NEWS FROM OTHER JOURNALS SECTION
MARCH 2007 ISSUE
Editorial note:
This section contains items culled from various Internet news services, discussion lists and other announcements. Unless specifically noted, I have not visited the sites, used any of the software, reviewed the literature, or written the news items. I present this digest to you in good faith but cannot vouch for the accuracy of its content.
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From: "O'Riordan, Kate" <k.oriordan@lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: [Air-l] Welcome to the first AoIR Newsletter!
To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Dear AoIR-L
I would like to offer a very warm welcome to you all to the first edition of the AoIR Newsletter which is now available on the AoIR web site here:
I hope you will all be able to find time to take a look at this and that you find the first edition useful and enjoyable.
I would like to thank everyone on the existing newsletter team for all their hard work - and to thank the contributors to the current issue - as well as the exec for their support. Like almost all AoIR activity this was developed by a collective of volunteers who put in lots of time and effort.
This newsletter is primarily is intended to be a resource for AoIR members and for there to be collective ownership of it, and we hope will it will develop these aims further over time. The first issue focuses on the last conference although this kind of focus will no doubt change in the future.
Please let me know if you find this useful and enjoyable, but also feel free to let me know how we could do better next time too! If you would like to contribute to future editions, and if you have comments about the structure, content or anything else please contact me. The newsletter team is open to more volunteers and feedback and content for the next edition is welcome!
Many, many thanks to the current team - Karine Barzilai-Nahon; Sandra Bavasso Roffo; Mark Bell; Andrew Cox; Eliezer Ferreira; Deanya Lattimore; Denise Rall; Pedro Oiarzabal; Jamie Switzer; Monica Whitty.
Welcome again and I hope you all find this enjoyable, I look forward to feedback and contributions in the future.
All the best
Kate O'Riordan
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Autumn Issue no.49
Public-Access Computer Systems Publications [PACS-P@LISTSERV.UH.EDU]; on behalf of; Richard Waller [lisrw@UKOLN.AC.UK] Fri 3/11/2006 11:36 PM
PACS-P@LISTSERV.UH.EDU Re: Autumn Issue 2006 of Ariadne now available
The Autumn Issue no.49 of Ariadne is now available:
Main Articles in Issue 49:
*Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education:
Do We Care?
-Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.
*From Nought to a Thousand:
The HUSCAP Project -SUZUKI Masako and SUGITA Shigeki describe
*Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository -Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.
*e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
-Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.
*GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal -Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.
*Wiki or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis -Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.
*Video Streaming of Events
-Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.
*RDA: A New International Standard
-Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).
*Search Engines: Is
-Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.
Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:
*DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning -Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.
*e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and other VREs for the Social Sciences -Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications.
*Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too..
-David E. Bennett reports on
the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual
Conference,
*Workshop on e-Research,
Digital Repositories and Portals -Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram
report on a two-day workshop held at
Ariadne Reviews:
*Essential Law for Information Professionals -Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.
*Ambient Findability
-Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.
*Teach Beyond Your Reach
-Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more.
- plus the Ariadne newsline of events and news items.
Note that since issue 47 the content of the current issue is also available as an RSS feed.
Contributions to Ariadne issue 50 are being arranged and prepared; please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point:
ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk
Kindly send books for review to the Editor's address (below).
Best regards,
--
Richard Waller
Editor Ariadne
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Main Articles
*ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms
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*What Happens When We Mash the Library?
- Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library mashups in which a large number of US and Canadian entrants took part.
*A
- Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core
application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.
*Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education
- Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology service into Higher Education institutions.
*Web Curator Tool
- Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's
perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.
*New Search Engines in 2006
- Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.
*Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library
- Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.
*Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem
- Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.
At the Event
*Take a Peek Beneath the
EPrints v3 Wrappers With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories
Conference in
*Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis
- Marieke Guy reports on a
one-day workshop, held in
*JISC CETIS Conference, 2006
Paul Walk reports on the
third annual CETIS conference held in Salford,
*2nd International DCC Conference 2006:
Digital Data Curation in Practice
- Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.
*Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation
- Alastair Dunning reports
on a conference in
Ariadne Reviews
*Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems
- Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.
*Digital Preservation
- Maureen Pennock reviews a recent release in Facet's Digital Futures series.
*Google Hacks
- Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming know-how to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible.
*Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography
- Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson.
Plus News and Events from the Ariadne Newsline
Note that since issue 47 the content of the current issue is also available as an RSS feed.
Contributions to Ariadne issue 51 are being arranged and prepared; please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point:
ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk
Kindly send books for review to the Editor's address (below).
Best regards,
--
Richard Waller
Editor Ariadne
UKOLN
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Bath BA2 7AY
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Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science
Call for Papers
Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]; on behalf of; Heidi Julien [Heidi.Julien@UALBERTA.CA] Wed 15/11/2006 4:51 AM
JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Call for Papers – CJILS
Call for Papers
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science
The Global Challenge of Information Literacy
In his speech to the 1999 graduating class at the University of Toronto, Anthony Comper, then President of the Bank of Montreal, stated: “Whatever else you bring to the 21st century workplace, however great your technical skills and however attractive your attitude and however deep your commitment to excellence, the bottom line is that to be successful, you need to acquire a high level of information literacy. What we need in the knowledge industries are people who know how to absorb and analyze and integrate and create and effectively convey informationand who know how to use information to bring real value to everything they undertake.”
Indeed, full engagement in our “information society” is impossible without some level of information literacy. Success in school, postsecondary education, the workplace, and everyday life is dependent to some degree on information literacy. This dependency crosses all geographic and demographic contexts; information literacy truly is a global concern.
However, information literacy is a complex and often misunderstood concept, encompassing a range of skills, processes, attitudes, and understandings about information.
As Shapiro and Hughes (1996) note, “… information literacy should … be conceived … as a new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure, and its social, cultural and even philosophical context and impact - as essential to the mental framework of the educated information-age citizen as the trivium of basic liberal arts (grammar, logic and rhetoric) was to the educated person in medieval society.”
Given the recognized importance of information literacy, what is its place on the policy agenda? What are the outstanding theoretical issues with respect to information literacy that should be debated? Who is being tasked with developing information literacy among citizens, and how are these efforts being resourced and promoted? Many stakeholders have responsibility for information literacy promotion and education, including governments, librarians, teachers, and parentshow should relationships among these various groups be managed? What are best practices for information literacy instruction? How can we effectively measure the impact of education for information literacy?
Articles related to any
aspect of information literacy are invited for Vol. 32, Number 1 (Winter 2008)
of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS). The
deadline for submission is June 29, 2007. Complete manuscripts of approximately
5000 words should be sent to Heidi Julien, School of Library & Information
Studies,
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Heidi Julien, Ph.D.
Ph: 780 492 3934 Fax: 780 492 2430
Email: Heidi.Julien@ualberta.ca
Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~hjulien/heidi.htm <http://www.ualberta.ca/~hjulien/heidi.htm>
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igital Library Federation/Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records <http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/dlfmodsimplementationguidelines_finalnov2006.
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2006.pdf).
- Although this document is specifically aimed at participants in the Digital Library Federation Aquifer project <http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/>, it is chock full of good advice for any organization wanting to expose or share their metadata to other institutions -- for example, via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting <http://openarchives.org/> (OAI-PMH). Note, however, that this document is quite specific to how metadata should be encoded using the Metadata Object Description Schema <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/> (MODS) format. Related (and more generally applicable) work can be found at the Digital Library Federation and NSDL OAI and Shareable Metadata Best Practices Working Group <http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/> web site. - RT <http://roytennant.com/>
Brogan, Martha L. /Contexts
and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library <http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf106/>///
- This rather massive report (the PDF version runs 282 pages) covers a lot of ground. This is at it should be, since these days there are a very large number of potentially interesting digital library projects.
