NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION
SEPTEMBER 2008
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.
Kerry Smith
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10 Pillars of Knowledge: Map of Human Knowledge
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From:
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On Behalf Of chaim Zins
Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2008
9:16 PM
To: asis-l@asis.org;
Euro_Student_ASIST@yahoogroups.com; eurchap; sigiii-l; sigkm-l@asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] 10 Pillars
of Knowledge: Map of Human Knowledge
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
10 Pilars of Knowledge: Map
of Human Knowledge <http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/Map/Map.html> is on the Internet at http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/Map/Map.html
Please feel free reflect.
All the best,
Chaim Zins
--
Chaim Zins, PhD.
Knowledge Mapping Research
Tel/Fax: 972-2-5816705
Email: chaim.zins@gmail.com
Homepage: www.success.co.il <http://www.success.co.il/> Knowledge
2006: Map of Human Knowledge
(http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/index.html)
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Digital Dystopia: Overcoming Digital
Deprivation in the
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Perkins lists [mailto:lists@markperkins.info]
Sent: Wednesday, 17
September 2008 5:18 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] Report:
Public libaries & 'Digital Dystopia: Overcoming Digital Deprivation in the
Carpenter, Cheris A. (2008)
Digital Dystopia: Overcoming Digital Deprivation in the
Abstract: Public libraries
serve increasingly critical roles in the knowledge society. Public libraries
currently serve integral roles in their communities through the provision of
free public Internet access. Libraries have become technology centers where
critical information services are offered to their communities. This is an
analysis of the greater potentiality public libraries possess in bridging the
'digital divide' in the
2008 study of US Broadband
Penetration and the 2007 report "Public Libraries and the Internet"
for the American Library Association (ALA) by Florida State University, which
analyzed the impact of Internet-based services by public libraries in their
communities.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014660/
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Emerald Acquires
Social Science Series, Serials and Books from Elsevier
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From: Emerald Group
Publishing Limited [mailto:literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com]
Sent: Thursday, 17 April
2008 3:52 PM
To: Kerry Smith
Subject: Emerald Acquires
Social Science Series, Serials and Books from Elsevier
Emerald Group Publishing
Limited <http://listmanager.emeraldinsight.com/t/8260/455984/51/0/>
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Dear Mrs Kerry Smith,
As you may be aware, Emerald
Group Publishing Limited has recently acquired a large proportion of Elsevier’s
Social Science book series and textbook publishing programme. Over 200 book
series and almost 300 books have been added to the Emerald portfolio, and we
are looking forward to contributing to the ongoing successful development of
all titles.
This acquisition is one of
the most significant in Emerald’s history, and strengthens our presence in many
subject fields. We also welcome the fact that the acquisition takes us into new
and exciting areas of research and practice, including Language and
Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, and Politics and Policy, to name a few.
Information about the range
of titles acquired can be found at: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/series/index.htm
<http://listmanager.emeraldinsight.com/t/8260/455984/986/0/>
. Further details will be added here in due course, along with information
about the forthcoming Emerald Bookstore.
We are currently in the
midst of integrating these many and varied titles, but will continue to update
you on progress over the coming year. There are a number of ways in which
existing Emerald Editors and contributors can get involved with this publishing
programme in the future – from proposing a new volume within an existing book
series to proposing a brand new book series, and we look forward to talking to
you about these opportunities. Please either contact your Publisher in the
first instance, or one of the Commissioning Editors below for more information:
Sarah Kennedy
(skennedy@emeraldinsight.com): Accounting and Finance, Business Law and Ethics,
Politics and Policy
Rachel Brown
(rbrown@emeraldinsight.com):
Claire Ferres
(cferres@emeraldinsight.com): Health Care, Industry and Public Sector
Management, International Business, Marketing, Operations and Logistics,
Sociology and Anthropology, Tourism and Hospitality
Diane Heath
(dheath@emeraldinsight.com): Economics, Education, Human Resource Management,
Information and Knowledge Management, Library and Information Studies
If you have any questions or
comments about the acquisition, we would be pleased to hear from you.
With best regards,
Vicky Williams
Head of Publishing
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May 2008
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From: Emerald Group
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Sent: Friday, 30 May 2008
7:51 PM
To: Kerry Smith
Subject: Emerald Library
Link Newsline - May 2008
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1. 2008 IFLA International Marketing Award
2. The accidental library manager
3. Frank Scholze wins German Library Hi Tech
Award
4. Emerald sponsors Internet Librarian
International 2008
5. First-ever issue of NLW digitized for
Emerald Backfiles
6. Emerald at
7. Exciting career opportunities at the IE
Business School
8. ALA RUSA BRASS research grant
9. Editor's choice
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Emerald sponsors 2008 IFLA
International Marketing Award
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Gold Corporate
Partner of IFLA, will be sponsoring the IFLA International Marketing Award for
the next five years. This year's winner will be chosen by the IFLA
International Marketing Award committee and will receive airfare, lodging and
registration for the 2008 IFLA General Conference and Council – which is being
held on August 10-14 in
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The accidental library
manager
Librarianship is an inherently collaborative
endeavour. This month Rachel Singer Gordon gives Library Link readers essential
advice on how to successfully manage the web of relationships in which every
library manager finds him or herself.
Check out Managing
relationships <http://info.emeraldinsight.com/librarians/management/accidental/accidental_5.htm>
, instalment 5 of our "Accidental library manager " column
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Frank Scholze wins German
Library Hi Tech Award
Emerald is pleased to inform our readers that
Frank Scholze has won the first German Library Hi Tech Award. Selected by a
jury of experts for his role in developing OPUS, the German Repository Platform
deployed by more than 50 HE libraries in Germany, he will receive the €600
prize from the hands of Barbara Lison, President of BID (Bibliothek Information
Deutschland), and Prof Dr Michael Seadle, Editor of Library Hi Tech <http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=lht> and Director of the Institute of Library and
Information Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin.
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Emerald sponsors Internet
Librarian International 2008
Emerald is pleased to report that it will be a
sponsor of Internet Librarian International 2008 which takes place at Novotel
London West,
View Conference home page
<http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.shtml>
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First-ever issue of New
Library World digitized for Emerald Backfiles
Working with the British Library, more than
50,000 articles from over 120 journals have been processed into PDF format and
made available electronically for the very first time. Many of Emerald’s titles
began as far back as the 1800s, and we are delighted to offer our readers a
sneak preview of the very first issue of New Library World which was published
in 1898.
