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The article announces the BUDDIE award to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) for documenting Native American boarding schools, focusing on historical abuse, NABS's educational efforts, and its extensive resource collection.

The article focuses on the historic nomination of a woman of color for the presidency in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, marking a significant moment in American politics. Topics include the global perspective on women in leadership positions, the Women's Power Index tracking female political participation, and the implications of this nomination for gender equality in U.S. foreign policy.

The article reviews the Ballotpedia, an encyclopedic reference for American politics and government.

The article focuses on Google's AI Overviews, a self-initiated artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that generates responses to search queries and places them at the top of search results. Topics include the comparison between AI Overviews and its predecessor, Search Generative Experience (SGE), the chatbot's accuracy and link quality, and its impact on content creators and the broader content aggregation landscape.

The article presents the discussion on growing scrutiny and polarization surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court, emphasizing its conservative majority and the contentious political climate. Topics include establishment of the Historians Council on the Constitution to counter originalist interpretations, the role of the Brennan Center for Justice, and debates over the Chevron deference.

The article delves into the perplexities of Perplexity, a conversational search engine, navigating its evolution amidst the AI chatbot landscape. Topics include Perplexity's foundation, its products Perplexity Ask and Perplexity Pro with distinct features, and a comparison of various AI chatbots including GPT-4, Google's Search Generative Experience, and Perplexity, suggesting a shift away from traditional search engine models towards consolidated web content solutions.

The article offers information on a volunteer group that restores graves in a large, old cemetery with over 40,000 graves. Topics include the challenges of gravestone repair due to ground erosion and aging, the documentation process using Find a Grave, the history and scope of Find a Grave as a collaborative project with millions of records, and the usefulness of Find a Grave for documenting and researching graves, including its search interface and additional links to genealogical databases.

The article evaluates the Claude generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by Anthropic.

The article offers information on the measurement of happiness and well-being, highlighting the World Happiness Report and Greater Good Magazine as key projects in this field. The World Happiness Report, published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, tracks global happiness components based on the Gallup World Poll's survey.

The article offers information on the winner of the BUDDIE (Best Unknown Database) award, recognizing databases with significant content yet less recognition. This year's recipient, AI Index, emerges as a crucial navigator in the evolving landscape of information creation. The article introduces the BUDDIE award, given to the Best Unknown Database, emphasizing its importance, well-designed structure, and relative obscurity compared to its significance.

The article discusses the concept of an "answer machine" (AM) in the context of search technology. It highlights that the Holy Grail of search has always been a complete AM, which provides accurate, organized, and up-to-date answers to natural language queries, eliminating the need for users to extract information from various sources.

The article reviews the capabilities of ChatGPT, particularly when integrated into Microsoft's Bing search engine, highlighting its writing quality, sources, accuracy, timeliness and search modifications. It discusses the impact of AI-driven tools like ChatGPT on information professionals and the way they access and process information.

The article discusses the evolution of online search systems from command-driven ones to natural language search and, most recently, machine learning-based search systems like ChatGPT, which have the potential to reshape information retrieval but also raise concerns about alignment risk and control over the search process.

The article discusses the rise of book-banning attempts, particularly targeting LGBTQ+ titles, in school and public libraries. It highlights the emergence of BookLooks.org, a secretive and influential book content hub that provides ready-made lists of books deemed offensive, fueling the new book-banning movement.

The article offers information on the History Lab and the steadily growing dilemma of surging masses of digital information of classified government documents. It further discusses that the History Lab based at Columbia University, New York, and it partners with a group of eight institutions, including government agencies and foundations, that provide collaboration and financial support; and analysis that are beyond what is capable using conventional historical research techniques.

The article focuses on the Realtime Inequality database, which tracks economic inequality in the U.S. over the past half-century. It mentions the database reveals that income and wealth inequality have been steadily increasing, with significant gains concentrated among the top percentile of the population, while the majority of citizens in the middle and bottom income brackets have experienced stagnant growth.

