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The article offers information on news about the World Wide Web. Topics discussed include Berners-Lee, computer scientist who invent accessing to the open internet which easier for the general public; GeoCities, a web-hosting tool created by Yahoo, web services company; and verify health related news which gives a slew of ways to identify a fabricated video such as looking for blinking eye.

The article provides an overview of several papers about information technology. In "Building a Web-Based Laboratory so Users Can Experiment With New Services," Jason Battles and Jody Combs posit that librarians are not as adept at taking the time to find out what patrons really want. In "When InterNET Is InterNOT," Arno Rueser shares six basic aspects of Internet bias and search queries that can be used to show how a skilled librarian can outperform the typical Internet searcher . In "'Copyfraud' and Public Domain Works," Carol Ebbinghouse looks at reasons why people and corporations place copyright symbols on public domain items and then centers on four basic questions pertaining to the complexities that often make copyright law confusing.

This article looks at some Web-based information resources in the U.S. in 2007. The social bookmarking phenomenon called del.icio.us helps searchers track Web themes, or memes. While a browser bookmark list is tied to a specific computer, del.icio.us lets users access saved sites from any Internet-enabled device. The Georgia State University Library's Southern Labor Archives Web site offers digitized publications of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. There were two goals: creating preservation copies of the volumes and providing searchable online versions of the publications for a worldwide userbase through a digital library system.

The article encourages people to read the February 2006 issues of the journals "Computers in Libraries," "The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research," and "Searcher." It stresses the importance of reading instructional manuals. It discusses really simple syndication feeds. It outlines the contents of the journals.

The article discusses issues related to information technology and library management. Librarians are advised to learn their network. This requires the need to secure ports which are exposed to the Internet at servers as well as programs running on personal computers. Library managers must give only the tools needed by the staff to do their jobs. Information ethics must also be observed. It covers the areas of intellectual property rights and equitable access. Funding resources are also important to library management.

Examines some of the articles in the October 2003 issues of "Computers in Libraries," CyberSkeptics Guide," and "Searcher." "Four Steps I Took That Transformed My Solo Corporate Library"; Information on the CyberJournalist.net, a site that offers information professionals a current-awareness tool and can help users improve their Internet research skills, Web sites and even their writing; Details on the article "Spies Like Us," by Denise Hamilton.

The article presents feedback on articles from the publication "Online Searcher's" January/February issue including Cynthia Shamel's "Research Mixed With Analysis Provides a Complete Meal," Ran Hock's "Info Advisor's Guide," and another on a Joe Piscopo character on the television series "Saturday Night Live."

The article offers brief information on various infographic software including the TinEye Reverse Image Search, the Search by Image from Google Inc. and Infogr.am.

The article reviews the web sites Silobreaker and Disabled World, located at disabled-world.com and cites Susanne Bjørner's CyberSelection column in the May 2013 issue of "The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research" and an article by Joseph Camann from the April 2013 issue of "The Information Advisor".

The article discusses a report by Susanne Bjørner in the January 2013 issue of "The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research" on the World Bank Group Open Knowledge Repository web site and an article about a library in a Haarlem, Netherlands train station by Dick van Tol in the January 2013 issue of "MLS: Marketing Library Services."

The article reviews the articles "It Looks Like a Search Engine and Acts Like a Search Engine" by Allison Miller which appeared in the October 2012 issue of "The Information Advisor" and "Workplace Evolution" by Theresa Cramer which appeared in the September-October 2012 issue of "Intranets."

The author reviews two articles, "How to Read a Magazine or a Journal Today" which appeared in the periodical "The Information Advisor" on the July/August 2012 issue and "Calculating Alternatives to Oil and Coal" which appeared in the periodical "The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research" on the July/August 2012

A review of two articles is presented, including an article on a beta version of the BusinessUSA website at http://business.usa.gov by Susan Bjørner and the Web of Resources column by Nick Tomaiulolo, both in the journal "The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research."

The article presents definitions of several business jargon terms and acronyms, including hamsterize or the use of manual labor instead of technology, GIGO, an acronym for Garbage In, Garbage Out, and b-blog, which is a web log that presents serious business insights and information.

A review of two articles in the April 2012 issue of "The Information Advisor" is presented, including a profile by Bob Berkman on Oriprobe Information Services, Inc., and the article "Two Top-Notch Sites for Industry Benchmarking."

The article looks at some of the columns published in the March/April 2011 issue of the periodical "Intranets" and in the May 2011 issue of "The CyberKeptic's Guide to Internet Research." In the Success by Design column of "Intranets," author James Robertson offers tips on which parts of an intranet should be mobile. In the Knowing Nonprofits column of "CyberSkeptic's," author Susan Fingerman focuses on the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).

The article focuses on two special resources featured in the January/February issue 2011 of "The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research" which provide information on taxes and firearms. The Tax Foundation offers a Web 2.0 site featuring various reports and publications, including the "2011 State Business Tax Climate Index" which includes rankings of the top 10 best and worst U.S. states in terms of taxation. The Firearms Research Digest website offers bibliographic information for related articles appearing in more than 300 journals.

The article reviews the periodical "The Information Advisor" (IA) and its quarterly supplement "Enterprise 2.0: Managing Knowledge in Your Organization."

The article focuses on several reports on information resources-related topics featured in various newsletters. A report by Susanne Bjørner in the November/December 2010 issue of "CyberKinetics" introduced the WikiLeaks site founded by a group of human rights activists, computer experts and authors to offer the public access to legally and technically protected data retrieved from anonymous sources. In his report in the November/December 2010 issue of "Intranets," Denis Zenkin discussed the need for a safety net surrounding one's Internet.

This section discusses various articles from the June 2007 issues of "Computer in Libraries" (CIL) and "Searcher." The "Train Employees and Officials to Be Ready for Privacy Challenges" article by Joan E. Bernstein in CIL focuses on handling a criminal investigation of a library patron. In "Mash It Up: Remixing the Information Superhighway" in "Searcher," Miguel Ramos and Dawn Gauthier examine the ways and means that mashups have spread out across so many Internet-access roads. The author stated that she is going to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

This section comments on several articles about information services and information technology. Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL) is a great illustration that unity produces much better results than discord. As Lori Bell and Thomas A. Peters write in the article, Online Programming Can Be a Library Oasis on the Internet, in the November/December 2004 issue of Computers in Libraries, OPAL, spearheaded by organizations such as the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and the Alliance Library System, is helping to create a place where patrons can participate in book discussions, children can attend virtual story times, and persons of all ages can learn how to search the online catalog in interactive training and demonstration. The article, Protect Yourself & Your Computer, by John Lescher in the November/December 2004 issue of The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research, offers tips on how users can avoid being reeled in by unsavory Net sharks. Blended threats, which combine the characteristics of viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and malicious code, are increasing at a significant rate. Other online crime, such as phishing, is also rising at an alarming rate. The biggest defense of users is to stay up-to-date by installing the patches that software vendors provide. In the article, Government Printing Office (GPO): Transformation Underway, in the November/December 2004 issue of Searcher, Miriam Drake reports that the GPO is reinventing itself and how it delivers information to the nation. But technology is changing how the GPO gathers, stores, disseminates, and preserves documents and data. As a direct result, a number of issues are spurring the agency's makeover. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote a report to address concerns such as how to revive the sagging sales program of the GPO, which is losing substantial revenue due in part to people's growing reliance on the Internet.