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Daily Archives: April 25, 2005

GAO Adds Enhancements to Facilitate Searching the Site

Full Text Search Enhancements: In response to your requests that we improve searching, GAO has introduced a new feature to enhance full text searching and your ability to select the best results to meet your needs. In the past, search results have included titles and your search terms with the text surrounding them, the URL, and other minor information about each item. Now your results will typically include an Overview and Topic as well. The Overview provides a brief abstract of the contents. The Topic section contains the major heading under which we have the product categorized. The categories are the same as you will find in the Browse by topic part of the web site, and the Month in Review, and e-mail topic lists.”

New on LLRX.com

Part One of the April 24 issue of LLRX: Blogs…Got Content! (ppt), by Sabrina I. Pacifici Gumshoe Librarian 2 – More Sites and Services From Around the Corner and Around the World ((ppt), by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici So your firm’s got a website. Great. But is it stuck in 1997? or 10… Continue Reading

Report Documents Internet Censorship in RI Public Libraries

Reader’s Block: Internet Censorship in Rhode Island Public Libraries, A Report prepared by the Rhode Island Affiliate, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2005. “For eight years, the ACLU in Rhode Island has been studying public library response in the state to the introduction of the Internet as an information tool. On one level, it is… Continue Reading