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[6]7 Things You Should Know About Flickr Washington, DC: EDUCAUSE

Learning Initiative, February

2008.(http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout

/46186). - This two-page Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document provides

essential information about Flickr for an academic audience and how it

might be used in an educational context. Following the format of the

[7]7 Things You Should Know series, these basic questions are answered:

1) What is it?, 2) Who's doing it?, 3) How does it work?, 4) Why is it

significant?, 5) What are the downsides, 6) Where is it going?, and 7)

What are the implications for teaching and learning? Also included is a

brief scenario sketching out how Flickr could be pedagogically useful.

The Library of Congress [8]Flickr project is specifically mentioned as

an example of engaging with users "where they live". - [9]RT

[10]Statement of International Cataloging Principles (Draft) The

Hague, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations

and Institutions, 10 April

2008.(http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icc/principles_review_200804.htm). -

The web page for this publication states that "The IFLA Cataloguing

Section held a series of five regional meetings of the world's

cataloguing rule makers and cataloguing experts with the goal of

identifying how to increase the ability to share cataloguing

information worldwide by promoting standards for the content of

bibliographic and authority records used in library catalogues." This

draft statement is the outcome. My personal opinion is that it is

firmly mired in the 20th century, and the early 20th century at that.

The idea of "access points" is an anachronism in the age of computers,

but the concept continues to permeate this statement of principles.

It's possible for library users to find every book that is 22cm. tall

if they so wish and the record has been fully indexed (the fact that it

hasn't usually stems from vendors charging libraries for every index

they create). But why should cataloging principles dictate how a record

is to be used once it is created? But that's just my opinion, and all

opinions are solicited from now until June 30, 2008. Knock yourself

out. - [11]RT

Darnton, Robert. "[12]The Library in the New Age" [13]The New York

Review of Books 55(10)(12 June

2008)(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514). - Robert Darnton,

Director of Harvard University Library, is no stranger to electronic

scholarly communication, having been instrumental in creation of the

[14]Gutenberg-e Project. His essay balances praise of the scholarship

opportunities made possible by mass digitization projects, such as

Google Book Search, with the need for physical libraries and books far

into the future. Projects like Google Book Search will not make

libraries obsolete. On the contrary, he uses eight points to argue why

libraries will be more important than ever. Darnton ends his essay

with: "long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to

replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns...the

research library still deserves to stand at the center of campus,

preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future." The essay

provides some well articulated arguments you can use the next time a

faculty member or administrator questions the need of your library in

the age of Google. - [15]SG

Harley, Diane, Sarah Earl-Novell, and Sophia Krzys Acord, et.

al.[16]Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An

In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them (Draft Interim

Report) Berkeley, CA: Center for Studies in Higher Education,

University of California, Berkeley, Spring

2008.(http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=300). -

This report is an early draft of findings from a number of in-depth

interviews and focus groups with faculty, librarians, and information

technology professionals, as well as other related studies and surveys.

It is highly readable and quite interesting, with a number of

surprising as well as expected findings revealed. "It is clear from our

interviews so far that many scholars, young and old, can be innovative

in their fields without the need or desire to use cutting edge

technologies," the report states, "it is reasonable to presume that

there may be no one vision for technology-enabled scholarship in a

field. Ultimately, the personality of individuals combined with

disciplinary tradition, the needs of the field, and affiliation with

type of higher education institution will determine how widespread

public sharing of non-peer-reviewed incipient ideas and data will be

and what forms final archival publications take." There is much here to

ponder for anyone interested in the future of scholarly communication,

new publication models, and how we can better serve both information

and publication needs of college and university faculty. - [17]RT

Harnad, Stevan. "[18]The Two Forms of OA Have Been Defined: They Now

Need Value-Neutral Names" [19]Open Access Archivangelism (3 May

2008)(http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/400-The-Two-For

ms-of-OA-Have-Been-Defined-They-Now-Need-Value-Neutral-Names.html). -

One of the key problems of the open access movement has been to define

what "open access" really means. Various manifestos have put forward

varying definitions (e.g., the [20]Budapest, [21]Bethesda, and

[22]Berlin declarations) and Stevan Harnad has put forth his own

definition at various times (e,g., see "[23]Re: Free Access vs. Open

Access"). Now, Stevan Harnad and Peter Suber are working together to

disambiguate the term. In short, they identify two types of open

access: (1) free of "price barriers" (i.e., available at no charge),

and (2) free of both "price" and "permission barriers" (i.e., no

unnecessary copyright and licensing restrictions that inhibit re-use).

