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Source: National Library of New Zealand
Full-Text Report, A Comparative Review of Common User Interface Software
In 2002 the National Library commissioned a report on common user interface software from the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. The paper, on common user interface software, has been presented in fulfillment of that course and is now available here. Any views or opinions presented in the report are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the National Library. The paper was written by Dr. Daniel Dorner and AnnMarie Curtis of the University of Wellington. The report runs 67 pages (pdf).
See Also: Additional Background
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Two Reads from Library Journal
Librarians
Government Documents
“A Day in the Life: Dealing with Digital”
Meet Carolyn Kohler a government documents librarian at Iowa St. University. This article was written by our friend Marylaine Block.
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Special Librarians
“Opportunity in the Air”
From Andrew Richard Albanese’s article, “In any career, there will always be things you can control, and things you can’t. But for special librarians, it is getting a little hard to tell the difference. Work in a venerable corporate library, say at Time Inc. or perhaps the American Bankers Association, or more recently Chevron and Arthur Andersen, and one day you suddenly find yourself unemployed and packing boxes. Decide to get out of the library and bring your services directly into the organization, and you find out your boss thinks someone named Google is already doing your job. Just how is today’s special librarian supposed to manage a career?
See Also: This article references a study by LexisNexis. You can access the full-text here.
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Scientific and Technical Information
Source: Congressional Research Service
Sensitive But Unclassified” and Other Federal Security Controls on Scientific and Technical Information: History and Current Controversy
A 52 page CRS report. Make sure to check other sources to see if this is the most current version available.

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