View the first ever edition
of New Library World <http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/news_story.htm?id=33>
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Emerald at
Once again, Emerald is proud to be involved in
the American Library Association's Annual Conference <http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/home.cfm>
. Emerald will be sponsoring numerous activities at the event in
* Donation of plaque and $3,000 to the winner of the Ilene F
Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award <http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlawards/publicationyear.cfm>
.
* Meet the editor sessions.
* Sponsorship of the reception at Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen
from 18.00-22.30 on Saturday 28 June.
* Presentation of best paper awards.
Conference details <http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/home.cfm>
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Exciting career
opportunities at the IE Business School
The Instituto de Empresa Business School <http://www.ie.edu/business/index_en.php>
, located in central Madrid, boasting students from over 70 countries on its
Master, Doctorate and Executive Education programmes, is now inviting
applications for the roles of IE University Library Director and Library
Assistant on Foundation IE Business School Library.
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apply <http://info.emeraldinsight.com/librarians/info/features/empresa.htm>
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Emerald to continue the ALA
RUSA BRASS research grant for a further two years
Emerald is delighted to continue its
sponsorship of the ALA RUSA BRASS research grant for at least another 2 years.
2008 is the second year that Emerald Group Publishing Limited has donated two
$5,000 cash awards to
More information <http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/brass/brass.cfm>
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Editor's choice
The notion of collaboratory is still new to
the LIS field. This paper offers the opportunity to trigger a new discussion on
collaboration between researchers and practitioners, and the potential of
collaboratories to support new forms of collaboration (from Library Management,
Vol. 29 No. 4/5).
<http://info.emeraldinsight.com/librarians/index.htm>
A LIS collaboratory to bridge the research-practice gap <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01435120810869066>
Kind regards,
Lynn Thorley
Library Link Editor
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Emerging Issues in Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Cole [mailto:amy.cole@researchandmarkets.com]
Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008
6:18 AM
To: Kerry Smith
Subject: Emerging Issues in
Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services
I enclose details of our
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Technical Services
This report presents nine
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new technologies and enhancement of online catalogs; transition to metadata
standards; cataloging of websites and digital and other special collections;
library catalog and metadata training; database maintenance, holdings, and
physical processing; relationship with Acquisitions; staff education; and other
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Survey participants
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-----Original Message-----
From: McGarry, Dorothy [mailto:dmcgarry@library.ucla.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2008
10:52 PM
To: Science-Technology
Division
Subject: FW: Full draft of
RDA delayed
for your information,
Dorothy
________________________________
For information:
The Co-Publishers of RDA
Online (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and
the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have reached
the conclusion that further time is required to complete the development of the
new software that will be used for distributing the full draft of RDA for
constituency review.
The full draft was
originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008. Instead, it will now be
issued in October 2008. The three month time period allocated for comments on
the full draft is unchanged, and in this new schedule will extend from October
into January
2009. More specific dates for RDA's final release
will be
forthcoming shortly.
Members of the Committee of
Principals (CoP) and the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC)
agree that the importance of distributing RDA content in a well-developed and
tested version of the new software is such that a two-month delay is justified.
They concluded that this extension is worthwhile given the ultimate value of
the exceptional effort that is going into RDA and feel that the review by
constituencies will be enhanced as a result.
Nathalie Schulz
Secretary, JSC
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Global information inequalities: Bridging
the information gap
-----Original Message-----
From: Hermina Anghelescu [mailto:ag7662@wayne.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 25 September
2008 8:25 AM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Cc: 'Magda Bouwens'
Subject: [IFLA-L] New Book
Listed in Amazon: Global Information Inequalities: Bridging the Information Gap
New Book Announcement:
Charbonneau, Deborah H.
(Ed.). (2008). Global information inequalities: Bridging the information gap.
Description:
The disparity in access to
information is a worldwide phenomenon. Global Information Inequalities offers a
captivating look into problems of information access across the world today.
One of the unique strengths of the book is the use of examples of library
initiatives from around the world to illustrate the range of possibilities for
equitable access and library service delivery in a global context. It contains
numerous examples of a wide variety of information problems and solutions
ranging from developing literacy programs in rural communities in
Additional information is
available from the publisher’s web site:
http://www.chandospublishing.com/chandos_publishing_catalogue_search_booklist_results.php?ID=182
Alternatively, the link on Amazon.com
is:
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GreyNet
Award Recipient 2008 - Anne
Gentil-Beccot, CERN
-----Original Message-----
From: GreyNet [mailto:info@greynet.org]
Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008
6:41 PM
To: GreyNet
Subject: GreyNet Award
Recipient 2008 - Anne Gentil-Beccot, CERN
Anne Gentil-Beccot (CERN) is
the GreyNet Award Recipient 2008
Anne Gentil-Beccot, CERN -
European Organization for Nuclear Research is the GreyNet Award Recipient 2008.
This award is in recognition for her contribution to the field of grey
literature over the past year. Nominations for the GreyNet Award are based on
(1) Results from the GL9 Participant Evaluation Forms, (2) Publication of the
author's full-text paper in the GL9 Conference Proceedings, (3) Selection and
publication of the author's conference paper as a journal article, whereby
research results originating in the GL-Conference Series are exported and
become accessible via other channels, (4) Prior history of the author and her
organization on the topic of grey literature, and (5) Willingness to attend the
GreyNet Award Dinner in order to personally receive the honor.
This year's GreyNet Award
Dinner will take place on December 7th 2008 in
GreyNet
Grey Literature Network
Service
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1095 CP
The
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GreyNet via OpenSIGLE, an example of enriched publication
-----Original Message-----
From: GreyNet [mailto:info@greynet.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 June
2008 6:25 PM
To: GreyNet
Subject: GreyNet via
OpenSIGLE, an example of enriched publication
GreyNet's Metadata records
in OpenSIGLE offer a prime example of enriched publication
Along with the metadata in
GreyNet records, net-users now have access to the authors' biographical notes,
abstracts of papers as well as the full-text and accompanying PowerPoints.
GreyNet's collection of conference based research in now in the process of
migrating to the OpenSIGLE Repository http://opensigle.inist.fr/.