The article informs the FIRE is a research organization that focuses on analyzing and rating freedom of speech at 486 US colleges and universities through its Spotlight Database project. It mentions the group includes prominent private and public institutions, with the only criteria being that they are considered among the nation's top colleges and universities. It analyzes each school's publicly available policies and codes related to speech, including those for hate speech and harassment.

The author discusses the 50th anniversary of the commercial publication of the book "Our Bodies Ourselves." Topics discussed include partnership of the book with Center for Women's Health and Human Rights of the Suffolk University, subject areas of the book such as childbirth, pregnancy and sexuality, and online version Our Bodies Ourselves Today with commitment to feminism.

The article evaluates an online database SlaveVoyages, that meticulously catalogs thousands of trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave ship voyages over centuries, including the winner of the BUDDIE, the annual Database Review Award for Best Unknown Database.

The article informs the COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be a giant accelerator in the world's digital environment. It is noted that the Digital Intelligence Index (DII) has many tools for open digital environments, practices, and trends for most of the world's population. It is noted that the DII is a large and complex project that tracks hundreds of individual digital activity indicators for 90 nations.

Deals with the development of online mega-periodical databases. Similarities among mega-databases; Characteristics of the database. INSET: BIG can be beautiful.

Evaluates several library portals. Vendor portals; Commercial portals; Library developed portals; Strategy for making best use of library portals.

Features NorthStarNet (NSN), a public library consortium that serves the suburban regions of north and west of Chicago, Illinois. How the system works; Services offered by the online library; Benefits from NSN.

Focuses on the changes in libraries and how librarians responded to such changes. Role of information technology in libraries; Closure of libraries; Impact of the Internet on libraries.

The article discusses about the trend of banning of books, which occurred not long after the first book was published. Topics discussed include the increasing numbers and disturbing trends of book bans, as documented by PEN America and ALA; the Index of School Book Bans, which is a detailed study of recent book bans in U.S. schools and school libraries, and several insights from the index of school book bans.

The article demonstrate that several percentage of children born in 1940 achieved upward income mobility, but by the 1980 that percentage had declined. Topics include examines the principal cause was long-term changes in the country's income distribution and the article elicited widespread distress about American's mobility prospects, especially since it appeared against a background of long-standing concerns about economic inequality and the decline of the middle class.

The article reports on the public money spent for police misconduct payments in the U.S., based on investigations conducted by "The Washington Post," and the FiveThirtyEight-Marshall Project. Key findings include the big three cities that account for a large majority of settlements, misconduct claims by Black and Hispanic individuals, and average settlement.

The article discusses that the Searchable Museum of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a recent and major addition to the world's roster of virtual museums. It mentions that the NMAAHC opened in 2016, and it was at once a handsome addition to the National Mall and a major resource for the African American experience.

In the article, the author discusses the Waves of the Chapman University Survey of American Fears (CSAF) project by the university's Division on the Study of American Fears. Among the topics covered by the surveys are violent and white-collar crimes, societal conflicts, and paranormal fears like ghosts and zombies. Based on the results, women are generally more fearful than men.

Examines the information environment confronting The Dialog Corporation in the late 1990s. Reference to Knight-Ridder Information's purchase of Dialog from Lockheed in 1998; Information on the distinctive needs of information professionals; Difficulties and challenges Dialog faced which were made harder by unforgiving markets and the constrained resources of the company. INSET: The legacy of the Web.

Focuses on the demise of the NewsNet company. Details on the major renovation undertaken by the company in 1995; Speculation on the reasons for the demise; Background information on the company. INSETS: The human side;Paradigm shifts.

Presents the views of various persons concerning the advent of online information services. History and development of online information services.

Focuses on Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Network online service. Features; Applications; Product support; User benefits.

Looks at business information services on the World Wide Web as of June 1, 1997. Points to consider regarding several aspects of the Web; NewsNet and ProQuest Direct; Dow Jones and WSJIE, the 'Wall Street Journal' Interactive Edition; LEXIS-NEXIS reQUESTer; DIALOG Web; Web question and answers. INSET: Big business in the online business information world..