But therein also lies the difficulty. Although the broad sweep that Brogan lays out for us is amazing in itself, it is deucedly difficult to draw any generalized conclusions from such an exercise. There are many threads of activity that are advancing at varying rates of speed and with sometimes parallel, sometimes congruent, and sometimes tangential arcs. Making sense of all this is perhaps an exercise in frustration, at least for those of puny intellect such as myself. Nope, probably best to look at it as a wild ride through an amazing array of interesting projects and glean from it what you can. My guess is that like the blind men encountering the elephant, our perception of this report will depend greatly on the part to which we affix our grasp. Full disclosure: a couple projects in which I am a participant or manager are highlighted.
- RT <http://roytennant.com/>
Frumkin, Jeremy. "In Our Cages with Golden Bars" /OCLC Systems & Services/ <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oclc.htm>
22(4)(2006): 247-248. - This is a short piece about doing away with the "golden bars" of a cage that Frumkin believes we impose on ourselves when developing new systems. It's about expertise and where to position it. As Frumkin says, "We need to forgo our own need to push our library expertise onto our users, and instead use that expertise to do the heavy lifting for our users." - LRK <http://leoklein.com/>
Gierveld, Heleen. "Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/gierveld/>" /Ariadne/ <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/> (49)(October 2006)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/gierveld/). - Anyone who has been involved with an institutional repository project knows that you can build it, but it doesn't mean they will come. The technical hurdles are nothing compared to getting people to actually deposit content in it. So this article by Gierveld is useful and timely, in that the number of institutions creating repositories is already large and is increasing.
Gierveld offers the "8 P's" strategy of marketing: Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Public, Partnership, Policy, and Purse String. For each of these, she offers examples specific to an institutional repository, and follows up with specific marketing strategies institutions can take to increase the take up and use of their repository. Recommended reading for any institution that has a repository or is hoping to create one. - RT <http://roytennant.com/>
McDonald, Robert H., and Chuck Thomas. "Disconnects between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values <http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1>" /EDUCAUSE Quarterly/ <http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/index.asp>
29(4)(2006): 4-6.
(http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1). - Are research libraries reaching Millennials? The authors don't think so, and they examine how current library cultural values, technologies, and policies are barriers to libraries seizing new opportunities to serve this important user group. For example, they note: "Dogmatic library protection of privacy inhibits library support for file-sharing, work-sharing, and online trust-based transactions that are increasingly common in online environments, thus limiting seamless integration of Web-based services." Whether you agree or not, this article is worth a read. - CB <http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/bailey.htm>
Sale, Arthur. "The Patchwork Mandate <http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/>"
/UTas ePrints/ <http://eprints.utas.edu.au/>
(2006)(http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/). - You can't get your university
administration to mandate deposit of e-prints in your institutional repository.
There are voluntary deposit strategies, but
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Editor's Note: I can't let it go by without remarking that this month's
issue of RLG DigiNews announces the end, with the February 2007 issue,
of the long-standing collaboration between
the
Library and the Research Libraries Group (now part of OCLC) to produce
that publication. As they say in their [6]message to readers DigiNews
will continue to be published by the OCLC Office of Programs and
Research, but without the collaboration of
the
Library. Anne R. Kenney deserves a great deal of credit for the
reputation that this publication has achieved, as do her Cornell
colleagues who have had their excellent work cited here and elsewhere.
Thank you!
Coyle, Karen. "[7]Mass Digitization of Books" [8]The Journal of
Academic Librarianship 32(6)(November 2006): 641-645.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W50-4M877GM-1/2/9167396
7ebebaf384a277c5579164041). - A very well done overview of mass and
near-mass digitization of books by Google, the Open Content Alliance,
Microsoft, Project Gutenberg, and many library-based projects. Coyle
touches on issues such as workflow, output and book structure, user
interface, standards, preservation, and scoping the project. If you're
interested in this topic, this is the single best overview currently
available. Highly recommended. - [9]RT
Edwards, Cliff , and Moon Ihlwan. "[10]Upward Mobility"
[11]BusinessWeek (4 December 2006): 68-82.