Initially, the terms "weak OA" and "strong OA" seemed suitable, but, on

further reflection, the term "weak" seemed to have "pejorative

connotations." New terminology is being considered, such as "basic OA"

and "full OA." While this may seem like an abstract exercise, their

work will have important real-world impacts, and it will help diminish

confusion about the goals of the movement among its advocates, its

opponents, and the scholarly community. - [24]CB

Henty, Margaret. "[25]Developing the Capability and Skills to Support

eResearch" [26]Ariadne (55)(April

2008)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/henty/). - Whether you call it

eResearch (Australia), eScience (UK), or Cyberinfrastructure (USA), the

need to support it poses challenges for libraries and research

institutions, both at an individual and organizational level. Based on

surveys and interviews with Australian researchers, this article looks

at what is needed to "bridge the gap between the potential on offer and

the realities with which we are living," with a specific focus on the

need for improved levels of data stewardship. One theme that emerged

from the survey was the need to develop specialists with specific

skills. This includes technical skills that may vary according to

discipline, along with equally important non-technical skills such as

data analysis, knowledge of copyright issues, communication skills,

team building, project management, and something one of the survey

respondents called "researcher management." Another theme identified in

the survey was the need to overcome organizational and cultural

barriers, which need to evolve in order to improve internal

communication, support external advocacy and education, enable

collaborative opportunities, and develop appropriate policies and

workflows. The article ends with a section on solutions and suggestions

for achieving this, but this is very brief and not fleshed out. The

main focus in on the gaps mentioned above. - BR

Nadella, Satya . "[27]Book Search Winding Down" [28]Live Search (23

May

2008)(http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/05/23/book-search-w

inding-down.aspx). - Microsoft has announced that it will end its Live

Book Search and Live Search Academic projects and focus instead on

indexing library and publisher book content in those organizations'

digital repositories. Since Microsoft has been a significant funding

source for the digitization efforts of the [29]Open Content Alliance,

this was bad news for the [30]Internet Archive and the [31]research

libraries participating in that group; however, Microsoft said that it

was "removing our contractual restrictions placed on the digitized

library content and making the scanning equipment available to our

digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs."

About 750,000 books were digitized as a result of Microsoft's projects.

Read more about it at "[32]Microsoft Abandons Book Scan Plan,"

"[33]Microsoft Abandons Digitization," and "[34]Why Killing Live Book

Search Is Good for the Future of Books." - [35]CB

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American Libary Assocation. "[7]Disaster Preparedness and Recovery"

[8]American Library Association Website (August

2007)(http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/disasterpreparedness/dist

rprep.cfm). - I'm using the "current" in Current Cites this month to

think about current events. I live in St. Louis, and I've been watching

the flood waters rise in our area and throughout the Midwest. I'm

starting a new job soon, and two of the branches for the St. Charles

City-County Library District are under threat of flooding. They're

still dry as of right now, and all of the staff are safe. However, much

of the community will suffer losses this summer due to flooding. I look

at the [9]pictures of the Cedar Rapids Public Library, and know that

could happen anywhere along a flood plain. If you haven't thought much

about disaster preparedness at your library, take a look at some of the

excellent resources linked from the "Disaster Preparedness and

Recovery" page from the ALA Washington Office. Highlights include:

* [10]Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance Website: Search by

state for services, view sample disaster plans, and check out other

resources.Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance Website: Search

by state for services, view sample disaster plans, and check out

other resources.

* [11]Flood Mitigation Assistance Program: FEMA's grant program to

reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage.Flood

Mitigation Assistance Program: FEMA's grant program to reduce or

eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage.

* [12]dPlan: The Online Disaster-Planning Tool: A site from the

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) which allows you to

enter data into an online template to create a customized disaster

plan for your institution.dPlan: The Online Disaster-Planning Tool:

A site from the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)

which allows you to enter data into an online template to create a

customized disaster plan for your institution.

