Ten, 20, 30

When looking into the future, bq says there are three key components to consider before making any predictions: disruptive technologies, real needs, and delusion.  CLICK HERE to read this month’s Searcher’s Voice column.

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Smart Generosity

While bq is warming up to ebooks, her voracity is causing a dilemma: How can she pass on and share her electronic books as she was wont to do with the printed ones? CLICK HERE to read this month’s Searcher’s Voice column.

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Bibles

bq uses her innate logic to question the value and validity of fuzzy sources of information permeating the web from all angles and covering all possible topics, from the most trivial to the most important. CLICK HERE to read this month’s Searcher’s Voice column.

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Long Thoughts, Big Dreams

bq says it’s time the word “library” goes from being a “place” noun to a verb that’s synonymous with “app.” CLICK HERE to read this month’s Searcher’s Voice column.

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The Care and Feeding of Vendors

When it comes to discovery services for libraries, bq urges librarians to do whatever it takes to get vendors to see the light in moving toward the true path of universal access.

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Technolust

Don’t expect to be hearing from bq anytime soon. She’s holed up in some secret locale learning how to use the latest object of her desire, her new iPad.

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One More Thing

How can info pros keep history from becoming, well, history? As always, bq has some ideas about making sure past knowledge isn’t lost in the digital world.

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Rats!!

Rats!!

bq laments the fact that an article on her special area of interest, data quality, has shown up in a sister publication but takes heart that she’s getting a follow-up article on data loss in an upcoming issue of her pub.

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Homecoming

bq longs to rejoin a well-known library association, if only it wasn’t so anti-Google Books!

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Too Close for Comfort

The fearless bq looks for the silver lining behind the impact the economy is having on libraries of all kinds and instead finds treachery in a most unlikely, not to mention disturbing, place.

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