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    Posted on March 18th, 2004

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    Good News for Bloggers

    Wi-Fi Zone Finder Portal Program Launched by Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi Alliance — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 03/18/2004 — The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that it is launching a new Web portal program on March 29th to promote public awareness and use of Wi-Fi ZONE hot spots around the globe. Partners that join [...]

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    Posted on March 14th, 2004

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    More Top Tech Trends for Libraries

    From Library Information Technology Association (LITA) Tech Trends for Libraries XML RFID Copyright Metasearching OPACs and User Behavior Policies and Technology User Interface Design Digital Rights Management Personal Information Management (PIM)

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    Posted on March 14th, 2004

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    Personality & Searching for Information

    Stephen Abram in his talk at Computer in Libraries 2004, pointed us towards an interesting October 2003 study, Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour by Jannica Heinstrom, Abo Akademi University, Finland. Dimension of Personality & Level of Trait Neuroticism —-> Hi Level Sensitive, Nervous vs Low Level Secure, Confident Extraversion —> Hi [...]

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    Posted on March 12th, 2004

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    Top Tech Trends Panel at CIL

    Featured Roy Tennant, California Digital Library; Mary Lee Kennedy, Consultant & most recently Director of Knowledge Networks at Microsoft; Stephen Abram, new VP, Innovation Initiatives, Sirsi and in-coming President of the Canadian Library Association. Each speaker had a theme for their trends: Roy talked about the golden age for digital libraries based on the following [...]

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    Posted on March 12th, 2004

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    Blogging Sessions

    From our colleague, Marydee Ojala, live at Computers in Libraries, DC Editor, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals OK, that title’s a bit misleading. What I really want to talk about is the sessions that were about blogging, not actually blogging the sessions. First of all, there was a terrific pre-conference workshop given by [...]

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    Posted on March 11th, 2004

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    Forecasts from David Seuss, CEO, Northern Light

    From our colleague, Marydee Ojala, live at Computers in Libraries, DC Editor, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals Thursday’s keynote speaker, David Seuss, started his talk by saying he was the happiest person in the room to be at Computers in Libraries. Having sold his company, Northern Light, then bought it back, he certainly [...]

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    Posted on March 10th, 2004

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    Betting on Libraries: Are Librarians Helping or Hindering?

    From our colleague, Marydee Ojala, live at Computers in Libraries, DC Editor, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals In Jeff Wisniewski’s talk this morning on federated searching, he compared a library to a casino — patrons walking into the library have the deck stacked against them. Without prior knowledge, they can’t figure out how [...]

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    Posted on March 10th, 2004

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    Computers in Libraries show attracts over 2000 attendees!

    From our colleague, Marydee Ojala Editor, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals Wow, it’s nice to see a full hall! In his opening remarks, Tom Hogan welcomed us to Computers in Libraries and noted there were over 2,000 people here at the Washington Hilton in cold and rainy/sleety Washington DC. That’s up 7% from [...]