Information Today back issues from September 2006:
ALA makes historic impression in New Orleans.(American Library Association)(2006 ALA Conference)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Few associations are credited with permanently altering the economics of a region by the mere decision to hold an event in a major city. But the American Library Association (ALA) has done just that. In a controversial move, ALA followed through in its long-standing plans to hold its 2006 ...
VA: breach of protocol.(theft of the Veterans Affairs Department laptop with veterans' data)
Sep 01, 2006; ... [Editor's Note: Just before we went to press, two teenagers from Maryland were arrested in the theft of the Veterans Affairs Department laptop with data on 26.5 million veterans and military personnel. In early August, a subcontractor also informed the VA that a desktop computer was ...
Net Neutrality: the Internet's world war.
Sep 01, 2006; ... What would unite the Christian Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)? Two words--Net Neutrality. This is a government regulation to ensure that broadband service providers do not divide the Internet into a "fast lane" for Web sites and companies that pay a ...
JSTOR teams up with Iraqi Virtual Science Library.(JSTOR)(Iraqi Virtual Science Library )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... JSTOR announced that it will participate in the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), which is a program managed by the National Academies of Science and sponsored by the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. The IVSL provides a Web portal to the critical scientific and technical ...
ASI announces Indexing Award winner.(American Society of Indexers)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Charlee Trantino of Harvey's Lake, Pa., was presented the 2006 Wilson Award by the American Society of Indexers (ASI) and the H.W. Wilson Co. at the ASI Annual Conference in June. She received a plaque and a ...
OCLC joins CLOCKSS initiative.(Online Computer Library Center)(Controlled LOCKSS)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... OCLC announced its participation in the CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS, aka Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) initiative, a nonprofit community approach to securing access to electronic scholarly content. CLOCKSS aims to provide a long-term global archiving solution that will serve the joint ...
ALPSP and STM clarify publishers' views on access.(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers)(International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) issued a joint statement recommending that publishers make research data as widely available as possible. It clarifies what ...
Double vision: OCLC, the customer vendor.(OCLC Online Computer Library Center)
Sep 01, 2006; ... "Who's that over there?" "Looks like a vendor." "No, looks like customers." "Maybe it's a vendor customer." "Look closer. I think it's a customer becoming a vendor." "Who's that over there?" As a longtime information ...
Developments with WorldCat, legislation, search engines, and more.(News Break Update)
Sep 01, 2006; ... By the time you read this in September, OCLC will have launched its new WorldCat.org site. In mid-July when I covered the development in a NewsBreak, OCLC quietly posted information about this site but had not made any announcements. The WorldCat.org site continues OCLC's efforts with its ...
CILIP launches Autumn Training and development program.(Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals launched its 2006 autumn program, featuring more than 35 courses running from September to December. Course topics include supporting teenagers through public libraries, copyright for beginners, what you need to know ...
Metacafe receives $15 million in venture capital funding.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Video entertainment site Metacafe announced that it secured $15 million in venture capital funding from investor Accel Partners and initial backer Benchmark Capital. This is Metacafe's second round of funding. Accel's ...
EPS research predicts STM market to exceed $10 billion by 2008.(Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.)(scientific, technical, and medical)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... EPS Market Monitor, a research program created by Electronic Publishing Services, Ltd. (EPS), forecasted that the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information market will reach $10.8 billion in 2008. The market is defined as the revenues generated by North American and European ...
Google adds former Microsoft employee to staff.(Google Inc. appoints Vic Gundotra )(Microsoft Corp. promotes Steve Cellini)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Vic Gundotra, Microsoft Corp.'s general manager for platform evangelism, left the company to join Google, Inc. Contract stipulations force Gundotra to wait 1 year before becoming an official Google ...
GPO houses flooded-out IRS staff.(Government Printing Office)(Internal Revenue Service)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Summer storms caused the basement area of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters to flood, collapsing windows and damaging computers. More than a foot of rain fell in the Washington metro area in July, forcing the headquarters to close for up to a ...
JEGI reports M&A activity for first half of 2006.(Jordan, Edmiston Group Inc.)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) reported that the M&A market for the media and information industries maintained a brisk pace in the first half of 2006, with 315 deals completed, totaling more than $37 billion in value. This level of activity represented increases of 12.5 percent ...
Report describes click fraud threat for search engines.(News Bytes)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Outsell, Inc. released the first report to quantify the click fraud problem in real dollars. According to Webopedia, "click fraud is an illegal practice that occurs when individuals click on Web site click through advertisements (either banner ads or paid text links) to increase the ...
