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In the late 1990s, twenty-one companies partnered with ALA to launch the Library Champions program. This innovative program allowed companies to actively support and convey the value of library-and librarianship [...]

Playing games in today's public and school libraries is a profoundly social experience for library patrons both young and old. Age is no longer an indicator of interest, aptitude, or [...]

When Jim Chadwell, the former principal of Northwest High School in Texas, renovated his media center four years ago, he had two things in mind: Starbucks and Barnes & Noble. [...]

Certainly, library blogs have real potential for promoting library services to the community. There's only one problem. People have to actually read the library's blog for it to be effective. [...]

Brick-and-mortar libraries can be intimidating places for print-impaired people, including those who are blind or visually impaired, or who have reading disabilities. Throughout most of the 20th century this population [...]

It seems a utopian vision: providing the correct information to the right individual at the precise time in the desired format. How can information professionals do that? How can the [...]

Since the advent of graphical Internet access in public libraries, the American Library Association has staked out the so-called high ground to ensure that some elements of society do not [...]

Every so often, new products designed to enhance the internet research capabilities for business topics appear. I've reviewed several of them in the past, and they haven't lasted (I hope [...]

THE final element of Amazon's long-awaited Upgrade program quietly went live on May 18, 2006. Completely unannounced, the feature-rich Amazon Online Reader replaced the limited PDF-like display system Amazon had [...]

Creating a digital library might seem like a task best left to a large research collection with a vast staff and generous budget. However, tools for successfully creating digital libraries [...]

Tempe (Ariz.) Public Library plans a Connections Cafe, where baby boomers can meet neighbors, attend lectures, assess plans for retirement, and take part in other projects devised by a citizen [...]

On the contrary, our attempts to connect for an interview were thwarted several times, usually because of his travel schedule as he visited with the various units that constitute Gale, [...]

WHEN it comes to multifile alerts on Dialog, many information professionals felt like poor Ralphie Parker from the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, endlessly waiting for his Little Orphan Annie [...]

The scene was sadly familiar to me: A patron stood with a copy of a 'free money' book clenched in his hand, frustrated and angry. 'Did this help?' I asked [...]

Our second annual 'best of' list looks at products reviewed between June 2008 and the present. The past year saw many excellent and innovative projects-and narrowing them down to a [...]

ALA Publishing has announced the launch of the new online edition of Guide to Reference that offers more than 16,000 print and Web reference resources, introductory essays and annotations, and [...]

ALA's Association for Library Service to Children has updated its Great Web Sites for Kids, the online resource containing hundreds of links to commendable websites for children. The site features [...]

If you subscribe to any of the EBSCO databases, then you've seen the banner: EBSCOhost 2.0 Coming July 2008! We knew that there would be a new interface, but I [...]

WITH THE PROLIFERATION OF VIDEO GAMES, IT'S SOMETIMES DIFFICULT for librarians--and parents--to decide which new releases are most appropriate for youngsters. The games reviewed here will appeal to a wide [...]

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has expanded its Global Libraries initiative and plans to invest $328 million over the next seven years to support computer and internet access in [...]

Public libraries in Washington, D.C., and Chicago are extending their hours of operation, thanks to additional FY2007 funding. The District of Columbia Public Library opened its central Martin Luther King [...]

LexisNexis (LN) long has been top gun for legal and business searchers. The academic version released in 1997, however, quickly became a target of numerous complaints from librarians and students [...]

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced April 11 the latest group of 50 recordings for the National Recording Registry. Created by Congress through the National Recording Preservation Act of [...]

Six months after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented its weakened public access policy for the research it funds, the signatories of the DC Principles, a group of 57 [...]

One of the things I love about librarianship is our tendency to hedge our bets. That's the nicer way of saying that we look after the lowest common denominator or [...]

A consulting firm commissioned by the U.K. Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council and the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport issued a report in July recommending that the British government [...]

Scopus, Elsevier's science-specific indexing and abstracting database, has been upgraded with new offerings only roughly six months after its initial release (Info Tech, LJ 9/15/04, p. 21). In use by [...]

Guarantee offered after ALA, historians protest archive transfer Newly installed national archivist Allan Weinstein said he was committed to access--and in his first major act in his new post, Weinstein [...]

Google now claims over 8 billion pages in its database. Google announced the expansion of its Google Print Program to include many more publishers and more of the full text [...]

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) has been going through changes, as ERIC clearinghouses, AskERIC, and toll-free numbers were closed last month in anticipation of a relaunch early this year. [...]

Two popular products have been combined to offer Web users one-stop shopping for quality resources. 'Thinkronize's netTrekker, a curriculum-oriented search engine for schools, and Sagebrush's Pinpoint, a customizable tool that [...]

If you're the type who rarely completes a I research project in a single sitting, a new program from EBSCO Publishing may be just what you're looking for. 'My EBSCOhost' [...]

Global communication is here. Libraries around the world are exchanging information faster and easier than ever before. Whether users are in Peru, Malaysia, or the United States, information leaps to [...]

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) launched an upgraded version of the U.S. Government Online Bookstore. There are approximately 4,000 federal titles and 150 ebooks available through the online store. [...]

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently rolled out an upgraded website for its U.S. Government Online Bookstore. The new site (bookstore.gpo.gov) features enhanced search capabilities and usability, browse functionality [...]

ALA's Association for Library Service to Children has developed a revised edition of its Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries, available online at www.ala.org/alsc. ALSC recommends these core [...]

As if smartphones weren't already hard enough to put down, new, mobile-optimized interfaces are coming for both Summon, Serials Solutions' discovery platform, and all resources available via the EBSCOhost platform. [...]

Google Book Search added several new features for linking, viewing, and searching. The new Link option in the upper right-hand corner of a book display gives the HTML code for [...]

Yahoo! has introduced Search Pad (in beta), which shows up on the right side of the search results. It is a notebooklike application and is designed to automatically track and [...]

Yahoo! Image Search added a Creative Commons license filter in the filter toolbar above the results and in the advanced image search. You can limit to reusable images or narrow [...]

Google Suggest has changed in several ways. Google search suggestions now show up when entering a new query on a results page. The very inaccurate numbers have been removed. From [...]