And, to date, the following sub-collections are online available:
GL7 - Seventh International
Conference on Grey Literature (2005)
http://opensigle.inist.fr/handle/10068/697757
GL8 - Eighth International
Conference on Grey Literature (2006)
http://opensigle.inist.fr/handle/10068/697758
GreyNet
Grey Literature Network
Service
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP
T/F +31-(0)20 331 2420
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Handbook of Research on Threat Management
and Information Security: Models for Countering Attacks, Breaches and
Intrusions
Call
for Chapter Proposal
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From:
asis-l-bounces@asis.org [mailto:asis-l-bounces@asis.org]
On Behalf Of Pit Pichappan
Sent: Saturday, 31 May 2008
8:05 PM
To: Asis-l@asis.org
Cc: Sigdl-l@asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] Handbook
on Information Security
Call for Chapter Proposal
Handbook of Research on
Threat Management and Information Security: Models for Countering Attacks,
Breaches and Intrusions.
Publishers: IGI Global -
(Disseminator of Knowledge Since 1988) (formerly "Idea Group Inc.")
701 E. Chocolate Avenue.,
Increasingly, the global
society is adapting to the computerized information systems for all data and
information transactions. People tend to store all their personal, business and
public information on the web for enhanced storage, search and access. While
society relies on web and computerized information storage, attackers misuse
the technology and secure the sensitive information. To prevent such attacks,
information security researchers have developed mechanisms and technology to
protect data loss and intrusion. Intrusion and prevention are on-going
processes and technology development reflects upon these operations. Users need
to understand the data protection mechanisms comprehensively. Comprehensive
knowledge on information security is required not only for researchers and
practitioners, but also for policy makers, system managers, owners and
administrators.
The process of building and
imparting information security knowledge is possible through the creation of a
comprehensive collection of research on the topic.. Unfortunately, such a
collection of research on security does not exist. The forthcoming handbook on
Information Security will address significant issues in the field.
Submission and Review
Process
Researchers and
practitioners are invited to submit a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly
explaining the objective and concerns of the proposed chapter on or before May
20. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters should be
about 8,000-10,000 words in length and expected to be submitted by September
30, 2008.
All chapters will be subject
to a double-blind peer review process.
The proposed handbook would
address the following titles, but not limited.
Access Control
Accounting and Audit
Anonymity and Pseudonymity
Applied Cryptography
Application Security
Attacks and Prevention of
Online Fraud
Authentication and
Non-repudiation
Biometrics
Computer crimes
Content dependant access
control
Cryptographic Protocols and
Functions
Cyber attacks
Database Security
Data-loss prevention
Design and Analysis of
Cryptographic Algorithms Digital Certificates Digital Rights Management
Economics of Security and Privacy Email Security Encryption standards Firewall
Management Formal Methods in Security Foundations of Computer Security GSM/3G
Devices Identity and Trust Management Image-based spams Information Hiding and
Watermarking Infrastructure Security Information Phising Information Security
Training Insiders Threat Management Intrusion Detection, Tolerance and
Prevention
Network and Wireless Network
Security
Peer-to-Peer Network
Security
PKI and PMI
Private Searches
Instant Message Security
Integrated Trust Management
Malware
Patch Management
Risk Management
Role Based Access Control
Models
Security Audit
Security and Ontology
Security Architectures
Security Intelligence
Security and Privacy in
Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security in Information Flow Security for Mobile
Code Security of Grid Computing Security of eCommerce, eBusiness and
eGovernment Security Toolkit Security Modeling and Architectures Security
Models for Ambient Intelligence environments Security Policies and Standards
Spyware SSL Technology Storage Security Trusted Computing Usable Security Virus
Protection Vulnerability Assessment Management Wireless network security
Submission at
Important Dates
Submission of Proposals: 10 June 2008
Selection of Proposals: 25 June 2008
Preliminary review and revision: 10 July
2008 Second Review and Revision: 1 Aug
2008
Camera ready chapters: 15 Oct 2008
Editor: Pit Pichappan
Faculty of Computer and
Information Sciences Al Imam Saad Bin University
Email: ppichappan@gmail.com
, pichappan@dirf.org
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Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis
-----Original Message-----
From:
isef-bounces@listserv.csu.edu.au [mailto:isef-bounces@listserv.csu.edu.au]
On Behalf Of Amanda Spink
Sent: Saturday, 13 September
2008 8:56 AM
To: isef@listserv.csu.edu.au
Subject: [Isef] New
Publication - Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis
Handbook of Research on Web
Log Analysis
ISBN: 978-1-59904-974-8; 628
pp; September 2008 Published under the imprint Information Science Reference
(formerly Idea Group Reference)
http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=8282
Edited by: Bernard J.
Jansen, The
DESCRIPTION
Whether searching, shopping,
or socializing, Web users leave behind a great deal of data revealing their
information needs, mindset, and approaches used, creating vast opportunities
for Web service providers as well as a host of security and privacy concerns
for consumers.
The Handbook of Research on
Web Log Analysis reflects on the multifaceted themes of Web use and presents
various approaches to log analysis. This expansive collection reviews the
history of Web log analysis and examines new trends including the issues of
privacy, social interaction and community building. Over 20 research
contributions from 44 international experts comprehensively cover the latest
user-behavior analytic and log analysis methodologies, and consider new
research directions and novel applications. An essential holding for library
reference collections, this Handbook of Research will benefit academics,
researchers, and students in a variety of fields, as well as technology
professionals interested in the opportunities and challenges presented by the
massive collection of Web usage data.
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"This book reflects on
the multifaceted themes of Web use and presents various approaches to log
analysis".
-Bernard J. Jansen,
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TOPICS COVERED
Adaptive dialogue-driven
search
Connector Web site
Dynamic Web pages
customization
Interaction design
Machine learning approach
Query log analysis
Search log analysis
Search query classification
Search query logs
Transaction log analysis
Very-scale conversation
Web analytics
Web information seeking
behavior
Web log analysis
Web log privacy
Web logging data
Web sites
Web usage studies
Web-traffic measurement
For more information about
Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis, you can view the title information
sheet at http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/pdf/8282.pdf.
To view the Table of Contents and a complete list of contributors online go to http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=8282.
