sites were selected by just one percent of respondents as the source used to begin an information search and 72 percent had…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Search Engines, Internet, Users (Information)
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 2004
With wireless connectivity and small laptop computers, people are no longer tied to the desktop for online searching. Handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer even greater portability. So far, the most common uses of PDAs are as calendars and address books, or to interface with a laptop or desktop machine. More advanced PDAs, like…
Descriptors: Databases, Online Searching, Electronic Publishing, Internet
Gonzalez, Linda – Library Journal, 2005
Catalogers, catalog managers, and others in library technical services have become increasingly interested in, worried over, and excited about FRBR (the acronym for Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records). Staff outside of the management of the library's bibliographic database may wonder what the fuss is about (FERBER? FURBUR?), assuming…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Bibliographic Databases, Shared Resources and Services, Library Services
Hagan, Dalia L. – Library Journal, 1987
Describes the Tacoma Public Library's experience with "BIP Plus," the CD-ROM version of Books in Print. Memory requirements, search capabilities, automatic ordering, and the library staff's response are discussed. Keyword searching is explained as the system's most used feature, and price the area of most serious concern. (EM)
Descriptors: Library Technical Processes, Online Searching, Optical Data Disks, Public Libraries
Tennant, Roy – Library Journal, 2005
Google Scholar, the beta Google service for searching scholarly information, crawls scholarly, web-based content--predominantly by targeting specific publishers with which Google has contractual arrangements. Open access material is crawled as well. These full-text materials, abstracts, and citations are being indexed, and citations from these…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Online Searching, Scholarship
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