(http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_49/b4012071.htm?chan=t
op+news_top+news+index_technology). - If you
think that the
of mobile communications junkies now, just
wait.
are leading the way to a new level of mobile service, and Motorola
Chief Executive Ed Zander has taken to calling handsets "the device
formerly known as the cell phone." The technological keys to this new
kingdom will be WiMAX, fuel cell batteries, OLED screens, and
near-field communications. Say what? Read the article to find out what
these terms mean. - [12]CB
Entlich, Richard. "[13]The Missing Dimension in Web-based Museum
Exhibitions: Obstacles to Adding Depth to Digital Data" [14]RLG
DigiNews 10(6)(15 December
2006)(http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20999#article5). - This
"FAQ" feature in RLG DigiNews "provides a brief discussion about the
development of 3D technology on the World Wide Web, its adoption by
museums, and the obstacles that continue to keep the creation,
dissemination, and management of 3D imagery via the Web from becoming a
fully mainstreamed activity." It provides a useful summary of 3D
technologies such as VRML, QuickTime-VR, Shockwave3D, and others, along
with examples of them in use. Although there have been various
obstacles to the wide adoption of 3D technologies, the piece ends on a
hopeful note with standards being solidified, high-capacity networks
more widespread, and end-user computers gaining in capability for
graphic rendering. - [15]RT
Holt, Glen E. "[16]Fitting Library Services Into the Lives of the
Poor" [17]Bottom Line 19(4)(2006): 179-186.
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=A
rticle&contentId=1576561). - As the title suggests, this relatively
short article looks at delivering library services to the poor. This is
the very definition of an underserved and underprivileged user group.
For this reason, it's not enough to put library services on offer but
rather to reach out and accommodate as much as possible the particular
needs of low-income users. Hence the word "fitting" in the title. The
author suggests a number of ways of doing this: convenient hours,
points of service outside of the library, partnerships with other
community organizations, spreading the word though PSA's and visibility
at community events. There are limits to how far an institution can go
but the author strongly suggests that more can be done. - [18]LRK
Norman, Don. "[19]Simplicity Is Highly Overrated" [20]JND.org
(2007)(http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html). - This
article has been making the rounds. It's by one of the great figures of
design, Don Norman. His basic message is that cutting down on features
is a losing proposition, that people want all the bells and whistles. I
think the perspective is interesting and ought to be understood as a
reaction to the "KISS" mantra made famous by everyone from usability
guru Steve Krug to minimalist design firms like 37signals. That said,
it's hard to say what impact this approach should have on design
decisions, particularly on the Web. We're not buying products for
ourselves after all but making them for others. If features in this
context were so attractive, then 'Advanced Search' would be the first
stop of even our most neophyte users. - [21]LRK
Shirky, Clay. "[22]Second Life : A Story Too Good to Check"
[23]Valleywag (12 December
2006)(http://www.valleywag.com/tech/second-life/a-story-too-good-to-che
ck-221252.php). - A less than enthusiastic appraisal of the virtual
world known as [24]Second Life. Clay Shirky has been writing about the
web for at least 10 years and he uses his experience to great effect as
he challenges the greenhorns in his profession with lines like: "[T]he
tech beat is an intake valve for the young. Most reporters don't
remember that anyone has ever wrongly predicted a bright future for
immersive worlds or flythrough 3D spaces in the past, so they have no
skepticism triggered by the historical failure of things like LambdaMOO
or VRML." This wealth of experience makes for an article that
transcends a critique of a single phenomena, in this case Second Life,
becoming instead an almost classic deconstruction of (in this case an
Internet) mania. Having argued that participation in this online
environment is far less than meets the eye, he concludes with one last
eminently quotable line, "there's nothing wrong with a service that
appeals to tens of thousands of people, but in a billion-person
internet, that population is also a rounding error." - [25]LRK
Suber, Peter. "[26]Predictions for 2007" [27]SPARC Open Access
Newsletter
(104)(2006)(http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-06.htm#
predictions). - Peter Suber has issued his 2007 open access
predictions, and, as usual, they are well worth a read. Among his
predictions: OA archiving policies by funding agencies and universities
as well as institutional repositories will be unstoppable trends,
reluctant publishers will be pushed to allow self-archiving at the same
time that publishers who already permit it may try to dampen
self-archiving activity with fees and/or embargoes, and new copyright
problems will emerge (e.g., "Do machine-generated paraphrases of
copyrighted texts infringe copyright?"). - [28]CB
Weber, Jonathan. "[29]Evergreen: Your Homegrown ILS" [30]Library
Journal (15 December
2006)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6396354.html). - A quiet
revolution occurred this past Labor Day.