You can also view the first chapter of the publication at http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/excerpts/8282.pdf.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Bernard J. Jansen is an
assistant professor in the
Amanda Spink is Professor in
the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of
Technology. Her research includes studies in information science, information
behavior, cognitive information retrieval; Web retrieval, including relevance,
feedback and multitasking models. Professor Amanda Spink has published over 330
journal articles, refereed conference papers and book chapters, and 5 books.
She is a member of numerous journal editorial boards including: Information
Processing and Management, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information
Systems Education and Webology.
Isak Taksa is an associate
professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at
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Amanda Spink
Professor of Information
Technology
Faculty of Information
Technology
Gardens Point Campus,
Tel: 61-7-3138-9583 Fax:
61-7-3864-2703
Email: ah.spink@qut.edu.au
Homepage: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/
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Identifying Factors of Success in CIC
Institutional Repository Development
-----Original Message-----
From: Open Lib/Info Sci
Education Forum [mailto:JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]
On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
Sent: Monday, 22 September
2008 6:09 AM
To: JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: A Mellon report on
university libraries and institutional repositories
Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C.
Teffeau, and Mark P. Newton. Identifying Factors of Success in CIC
Institutional Repository Development. August 2008.
"As an evolving part of
the profession of librarianship, institutional repository development is still
in the process of establishing guiding principles and best practices. There is
no one path to follow and few established cases from which to learn about development
options and risks. This case study presents a close examination of the
approaches taken at three university libraries, comparing choices, strategies,
and conditions driving development activities."
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
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World Report Series 2007
-----Original Message-----
From: Magda Bouwens [mailto:Magda.Bouwens@IFLA.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2008
3:25 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] IFLA/FAIFE
World Report Series 2007 now available online
IFLA/FAIFE World Report
Series 2007 now available online
Volume 7 of the IFLA/FAIFE
World Report Series - Access to libraries and information: Towards a fairer
world - provides a world perspective on several issues regarding freedom of
expression and freedom of access to information.
The IFLA/FAIFE World Report
Series is unique. It is the only source that provides an overview of how
libraries around the world are tackling barriers to freedom of access to
information and freedom of expression. Its systematic data collection process
expands upon previous reports and enables comparison over time. The 2007
edition contains 116 country reports, based on questionnaires and additional
research carried out by the Department of Information Science at the University
of Pretoria, which provide current details on library statistics; Internet access
in libraries and the digital divide; filtering and blocking of online
information; user privacy and anti-terror legislation; violations of
intellectual freedom; access to HIV/AIDS information; women and freedom of
access to information; library codes of ethics, the IFLA Internet Manifesto and
the Glasgow Declaration.
The 2007 World Report shows
that the digital divide is still a serious reality that needs to be tackled by
library communities worldwide in the years to come. Significant inequalities in
Internet access exist across the international library community which are
often exacerbated by the increasing use of filtering software to protect
children and safeguard public morality and religious values. The 2007 World
Report shows that in many of IFLA’s member countries, intellectual freedom is
still very much under pressure, leaving library users unable to fully express
their rights to freedom of access to information.
In addition to the global
survey, the report contains the following articles:
* Archie L. Dick, From censorship to freedom of access to
information and freedom of expression in
* Irina Trushina, Corruption and transparency in
* Barbara M. Jones, The
* Kamel Labidi, Censorship in Arab countries
* Jane Duncan, On libraries and intellectual self-defense
* Ethel Kriger, The interrelated roles of archival and right of
access to information legislation to promote democratic government in
The IFLA/FAIFE World Report
2007 is an extensive 480-page document that updates previous World Reports from
2001, 2003 and 2005. Taken together with summary reports in 2002, 2004 and
2006, it is the seventh volume in the IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series.
Volume 7 of the IFLA/FAIFE
World Report Series, Access to libraries and information: Towards a fairer
world, is now available in PDF format for free on the IFLA website at: http://www.ifla.org/faife/report/world_report_2007.htm
The Report is also available
in a limited print run at a price of 25 Euro for IFLA members and 30 Euro for
non-IFLA members. To order a hard copy, please contact: publications@ifla.org
Theo JD Bothma (Ed). Access
to libraries and information: Towards a fairer world. IFLA/FAIFE World Report
2007- World Report Series VII
The IFLA World Report Series
is developed thanks to assistance provided by the Swedish International
Development Co-operation Agency <http://www.sida.se/sida/jsp/sida.jsp?d=121&language=en_US> (Sida)
480 pages
€ 30 (Non-IFLA members)
€ 25 (Special price for IFLA
members)
North Americans can order a
paper copy on demand – please contact
stuart.hamilton@ifla.org for more details
ISBN: 978-0-620-41005-2
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-----Original Message-----
From: Theo Bothma [mailto:theo.bothma@up.ac.za]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
6:18 PM
To: i.m.johnson@rgu.ac.uk;
ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Cc: 'Gary Gorman'
Subject: RE: [IFLA-L] RE:
IFLA/FAIFE World Report - the missing bits?
Thanks, Ian. We’ll
definitely suggest such an addition for the next report. However, I assume the
powers that be at IFLA and FAIFE have already taken note of this through these
discussions on the listserver. :-)
I agree with
Fortunately there are quite
a number of positive things in the report as well – i.a. how many libraries are
providing special services to women, to illiterate members of communities,
HIV/AIDS information, etc. and the innovative ways that they are doing this.
And the ethics issues are also quite positive.
However, I don’t think we
can get away from the reality that there are many issues addressed in the
report that are very worrisome.
Regards
Theo
________________________________
From: i.m.johnson@rgu.ac.uk
[mailto:i.m.johnson@rgu.ac.uk]
Sent: 21 May 2008 11:55 AM
To: theo.bothma@up.ac.za;
ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Cc: Gary.Gorman@vuw.ac.nz
Subject: RE: [IFLA-L] RE:
IFLA/FAIFE World Report - the missing bits?
Dear Theo,
I agree that the negative
tone could be seen as a wake up call, but various other agencies have been
complaining about press freedom for years and visible results have been slow to
emerge from their efforts. That's not to
say that IFLA shouldn't add its own weight to the debate. I'm simply suggesting that we need to keep an
eye another aspect of this issue - and one that is fairly central to those in
our profession who are concerned with records management.
However it is manipulated
(and our MPs in Britain recently made an unsuccesful attempt to have the revelation
of their embarassing expenses excluded from publication under the FoI
legislation that they had happily enacted only a few years ago), the existence
of Freedom of Information legislation must be seen as a step forward, and worth
monitoring.
