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Focuses on the differences between preserving original historical materials and creating digital archives. Scientific and technical preservation research done by the Preservation Directorate at the United States Library of Congress; Establishment of the National Digital Library Program to create electronic reproductions of primary source materials on American history and culture; Foundation of the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts, to preserve deteriorating paper resources.

The article reflects on the evolution of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries' personal content management (PCM) team and its role in supporting the community in Massachusetts. It mentions subject liaisons work with discipline-specific communities to support their research needs and collaborate with other domain experts like the PCM team. It also mentions Zotero and Mendeley matured as citation management products, offering options for group sharing and annotation.

The article identifies several free research resources from business schools, publishing companies, management consultancies, and think tanks. Topics discussed include the publication of books and journals by business schools and the use of social media by publishers for informing the public about the release of a new book. The "Harvard Business Review" issued by Harvard Business School and the release of the "McKinsey Quarterly" of research firm McKinsey & Co. are then mentioned.

Reports that the Computer Museum is preparing to catalog its collection of artifacts, still images, and films, which all relate to computing technology. Number of artifacts and photographs included in the museum's collection; Museum's origins as the archives of Digital Equipment Corporation.

The article reports on the highlights of the 13th Search Engine Meeting that was held in Boston, Massachusetts from April 28 to 29, 2008. The event was organized by Infonortics, Ltd. Three key topics were addressed during the conference, including extensible markup language (XML) retrieval, visualization of search results, and federated or enterprise searching. INSET: Two Everett Brenner Awards Given for Best Papers.

The article discusses digital publishing as the next skill in U.S. libraries. It claims that digital publishing is evolving quickly but the profession has yet to view library-based publishing projects as a new form of innovation or a potential library skill. It looks at what constitutes the publishing process and how the skills to publish have become more accessible. It talks about publishing skills overlapping library expertise, scholarly marketplace initiatives, and library-based strategies.

The article reports that ProCD Inc. is shipping ProPhone-National Edition, a collection of three CD-ROMs containing most of the nation's residential and business telephone directory listings. ProPhone currently contains listings from every city in the U.S. ProPhone's list price is $349, however, for a limited time, ProPhone is available from ProCD and its authorized distributors at the special introductory price of $179. ProPhone consists of a Business disc, the Eastern Residential disc, and the Western Residential disc. The Business disc contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of substantially all of the nation's businesses. ProCD, based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, currently co-publishes two other fully indexed telephone directories on CD-ROM that are updated monthly.

This article presents information on the National Information Standards Organization Conference to be held at the Harvard Club in Boston, Massachusetts in September 1991. The conference will address the main themes that bring the once discrete interests of information service provider, including system designers and developers. The program speakers include David Clark, senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science. Registration fee for the program is $150, with discounts for NISO member.

The article discusses archival materials at Berklee College of Music. Then-President Lee Eliot Berk led the creation of the book "Berklee: The First Fifty Years," by Ed Hazell in the effort to preserve Berkee's history. The nature and diversity of content and format of the materials in the archives reportedly make the task of creating an archive challenging.

Focuses on the search engines conference of Infonortics Limited on April 1 and 2, 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts. Presenters in the conference; Format of the conference; Common themes that emerged from various speakers' presentation.

Describes a study conducted in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aimed at evaluating the use of full-text online retrieval for document delivery. Objective and scope of the study; Related literature; Criteria to determine success of information retrieval; Project results; Findings.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2010 Search Engine Meeting, which was held at the Hyatt Regency Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. ProQuest chief information officer Bipin Patel discussed the ways their company is redefining the three legacy search platforms of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Dialog and ProQuest. Stephen E. Arnold talked about the importance of social search for users who wanted to get indexing content from online social networking web sites like Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds and other real-time sources.

Focuses on the non-registration of the titles of several publications with the Copyrights Clearance Center (CCC). Problems encountered by the `Financial Times' periodical; Policies of the `ABA Journal'; Difficulties in attempting to work with the system of CCC experienced by the `Review of Scientific Instruments' periodical.

The article reports on a $15.3 million library renovation project at the Mount Holyoke College's Williston Memorial Library in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The project includes a state-of-the-art computer center and a new science library. A copper-sheathed skywalk connects the old and new buildings and symbolizes the growing symbiosis between libraries and information technology resources. College librarian Anne C. Edmonds says that technology is redefining the role of librarians at liberal arts colleges. In a recent report prepared for the Research Libraries Group Inc., Richard Dougherty and Carol Hughes from the University of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies note that the growing presence of information technologies has created tensions between the traditional values of academe and the new roles and responsibilities envision for libraries and computer centers. Edmonds thinks it is essential that librarians be included in the planning process. Librarians are the ones who ultimately must leverage the library's computing resources for the benefit of its patrons.

The article offers information on the PDA (Personal digital archiving) 2016 conference which was held from May 12–14, 2016 at the University of Michigan. It states that the topics were changing the practice and purpose of oral history with technology, Audio and video content poses challenges to archivists and communities are interested in documenting lives of their members. It mentions that attendees include director of University of Kentucky Doug Boyd and founder of Shorefront Dino Robinson.

