After reading the Wired article I mentioned earlier today, I’ve been pondering why it is that books and paper materials are considered to be the best preservation format. Does it really have that much to do with the format itself or is it that we as a society, we as information professionals, know [...]
This month’s “Information Outlook,” the magazine of the Special Libraries Association, reports on the 2003 Salary Survey in an article restricted to organization members. The median for Americans is $57,000 and the mean is $61,522. The 2002 survey found the mean to be $56,500 and the median to be $60,583. Recent salary [...]
One of my editors has a great piece published in this month’s newspaper from human resources. It explores “Seven standard responses to those who work at Harvard.”
What about number 8: “Oh, you work at Harvard! My niece is a senior in high school and really wants to attend Harvard. Can you help [...]
The comic strip “Stone Soup” featured the librarian action figure in its Sunday comic.
Wired Magazine’s November/December issue will include an article with Brewster Kahle about Amazon.com’s new full-text search engine allowing users to search the entire text of books.
Australia’s Canberra Times published a piece not so much about the search technology, but of its potential uses.
Addendum 11/6: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer talks about some of the copyright implications [...]