Ian
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From: Theo Bothma [mailto:theo.bothma@up.ac.za]
Sent: 20 May 2008 14:56
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] RE:
IFLA/FAIFE World Report - the missing bits?
Dear Ian,
Thanks for your comments!
The existence or
non-existence of Freedom of Information legislation was not one of the
questions asked for the 2007 WR. We did, however, ask whether there were any
(anti-terror) legislation that had an impact on freedom of access to
information and freedom of expression – see question 6 of the questionnaire (as
in 2005). We also asked whether there were any incidents that adversely affect
freedom of access to information or freedom of expression. In both cases we
asked respondents to provide examples and details. Only a few respondents gave
details of new or updated anti-terror legislation in the past two years and
very few provided any examples of incidents that occurred. We therefore did not
specifically ask whether countries had legislation that guaranteed freedom of
information etc., but this could be a good question to include in the next
questionnaire. We did nevertheless provide such details where respondents
“volunteered” the information as part of their comments.
We depended to a very large
extent on what the respondents provided – if they did not provide details on
existing laws or new developments we did not follow up on the issues. As
indicated on a number of occasions in the report many respondents did not
provide very much detail. It simply wasn't our brief to scrutinize all laws of
all countries that participated in the report to find out what their
information-related laws were, and it was not feasible within the constraints
of time and funding.
In addition, the process was
completely transparent. The questionnaire was submitted to both IFLA and
members of the FAIFE Committee. Both the FAIFE Committee and the respondents
were requested to provide feedback on the draft country reports, as indicated
in the Methodology, and we incorporated all relevant feedback that we received.
I agree that there are quite
a number of negative issues mentioned in the conclusions – but most of these
are serious issues that IFLA should seriously consider following up. However,
many positive issues are also mentioned in both individual country reports and
in the conclusions.
Maybe the “rather negative
overall tone” could be seen as a wake-up call?
Regards
Theo Bothma and the Research
Team
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From: i.m.johnson@rgu.ac.uk
[mailto:i.m.johnson@rgu.ac.uk]
Sent: 20 May 2008 12:46 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: RE: IFLA/FAIFE
World Report - the missing bits?
I may have missed this in a
quick glance at the entries for the
I always thought that FAIFE
was about Free Access to Information, and the rather negative overall tone of
the country report surveys is disappointing.
It might be interesting to monitor the positive side of the scorecard as
well as the negative, even though (or perhaps because) looking at the use of
FoI might reveal a few more constraints on free access.
Professor Ian M. Johnson,
Department of Information
Management,
The
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No 131 - Information
Literacy – International Perspectives
-----Original Message-----
From: Sjoerd Koopman [mailto:Sjoerd.Koopman@IFLA.nl]
Sent: Friday, 16 May 2008
4:37 PM
To: IFLA-L
Subject: [IFLA-L] New IFLA
Publication on Information Literacy
New IFLA Publication on
Information Literacy
Just off the press:
Information Literacy – International Perspectives as Nr 131 in the IFLA
Publications Series.
This book provides a
comprehensive update on the status of information literacy activities around
the world, particularly from countries where no related literature has been
published in English.
In these collected papers,
ranging from the practical to the theoretical, knowledgeable librarians report
on their efforts to establish and develop information literacy programmes.
A tool for evaluating all
forms of information literacy, this publication is a must-read for anyone who
shares an interest in this field.
Information Literacy:
International Perspectives
Edited by Jesús Lau
ISBN 978-3-598-22037-1
Price: EUR 78,00 (EUR 58,00
for IFLA Members)
Order:
K. G. Saur Verlag: www.saur.de <http://www.saur.de/>
or Rhenus Medien Logistik GmbH & Co. KG Justus-von-Liebig-Straße 1
86899
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No. 132 – Managing
Technologies and Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source
vs. Commercial Options
-----Original Message-----
From: Sjoerd Koopman [mailto:Sjoerd.Koopman@IFLA.nl]
Sent: Friday, 16 May 2008
4:42 PM
To: IFLA-L
Subject: [IFLA-L] New IFLA
Publication on technologies and automated library systems in developing
countries
New IFLA Publication on
technologies and automated library systems in developing countries
Just off the press as Nr 132
in the IFLA Publications Series:
Managing Technologies and
Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source vs. Commercial
Options =
Le management des technologies et des systèmes automatisés de bibliothèques
dans les pays en developpement: logiciels libres vs options commerciales
Proceedings of / Actes du
IFLA meeting / colloque IFLA –
The theme of this meeting
was the management of technologies and library automated systems in the context
of developing countries, and in the light of recent developments concerning
especially open source software and applications. Speakers from various
countries debated in English and in French over the importance of changing the
rules concerning library management systems, as well as related implications.
Results show that open source software might be a solution, although some
conditions apply.
Réunis sous le thème de la gestion des systèmes automatisés de
bibliothèques dans les pays en développement, conférenciers et participants
discutèrent des changements récents dans ce domaine, notamment de l’apport des
logiciels à code source ouvert. Les conférenciers, provenant de différents
pays, présentèrent en anglais et en français leurs différents points de vue et
expériences sur cette question importante pour l’avenir, de même que sur les
implications qui y sont liées. Les
résultats démontrent que les logiciels à code source ouverts peuvent être une
solution, mais à certaines conditions.
Managing Technologies and
Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source vs. Commercial
Options. Proceedings of the IFLA Meeting at Dakar, Senegal, August
15-16, 2007
=
Le management des technologies et des systèmes automatisés de bibliothèques
dans les pays en developpement: logiciels libres vs options commerciales.
Actes du colloque IFLA à Dakar, Sénégal, 15-16 août 2007
Edited by / Edité par
Bernard Dione and/et Réjean Savard
ISBN 978-3-598-22038-8
Price: EUR 78,00 (EUR 58,00
for IFLA Members)
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Special Interest
Group - International Relations in National Organisations
-----Original Message-----
From: Moore Kelly [mailto:Kelly.Moore@lac-bac.gc.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 June
2008 1:26 AM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] New IFLA
Special Interest Group - International Relations in National Organisations
(with apologies for
cross-posting)
International Relations in
National Organisations
Do you work in a national-level
organisation (institution or association) and have responsibilities for
managing international relations? Do you
want to help build an international network of colleagues who work on similar
issues? If so, you are encouraged to
attend a meeting to establish a new Special Interest Group (SIG) for IFLA. The meeting will take place at the upcoming
IFLA Congress in
Many national libraries and
national associations are actively engaged in a variety of international
activities. Each organisation manages
these activities in different ways. As
more organisations become involved in an increasing number of international
roles, there is an opportunity for the individuals who coordinate these
activities to work together and learn from each other.
