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14 Bus. Info. Alert 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/busiale14 and id is 1 raw text is: Librarians as Publishers: From Information Services to Information Products by Kenneth M Liss T here's a new role for us to think about in today's information space: the librarian as publisher. It's not really new, of course. Librarians have been putting together publications of various kinds for our end users-and for each other-for a long time. But in a world where most people see information gathering as a largely self- service function, the publishing role has become more relevant and important to us than ever. End users want to, and believe they can, find the information they need for themselves. It may seem like heresy to say so, but in many ways they are right. Just by virtue of doing more information seeking, they are getting better at it: better at locating information, evaluating its quality and relevance, and organizing their search. We can still do it better, of course. We can save them time, effort, and money, and we continue to guide, teach, and demonstrate the value of our profes- sional expertise. But we also have to meet users where they are. We have to make sure that when they do go looking, they benefit from the fruits of our labors; the results of our advanced ability to find, evaluate, orga- nize, and provide access to information. Meeting the Competition In a world overflowing with self-service information, we have to compete for user's attention. One way we re competing is by putting together online publications that our clients, customers, or patrons not only can locate, but also find usefil enough to return to. We've been doing this, in a sense, since the first librarian organized a listserv, put up a web site, or roughly converted a print bibliography to HTML. But there's more to this than simply making our traditional information skills visible on the Web. For many of us it represents a shift in focus, from information services to information products. I became acutely aware of this as a librarian at Librarians as Publishers: From Information Services to Information Products ....................1 From the Editor ...............2 News & Trends.... . . . . . . . . 5 New Sources................. 8 Price's Posts ................ 13 Calendar.................. 15 Vendors ................... 15 s Issue I

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