Remember, disaster isn't always delivered from Mother Nature. Pipes

burst, cars drive into buildings, and fires happen. Be sure to have a

disaster plan in place for your library and your community. - KC

Austin, Andy, and Christopher Harris. "[13]Drupal in Libraries"

[14]Library Technology Reports 44(4)(May/June

2008)(http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/drupal-in-libraries.html). - As

a Drupal user (at my [15]TechEssence.info site), I admit to being

interested to see this issue of LTR, which highlights a popular content

management system and illustrates how libraries are using it. But in

reviewing it, I find it a mixed bag. Certainly it is a credible

high-level guide to Drupal, but the appropriate audience for this

treatment may be difficult to find. To get the most out of this, I

suggest you line up a system administrator to do the heavy lifting for

you (for example, creating the MySQL database and Drupal user, editing

the config file appropriately, etc.) or else consult other sources for

the details lacking here (admittedly the installation info included in

the download may be sufficient). Other information lacking that I

detected as a seasoned Drupal administrator include the inevitable work

to manage spam users (a "user" account awaiting deletion at this moment

on my site is, I kid you not, "free porn zip files", I wonder what

library they work at?), dumping the database for backup and recovery

(an inevitable event, let me assure you), and the often uncritical

acceptance of such oddities as using "node" and "content" to mean the

same thing and specifying different content types of "story" and "page"

differentiated only by a default setting for whether the content is

listed on the front page or not. One final nitpick: my pal Mark Jordan

has had a site, [16]drupalib, going for quite some time and there is no

mention of it in the "Resources" section. Go figure. However, did I

learn something? Yes, I did, even after having a Drupal site for a

while. So the bottom line is if you are in the market for a content

management system, you should check this out. If you are running Drupal

now, maybe you'll learn something new, or else you'll have something to

point people to when they ask why you're using this CMS. - [17]RT

Bullen, Andrew. "[18]Bringing Sheet Music to Life: My Experiences with

OMR" [19]Code4Lib Journal (3)(23 June

2008)(http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/84). - Bullen describes a

fascinating project to digitize sheet music, clean up the scan, put it

through a special program to recognize the notes and then pipe it

through midi software to recreate the music. Fascinating historical

tidbits make what normally would be a dry technical exposition come

alive, and provide more than adequate reason for going through these

complicated procedures. This article can be further enhanced by viewing

[20]Bullen's lightning talk at the Code4Lib 2008 Conference in

February, which used one of his recovered tunes as background (he also

provided the intro music for all the 2008 Code4Lib videos). Highly

recommended not just as a description of a technical digital library

process, but as an excellent example of using digital library

technologies to bring history alive. - [21]RT

Fisher, Julian H. "[22]Scholarly Publishing Re-invented: Real Costs and

Real Freedoms" [23]Journal of Electronic Publishing

11(2)(2008)(http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.204). - In

discussions of the "gold road" to open access (open access journals),

the focus is often on major open access publishers (e.g., [24]BioMed

Central) or "hybrid" publishers (e.g., [25]Springer Open Choice), which

offer per-article open access for a fee. Since both types of publishers

rely heavily on publication fees to support open access, the analysis

of the gold road option inevitably focuses on those fees and how they

can be paid. However, for about two decades there has been another open

access journal option that, while it has flourished, is often

overlooked: what Tom Wilson calls the "[26]Platinum Route." This

strategy offers low-cost open access journal publishing without author

fees, utilizing open source journal publishing systems and subsidized

or low-cost technical infrastructure. Fisher's article makes the case

for this type of open access journal publishing, often using the

[27]Scholarly Exchange, an open access journal publishing service, as

an example (Fisher is one of its founders). How cheap can it be to

publish such an e-journal? Fisher says: "My estimate is that a journal

with 50 articles in a year could be published for under $4,000; double

the number of articles, and the cost goes up to just over $7,000. At

250 articles a year, the cost is under $17,000. If the journal chose

not to provide copy editing or XML conversion and tagging--two of the

larger costs--the totals would be $1,200, $1,650, and $3,000

respectively." - [28]CB

Gelston, Steff. "[29]Welcome to the Generation Wars: Gen Y, Gen X and

the Baby Boomers" [30]CIO Magazine 21(8)(February 1,

2008)(http://www.cio.com/article/178050/Gen_Y_Gen_X_and_the_Baby_Boomer

s_Workplace_Generation_Wars). - The problems of the "generations at

work" (Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y) have been bemoaned in many contexts.

