JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2004 FEDLINK TECHNICAL NOTES NEWSLETTER NOW ON
FLICC/FEDLINK WEB SITE

WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - The January/February 2004
issue of
FEDLINK Technical Notes is now online at
http://www.loc.gov/flicc/pubs/tn0401.pdf

In this issue:

- Ask A Virtual Librarian
Virtual Information Networks pave the way for round-the-clock reference
services from experts around the world.

- Tarr Joins Information Summit on Content Buyers
FLICC's Executive Director Susan M. Tarr identified the key issues when
she joined a panel discussion of content buyers at the Software and
Information Industry Association (SIIA) summit for information
executives in January.

- OCLC News offers a look at developments in:
* QuestionPoint
* FirstSearch's new look and options
* Open URLs
* and much more

- This Just In...
* Read about two new FEDLINK vendors
* Join FEDLINK and LC's Federal Research Division at the ISN conference
March 23-24, 2004
* Attend the Catholic University of America's School of Library and
Information Science (SLIS) Institute on Federal Library Resources May
10-15, 2004

- Find out about these four new live online courses offered by Amigos
Library Services:
* filters
* legal information
* OCLC FirstSearch searching
* FirstSearch interlibrary loan options

- Web Citings
The Library of Congress (LC) Public Service Collections Directorate
wins a 2003 Director's Award at the annual meeting of the Virtual
Reference Desk (VRD) conference for QuestionPoint.