Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
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Come next Monday (10 September 2007), librarians all over the world have been encouraged to “Slam the Boards!” by visiting online “answer sites” such as Yahoo! Answers, Ask MetaFilter, Wikipedia Reference Desk, or Amazon’s Askville, to field as many questions as they possibly can. And in the process of answering the questions, the librarians need […]
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The Florida Metropolitan University (FMU) Online has compiled a Top 10 list of the most useful online databases.
The list is as follows:
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)*
ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest)*
CQ Researcher
Gale Virtual Reference Library*
Oxford Reference Online Premium
LexisNexis Academic*
College Source Online
Plunkett Research Online
Census Information
WorldCat (OCLC)
I’ve added asterisks (*) to those that are available at NLB’s eDatabases.
However, we do have […]
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AskMeNow is yet another quick answer service. The slight difference is that you’ve got pay US$0.25 per text message question. You’ll receive your answer via text message as well. The answers received are most probably done by humans. However once the questions have been answered, the answers are stored in their database for quick retrieval […]
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[Yahoo! Answers Dominates Q & A - No Wonder Google Gave Up][1]
Yahoo! Answers has a market share of 96.1%, according to statistics from Hitwise. And the next in list is [Answerbag][3] at 2.0%. It’s little wonder that even a big player like Google couldn’t compete with Yahoo! in this area. I wonder how Amazon’s recent […]
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