In this piece, the author details many of the same issues related to

the generations at work we experience within our libraries. What is

different is that in this article, the context of all of these problems

is corporate information technology organizations. While providing some

small comfort that the "generation problem" is not something specific

to our field, the real value of this short piece is its links to

companion pieces, "Management Techniques for Bringing Out the Best in

Generation Y" (http://www.cio.com/article/149053) and "Generation X:

Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate"

(http://www.cio.com/article/28475). What is most fascinating about this

article is that in the intervening months since it was first published,

a number of readers have commented on the article. These comments add a

fascinating and somewhat vividly disturbing demonstration of the issues

discussed in the article. In the comments you will find Baby Boomers,

Generation X, and Generation Y going at each other in exactly the ways

the author described. Perhaps if they had read the companion pieces,

they would be better able to get along. - [31]FC

Jelinkova, Klara, Terezsa Carvalho, and Dorette Kerian, et.

al."[32]Creating a Five-Minute Conversation about Cyberinfrastructure"

[33]EDUCAUSE Quarterly 31(2)(2008): 78-82.

(http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM08211.pdf). - This article

provides a very concise summary of why cyberinfrastructure is important

in higher education. It also offers a strategy for promoting

cyberinfrastructure on campus. While it's intended to "to help you

compose a five-minute conversation on cyberinfrastructure appropriate

for various audiences," it also serves as a useful primer for readers

who may be a little fuzzy on the potentials of cyberinfrastructure. A

helpful list of EDUCAUSE cyberinfrastructure resources is included in

the article. - [34]CB

Nicholas, David, Paul Huntington, and Hamid Jamali. "[35]User

diversity: as demonstrated by deep log analysis" [36]The Electronic

Library 26(1): 21-38. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02640470810851716). -

User log analysis has been performed since the time of the first HTTP

servers; however most log analysis is abstracted from the details for

the user community. It therefore leaves us with "big generalizations"

(to quote the authors), but surprisingly little in the way of detailed

information about the behaviors of our various user communities. In

this study, the authors have applied techniques and methodologies

deveoped at the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of

Research (CIBER) at the University of London, to analyze the behavioral

patterns of a group of 750 researchers. As a result of their research,

the authors have found that people from different disciplinary

backgrounds approach the use of online journal databases in varying

ways. Some disciplines are more predisposed to exploratory searching

whereas other disciplines tend to use more directed search strategies.

Moreover, the end purpose of these searches differs among the

disciplines. Researchers in certain disciplines are more likely to

focus on keeping up-to-date on the latest research in progress while

researchers in other fields are more likely to be mainly focused on

identifying recent articles of interest that have gone through the

entire scholarly review process. In the interest of full disclosure, I

am on the editorial board of The Electronic Library but I was not part

of the review process for this article. - [37]FC

Reynolds, Erica. "[38]The Secret to Patron-Centered Web Design: Cheap,

Easy, and Powerful Usability Techniques" [39]Computers in Libraries

28(6)(June 2008): 6-8, 44-47.

(http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=32466509&

site=ehost-live). - This is an interesting look at the redesign effort

of the Johnson County Library Website from the standpoint of usability

testing. The author makes clear that usability testing is a lot of

work. The stats speak for themselves: "78 card sorts, 22 paper

prototypes, and 21 interface usability studies". Yet reading between

the lines, you also get the impression that the process is a lot of

fun. The development team is interacting with patrons and staff. It's a

"fun activity". And this in turn builds enthusiasm and buy-in for the

project. The process begins with identifying "20 core tasks". The team

then figures out the right terms for navigation. They use prototypes to

test out functionality. The ultimate benefit of all this careful

testing is confidence in their design decisions and a new site that

performs significantly better than the old one. - [40]LRK

Section 108 Study Group. [41]The Section 108 Study Group Report

Executive Summary Washington, DC: US Copyright Office; Library of

Congress, March

2008.(http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108ExecSum.pdf). - Several

years ago, the Library of Congress' National Digital Information

Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the US Copyright

Office convened a 19-member study group to look at the issues related

to Section 108 of the Copyright Act and digital works. Earlier this

year, the study group produced its report and it should be on the

summer reading list of anyone working with digital materials. While the

diehard copyright aficionado will want to read the full report

([42]http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108StudyGroupReport.pdf), for

most of us the executive summary is more than adequate. In 14 short

pages, the group outlines their recommendations related to a number of

pressing concerns in the copyright law such as legislative changes,

exceptions to copyright claims to facilitate preservation and

replacement, interlibrary loan exceptions, and display and performance

of unlicensed digital works. - [43]FC

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July 2008

Edited by [2]Roy Tennant

http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2008/cc08.19.7.html

Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Keri Cascio, [4]Frank Cervone,

Brian Rosenblum, [5]Roy Tennant

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Hagedorn, Kat, and Joshua Santelli. "[6]Google Still Not Indexing

