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SLA Update: 2007 Year-End Toolbox

Gary Price
December 2007
gary@resourceshelf.com
Director of Online Information Resources, Ask.com

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Rules and Criteria:

We have many types of librarians listening from many types of libraries

Do our best to avoid services that require complete application downloads. Why?

Goal: At least one item for every listener

If not for you, perhaps someone or some group in your organization (that might be the most important thing we mention today)

Selling your skills and services: Like it or NOT,
YOU have to DO IT!!!

The Business End of Web Search

Important to understand.where the $$$ comes from in commercial search
Black Hats vs. White Hats (Gray Hats, Too!)
Must Read: Search Engine Roundtable by Barry Schwartz

Real Time Imagery and Privacy Issues
- Wrigley Field
- Times Sq.
2.0 (Enough with these numbers already)

What 2.0 Should BE: MARKETING YOURSELF, YOUR SKILLS, & YOUR TOOLBOX
Tech is a tool, not the answer
Marketing Librarian Built Tools

Quality vs. Quantity:
LII
INTUTE and Virtual Training Tools
Infomine
IPL (Now with Grokker)

meebo

IM from all major services with nothing to download, create meebo rooms for group sessions

AskCity
- Local search, tickets, movies, reviews, reservations,
- "Search inside" or "search along" with map mark-up features
- Neighborhood suggestions, marked on map

Ask Maps UK

Ask Health Smart Answers (U.S.)

UK Health Smart Answers (via NHS)

Podcasting vs Phonecasting

Old Dog, New Tricks (1-202-747-3420)
1-800-Flights
1-800-555-Tell
1-800-Free-411
Reqall
CallWave
SpinVox

People Search

Quality of Info (Accuracy, Timeliness, Authority) is key

Archiving the Web: Make it Permanent

Web Harvests

Mobile Access to Information

Mobile Desktop Search via Copernic

Digitization Projects

International Children's Digital Library

News Search and Browse

Perennial Favorites

Daily Perspective

Local is Everywhere

Trends: Data Mining + Search

Trulia Hindsight

FareCast
Summize

Video and Audio

MetaVid

Congressional Material, Free, Keyword Searchable

Charlie Rose Interviews With Candidates
SearchforVideo (Federated Search)
Podanza.com

Podscope, Everyzing

Quickly and Easily Recording

DomainTools.com (Keeping Current With New Domains)

Services and Resources of the Year

Archive-It

Personal Archiving: HTTRACK
Beware, your IP is being seen, use a proxy service like Tor or Relakks

Zoho Services