I love my iPhone, but its core functionality doesn't always provide the tools necessary for me to function as a mobile librarian. Faculty requests for articles are an almost daily occurrence for me, and I'm not always in my office when I get them. Yesterday, for example, I was in a lunch presentation when I got an email from a colleague with an urgent request. Full Story »

Working in an academic library, I routinely fill document requests for faculty. Sometimes a request is for a single article. Other times it's a list spanning several pages. The request list I'm working on now, for example, contains 25 articles. Fifteen years ago, this would've meant photocopying all 25 and hand delivering them to the faculty member. Full Story »