Hidden Web URLs" [7]D-Lib Magazine 14(7/8)(July/August

2008)(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html). - This

article highlights a long-standing challenge for digital libraries: the

digital collections that libraries, museums and archives create with

great effort and expense are not always well-indexed by Web search

engines, thus decreasing the potential use and impact of those digital

resources. [8]OAIster, a "union catalog of digital resources" developed

at the University of Michigan, provides access to over 16 million

digital resources by harvesting OAI metadata from over 1000

repositories worldwide. About 45% of this material, the authors

determine, is also indexed by Google, leaving the remaining 55%

"hidden" in the deep web, unindexed by Web search engines. Two recent

blog posts (and related comments) provide important follow-up

discussions to this article. [9]Roy Tennant cites further anecdotal

figures from other repositories that support the findings of this

article, and suggests that libraries, museums and archives need many

different strategies to get their content to users. Similarly, [10]John

Wilkin argues explicitly that it is cultural heritage institutions,

rather than companies like Google, that bear the responsibility for

making this content more visible: "we must also learn...that a

simplified rendering of the content, so that it can be easily found by

the search engines, is not an unfortunate compromise, but rather a

necessary part of our work." - BR

Hirtle, Peter B.. "[11]Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and

the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status" [12]D-Lib Magazine

14(7/8)(July/August

2008)(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hirtle/07hirtle.html). - Peter

Hirtle's chart on [13]"Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the

United States" has long been an essential quick reference guide to

determining public domain status. In this article Hirtle untangles a

particularly complicated strand of copyright law: how does one

determine the copyright status of a work published in the United States

from 1923 to 1964? The 1996 restoration of US copyrights in foreign

works has not only prevented libraries from offering to the public the

full text of most foreign works, but has also made it very difficult,

if not impossible, to determine with certainty the copyright status of

works published in the United States during that period. Using concrete

examples, Hirtle outlines several questions that must be asked to

determine copyright status. (Among others: was the work solely

published in the United States? Is the American work a translation or

other derivative work based on a foreign work? Was the work first

published outside the United States?) There is no automated way to

answer these questions, and in many cases comes it down to the almost

impossible task of proving a negative, so libraries that wish to offer

material from this period must settle on a strategy that identifies and

manages risks. - BR

Kroski, Ellyssa. "[14]On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and

Mobile Technologies" [15]Library Technology Reports 44(5)(July

2008)(http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/on-the-move-with-the-mobile-web

-libraries-and-mobile-technologies.html). - More and more library users

are using their cellphones or other mobile devices (e.g., PDAs,

smartphones, etc.) for much more than talking and texting. Many are

searching and browsing the web, reading magazines and books, and

generally doing things that until recently required a computer to do.

In this issue of Library Technology Reports, Kroski does an excellent

job of surveying the present usage of mobile devices, providing an

overview of devices, providers, and features, describing the various

activities these devices support, highlighting how libraries are

responding with services tailored for these devices, and providing good

advice and assistance for any libraries wanting to go further. It is

well-researched, nicely illustrated, and chock-full of good advice and

assistance with getting started. Highly recommended for any library

wanting to better understand mobile users and/or tailoring services for

them. - [16]RT

Laplante, Philip A. "[17]Open Source: The Dark Horse of Software? "

[18]Computing Reviews (15 July

2008)(http://www.reviews.com/hottopic/hottopic_essay_09.cfm). -

Frequently we have the need to explain open source software (OSS) to

people who may not have a high level of familiarity with, and perhaps

actually skepticism of, the concept. Unfortunately, all too frequently

articles or other informational pieces that could be useful take on a

decidedly "rah-rah" tone in support of OSS, which casts serious doubts

on the validity and objectivity of the piece. Thankfully, this is not

the case with this article. In a well laid out and neutral fashion

based on evidence culled from research into open source projects, the

author describes the major issues one faces related to evaluation and

implementation of open source software and gives some practical tips

related to both topics. Written from the perspective of a researcher,

this article could be useful as an "intro piece" for your library's

administrative team if you are in the midst of evaluating open source

software. - [19]FC

Linoski, Alexis, and Tine Walczyk. "[20]Federated Search 101"

[21]netConnect (15 July

2008)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6571320.html). - This is

a credible, if somewhat superficial, review of the recent state of the

library metasearch tool market and how to approach tool selection.

Since this is a fast-moving market you may find it useful to take the

pulse of the market closer to when you need to select an option, since

this piece is based on information already a year old, but the general

information probably still applies (e.g., most desired features, etc.).