IOUG reports database downtime.(Independent Oracle Users Group)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) has released a report on database availability, noting that most Oracle-based companies still experience some form of database downtime, even though 80 percent of survey respondents said it was "critical" to have ...
Questel*Orbit acquires DesignMuster.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Questel*Orbit has purchased a majority share in DesignMuster, a startup company that developed DesignFinderSM, which is a work-flow management system made to monitor industrial design information. DesignFinderSM, which contains industrial design ...
Nstein ends financing partnership.(News Bytes)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Nstein Technologies, Inc. announced the end of an investment with J.L. Albright IV Venture Fund L.P. Converted into American dollars, the investment was ...
Lab49 opens office in England.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Lab49, Inc. recently opened an office in London. Lab49, the financial services division of Corpus, Inc., concentrates on writing advanced applications for global financial institutions ....
British groups collaborate on library work force development.(Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)(Lifelong Learning UK)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) recently agreed on a new set of occupation standards for British information professionals. The two groups will introduce a new set of ...
Research groups in publishing dispute.(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) published a response to the recent Research Councils UK (RCUK) position statement on research output access, revealing a mixed reaction to the RCUK statement. While ALPSP applauded the distinction RCUK made ...
And the winner is ...(LETTER FROM THE EDITOR)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Lights, camera, action! We're rolling out the proverbial red carpet as we tally the results from our first-ever People's Choice Awards. We're busy getting information gathered and stories written about the victors in each of the categories. Stay tuned for our announcements about ...
Breaking all the (editorial) rules.(google as a verb)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2006; ... google (transitive verb): "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the World Wide Web." It's now official. You can legitimately use google (with a lowercase "g") as a verb, according to the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. (The Oxford ...
The Oxford University Press on OA.(Focus on Publishing)
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Oxford University Press began its experiments 3 years ago to "support which model, open access or an evolving subscription model, will result in the most cost effective dissemination of research results to the research community and beyond." In July, the press publicly released the ...
Three degrees of Internet regulation.(Legal Issues)
Sep 01, 2006; ... In the early 1990s, the Internet morphed from a research/academic/military platform to today's foundation for commercial commerce. That was also the time when the first legislative attempts to regulate the Internet were initiated. While some attempts have been successful, most have not. ...
Ain't nothing but a number.(Internet Waves)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Scattered throughout this column are the titles of papers and reports that have appeared on DocuTicker within the last several weeks; each one had a special meaning to me this month. Asymmetric Labor Force Participation Decisions over the Business Cycle: Evidence from U.S ....
Pew Internet releases report on blogs.(Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006; ... "Blogger," despite a resemblance to the French word "blagueur" or "joker," is becoming a label more and more Internet users wear proudly, according to "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers." The July 19 report was released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. ...
Web tools I can't live without: Part 2.(Library Stuff Revisited)(Product/service evaluation)
Sep 01, 2006; ... It's been 2 months since I wrote my last column, and by now, you've had the entire summer to think about what I have chosen as my next three favorite Web tools. I know you were waiting every afternoon for the mail carrier to show up with the next issue of Information Today to see the ...
Framing the copyright debate.(Intellectual Property)
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Online published an e-mail debate between Fritz Attaway and Wendy Seltzer about digital rights management (DRM). Attaway is a senior executive with the Motion Picture Association of America, while Seltzer is a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for ...
Google opens Michigan office.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Google, Inc. announced plans to open an office and research center in Ann Arbor, Mich. The 40,000-square-foot tech center will house as many as 1,000 employees. One of the reasons for the ...
MPS and Ex Libris use SUSHI at Yale.(Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... MPS Technologies and Ex Libris Group have transferred Yale University Library usage data successfully between their systems using the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) data transfer protocol. SUSHI automates ...
MySpace is most-visited U.S. Web site.(Survey)
Sep 01, 2006 ... According to a report from Hitwise, MySpace.com superseded Yahoo! Mail as the most-visited single Web site in the U.S., accounting for 4.46 percent of all Internet visits in the first week of July. The top three Yahoo! pages combined, however, accounted for 10 percent of Internet visits, ...
In memoriam: Frederick G. Kilgour.(Online Computer Library Center )(Obituary)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Frederick G. Kilgour, librarian, educator, and founder of OCLC, died at the age of 92 on July 31, 2006. When library automation first started in the 1970s, Mr. Kilgour created the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, which developed into the library network now linking 55,000 ...