Well over 200
libraries, all part of the [31]PINES regional consortium, began using
an open source integrated library system for the first time. The new
system, dubbed Evergreen, was built from scratch by PINES programmers.
The numbers are impressive -- the consortium has over 8 million items
and over 1.5 million borrowers. Amazing enough, they can handle the
load with approximately $250,000 of hardware -- which by their
calculation is only a fraction of what a typical commercial system
would require. This article by a contributor to the project introduces
the system, its history, and its potential future. Its future may even
include you, since it is being released as open source. - [32]RT
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Cochrane, Lynn Scott. "[5]If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist,
Would We Have to Invent It?" [6]EDUCAUSE Review
42(1)(January/February 2007): 6-7.
(http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0714.asp). - Nightmare
scenarios concerning a make-believe College in 2010 that does away with
its campus library only to find that obtaining research material any
other way is less reliable and more expensive. While the author focuses
on materials, thus leaving out such vital services as Reference, she
still makes a good case that institutions get good value out of their
libraries and ought to continue supporting them. - [7]LRK
Coyle, Karen. "[8]Mass Digitization of Books" [9]The Journal of
Academic Librarianship 32(6)(November 2006): 641-645.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W50-4M877GM-1/2/9167396
7ebebaf384a277c5579164041). - This is a good high-level overview
article on mass digitization projects such as the Google Library
project. Mass digitization is contrasted with "non-mass" digitization
and "large-scale" digitization in addition to issues such as workflow,
output and book structure, user interface, standards, preservation, and
scoping. Readers interested in exploring the copyright implications of
mass digitization should not look here, but rather to the many
contributions on the topic that can be found almost anywhere you care
to look. - [10]RT
Coyle, Karen, and Diane Hillmann. "[11]Resource Description and Access
(RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century" [12]D-Lib Magazine
13(1/2)(January/February
2007)(http://dlib.org/dlib/january07/coyle/01coyle.html). - This
prosaically titled essay is not the dispassionate exposition of the
effort to remake the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR) that you
might expect. Rather, it is an expos? of a process that appears,
according to the authors, to be too concerned with an easy transition
for libraries. Far better, they argue, to forge a new path that is more
revolutionary (and probably more painful initially) and likely to be
more effective in an Internet age. "Members of our profession," they
assert, "who have embraced the present information technologies and are
looking forward to what the future will bring are particularly dismayed
at the creation of another set of cataloging rules based on
technologies that are now decades past." If the future of bibliographic
description -- or even the future of libraries -- is important to you,
consider this piece to be your wake-up call. - [13]RT
Garman, Nancy. "[14]That Was Then -- This Is Now " [15]ONLINE
31(1)(January/February
2007)(http://www.infotoday.com/online/jan07/Garman.shtml). - ONLINE
celebrates its 30th Anniversary with this
trip down
Nancy Garman. Important highlights featured in the magazine include the
introduction of CD-ROMs (1984), expansion of the Internet (1993) and of
course, the introduction of the World Wide Web (1995). This is just one
of several articles looking at the magazine's past and the state of
technology over the 30 years of its existence. - [16]LRK
Lenhart, Amanda, and Mary Madden. "[17]Social Networking Websites and
Teens: An Overview" [18]Pew Internet & American Life Project (7
January 2007
)(http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp). - This
paper reports on the wide use of "social networks" such as MySpace or
Facebook by teenagers. Based on survey results, over half of the
respondents said they had a profile and slightly less than half (48%)
said they frequented the sites every day. The vast majority of them use
the sites to "manage their friendships" or in other words to
communicate with friends. This communication, as the report makes
clear, takes the form of everything from blog entries and comments to
in-network email. If ever there were a promising area for library
outreach, it's this! - [19]LRK
Markey, Karen. "[20]The Online Library
Catalog:
2007)(http://dlib.org/dlib/january07/markey/01markey.html). - Markey
throws down the gauntlet and challenges libraries to remake library
catalogs partly in the model of Google (embrace "post-Boolean"
probabilistic searching), partly in the model of classic library
strategies (embrace subject cataloging), and partly something entirely
