Information Outlook's ebrary library

Information Outlook, August, 2004 by John R. Latham

After the launch of the June issue of Information Outlook using the ebrary platform, we have continued adding more past issues to this resource. By August we expect to have all the 2003 and 2004 issues of Information Outlook uploaded to ebrary in PDF. All the issues from 1997 to 2002 have also been scanned and should be uploaded shortly. This will give members access to all the issues of Information Outlook rather than just a limited number in full text.

Here are a few hints on how best to use this new resource. Open the current issue from the "In This Issue" link on the Information Outlook home page. First time users need to download the ebrary software using the icon Get ebrary Reader.

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If you want to surf through the issue, click on the Contents tab at the top left of the page and either open the Table Contents or make your selection underneath. If the Contents tab is not visible, left click on InfoTools, select Preferences and clear Hide Contents at Start Up, and select Display InfoTools menu after selecting.

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To search the document, highlight a word and select Search Document. To proceed to the various pages on which your search term has been found in a document search, use the icons at the top of the screen. You can also search the Web, including SLA's website, with various well-known search engines, including SLA's website, by highlighting the word and selecting Search Web.

To search all the issues of Information Outlook use the ebrary Keyword Search function at Use this method for searching by author.

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If you have any questions about this new resource please contact me at jlatham@sla.org.

John R. Latham is the director of the SLA Information Center. He can be reached at jlatham@sla.org

The Information Center is sponsored by Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company