Hindawi Publishing: catering to open access.(BEHIND THE SCENES)(Industry overview)(Company overview)
Sep 01, 2006; ... In the mid-1990s, graduate students Ahmed Hindawi and Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb began noticing how popular electronic scholarly communication was becoming, particularly in their physics community. They were intrigued by the Internet s impact on society--this coupled with the impact of ...
News updates over the past year.(International REPORT)
Sep 01, 2006; ... After a long, hot summer (yes, we occasionally get them in the U.K.), it seemed to be an appropriate time to reflect on some of the past year's stories and check on developments since we first reported on them in the International Reports. In our International Report from ...
Internet librarian 2006: October 23-25, 2006 Monterey Conference Center: Portola Plaza Hotel & Monterey Marriott * Monterey, California.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2006 ... October 23-25, 2006 Monterey Conference Center Portola Plaza Hotel & Monterey Marriott * Monterey, California Wikipedia defines "mashup" as a Web site or Web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. Internet librarians ...
Focus on content.
Sep 01, 2006; ... That wailing you hear in the background is a sad farewell to the summer, which is quickly coming to an end. But that's also a good sign that the busy fall conference season is starting, along with opportunities for renewing our skills, meeting new information industry colleagues, and ...
Conference calendar.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2006 ... September 6-8: Graz, Austria (Know-Center). I-KNOW '06 will hold its 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management. This is the "premier conference on knowledge management in Europe." The conference will feature the latest developments from the human/organizational ...
Caught in the Web 2.0.(Web applications)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Ask Howard Dean or Mark Zuckerberg what user-generated Internet content can do. User-generated content is one of the cornerstones of Web 2.0, the much-discussed but enigmatic new online paradigm that has catapulted previously unknown Internet companies such as Facebook, MySpace, ...
Siperian.(appointment of Peter Caswell)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Siperian has announced the appointment of Peter Caswell to the position of CEO. Most recently, Caswell was president and CEO of Advent Software after serving in such capacities as COO, SVP of sales and marketing, and vice president of field operations. Before that, he managed ...
MuseGlobal, Inc.(appointment of Frank Bilotto)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... MuseGlobal, Inc. announced the appointment of Frank Bilotto to its newly created position of vice president of publishing and digital media. Most recently, Bilotto was head of publishing at Vivisimo, where he introduced its clustering technology to publishers and aggregators. ...
Novell, Inc.(appointment of Ronald W. Hovsepian )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Novell, Inc. announced that its board of directors elected Ronald W. Hovsepian to the position of CEO. Currently, Hovsepian is a member of the company's board of directors. Prior to this, he was president and COO and was responsible for product development, marketing, and ...
PsycINFO.(appointment of Janice L. Fleming)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... PsycINFO, a unit of the American Psychological Association (APA), announced the appointment of Janice L. Fleming as director of business and planning. In this position, she will be deputy to the senior director. She will direct budgeting and financial activities, develop metrics and models ...
SAGE Publications.(appointment of Steven D. Golden)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... SAGE Publications announced that it has appointed Steven D. Golden as the first managing director of its new Asia-Pacific business, which will be based in Singapore. In this position, he will develop and implement the company's business strategy in the new region. ...
Nstein Technologies announced that Michel Lavigne and Pierre Donaldson will join its board of directors.(appointment of Michel Lavigne and Pierre Donaldson )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Nstein Technologies announced that Michel Lavigne and Pierre Donaldson will join its board of directors. Lavigne is a director of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec and has been a director and member of the audit committees for Quebecor Media, Inc., Videotron Itee, Sun ...
Louis Leuzzi, Vice President of Global Sales, Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.(appointment of Louis Leuzzi)
Sep 01, 2006; ... In the game of chess, it is always important to anticipate your next move. For Louis Leuzzi, Endeavor Information Systems' new vice president of global sales, this is also true for the business world. "If you think of the sales process as a chess match, correctly ...
What to do about Internet hoaxes: but plenty of sophisticated people can and do get taken in by these ruses, and time is waisted in trying to respond and reassure.(Link-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
Sep 01, 2006; ... If you've been on the Internet for any length of time, you've probably received some alarming e-mails from well-meaning friends and relatives about a dire threat to your health or safety. You've probably seen similar warnings on blogs and in online discussion groups and chat rooms. ...