new (expand with qualification metadata). She precedes her proposed
solution to library catalog woes with a brief litany of failure and an
examination of why people use Google. Even if you don't agree with all
of her points, there is plenty to ponder and discuss and (hopefully)
lead to experimentation and implementation. My only criticism is that
our gaze needs to encompass more than library catalogs at this point or
else we're toast before we begin. - [22]RT
Rethlefsen, Melissa L. "[23]Chief Thingamabrarian" [24]netConnect
(Winter 2007)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6403633.html). -
You probably would have to have been living in a cave to not know about
[25]LibraryThing.com. So if you have only recently left your mountain
domicile, stop reading this and go try it out. We'll meet you back here
when you're done. Yes, that's right, who knew cataloging was fun? And
that you could actually get just about anyone to do copy cataloging?
Well, Tim Spaulding knew it, or at least he suspected it, and the
success of LibraryThing is no small matter. This interview with him
provides an interesting insight into not just the LibraryThing world,
but also tagging, potential linkages with library catalogs, and more. -
[26]RT
Smith, Susan Sharpless. [27]Web-Based Instruction: a Guide for
Libraries
2006.(http://alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_sn=catalog2&_pn=product
_detail&_op=1856). - Broad but not too deep, this is a great first
resource to turn to for anyone looking at using Web functions for
library instruction. This second edition has been greatly expanded with
information about the many developments which arose during the four
years since the first edition came out, and begins with a new chapter
on pedagogy and learning styles. The many options to consider
throughout the entire process which begins with a need and ends with a
final product are included, with concrete examples given and
recommended tools named. The lack of depth is a problem with some
topics which librarians are intensely interested in now, such how we
can best use web 2.0 spaces: readers find less than a page each for
blogs and wikis, for example. But the audience for this book is one
which knows how to get further information, so the quibble is minor. -
JR
Toobin, Jeffrey. "[28]Google's Moon Shot" [29]The New Yorker (5
February 2007)
(http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070205fa_fact_toobin).
- One of the most even-handed and informative articles on the Google
Library (and Books) Project I've seen. You won't find any major new
revelations here, but you will find a good overview of some of the
issues and identification of some of the main players. Unlike many
accounts that either swallow Google's kool-aid, or else provide
knee-jerk style objections, Toobin cleaves to the middle in what might
be considered a picture-perfect example of expository writing. One
example: after quoting the Google engineer responsible for the scanning
operation talking about a future where all the world's information is
available online, Toobin states "Such messianism cannot obscure the
central truth about Google Book Search: it's a business." Indeed. -
[30]RT
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Coyle, Karen. "Future of Library Systems, Seen from the Past"
[6]Journal of Academic Librarianship 33(1)(January 2007): 138-140. -
It's always a healthy exercise when evaluating predictions of the
future to see what past performance in the prediction business has been
like. This is what Karen Coyle does in a relatively short article on
predictions of library systems from 1949 to 1984. She goes from what
most commentators got right to what most commentators either got wrong
or missed. Oftentimes what they missed was due to developments outside
of librarianship (e.g. the computer industry) that they didn't pay
enough attention to. It's important to take the larger context into
consideration, Coyle concludes, when attempting to do long-range
planning. - [7]LRK
Follett, Jonathan. "[8]Envisioning the Whole Digital Person"
[9]UXmatters (20 February
2007)(http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000171.php). - This article
looks at the growing mass of digital artifacts that we accumulate from
cradle to grave and wonders how to deal with it from the user
experience or designer's point of view. The material in question
includes everything from email to photos and is likely to be around far
longer than we. The suggestions on what to do as "user experience
practitioners" will sound familiar to librarians: "...we can advocate
for data portability, accessibility, and standardization and prepare
ourselves and our customers to manage our new digital lives." - [10]LRK
Johnson, Richard K. "[11]In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility
for Shaping the Global Digital Library" [12]ARL: A Bimonthly Report
(250)(February 2007)(http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br250.shtml).
