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 . . .

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 . . .

In principle, federated or metasearching does allow one to do one-stop shopping to find search results. In MetaLib, for instance, once you see the list of relevant databases, you can designate up to eight databases - the ones likeliest to give you rel . . .

In May 2007, OCLC announced a pilot project called WorldCat Local. Recognizing the issues involved with using WorldCat and the difficulty of determining accessibility of an item once located, OCLC's new service allows participating libraries to custom . . .