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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Internet Archive: How You Can Look Into The Web’S Past And Plan Your Future, Joe Zumalt
The Internet Archive: How You Can Look Into The Web’S Past And Plan Your Future, Joe Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
How to find historical pages on the World Wide Web with the Internet Archive.
"Open” Resources For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt
"Open” Resources For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Review of free resources available over the Web.
What Do I Hear?: Ebay's Utility In A Library, Joseph Zumalt, Alison Konieczny
What Do I Hear?: Ebay's Utility In A Library, Joseph Zumalt, Alison Konieczny
Joseph R. Zumalt
The online auction site eBay provides library staff and patrons an important tool in many areas. Libraries can use eBay as an additional avenue to buy and sell books, answer reference questions, promote computer literacy and even as a means to encourage library use. Examples of easy-to-use strategies are given, as well as a short list of recent book selections about how to get more out of eBay.
Wikipedia: A Multi-Lingual, Multi-Subject Resource Created By Potentially Anyone And Everyone, Joe Zumalt
Wikipedia: A Multi-Lingual, Multi-Subject Resource Created By Potentially Anyone And Everyone, Joe Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Review of the rise of Wikipedia.
Agris: An Fao Information Resource For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt
Agris: An Fao Information Resource For The Agricultural Journalist, Joe Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
A review of AGRIS.
Agrovoc: A Multilingual Resource For Agricultural Journalists, Joe Zumalt
Agrovoc: A Multilingual Resource For Agricultural Journalists, Joe Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
A review of AGROVOC.
Hidden Resources Agricultural Journalists Can Find At Google, Joe Zumalt
Hidden Resources Agricultural Journalists Can Find At Google, Joe Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Resources within Google for agricultural journalists.
Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt
Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Agricultural communications" is an emerging field which is naturally both part of the "agriculture" and "communications" literature. However, it is much broader than just a subset of each. The coverage of standard databases such as CAB Abstracts and Communication Abstracts, while a good start, does not sufficiently cover the field. The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has, over the last quarter century, worked to help define and collect this literature, by identifying relevant documents and entering them into a Web-searchable Microsoft Access database. An analysis of this database reveals important clues concerning the …
What Can I Expect To Earn: Information Sources For Library Salary Negotiations, Joseph Zumalt
What Can I Expect To Earn: Information Sources For Library Salary Negotiations, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Finding salary information about individual library positions is a difficult but not impossible task. There are sources available for free and for fee which tell someone what salary to ask for in a given location. Commercially available tools are also available over the Internet. Two Internet-accessible salary tools, from Salary.com and SalaryExpert.com, were reviewed for library positions in the immediate Champaign-Urbana (IL) area. To test the accuracy of these tools, a file was created to compare salary, years of experience and level of responsibility. While requiring a considerable effort, this level of detail provides a better sense of library salaries …
Finding Local Library Salaries: Not Just Black Box Web Sites, Joseph Zumalt
Finding Local Library Salaries: Not Just Black Box Web Sites, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Exploring how to find information about local salaries for library jobs.
Voice Recognition Technology: Has It Come Of Age?, Joseph Zumalt
Voice Recognition Technology: Has It Come Of Age?, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Voice recognition software allows computer users to bypass their keyboards and use their voices to enter text. While the library literature is somewhat silent about voice recognition technology, the medical and legal communities have reported some success using it. Voice recognition software was tested for dictation accuracy and usability within an agriculture library at the University of Illinois. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8.0 was found to be more accurate than speech recognition within Microsoft Office 2003. Helpful Web sites and a short history regarding this breakthrough technology are included.
Cost-Of-Living Calculators On The Web: An Empirical Snapshot, Joseph Zumalt, Rebecca Smith, Yoo-Seong Song
Cost-Of-Living Calculators On The Web: An Empirical Snapshot, Joseph Zumalt, Rebecca Smith, Yoo-Seong Song
Joseph R. Zumalt
Employment-related resources have always been a vital part of the reference collection in academic and public libraries. To assist job seekers, the Web is now presenting free and interesting opportunities for collecting cost-of-living data. However, librarians need to be advised of their relevance and reliability. This article looks at four well-known salary and/or cost-of-living calculator commercial Web sites: Homestore.com, Monstermoving.com, BestPlaces.net, and Salary.com. The Web sites are compared in terms of value-added content. By presenting the potential salary differences of a hypothetical relocation from one U.S city to twenty-six other U.S. cities, this study identifies the anomalies found when using …
A Primer On Agricultural Communications For Student, Librarians And Researchers, Joseph Zumalt
A Primer On Agricultural Communications For Student, Librarians And Researchers, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
The article focuses on a primer on agricultural communications for student, librarians and researchers. Universities, libraries and librarians have served as partners to assist working professionals in all fields in agriculture. Universities have helped educate agriculture professionals. Universities have helped to create new knowledge. Libraries, especially at land grant institutions, have played a crucial role in disseminating this new knowledge and, increasingly, are seen as the logical place for archival activities, given the public nature of much of this knowledge. Universities and libraries have specifically played an important part in agricultural communications. While demographic changes in Western society, a switch …
Internet Reference Service: General Sources And Trends, Joseph Zumalt, Rebecca Smith
Internet Reference Service: General Sources And Trends, Joseph Zumalt, Rebecca Smith
Joseph R. Zumalt
Providing quality reference services is more challenging than ever. In addition to traditional print sources, the information professional now has a dazzling array of databases, both free and expensive, readily available. Internet reference service has evolved quickly over the last decade, moving from a place of last resort to a mainstream application. Librarians have responded in many innovative ways to connect their customers with information available on the Internet. However, superior Internet reference service requires substantial investments in equipment that administrators will have to consider. Staff and customer training have become pressing needs. Providing access to appropriate databases and materials …
Jal Guide To Software, Courseware, And Cd-Rom: Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred, Joseph Zumalt
Jal Guide To Software, Courseware, And Cd-Rom: Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Review of Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred, version 2.02.
The Internet And Reference Services: A Real-World Test Of Internet Utility, Joseph Zumalt, Robert Pasicznyuk
The Internet And Reference Services: A Real-World Test Of Internet Utility, Joseph Zumalt, Robert Pasicznyuk
Joseph R. Zumalt
Many libraries now provide Internet access for their patrons and staff or are planning to do so. The push toward Internet access in libraries is proceeding despite the fact that establishing and supporting access is time-consuming, expensive, and fraught with political and policy implications. How useful is the Internet in carrying out the demands of contemporary libraries? Given that library budgets are finite with extreme demands for diversified collections and services, what gains, if any should library professionals expect from the investment in network connectivity? This study seeks to test the Internet's effectiveness at an important facet of library practice-answering …
Jal Guide To Software, Courseware, And Cd-Rom: Four Internet Browsers--A Review, Robert Pasicznyuk, Joseph Zumalt
Jal Guide To Software, Courseware, And Cd-Rom: Four Internet Browsers--A Review, Robert Pasicznyuk, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
Two givens of today's Internet are diversity and volume. The Net offers a vast amount of text, sound, and graphic information. For now, getting at that information requires two ingredients: some kind of connection to the Net and a browser, a program or client that allows its user to view or listen to the network content. Browser options abound. This review with consider four packages with special attention to the browsers in each.