- Johnson begins by reviewing projects to massively digitize research
library collections by Google, the Open Content Alliance, and others.
The bulk of this special issue, however, is comprised of a recounting
of various mass digitization policy
recommendations from
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francophone National Libraries, the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation, OCLC's Programs and Research
Division, and others. Johnson then summarizes the common themes and
provides a "negotiation checklist" for libraries to review when
negotiating a contract for digitization. While this may be too late for
a number of institutions, contracts announced very recently seem to
indicate that there are still libraries that can benefit from this
review of principles and policies. - [13]RT
Markey, Karen, Soo Young Rieh, and Beth St. Jean, et. al.[14]Census
of Institutional Repositories in the
Research Findings
Resources, February
2007.(http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub140abst.html). - This report
summarizes the findings of the first phase of the IMLS-funded MIRACLE
Project to investigate institutional repositories in higher education.
At a survey response rate of about 21% of the 2,147 academic library
directors and senior library administrators contacted, only 10.8% had
implemented a repository. An additional 36.3% were planning to
implement or were pilot testing an institutional repository. There is
much to consider in this report, but the diversity of organizational
situations, repository software options, and implementation models
makes it difficult and even erroneous to make sweeping generalizations.
Rather, those who are interested in this issue would do well to spend
some time digesting the findings for what can inform their particular
situation. - [15]RT
Mugridge, Rebecca L. [16]Managing Digitization Activities. SPEC Kit
294
2006.(http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec294web.pdf). - With a response rate
of 55% (68 libraries out of 123), this survey provides a snapshot of
ARL libraries digitization efforts as of early 2006. Here is a quick
summary of the survey's scope from the introduction: "This SPEC survey
was designed to identify the purposes of ARL member libraries'
digitization efforts, the organizational structures these libraries use
to manage digital initiatives, whether and how staff have been
reassigned to support digitization activities, where funding to sustain
digital activities originated and how that funding is allocated, how
priorities are determined, whether libraries are outsourcing any
digitization work, and how the success of libraries' digital activities
has been assessed. The focus of the survey was on the digitization of
existing library materials, rather than the creation of born-digital
objects." Overall, the survey suggests that digitization is still a
fledgeling activity at many ARL libraries: only 19 respondents (30%)
had a dedicated budget for both start-up and ongoing operations and
only 6 (9.5%) had a dedicated start-up budget, but no dedicated ongoing
budget. Only 28 of a total of 188 librarians from 48 reporting
libraries who did digitization work did so full-time, with the rest
dedicating "only a small portion of their time on this activity." The
few reported budgets had wide ranges, resulting in means of $97,027 for
start-up budgets and $303,916 for ongoing budgets. - [17]CB
Rochkind, Jonathan. "[18](
Journal (17 February
2007)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413442.html). - The
author contrasts the current flawed state of metasearch (searching more
than one database through a single interface) with what could be
achieved were libraries to adopt local indexing methods such as those
used by Google. Instead of the user waiting for the interface to
cross-search each source database at the time of request and merge the
results, often resulting in a less than satisfactory 'dumbed down' set
which may not be adequately relevancy-ranked, deduplicated, or
custom-sorted, the user could receive a more efficient, value-added set
thanks to the prior harvesting of metadata (and sometimes content
elements) arranged in a local index which is what was actually searched
when the query was made. Rochkind explains the technology clearly with
minimal jargon and lists the challenges that libraries face, such as
asking for licensing agreements with vendors which allow for metadata
and content harvesting for the purpose of index-building. Disclaimer:
Current Cites editor Roy Tennant was consulted and is quoted in the
article. - JR
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This issue contains four articles,
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from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of
interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This
month's featured collection is "Digital Collections at the University
Library,
contributed by Judith M. Panitch, UNC-Chapel Hill.