The article states that "Fulltext Sources Online," a directory listing more than 3,600 journals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires that are available in fulltext format online, is now available as an electronic database from two suppliers: Data-Star (RadioSuisse) service, and SandPoint Corp. The directory provides coverage dates, degree of coverage and online hosts for each journal. Data-Star (RadioSuisse) is providing public online access for the BiblioData directory, which is known by the acronym FULL. The database will be updated quarterly, and is fully searchable from anywhere in the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based SandPoint Corp. delivers Fulltext Sources Online as an electronic publication to users of Lotus Notes, software that enables information access by multiple users over PC networks. Publications are organized alphabetically by geographic focus, by content focus, by source file, and by vendor for easy access by both information professionals and casual corporate users.

The article reports on the success of the 77th annual conference of the Special Libraries Association held in Boston, Massachusetts from June 7 to 12, 1986. The conference theme, Excellence in the World of Information, tied together a broad variety of presented papers, division sessions, and three major general sessions. Noted speakers included Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Yale University professor and author of The Change Masters: Innovation for productivity in the American Corporation, who spoke on Managing for Excellence; and Julianne H. Prager, executive director of Corporate Technical Planning and Coordination at the 3M Corp., who discussed The Creative Environment for Excellence.

The article presents information on the Fall '95 Internet World Show, sponsored by Mecklermedia Corp., held at World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts, from October 30-November 2, 1995. This event attracted 32,000 people, as opposed to 10,000 attendees at the Fall '94 Internet World Show. Mecklermedia, forced to scramble to accommodate the huge throngs, had a massive "Keynote Tent" erected immediately outside the World Trade Center. The Fall '96 Internet World Show will be held at both the World Trade Center and Boston's Hynes Convention Center. With 230 exhibitors, a wide variety of products and services were on display. Many exhibitors could be classified as providing "supporting technologies," such as Internet firewalls, software development tools for publishing or cruising on the Internet, and measurement and audit software for Web site owners who want to monitor how and by whom their sites are being used. Many of the vendors appeared to be consult- ants/systems integrators, which is not surprising in a field that is both new and growing as quickly as this one is.

The article presents information on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The laboratory is dedicated to the relationship between humans and computers. The mission of the laboratory is to invent and creatively exploit new media for human well-being and individual satisfaction without regard for present-day constraints. There are 12 Media Laboratory Research Groups, including Spatial Imaging, Television of Tomorrow, Computer Graphics and Animation and Interactive Cinema. Nicholas Negroponte, director of the laboratory, is responsible for the development of new sponsors and investors. Glorianna Davenport is in charge of the Interactive Cinema Group. His group's mission is to bring seamless story telling to interactive media. The two projects of the Interactive Cinema Group are Elastic Charles and the Emerging Multimedia PC Industry. The project Elastic Charles features moving icons, dynamic links and elastic tools. The project Emerging Multimedia PC Industry is a prototype of Hypercase.

The article discusses the importance of computer software in the management of electronic health records (EHR) in Massachusetts. It focuses on the approach by the UMass Memorial Medical Center which shares healthcare information based on the regulatory and hospital policy requirements. According to Richard Cramer, chief information officer of UMass Memorial, physicians have different levels of requirements for healthcare information.

Reports on the Seybold Seminars publishing conference held in Boston, Massachusetts in March 1999. The three conferences that Seybold '99 featured; How Adobe was showcased at the conference; The popularity of the Wacom/MetaCreations demonstration center.

The article focuses on the happenings at the Interactive Service Association's 10th Annual Conference. The conference was held in mid-July 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts. Hundreds of other information industry types were in town attending the Interactive Service Association's 10th Annual Conference and Alliance Expo at the Marriott Copley Place. Russ Siegelman, general manager of the Microsoft Corp.'s was verbally assaulted by a tag team of senior executives from the "Big Three" consumer online services. Siegelman countered with innocent surprise at suggestions of unfair advantage and restraint of trade on the part of Microsoft. There are more people with telephones than operating systems in this country, suggested Siegelman, attempting to resuscitate old fears about the regional Bell operating companies. But Microsoft, with its huge penetration of the world's desktops has become "the dial tone of the digital age," warned Steve Case, president of America Online. The fact is, they all may be worried about the wrong playing field. Opinions of the speakers varied widely on the subject of what role the Internet will play in consumer online activities. Charles Brumback, chairman of the Tribune Co., felt that the opportunity will be all incremental and that online services will continue to prosper.

This article highlights the 22nd Annual Convention and Exhibition of the Information Industry Association (IIA) held in Boston, Massachusetts, from September 30 to October 3, 1990. James Burke, from the British Broadcasting Corp., presented the opening keynote address. Burke is Britain's foremost commentator on science and technology. The keynote address was lively, witty, entertaining, and well attended. Throughout his talk Burke stressed that humans have always had the need to communicate information. The theme of the convention, Distinction in the 90's: Survival in the New Era of Competition, addressed the opportunities for growth, transformation and continuity in the next decade.

Reports that Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts is using the Informatica PowerCenter enterprise data integration system to enhance quality of care, conduct effective research and operate efficiently. Overview on the hospital's information system; Functions of the enterprise data warehouse; Comments of Danny Shaw, chief knowledge officer, on the implementation of a unified data integration platform at the hospital.

This article reports on the creation of a formal Code of Ethical Business Practice by the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) in 1989. The code was passed by unanimous vote of the 42 members attending the third annual meeting of AIIP held in Lowell, Massachusetts, from May 4 to 6. As defined by the code, an independent information professional is an information entrepreneur who has demonstrated continuing expertise in the business of finding and organizing information. Information professionals serve as intermediaries between the client and the information world, and bear the following responsibilities: to uphold the profession's reputation for honesty, competence, and confidentiality; to give clients the most current and accurate information possible; and to maintain a professional relationship with libraries.