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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2000

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Database industry

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Trends For The Next Five Years, Carol Tenopir Oct 2000

Trends For The Next Five Years, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir discusses major trends in the library marketplace in the next five years, including integration and aggregation, and linking indexing and full texts.


Trekking Through Exhibit Halls, Carol Tenopir Sep 2000

Trekking Through Exhibit Halls, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT SEEMS AS IF THE exhibit halls at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) conferences get bigger every year, and it takes longer for me to get from one end of the hall to the other. Certainly the glitz of new systems, fancy interfaces, and new technologies is more impressive every year, and new Internet companies keep showing up.


A Name (Un)Like Any Other Name, Carol Tenopir Jun 2000

A Name (Un)Like Any Other Name, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

WHAT'S IN A NAME? Plenty, judging from the time, thought, and expense that go into picking a new name for an online company. Can you name the new company monikers for Dow Jones Interactive, Reuters Business Briefing, Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive, UMI, Bell & Howell Information and Learning, the Dialog Corporation, and WLN? Don't be discouraged if you can't. Only close observers can keep up with the continual name changes.


Getting What You Pay For?, Carol Tenopir Feb 2000

Getting What You Pay For?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The old adage "you get what you pay for" doesn't always apply to the World Wide Web. The number of authoritative sites grows daily.