The articles include:
DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions
Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs Robert Chavez,
An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains Herbert Van de Sompel and Xiaoming Liu, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Carl Lagoze, Sandy Payette, and Simeon Warner, Cornell University; and Jeroen Bekaert, Ghent University
Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications Tyler O. Walters, Georgia Institute of Technology
Measuring Total Reading of Journal Articles Donald W. King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Michael Clarke, American Academy of Pediatrics
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ECDL 2006: A Conference Report Based on a Travel Log in Context Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2006 Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR
Report on the 5th European
Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop Traugott
Koch, UKOLN,
ECDL 2006 Workshop Report: The Use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL) Gert Schmeltz Pedersen, Technical University of Denmark; Kostas Saidis, University of Athens; and Hans Pfeiffenberger, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Digital Library Goes
e-Science (DLSci06): Workshop Held in Conjunction with ECDL 2006, September
17-22, 2006.
Report on the Workshop of Learning Object Repositories as Digital
Libraries: September 22,
2006,
Report on the 1st
International Critical Success Factors for Institutional Change Workshop
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'Clips and Pointers'. This month's
featured collection is "Digital Library at
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The articles include:
The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs Jeffrey Pomerantz, Sanghee Oh, and Barbara M. Wildemuth, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; and Seungwon Yang and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
Author Addenda: An
Examination of Five Alternatives Peter B. Hirtle,
Download Statistics - What Do They Tell Us?: The Example of Research Online, the Open Access Institutional Repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Organ, University of Wollongong, Australia
E-Content Awards: An
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Beneath the Metadata: Some
Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy Elaine Peterson,
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This issue contains three
articles, an opinion piece, three conference reports, the 'In Brief' column,
excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other
items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection is "The Complete Work of Charles
Darwin Online" contributed by John van Wyhe,
The articles include:
Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software
Applications: A Progress Report
Joanne Kaczmarek, Patricia
Hswe, Janet Eke, and Thomas G. Habing,
Digital Library as Network
and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Cathryn A.
Manduca, Sean Fox, and Ellen R. Iverson,
The Melvyl Recommender
Project: Developing Library Recommendation Services Colleen Whitney and Lisa
Schiff,
The opinion is:
Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
The conference reports include:
Snapshots of the National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting:
October 18 - 20, 2006,
Brad Edmondson, ePodunk.com,
and Carol Minton Morris,
The Music Information
Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) J. Stephen Downie,
IPRES 2006 Conference Report: Digital Preservation Takes Off in the E-Environment Cindy Boeke, The American Society for Cell Biology
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"Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project"
contributed by Drew VandeCreek, Northern Illinois University Libraries.
The articles include:
Copyright, Publishing, and Scholarship: The "Zwolle Group" Initiative for the Advancement of Higher Education Kenneth D. Crews, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, and Gerard van Westrienen, SURF Foundation
Distinguishing Content from
Carrier: The RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization Gorden Dunsire,
The opinion pieces are:
Resource Description and
Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net,
and Diane Hillmann,
The Online Library Catalog:
Paradise Lost and
Karen Markey,
The Patchwork Mandate
Arthur Sale,
Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider H.M. Gladney, HMG Consulting
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Report on CORDRA @ Work:
Held November 13-14, 2006, in
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The articles include:
Toward an Effective
Understanding of Website Users: Advantages and Pitfalls of Linking Transaction
Log Analyses and Online Surveys Diane Harley and Jonathan Henke,
Institutional Repositories:
Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of
Linking Service to Open
Access Repositories Shigeki Sugita, Kunie Horikoshi and
Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano, and Constantino Thanos, Italian National Research Council (CNR); Yannis Ioannidis and Georgia Koutrika, University of Athens; Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow; Hans-Jorg Schek, University of Konstanz; and Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel
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A Proposed Standard for the
Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data Micah Altman and Gary King,
And the conference report is:
Road Report: Second Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR07) in San Antonio Carol Minton Morris
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