- [22]RT

Oder, Norman. "[23]BiblioCommons Emerges: "Revolutionary" Social

Discovery System for Libraries" [24]Library Journal (19 July

2008)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6579748.html). - Those of

us on the speaking circuit have seen Beth Jefferson speak about

[25]BiblioCommons, a new "social" discovery system for libraries, but

few until now have actually seen it in action. And as of this writing,

the BiblioCommons website still consists of one splash page with

testimonials. Now this brief piece by LJ editor Oder provides a quick

introduction to it as it has been released "in the wild" at

[26]Oakville Public Library in Ontario. Apparently Bibliocommons is an

add-on to your existing library system, it doesn't replace it, but they

claim interoperability with some key vendors. The most interesting part

(for me, at least) is that it appears they will be setting up ways that

user-contributed content can be shared among libraries, thereby helping

to create a critical mass of content faster. - [27]RT

The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and

Preservation Program, , et. al."[28]International Study on the Impact

of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation" [29]Library of Congress,

Digital Preservation (July

2008)(http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/resources/pubs/wipo_d

igital_preservation_final_report2008.pdf). - In a world of ephemeral

digital objects, libraries need to be aware of the issues surrounding

digital preservation. The Library of Congress National Digital

Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) created a

report with its counterparts from other countries to review the current

state of copyright laws and make recommendations for legislative

reform. The section that covers US copyright law is very complete,

covering all appropriate laws for digitization and digital preservation

activities. Joint recommendations include establishing laws that would

apply equally to all categories of copyrighted materials in all media

and formats. Without more even laws and policies, we risk losing print

and digital materials every day. - KC

Wilbanks, John. "[30]Public Domain, Copyright Licenses and the Freedom

to Integrate Science" [31]Journal of Science Communication

7(2)(2008)(http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/02/Jcom0702(2008)C04/). - In

this article, [32]John Wilbanks, Vice President of the [33]Science

Commons, makes a passionate plea for putting scientific databases in

the public domain. He strongly argues against the use of Creative

Commons licenses (or other "Free/Libre/Open" licenses) for this

purpose. For example, he explains the problem with licenses that

require attribution in the context of database integration and

federation, which he calls the "cascading attribution" problem: "Would

a scientist need to attribute 40,000 data depositors in the event of a

query across 40,000 data sets? How does this relate to the evolved

norms of citation within a discipline, and does the attribution

requirement indeed conflict with accepted norms in some disciplines?

Indeed, failing to give attribution to all 40,000 sources could be the

basis for a copyright infringement suit at worst, and at best, imposes

a significant transaction cost on the scientist using the data." As

"open data" moves front and center, these are issues worth carefully

thinking about. - [34]CB

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[5]Warren Cheetham, Brad Eden, Brian Rosenblum, [6]Roy Tennant

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Albrecht, Katherine. "[7]RFID Tag - You're It " [8]Scientific

American 299(3)(September 2008): 72-77.

(http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-rfid-tags-could-be-used). -

RFID tags come in a number of shapes and sizes. Libraries are using

them to track circulation, and governments are using them to track

people traveling across borders. Albrecht, the director of consumer

privacy group CASPIAN, looks at potential for abuse as RFID chips

become more ubiquitous in our society. A good article to read to be

informed of the "con" side of the privacy and security issues if you

are in discussions with your community about the possibility of using

RFID technology in your library. This article is available in the

online version of SciAm with a different title, but it doesn't include

some of the helpful explanatory graphics from the print version. - KC

Bejune, Matthew, and Jana Ronan. [9]Social Software in Libraries: SPEC

Kit 304. Washington, DC.: Association of Rearch Libraries, July

2008.(http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec304web.pdf). - Looking specifically

at ten types of applications (social networking, media sharing, social

bookmarking, wikis, blogs, rss, chat and IM, VoIP, virtual worlds, and

widgets), and with a response rate of 52% (64 out of 123 libraries),

this survey makes clear that use of social software by ARL member

libraries has rapidly increased in the last decade. Over 95% of

responding libraries report that they use some kind of social software

application, and most libraries are implementing multiple types of

applications, often integrated into larger tools. IM and chat are the

most popular type of application (59 libraries, or 94%) while VoIP is

the least used (18 libraries, 28%). Although implementation is

widespread, support models vary widely. Almost half the libraries

report that social software activities remain uncoordinated, reliant

upon the efforts of individual librarians. Most activities started as

grassroots efforts by such librarians, with only five libraries (8%)

reporting that library users requested such services. The survey does

not explore assessment in detail, but finds that perceived benefits

include enhanced visibility and communication, while challenges include

finding time to learn the tools, and developing the staff expertise

(self-study being the most common method). The executive summary of

this SPEC Kit is available free online. The full version contains over

60 examples of social software usage at responding libraries. - BR

Council on Library and Information Resources, . [10]No Brief Candle:

Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century Washington, DC:

Council on Library and Information Resources,

2008.(http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf). - This

report deals with the challenging question of how research libraries

should reinvent themselves to deal with rapidly developing digital

technologies and other thorny 21st century issues. The first part of

the report presents proceedings from a February 2008 symposium held by

the Council on Library and Information Resources to explore this topic.

It also contains recommendations derived from that symposium and from

the second part of the report, which contains essays by Paul N.

Courant, Andrew Dillon, Richard E. Luce, Stephen G. Nichols, Daphnee

Rentfrow, Abby Smith, Kate Wittenberg, and Lee L. Zia. CLIR President

Charles Henry sums it up this way: "This report demands change. Common

themes include collaboration between librarians, faculty, and

information technology experts to articulate strategies and tactical

approaches to a rapidly changing environment. This represents a broad

research agenda that cannot be executed by a single profession. We are

asked collectively to rethink current hiring practices, to provide for

new career paths and opportunities for professional development, and to

consider redefining libraries as multi-institutional entities. The

latter entails a mandate to eliminate redundancy by calibrating

resources, staff, and infrastructure functions to the collective

enterprise of the federated institutions. This transcends the

traditional concept of a library (and by extension a university or

college) while preserving the programmatic strengths and mission of the

individual schools, and in fact should enhance intellectual

productivity in a far more cost-effective fashion." - [11]CB

Farmer, Lesley S.J.. "[12]Girls and Technology: What Public Libraries

Can Do" [13]Library Hi Tech News 25(5)(June

2008)(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07419050810901915). -

Public libraries that have computers labs, offer free internet access,

IT training programs and console games that all enjoy high usage may

make the mistake of not analysing the use and effectiveness of those

programs. After all, if it ain't broke (people are using the library

and facilities are booked out) then why fix it (why waste time

analysing success)? Farmer's article is a call to public libraries to

ensure that their programs are meeting the needs of an underserved

cohort of library members -- teenage girls. Farmer's assertions that

"even in the twenty-first century, a gendered digital divide exists"and

"libraries offer a safe learning environment for girls to explore

technology" should remind public library managers, childrens' and youth

services librarians and IT librarians to ensure that their IT programs

and facilities include this important group of library members. An

easy-to-read article backed up by statistics, an outline of principles

to consider when planning IT programs, and some examples of successful

public library programs. - [14]WC

Gatenby, Janifer. "[15]The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing

Data for More Effective Management and Co-operation" [16]Ariadne

(56)(30 July 2008)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/gatenby/). - One

could argue, as Gatenby does here, that despite the fact that most

libraries have been networked for well over a decade, they have yet to

take full advantage of the opportunities to work more efficiently and

effectively. That is, some data and services that libraries need may be

more profitably maintained not at the local level by individual

libraries, but at a group or global level. In this piece Gatenby

identifies various kinds of library data and suggests ways in which it

could become more useful and valuable if we move it up into shared

spaces. She states that doing so is a crucial first step to being able

to completely re-engineer integrated library systems to function at the

network level. "It is important for libraries to own and control their

data resources; to be free to share them, provide access to them and to

expose the data," she asserts, "It is less important that the libraries

own or run the software that manipulates and manages the data." Full

disclosure: I work with Janifer Gatenby at OCLC. - [17]RT

Guy, Marieke. "[18]A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working"

[19]Ariadne (56)(June 2008)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/guy/). -

Remote working (or telecommuting) has been around almost as long as

computers, but has not been actively encouraged or taken advantage of

within libraries. The author (whose focus is on recent legislation on

this topic in the UK) provides information on the pros and cons of

remote working for both individuals and companies. Some of the benefits

include: work-life balance, higher productivity, flexibility,

environmental concerns, and reduction of overhead costs for utilities

and space. Some of the challenges include: loss of face-to-face contact

with colleagues, perceptions in-house towards those who work remotely,

morale issues, organizational and technical issues, and support from

the education and public sector. The author describes some solutions to

meet the challenges, and closes with a look at the 21st century office

of the future. The article revisits many of the challenges and

opportunities inherent with remote working, but the focus of the

article is on UK-related legislation and law, and thus may not have

applicability to efforts in this area outside of the UK. - BE

Housewright, Ross, and Roger Schonfeld. [20]Ithaka's 2006 Studies of

Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation of Higher Education New

