Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items)
Virtual Reference
New Web Site, The Web Site for VRD (Virtual Reference Desk) 2004 Conference is Now Available
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Information Industry–EBSCO
EBSCO Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary
“EBSCO executives Tim Collins and F. Dixon Brooke Jr. discuss their company’s direction and strategies.”
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Information Industry–History
Source: Searcher
Mead Data Central and the Genesis of Nexis
Continuing the Dick Giering interview that began in the January issue, Stephanie Ardito and Susanne Bj�rner get the inside story of the Mead merger, the legal offshoot that became Nexis, early telecommunications challenges, and beyond.”
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Web Search
Source: Library Journal
Is Google the Competition?
“The 2004 annual meeting of NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services) asked who would win the “battle for mindshare” in the year 2010. Will libraries, A&I (abstracting and indexing) services, and traditional publishers still exist, or will Google become the only information resource?”

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