Oder, N. (2003). Politician of the year: 2003 Bernie Sanders. Library Journal, 128(15), 30-31.

Leading the fight in Congress, Bernie Sanders the Independent representative from Vermont has won the Library Journalís ìPolitician of the Year 2003î award. ìLibrarians have played a fantastic role in getting the public involved in taking a hard look at the implications of the USA PATRIOT act.î

Shepherd, P. (2003). Keeping count. Library Journal, 128(2), 46-48.

Describes ìProject COUNTERî that is a useful tool for librarians and publishers online. Find out how much electronic resources are used, when, and how often. This system can help us to weed ineffective resources, plan long-term purchasing and work with publishers to strike an ìe-balance.î

Luther, J. (2003). Trumping Google? Metasearchingís promise. Library Journal, 128(16), 36-39.

Trying to take some of the ìsearch engine powerî away from Google is Metasearch technology.Argues the average library patron isnít searching for ìthe bestî answer; theyíre looking for a ìgood enoughî answer. Says website databases such as MuseSearch and MetaLib are trying to get the average user on board.

ALA chooses ebraryís platform to deliver American libraries online (2004, Midwinter). ALA Cognotes, pp. 3,5.

Says American Libraries will be available online beginning in March 2004 with archival material available as far back as 1998. Depicts ìebraryî as a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval systems with an easy to use format allowing the access to book databases as well as into ALAís magazine.

Jackson, M. (2003). The great reference debate continued ó with a manifesto. American Libraries, 34 (5), 50-52.

Discusses reference librarians concern that their jobs are in jeopardy. Contends that they wonít give up without a fight. Says they are attempting to keep up with the technological future and have written a manifesto stating their intention.

Kenney, B. (2003). The virtual gets real. Library Journal, 128(15), 32-35.

Using creativity and boldness the Cleveland Public Library CLEVNET program provides users with the nationís most extensive, very real public web-based services.

Smith, R. (2004). Delayed reaction to the PATRIOT act.Privacy Journal, 30(5), 1-5.

Fearing that the government has gone too far with the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, citizens are now beginning to realize that there has been an altering of balance between their civil liberties and their security.

Walker, Richard W. (2003). Expect 2003's hot topics to still be hot next year.Government News Computers,22(34),22-25.

The Whitehouse and it's allies on capitol hill want to overhaul some of the information technology trends in the public-key infrastructure.

Worthen, B. (2003). What to do when uncle Sam wants your data.CIO, 16(13) , 56-60.

Coming up with and enforcing a data-sharing policy is relatively straightforward. Looks into US Patriot act and the complications of public and private databases.

Thornton, G. (2000). Impact of electronic resources on collection development, the roles of librarians, and library consortia. Library Trends, 48(4), 842-856.

Purchasing of virtual resources by consortia agreements is accelerating rapidly. The autonomy of the local library is fading and the roles of librarians is changing drastically.

Koontz, C., Jue, D., McClure, C., & Bertot, J. (2004). The public library geographic database. What can it do for your library? Public Libraries, 43(2), 113-118.

Discusses the Public Library Geographic Database's (PLGDB) use of a map-based database containing all the public library outlets and entities in the United States to hopefully remain no-cost to the end user.

Buttlar, L.J., (1990). Profiling review writers in the library periodical literature. RQ, 30(2), 221-227.

Placing different variables in researching this article, the author tries to provide unique information about the role of the reviewing writers of library periodical literature.

Minkel, W. (2002). Searching for kid's sites. School Library Journal , 48(8), 30-32.

Looking for the best way to locate appropriate web resources for youth, Minkel considers the needs of both the school and the public librarians search for the best web tools for reference and research for the younger library patron.

Glanzal, W. (2002). Coauthorship patterns and trends in the sciences (1980-1998): a bibliometric study with implications for database indexing and search strategies. Library Trends , 50(3), 461-473.

Describing both the common and the distinguishing features of coauthorship trends and patterns in selected science fields, Glanzal explains the relationship between coauthorship schemes and other bibliometric features, such as publication activity and citation impact analyzation.

Abram, S. & Luther, J. (2004). Born with the chip. Library Journal, 129 (8), 34-37.

Challenging librarians today are the kids who grew up in the 1980's with ìcomputers being part of their DNA.î NextGens have high expectations that librarians and libraries must meet their needs of the internet future by being ready today. Will we rise to the occasion and adapt to their demands?