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Wired West: Volume 10, no. 1

News and Articles of Interest

DottoTech Promotes Research Databases Available at BC Public Libraries 

http://dottotech.com/library_video.php

DottoTech recently ran this segment on library databases - with a particular focus on Business Source Premier.  Steve Dotto, the show's executive producer, writer and host, does a great job of promoting the databases, the library as a source of quality online information, and librarians!

Launch of Virtual Reference Library Service in BC

McCulloch, Sandra. Have a Burning Question? Times Colonist (October 18, 2006). Retrieved online November 9, 2006.

Reports on the launch of Ask Away, a new, and free, virtual reference library service created by the provincial government and post-secondary institutions across BC.

Technical Roadblocks and Virtual Reference

Lupien, Pascal. Virtual Reference in the Age of  Pop-Up Blockers, Firewalls, and Service Pack 2. Online 30:4 (Jul/Aug 2006). Retrieved online November 9, 2006.

Lupien reviews some of the technical problems that can hamper virtual reference and the effect this has on usage.

Subscription-Based Services and End-User Needs

Quint, Barbara. "Hard Times". Searcher 14:8 (September, 2006). Retrieved online November 9, 2006.

In this editorial, Searcher editor Barbara Quint discusses subscription-based services and how some are failing to address end-user needs. She provides the example of the Financial Times and how it is trying to get users to purchase content from its website by increasing embargo delays to its content on Lexis and Factiva. 


Academic Library Gets Creative with RSS Feeds

Corrado, Edward M. and Moulaison, Heather L. Integrating RSS Feeds of New Books into the Campus Course Management System. Computers in Libraries. 26:9 (October 2006).  Retrieved online November 8, 2006.

Corrado and Moulaison are librarians at The College of New Jersey, a public liberal arts institution. In this article, they describe the technical aspects of their RSS feed project as well as the benefits to users.


 
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