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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The article discusses the book "Your Career Advantage: Overcome Challenges to Achieve a Rewarding Work Life" by Caroline Dowd-Higgins. Topics include the author's background, the importance of investing in oneself, playing to one's strengths, reframing situations, taking action to make positive changes, addressing conflict, setting goals, avoiding the trap of busyness, overcoming self-doubt, and earning respect versus being liked.

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 [...]