The International Relations
in National Organisations SIG will bring together expertise on topics such
as: developing institutional strategies
and policies to guide international activities; understanding protocol and
coordinating visits from foreign delegations; hosting international events;
managing international partnerships and collaborations; determining how best to
share organisational knowledge and expertise with peers in the international
community.
The Group will provide a
forum for investigating how different organisations manage their international
affairs and for exchanging expertise and experience. The hope is that those organisations with
well-established international relations offices will share with and assist
those who are in development or just getting started.
The first meeting of the
Group will take place on Tuesday 12 August, 13.45-15.45 – please check the IFLA
Congress Final Programme for the room location.
There will be no formal presentations; this will be an open forum for
discussion. So come prepared to share
your ideas!
I hope to see many of you in
Kelly Moore
Special Projects Officer / Agent de projets spéciaux
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada 550 boul de
la Cité Gatineau QC K1A 0N4 Canada
tel: +1-819-934-5720
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Images of
-----Original Message-----
From: Krystyna Matusiak [mailto:kkm@uwm.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 17
September 2008 11:52 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] Announcing
a New Digital Collection: Images of
Hello,
Please excuse cross-posting
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and *the American Geographical Society Library
*are pleased to announce the launch of a new digital collection: Images of
Russia and the Caucasus Region
1929-1933 at: http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/georgia/index.html
This digital collection
presents over 700 images of
The photographs, taken by
William O. Field in the late 1920s and early 1930s, are housed at the American
Geographical Society Library. The photographic collection is supplemented by
Field's diaries and travel notes, and a selection of maps of the
The timing of our launch is
really coincidental, since we’ve been working on this project for almost two
years, but in an interesting cross of libraries and politics, a team of
librarians from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries happened to be
Comments, questions, and
feedback are welcome.
Thank you
--
Krystyna K. Matusiak
Digital Collections
Librarian
Digitization Unit, UWM
Libraries
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ph. 414-229-2214
E-mail: kkm@uwm.edu
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Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0
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Colleagues/
New Book: _Information
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_Information Literacy Meets
Library 2.0_ / Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, editors
Web 2.0 technologies have
been seen by many information professionals as critical to the future
development of library services. This has led to the use of the term Library
2.0 to denote the kind of service that is envisaged. There has been
considerable debate about what Library 2.0 might encompass, but, in the context
of information literacy, it can be described as the application of interactive,
collaborative, and multimedia technologies to web-based library services and
collections.
[snip]
This edited collection from
an international team of experts provides a practically-based overview of
emerging Library 2.0 tools and technologies for information literacy
practitioners; addresses the impact of the adoption of these technologies on
information literacy teaching; provides case study exemplars for practitioners
to help inform their practice; and examines the implications of Library 2.0 for
the training of information literacy professionals.
Key topics include:
School Library 2.0: new
skills and knowledge for the future Information literacy, Web 2.0 and public
libraries The blog as an assessment tool Using Wikipedia to eavesdrop on the
scholarly conversation Information literacy and RSS feeds Library instruction
on the go: podcasting Sparking Flickrs of insight into controlled vocabularies
and subject searching Joining the YouTube conversation to teach information
literacy Going beyond Google Teaching information literacy through digital
games
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Steve Cissler
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Subject: Steve Cissler, RIP
For those who haven't seen
it, a particularly good post over at Nettime, on Steve Cissler, possibly one of
the first "digital" librarians, from a post by Dave Pescovitz: "Steve Cisler, the quintessential
"digital librarian," died last week of cancer. Steve was a pioneer in
the kinds of information retrieval, virtual communities, and global knowledge
sharing that have become the platforms of today's Web."
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Steve Cisler passed away on
Thursday 15 May, from a medical condition he'd known about for several years,
which had worsened over the last several months. His wife, Nancy, said that he
was with his entire family -- which had grown in the last few years -- and that
he was relaxed and accepting as his health faded.
Steve spent much of his life
in what's become
These interests led Steve
into the delicate, nebulous field of community networking. At its best, it was
guided by the some of the fine ideals that shaped the rise of computing:
mainly, the hope that new technologies could enable organic forms of social
mobility. Though he'd probably chuckle at the idea that he was a pioneer, he
was -- of the kinds of values and approaches that, happily, have become
familiar as "appropriate" and "sustainable."
It seems strange to say so,
but I don't think Steve was an idealist. There were only a few times that I
ever saw a hint of tragedy in his thinking.
For example, I remember him
talking pointedly about how new forms of media were driving misdirected
urbanization as people (especially the young), led by grotesquely glamorized
images of urban life, conclude that rural life is "intolerable" and
abandon it. But dystopian trends lay far beyond any difference he could hope to
make, so he mostly reserved his skepticism for community-oriented projects and
initiatives that had gone awry. When he talked about them, it was with a hint
of frustration -- and patience for the people who he felt had lost their way.
He usually balanced that out by talking about what he loved most, idiosyncratic
projects and settings where people had pieced together new and old techniques
and technologies in engaging and creative ways. But these weren't ideals, they
were examples.
If anything, Steve was a
pragmatist.
A few years ago, I joked to
a friend that Steve was a "walking Wikipedia":
not a heroic project to
redefine knowledge but an endless reservoir of impressions and observations. But it wasn't really a joke.
Steve had an amazing range of experience from his work across several continents,
much of it in developing areas (very much including the rural US). He thought
very intently about what he'd seen and heard, and he appreciated most of all
the idiosyncratic people and settings that triumphalism and transformationalism
have no time for. Given the context that defined much of his life -- the rise
of networks small and large -- his ways of working had a quietly contrary or
even polemical side; but he won't be remembered for that. Everything he said
took a very genial form -- a friendly chat about some friendly chat he once
had. Stories -- hearing them, telling them, it didn't matter -- were a big part
of what he did and how he did it:
informing, guiding,
encouraging. If "small is beautiful" is a cliche, then he was a
walking cliche; but it isn't, and he wasn't.