Discusses what is happening among the established and new business information providers. Some of the major changes in online business information service, such as powerful platforms, graphical user interfaces (GUI), relevance search engines, new data formats and other changes; Examples of new companies, such as DataTimes EyeQ; The innovations of established companies such as DIALOG, and NewsNet. INSET: How to contact these online services.

The article discusses the Global State of Democracy 2021 (GSoD) report, which states that GSoD is a massive project that synthesizes large datasets into a coherent framework for understanding the troubled status of democratic institutions. It is noted that the 2021 GSoD covers 165 countries and its discussion concentrates on major dataset covers 1975–2020. It is noted that GSoD uses a two-level classification for organizing democratic institutions.

The article informs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces databases Strike Report and Work Stoppages. The Labor Action Tracker starts with January 2021 and is updated daily. From the start date through November 2021, it documented 334 strikes and 630 labor protests. A Strike Tracker record is concise, with a headline, a short description of the strike and its worker demands, and a link to the source.

The article focuses on the original alternative fact, referring to the size of an inauguration crowd, was widely ridiculed, and seems mild, and even quaint, when compared to today's far more dangerous alternative facts.

The article reports tat COVID-19 States Project conducts frequent surveys on large samples of voting age American citizens. Topics include represent the demographic makeup of the state. An important tool is a thermometer, which measures the respondents' overall level of toward a person; and COVID-19 States Project report covers an individual aspect or event of the pandemic and informative demographic indicators, including political party, 2020 presidential vote.

Deals with issues related to online searching. Background on the introduction of full text and relevance searching within the online information services industry; Concept of relevance searching; Impact of the development of Web services on commercial online during the early 1990s.

Presents information on QuestionPoint, a collaborative reference service developed by OCLC and the Library of Congress. Design goal for QuestionPoint; Operation of QuestionPoint; Effectiveness of QuestionPoint.

Evaluates the DialogPRO online service for knowledge professionals (KP) from Dialog. Advantages of DialogPRO over other KP-oriented services; Modules of DialogPRO; Effectiveness of its interface; Price ranges of the product.

Evaluates the Web site of the magazine 'Consumer Reports,' (CR) published by the Consumers Union. Background on the reputation of the magazine; Reasons behind the success of CR on the Web; Features of the site; Details on its Consumer WebWatch which extends its mission to the Web. INSET: Consumer WebWatch Guidelines, by Marydee Ojala.

Focuses on the business condition of Hoover's Inc. as of July 2002. Profits of the company in 1999; Business strategy of the company; Distinctive content of Hoover's Online; Kinds of premium content received by Hoover's subscription customers.

Presents information on corporate portals. Definition and classification of portals; Functions of corporate portals; Significance of corporate portals to electronic commerce.

The article focuses on the U.S. formal president Donald Trump's sudden rise to prominence in national politics surprised almost everyone. Topics include the many people in Republican Party circles, especially rank-and-file voters and welcomed the brash newcomer, and the smaller number were disgusted by his personal characteristics and dreaded his baleful influence on party politics and even national governance.

The article focuses on Datebase review. Topics discussed include according to infographics chronicler Gareth Cook, this is the golden age of visual storytelling, a period defined by enormous amounts of data, a hunger for clear and concise explanations of it, and lots of marvelous infographics software; and Visual Capitalist is a commercial infographics firm that was founded in 2011 with the tagline "Make the world's information more accessible."

Deals with several companies which threaten to replace traditional academic digital libraries. XanEdu; Questia; Ebrary.

Provides information on the principal comprehensive electronic book reference Web sites. eBookNet; eBookAd; eBook Connections.

Predicts the emergence of electronic (e)-books. Advantages of print books over e-books; Factors that will govern the adoption of e-books; Challenges faced by booksellers and libraries in the emergence of e-books.