Emerging technologies changing public library service delivery models.
Emerging technologies provide librarians with a unique opportunity to substantially enhance user centred services and to facilitate and promote collaboration between libraries and their users. This paper explores the range of free and inexpensive technologies that have been implemented with practical and immediate benefits for library staff and users....

Library resource sharing in the early age of Google.
Given that no library can afford to purchase, house, and preserve every information source that its patrons might need, information resource sharing, in the form of interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery (DD), has become a core library service. Of course, information sharing is an activity that librarians must...

Get IT.
GET IT: current awareness services Current awareness services help researchers keep track of developments in their fields of interest, providing news alerts that in some cases can be tailored to match particular interests. This `selective dissemination of information' is generally provided by library-based services. Formats vary from...

New Web browser for education introduced. (EduNet: Internet * Web * online content and services).
Sunergia Group has developed Browse3D, a new Web browser the company says makes it faster and easier for educators to find, organize, save and exchange Web-based information, particularly for conducting online research. The new browser enhances the features of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and allows users to find and view...

Gunter, Barrie. News and the Net.
Gunter, Barrie. News and the Net. Mahwah, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Pp. x, 218. ISBN 0-8058-4499-6 (hb.) $59.95; 0-8058-4500-3 (pb). $24.50. During the 2003 basketball season, I stole odd moments during the day to search the Internet to see what national news sources were...

SOFTNET SIGNS THIRTEEN E-COMMERCE PARTNERS.
SoftNet Systems Inc has established relationships between its ISP Channel and thirteen e-commerce partners. The resulting broadband product, described as a branded online e-commerce and community information service, is to be called Locale. SoftNet hopes the services will generate three revenue streams: one from ad sales, another from transactions...

The Gulliver online database evaluation tool.
The Gulliver consortium is a Victorian public library based group formed in 2001. It purchases electronic databases for members and selects them after evaluation on criteria of content, statistical and technical features and vendor viability. After months of evaluating databases using an Excel spreadsheet, an online version was developed...

MAKING COMPUTER-MEDIATED EDUCATION RESPONSIVE TO THE ACCOMMODATION NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.
THE ACCOMMODATION NEEDS of students with disabilities has been a subject of concern to social work educators for at least two decades (see Alperin, 1988; Cole & Cain, 1996; Cole, Chirst, & Light, 1995; James & Thomas, 1996; Madden, 1995; Weinberg, 1978). With the passage and implementation of the...

Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group Honored with 4 Codie Awards.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-22 May 2008-Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group Honored with 4 Codie Awards(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dow Jones & Company announced that the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, including recently acquired Generate, won four 2008 SIIA Codie Awards at the gala held May 20, at the...

ProQuest Platinum: ProQuest Information and Learning.
www.proquestk12.com Internet, Site license $3,000-$5,000/year This online database contains more than 2,200 periodicals covering many curriculum-specific subject areas. Its features include full-text coverage of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal along with other international, national and regional newspapers. It's delivered via the latest version...