Scott Kurnit, founder of the Mining Company and president of its current incarnation, About.com, Inc., was the morning keynote speaker. About.com [http://www.about.com] has 700 different communities on its Web site and Kurnit claims it's the fifth lar . . .

I've just come back from attending both the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual conference in San Antonio and the American Libraries Association (ALA) Annual conference in San Francisco. I'm sure I've gone to every SLA conference for the last 1 . . .

A commentary discusses negotiations between the Purdue University faculty and Elsevier Science Inc. over the cost of Elsevier journals. The average cost for a science and technology periodical has increased 50% since 1992. The larger the price increas . . .

Presented to the Science and Technology Division Program entitled " Federated Search: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." June 5, 2007 at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Denver, CO.

Internet Librarian International 2000 was held March 20-22, 2000, at the Olympia 2 conference facility in London. This was the second in the new conference series from Information Today Inc. and, with conference attendees from Asia, Europe, Africa, Au . . .

Jones International University (JIU) provides Internet-delivered, undergraduate and graduate-level courses leading to a bachelor's or master's degree in Business Communication. During the planning stages for the development of JIU, the advisory board . . .

As we get to offer more and more virtual services, we may find that we require fewer reference librarians to handle the virtual reference desk, as we find many ways to "automate the answers," especially for the frequently asked questions done in elect . . .

A commentary states that employee information needs at Apple Computer Inc. will not go away with the departure of the Apple Library.

Presentation by Kathy Dabbour, Lynn Lampert, and Doris Helfer for Internet Librarian conference, 2004.

A very wise library school professor told me that you never know where your career may take you, and developing the skills and strategies needed to move up (or out) can only expand your opportunities. This advice is especially true in today's challeng . . .