For all his stories, though,
he never seemed to present his own life in a narrative form, so there are a few
odd things I know about him, but I don't know where or how they fit in. At some
point and in a surprisingly early context, he advocated to Native American
tribal elders that they develop a ".ind" top-level domain -- a
hilarious idea that could have had enormous impact. He worked as a librarian
for Apple's speculative Advanced Technology Group, which did incredible work --
various QuickTime technologies, HyperCard, and advanced in speech recognition
and synthesis as well as handwriting-recognition software).
As a young man, he served in
the US Coast Guard; I think it must have whetted his appetite for travel, and
showed him a world that, in an age of airlines and the internet, fewer and
fewer see -- of disparate small worlds joined by the sea they share. And he
enjoyed traveling around the western US; I think those landscapes also shaped
his view of the world -- expanses where you see how small you are, how small
everything is, and how immense the sum of it all is. In the last years,
somewhere between few and several, he'd taken to bringing an inflatable kayak
when he traveled to conferences and paddling around cities all over the world.
Steve's involvement in
nettime dates back to a time when the list was still a family of sorts, and one
that he enjoyed very much. His involvement in the list tapered off around the
Next 5 Minutes 4 conference as his interest turned to what eventually became
his last major endeavor, the Offline
Project: an effort to
understand why, or maybe how, many people and organizations "that are not
directly using the Internet to learn about them and how they cope in a world
that is increasingly interconnected." I won't pretend to know in any
detail what he learned through his research, but two things he told me have
stayed with me. First, that many people have positive reasons for living as
they like, with no regard for the clatter of technical advance; and, second,
when he stopped using email and the like, how quickly many of his connections
and friendships dissipated. For someone who dedicated much of his life to
community networking in remote areas, this fragility must have said a lot --
but I don't know what, because he never elaborated on it.
Beyond years of emails,
which now seem strangely immaterial coming from such a material guy, I have a
surprising number of physical objects he's given me over the years: a few
bottles of wine he made with family and friends, some seeds for some curious
local kind of squash, a vanilla bean (from Uganda, I think), and a few recipes
-- for a West African stew and a ciabatta that turned out really well. These
came over a period of several years, simple gifts of whatever was at hand, but
together they say a lot about who he was and how he lived.
I was lucky to be able to
get together with him a few times a year. In times past, that, and a bit of
correspondence, would have made for a normal friendship; but in a time when communicating
is so much quicker and easier, it seems like very little.
I'll miss Steve very much.
Steve's friends were very
far-flung, so feel free to forward this. If anyone sends me messages about
Steve, I'll assemble them and make sure they end up in the right place.
Ted
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From:
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On Behalf Of Richard Hill
Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008
2:45 AM
To: asis-l@asis.org;
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Subject: [Asis-l] Homer
Hall, 1911 - 2008
We have just received word
that Homer J. Hall passed away at age 96 in
The family-provided notice
will be posted on the web site, but in briefly and ASIS&T-centric, Homer
was a research chemist and information scientist.
His PhD in Chemistry came in
1935 from
Over the recent years Homer
served on ASIS&T committees on Awards and Honors, Constitution and Bylaws,
Leadership, Planning, and Professionalism.
He was an officer for SIG
Information Analysis and Evaluation.
In lieu of flowers,
contributions may be made to Amnesty International USA,
5 Penn Plaza, 16th Floor,
Dick Hill
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On Behalf Of Richard Hill
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Subject: [Asis-l] Sandra
Tung passed away
Sandra Tung
The library community lost a
great contributor and professional last week.
Sandra Tung, a former
Previously she worked at
Rockwell, Savage Information Services and
Sandra was a long time
member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Information
Science and Technology (LACASIS). During
the 1980's, she played a major role in making LACASIS a stronger, more vibrant
organization. Sandra, a talented leader
with a "can do attitude", was a natural mentor. She understood the value of working with new
members to insure the next generation of leaders would be strong. She was active in LACASIS for over 15 years
and served as Treasurer, 1992-1995; Marketing/Database Coordinator, 1995-97;
Program Committee member 1995-96; and Awards Committee Member 1997-99. In 1994 she was recognized for her service
and won the Outstanding Member Award.
One of Sandra's legacies is
the continuing success of LACASIS as a professional organization. She will always be remembered as a LACASIS
"super star".
Sandra was also very active
in the Southern California Online Users Group
(SCOUG) Steering Committee,
where she somehow found time to serve as the Chair, Program Chair, Annual
Retreat Coordinator and Annual Workshop Chair.
She was also a member of the
Special Libraries Association (SLA).
Sandra was a multi-talented,
warm woman who will be missed by many.
She is survived by her children Doug, Diana and Irene, three grandchildren
and a loving extended family.
Donations may be made in her
name to San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity 770 N. Fair Oaks,
_____
Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for
Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring,
MD 20910
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Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments
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On Behalf Of Elizabeth Myers
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11:17 PM
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Subject: [Asis-l]
Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments
Introducing the latest
release from IGI Global:
Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments
ISBN: 978-1-59904-240-4; 379
pp; April 2008 Published under the imprint IGI Publishing
http://www.igi-global.com/books/details.asp?id=7642
Authored by: Iris Xie;
DESCRIPTION
The emergence of the Internet
allows millions of people to use a variety of electronic information retrieval
systems, such as: digital libraries, Web search engines, online databases, and
online public access catalogs. Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital
Environments provides theoretical framework in understanding the nature of
information retrieval, and offers implications for the design and evolution of
interactive information retrieval systems.
Interactive Information
Retrieval in Digital Environments includes the integration of existing
frameworks on user-oriented information retrieval systems across multiple
disciplines; the comprehensive review of empirical studies of interactive
information retrieval systems for different types of users, tasks, and
subtasks; and the discussion of how to evaluate interactive information
retrieval systems. Researchers, designers, teachers, scholars, and
professionals will gain the foundation for new research on this subject matter,
and guidance to evaluate new information retrieval systems for the general
public as well as for specific user groups.
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“This book develops a
theoretical framework for information retrieval (IR) interaction and discusses
its implications in the design and evaluation of IR systems in the digital
age.”