York: Ithaka, 18 August

2008.(http://ithaka.org/publications/facultyandlibrariansurveys). - In

2006, Ithaka administered two surveys of university faculty and

librarians (targeted at collection development directors). The survey

generated 4,100 faculty responses and 350 from librarians, and resulted

in thousands of pages of data. This report distills some of the more

interesting findings and key implications from that data. Ithaka has

also posted the data at [21]ICPSR, where member institutions can access

it. It is always difficult to distill the findings of such a report

into a one-paragraph citation, so don't expect any miracles this time.

Rather, here are a few quotes to pique your interest: "An important

lesson is that the library is in many ways falling off the radar

screens of faculty." "Faculty, across disciplines and institutional

sizes, expect the importance of e-books to grow only slightly in the

future...Somewhat oddly given this low level of faculty interest in

e-books, many librarians consider the provisioning of e-books an

important role..." "It is clear that [institutional] repositories have

not become embedded in faculty workflows; in fact, many faculty are not

even aware of their existence." Much more in the full report. - [22]RT

Miller, Rebecca. "[23]Future-Proof Your Library" [24]Library Journal

(15 August 2008)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6585850.html).

- For this piece LJ emailed formerly named library "Movers and Shakers"

for "their ideas on how to ensure a vital library for the future." As

you might imagine, they got back a wide range of thoughts and ideas

that are well worth pondering. Here's a few to pique your interest.

"Future-proof librarians must be not just comfortable with change but

able to lead it." - David Lee King; "Flexibility is the key to

future-proofing -- in staffing, in budgeting, in planning. We can't

continue to do what we've always done -- we need latitude from

administrations and funding sources to take risks and be proactive and

responsive." - Jennifer Nelson; "In order for libraries to be

sustainable, we need to abandon the idea of sustainability. I believe

relevancy is the key, not sustainability. And although these two ideas

can (and do, in a way) support each other, it can be detrimental to

libraries to become too focused on trying to achieve long-term

sustainability that we miss out on remaining relevant to our

communities' current, vital (and, yes, even sometimes short-term)

needs." - Helene Blowers; "The future-proof library will encourage my

heart -- to grow, explore, learn, and experience. It will know me and

provide information I didn't even know I needed. I will experience

information in new ways, inside the library or wherever the library

happens to be: on my 'digital lifestream' device, via my home

information/entertainment devices, and via the cloud of data that will

be available to me wherever I go." - Michael Stephens - [25]RT

Pratt, Mary K.. "[26]Five Ways To Drive Your Best Workers Out the

Door" [27]Computerworld (August 25,

2008)(http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArtic

leBasic&articleId=323248). - While this article is written with the

corporate IT crowd in mind, it's also applicable for library info tech

managers. In fact, it's applicable to ANY manager. The advice here is

not anything groundbreaking, but it does provide a good reminder for us

of what we should try to avoid while managing. Particularly helpful are

the "Better Way" suggestions related to each "mistake" that could

potentially be made by a manager. Since it is so hard to find good

employees with the requisite library and IT skills in the first place,

it makes sense that we be mindful of not doing things that make people

want to leave. - [28]FC

Tonkin, Emma. "[29]Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options"

[30]Ariadne (56)(30 July

2008)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/tonkin/). - Experienced web

users know that things change, and in so doing, links can break. So the

idea of creating an identifier that can point to an object no matter

where it moves has been with us for almost as long as the web itself.

Perhaps that explains why there are so many ways it can be done, each

of which is enumerated here by Tonkin. Briefly highlighted are URN,

PURL, DOI, NBN, ARK, and OpenURL. Tonkin then discusses a number of

issues relating to this problem space: opacity; authority and

centrality; semantics, flexibility and complexity; availability and

viability; and technical solutions versus social commitment. As a

testimony to the difficulty of this problem, Tonkin concedes that

"technology cannot create a persistent identifier, in the digital

library community's sense of the term" and that this is an area "in

which there are more questions than answers." I couldn't agree more,

but perhaps after reading this paper you will have a few less questions

than before. - [31]RT

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