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People tend to get a lot of random emails that they send right to the trash. A few months ago, one such wayward email (or so I thought) arrived in [...]

If the image in this article seems familiar, it's because it appeared on page 13 of the October issue as the art for the article 'Rolling Out the Welcome Mat [...]

This is going to be a different column. Keep reading, and you'll see why. After I take a look at three topics from the September/October issue of KMWorld, I'm going [...]

For this issue, I am highlighting two features from the May/June 2022 issue of Online Searcher. The first takes a look at the potential comeback of the news librarian profession. [...]

This issue, I'm sharing three articles from the March/April issues of KMWorld and Online Searcher. WHOM DO YOU TRUST? Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes the Ethical Innovation column for KMWorld. In his [...]

When COVID-19 started shutting down just about everything in March 2020, information technology came to the rescue on many levels. It enabled students to go to school online and employees [...]

Do you want to use more pictures to accompany articles and promotional pieces about your library, but you aren't sure what, or more specifically, whom, you can include in the [...]

Do you need to find a better way to communicate with your patrons--or potential ones--that might help your library (and staff) become more engaged with the population at large? A [...]

For an expanded version of this article, visit newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/ Hitting-the-Books-A-Pro-Baseball-Player-Promotes-Reading-and-Media-Literacy149312.asp. At 6 feet, 4 inches tall, the Washington Nationals' switch-hitting first baseman Josh Bell is an imposing figure. When he [...]

The EDTECH feature from the September issue of Computers in Libraries and the Technology & Power column from the September/ October issue of Online Searcher both deal with how libraries [...]

The two feature articles I'm highlighting from the July/August issue of the Marketing Library Services (MLS) newsletter are about reaching out to people who are in some kind of new [...]

Remember when the word 'information' appeared more often without prefixes like 'mis' or 'dis'? Now, it seems like most of what you read about information concerns its dark side. The [...]

Most often, I pick articles from other Information Today, Inc. publications to highlight the tools, solutions, or products discussed that could benefit Information Today readers. This time, the KMWorld column [...]

The articles I've highlighted in this issue are from the March/ April Marketing Library Services (MLS) newsletter and the April/May issue of Streaming Media (SM). The MLS How-To article addresses [...]

Although I am not a numbers person, I appreciate statistics. When presented well, statistics can drive home vital points that words alone may not convey. The following articles from the [...]

Obviously, the word in my title has an extra, capitalized 'm' and doesn't take a hyphen unless it's split over two lines of copy. I formatted the title this way [...]

To kick off 2021, I'm shaking things up a bit. I'm still highlighting noteworthy articles from other Information Today, Inc. publications, but rather than picking out two, I am looking [...]

Here's something you may never have thought of: Bulletproof vests were not created to accommodate a woman's upper torso. Why? An article in the November 2021 issue of Computers in [...]

To wrap up my columns in what has been the most surreal months of my almost 59 years, I am looking at two articles from the October issue of Streaming [...]

Knowledge management (KM) is not a topic that is generally addressed in Information Today. However, that's going to change--at least on my end--as I highlight two KMWorld columns from the [...]

This issue, I've picked two columns by writers who are well-known within the streaming world: Tim Siglin and Dom Robinson. I'm highlighting Siglin's September Streams of Thought column from the [...]

You might recall from my April column that I shared the frustration of being a hearing-impaired person in a world in which most organizations, even religious ones, just aren't thinking [...]

In 2020, Computers in Libraries is marking its 40th anniversary. I am going to focus on a feature article from the March issue that I found quite compelling, while briefly [...]

Although they apparently explore unrelated issues, the more I thought about it, the more two columns, one from the January/February issue of KMWorld and the other from the January/February issue [...]

I found four articles whose content was worth sharing in my last column of 2019: one from the Fall issue of Big Data Quarterly (BDQ) and three from the Autumn [...]

So, up front, I need to tell you that this column is not about libraries, librarians, or information professionals per se. However, a column from the September/October issue of KMWorld [...]

The Summer 2019 issue of E-Content is chock-full of articles about AI. Rather than picking just two, I'm doing something a little different: looking at four that examine how AI's [...]

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to offer the potential for great technological advances within a nearly infinite number of scenarios. However, as much as some would like to have us believe [...]

Some inventions are so world-changing (even if it takes a while to find this out) that we celebrate them on their big anniversaries. Other things that start to sprout up [...]

When I was looking for articles to write up this issue, I caught a break. The May issue of The Information Advisor's Guide to Internet Research had a feature and [...]

Sometimes I think Google is secretly trying to take over the world by making it so easy to use its search engine that we ignore our own brains. However, an [...]

Even most of us who have never been a Boy Scout know that their motto is 'Be prepared.' I thought this call to preparedness resonated in different ways in two [...]

There seems to be a never-ending stream of articles debating the future of libraries. For a nice change of pace, a column from the January/February 2019 issue of Online Searcher [...]

Technology isn't always the answer. In fact, sometimes it's the problem. Or, it can create more problems than it solves. These are my takeaways from two columns from the September/ [...]

In this column, I'm going to offer up a trio of articles, one each from the May/June issues of Computers in Libraries, KMWorld, and Online Searcher. They address, in somewhat [...]

When I was copyediting the Streaming Media Europe Winter 2018 issue, I was practically cheering the comments that View From the Edge columnist Dom Robinson makes in his piece. A [...]

No matter the area of service, or whether it's in-house or online, the new paradigm seems to be, 'It's the customer (or patron), stupid.' The two articles I'm highlighting in [...]

Usually, when I look for articles from our other publications to write about, I pick ones that are instructional in some way or share the pros (and maybe cons) of [...]

The theme of the summer 2018 issue of EContent magazine is Global Content. Three articles by Bruno Herrmann, all falling under the Best Practices banner, examine this theme as a [...]

Persian Gulf Updates via Electronic Services We live in an age and society where the majority of the people desire, even demand, instant gratification. We're accustomed to five-minute microwave dinners […]

For this article, it was time to check out Marketing Library Services to see if there were some good pieces to highlight. The whole May/June issue is worth the read, [...]

Data asset management, known by its amusing acronym, DAM, is popping up in the darndest places these days. Within the pages of the Computers in Libraries May issue are numerous [...]

Although you wouldn't know it from the very un-spring-like weather many areas of the U.S. have been experiencing as I write this in April (what's up with that, Mother Nature?), [...]

The February/March issue of Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) goes in several interesting directions. One article discusses location data; another digs into how a cemetery uses software that is customizable [...]

If you read this column with any regularity, you probably know that while not a technophobe, I don't go overboard when it comes to new devices. I carefully watch from [...]

I am kicking off the new Information Today year by looking at a column from the December 2017 issue of The Information Advisor's Guide to Internet Research (aka Info Advisor's [...]

Considering that libraries used to (and sometimes still do) have a reputation for being places for quiet contemplation, solitary study, and hushed voices, the word 'social' seems like an odd [...]

Often, when I am looking over articles from other Information Today, Inc. publications, I'll find one that I think is interesting, but then wonder, 'How does this topic relate to [...]

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the main character sourly notes, 'I'm just so angry all the time.' Post-election 2016, I can relate. And from what I [...]

As I have stated more than once, while not a technophobe, I also am not one of those people who rushes out or waits in line for hours to get [...]