The legacy of the Negro Leagues.(CyberSports)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Baseball's Negro Leagues are gone, along with "separate but equal" and "whites only" water fountains. Fortunately, the stories of the Negro Leagues and the legacy of the players have been preserved. Many people witnessed the recent induction of 17 players and executives into the ...
Movie review sites.(Link-Up @ Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
Sep 01, 2006; ... "Critics' clout has gone down," according to movie reviewer Harry Kloman in an article in USA TODAY (May 31, 2006). "With the advent of new media and the Internet, studios know they can reach the audience they want to reach. They don't need us for big movies." The article ("A ...
New book on open access published.(Chandos Publishing )(Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... A new book documenting the issues of open access (OA), titled Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, was published in July. It covers the rationale, history, economics, technology, and culture of OA. The book also includes views ...
Blue Dot launches social discovery site.(http://www.bluedot.us)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Blue Dot, Inc. launched a new site (http://www.bluedot.us) that it says will change the way people communicate. Blue Dot allows users to find, save, and share Web content with their friends and family. The goal is to discover new things about one another. Users install two buttons on their ...
EBSCO Publishing partners with Zynx Health.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... EBSCO Publishing and Zynx Health announced a partnership that will benefit the companies' mutual customers. Users of Zynx evidence-based clinical decision support tools will be able to link directly from contextual references to the corresponding article records in any of EBSCO's CINAHL ...
National Security Archive battles government secret keepers.(Database Review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Sabotaged Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, reclassification and withdrawal of once-public documents, closed-door deals on energy policy, anti-whistleblower signing statements and court cases, intimidation of reporters--incidents of security overreach by the state are pervasive ...
H.W. Wilson releases free resource for librarians.(Standardcatalogs.com)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... H.W. Wilson released Standardcatalogs.com, which is a free clearinghouse of tools for collection development. The site includes best lists, editors' picks, hot topics, periodicals lists, best professional books, librarian home pages and blogs, profiles of editors, and more. Recommended ...
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. releases new version of voyager.(Product News & Reviews)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Voyager 6.1, an update to Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.'s flagship integrated library system, was released during June's ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. The new version is designed to provide librarians and information professionals with a comprehensive infrastructure for ...
EBSCO and OCLC increase visibility of e-serials.(Online Computer Library Center )(EBSCO Publishing)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... EBSCO and OCLC announced that they deployed a Web service to facilitate automated delivery of e-holdings data in ONIX Serials Online Holdings (SOH) format. Last June, the two companies joined together in a pilot project to make e-serials as visible as print materials in WorldCat, the ...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishes IEEJ journal.(IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. launched the publication of IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the official journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ). The journal is available both in print and online via Wiley InterScience. IEEJ Transactions on ...
When search turns social.(Intellext's Watson version 2.4)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Intellext recently unveiled enhancements to its free Watson search tool that gives users more room to roam. Watson version 2.4 is now customizable (the user controls which information sources Watson searches) and linked to two social networking sites (MySpace and LinkedIn). ...
4Sight Technologies is 'best kept secret' of aerospace industry.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... 4Sight Technologies recently provided Boeing with a centralized framework and application that pushed its aircraft maintenance to maximum production. 4Sight ...
EBSCOhost expands content.(Product News & Reviews)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Thirteen biomedical titles from the American Diabetes Association, the Endocrine Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) have been added to EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service Enhanced (EJS). EBSCOhost also added general content to EJS from IEEE, ...
EBSCO expands language offerings.(Product News & Reviews)
Sep 01, 2006 ... EBSCO A-to-Z now allows administrators to upload custom titles in virtually any world language, making the electronic titles viewable to a larger and more diverse audience. With Unicode compliance, titles using non-Western alphabets such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, ...
Thomson Pharma adds Generic Competition Module.(Generic Competition Module)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... Thomson Scientific has enhanced Thomson Pharma with the Generic Competition Module. This strategic tool, which is designed for research-based pharmaceutical companies, helps companies ...
H.W. Wilson releases new version of Biography Index.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2006 ... H.W. Wilson announced the release of a new version of Biography Index titled Biography Index: Past & Present. This index combines the resource's full 6-decade history of in-depth article indexing with coverage up to the present. WilsonWeb searching helps researchers find information about ...
New data harmony products aim to increase workplace efficiency.(Access Innovations products)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Technology such as e-mail, word processing, and video/teleconferencing have become such a part of our daily routine that it's hard to imagine giving them up. And what's next? It's interesting to wonder what tools and gadgets will have us asking, "How did we live without this?" ...