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Terry Frazier has a pointer to a book that looks interesting:
Flawless
Consulting by Peter Block is one of the better how-to books on
consulting I've read. [Blunt Force Trauma]
I can confirm that it's interesting; I just sat here at my desk and
read the first ten pages or so online. No, I didn't go use Amazon's
"look inside" program: I went to Georgia Tech's library web page
and looked up the book. There were two entries: one for the book on
the shelf, and another listing that said [computer
file] in the middle of the record. Clicking further into the
catalog record produced a URL, and that took me to netLibrary where I
was able to browse the complete book.
Georgia Tech apparently has a
deal with netLibrary, which is part of OCLC. Interestingly enough, the
listing for Flawless Consulting showed 3 copies. netLibrary
gave me the option to check the book out or just browse it, and I did
the latter.
That's not the only useful on-line service I've used at Tech's
library. Marcia Bate's insightful article After the
Dot-Bomb: Gettin`g Web Information Retrieval Right This Time
has some interesting looking references at the end from Journal of
the American Society for Information Science. A few weeks back I
walked over to the library, prepared to go find the articles on the
shelf and photocopy them, just like I did back when I was at UC Irvine
in the early 80's. I asked someone at the reference desk where I
could find the backissues on the shelf. He told me, but he also
showed me that the library had that journal in electronic form. I
went back to my office, downloaded PDF copies of the articles, and
printed them. No library copy charges!
10:46:29 AM 
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