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Not long ago, Hilde Lu had a patron at the Long Beach (Calif.) Public Library who wanted to find the name of an Estonian composer whose work climbed the classical [...]

MORE THAN CARD CATALOGS: Public Libraries Go Online If you're wondering what happened at the last city-council meeting, whether there might be a power outage in your area tomorrow, which […]

OPPORTUNITY IN DIVERSITY For several years, a major buzzword in business, social science, and professional literature has been change. Frequently, we have been reminded that in the Chinese language the [...]

WHOOOOO ARE YOU ON THE WEB? Are you using or referring patrons to any web-based people and company-finding tools such as ClaimID (claimid.com), iKarma (www.ikarma.com), or Zoominfo (www.zoominfo.com) in your [...]

Tutor.com's Virtual Reference Express will be available at all 77 locations of ITT Technical Institutes in 30 states. The combination of software and professional reference staff will service the approximately [...]

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has launched 'Ask a Librarian,' which it claims is the first-ever virtual reference service cooperatively staffed by research libraries across a region. The [...]

[WEB] Nation Pub. Co., LLC (800-350-6944; archive@thenation.com). www.archive.thenation.com Date reviewed: 06/27/02 Price: Negotiated by site. The Nation Digital Archive is a searchable database of the full text of each issue [...]

Convey Systems will provide the software for OCLC's QuestionPoint, a collaborative reference service between OCLC and the Library of Congress that will employ live, interactive reference between librarians and patrons [...]

Dartmouth College's class of 2002 left campus with more than a diploma and fond memories. Graduates can now receive library services over the Internet, thanks to the Friends of the [...]

Librarians who have enjoyed using the Oxford English Dictionary online will be happy to know that Oxford University Press (OUP) again has taken to the web with the launch of [...]

The titles we review for this year's Fall Electronic Media Showcase mirror the current world of databases at large by generally falling into three categories: Big Giant Databases. These are [...]

As part of our continuing mission to help our readers make choices among the various reference sources that are available, we did a side-by-side comparison of Wilson's vast Biography Reference [...]

Federal Archive's Cost Questioned WASHINGTON, D.C.--A gift from a private-sector foundation last year that would enable the Library of Congress to have a consolidated, state-of-the-art archival center for its vast […]

Every Sunday my wife and I pick up my mother-in-law to take her along with us to Mass. For several months, this has meant driving by a local business being [...]

The Haworth Press, Inc., Binghamton, New York, has announced its publication of the new Internet Reference Services Quarterly, under the editorship of Lyn Elizabeth M. Martin. According to Haworth, this […]

The image of a patient sitting in an office, waiting for a doctor to dispense advice and health tips is fast disappearing. In its place, the image of a new […]

The major purpose of RASD is to help libraries and librarians to meet their goals of providing reference service by offering a national forum for the sharing of ideas and for collective action. The organizational structure of RASD has been streamlined to help it to achieve its purpose., Someone once commented that an optimist a person who believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, while a pessimist is one who fears that the optimist is [...]

NEW YORK--The Library of Congress landed a musical goldmine Nov. 8 when the estate of Leonard Bernstein decided to donate his personal and professional archives to the institution. Now, the […]