- Iris Xie,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I: User-Oriented IR
Research Approaches Chapter II: Interactive IR in OPAC Environments Chapter
III: Interactive IR in Online Database Environments Chapter IV: Interactive IR
in Web Search Engine Environments Chapter V: Interactive IR in Digital Library
Environments Chapter VI: TREC and Interactive Track Environments Chapter VII:
Interactive IR Models Chapter VIII: Interactive IR Framework Chapter IX:
Illustration and Validation of the Interactive IR Framework Chapter X:
Implications of the Planned-Situational Interactive IR Model Chapter XI:
Conclusions and Future Directions
For more information about
Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments, you can view the
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You can also view the first chapter of the publication at http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/excerpts/XieExc.pdf.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Iris Xie is an associate
professor in the
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International Survey of Library &
Museum Digitization Projects Presents Data from More Than 100 Library and
Museum Digitization Programs
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Sent: Wednesday, 3 September
2008 10:40 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L]
International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects Presents
Data from More Than 100 Library and Museum Digitization Programs
The International Survey of
Library & Museum Digitization Projects Presents Data from More Than 100
Library and Museum Digitization Programs <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/the-international-survey-of-library
,522367.shtml>
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a79dcf/the_international)
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Museum Digitization Projects report to their offering.
Posted : Mon, 01 Sep 2008
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has announced the addition of the "The International Survey of Library
& Museum Digitization Projects" report to their offering.
The study presents data from
more than 100 library and museum digitization programs from academic, public
and special libraries in the
LIST OF TABLES
PARTICIPANTS
SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
SOURCE OF FUNDS
TREND IN SPENDING ON
DIGITIZATION
Library Collaboration with
other Departments of the Institution
Staffing of Digitization
Projects
Spending for Equipment for
Digitization
Number of Physical Exhibits
Staged
Rights, Permissions and
Copyright Clearance
Outsourcing of Digitization
Skill in Digitization
Use of Digital Asset Management
Software
Use of Servers
Impact of Digitization on
Microfilming and other Preservation Mediums
Development of Cataloging
and Metadata in Digitization Projects
Using the Resources of
Larger Organizations with Greater Experience in Digitization
Licensing or Renting the
Digital Collection
Impact of Digitization on
Sales of Reproductions
CHAPTER 1: OVERALL BUDGET
CHAPTER 2: FINANCIAL SUPPORT
FOR DIGITIZATION
CHAPTER 3: STAFFING &
EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER 4: IMPACT OF ONLINE
EXHIBITS
CHAPTER 5: LICENSING,
PERMISSIONS & COPYRIGHT
CHAPTER 6: OUTSOURCING
CHAPTER 7: SCANNING,
PHOTOGRAPHING AND OTHER DIGITIZATION METHODS
CHAPTER 8: DIGITAL ASSET
MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 9: IMPACT ON
PRESERVATION
CHAPTER 10: CATALOGING
CHAPTER 11: COLLABORATIONS
CHAPTER 12: MARKETING
CHAPTER 13: FAVORED
RESOURCES
CHAPTER 14: ADVICE FOR PEERS
LIST OF TABLES
Companies Mentioned:
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InterPARES 2 Project book now online
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On Behalf Of Luciana Duranti
Sent: Saturday, 13 September
2008 1:11 AM
To: JESSE@listserv.utk.edu
Subject: The InterPARES 2
Project book now online
Dear Colleagues:
It is my great pleasure to
announce that an electronic version of the book "International Research on
Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2: Interactive,
Dynamic and Experiential Records. Luciana Duranti and Randy
The print version of the
book, published by the Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (ANAI),
will be available by the end of the month of October. It comprises a large volume (about 900 pages)
and one DVD with materials that are not included in the online or print book.
The DVD includes all the case studies final reports and much of the supporting
documentation, such as diplomatic analyses and domain analyses; all the general
studies reports; the project bibliographies, and the key project tools and
resources; the guidelines for creators and preservers; the policy framework;
glossary, ontologies, models, etc.).
You can order the print
version of the book now by filling the form that you will find at this link:
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2_book_order_form.doc
<http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2_book_order_form.doc>
and faxing it or e-mailing it together with proof of your payment (money order
or money transfer) to the number or e-mail address specified on the form.
ANAI will also give the book
to the Society of American Archivists for distribution, but you can get it at
the price of 75 euros if you order it now directly from ANAI.
Happy reading!
Luciana
Dr. Luciana Duranti
Chair and Professor,
Archival Studies
Director, The InterPARES
Project www.interpares.org <http://www.interpares.org/> School of
Library, Archival and Information Studies www.slais.ubc.ca
<http://www.slais.ubc.ca/> The
University of British
Tel: 604.822.2587
Fax: 604.822.6006
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On Behalf Of eugene.garfield@thomsonreuters.com
Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2008
3:44 AM
To: asis-l@asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] FW: :
Stock &Stock book on Knowledge Representation
At my request Wolfgang and Mechtid Stock have
prepared an English contents page of their new book published in German.
Wolfgang G. Stock &
Mechtild Stock: Knowledge Representation [Wissensrepräsentation; in German].
Abstract.
Knowledge Representation is the
science, the technique and the application of methods and tools, which empower
to map knowledge on digital databases.
Aim of Knowledge
Representation is optimal information retrieval. Knowledge Representation
allows for information architectures and works with concepts and their
relations. Without elaborated methods of Knowledge Representation it is not
possible to create the semantic web.
The book unifies approaches
from documentation and library science (nomenclatures, classification systems,
thesauri, citation indexing and abstracting), from computer science and
artificial intelligence research (ontologies and information extraction) and
from user-driven indexing in Web 2.0 environments (folksonomies).
Table of Contents
Propaedeutics of Knowledge
Representation
History of Knowledge
Representation (p. 1) - Basic Ideas of Knowledge Representation (p. 20) -
Concepts and Definitions (p. 51) - Concepts and Relations (p. 68) - Information
Hermeneutics (p. 90)
Metadata
Bibliographic Metadata (p.
105) - Factual Metadata (p. 128) - Non-Thematic Information Filters (Style and
Genre) (p. 141)
Folksonomies
Collaborative Indexing (p.
153) - Processing of Tags (p. 166)
Knowledge Organization
Systems
Nomenclature (p. 176) -
Classification (p. 192) - Thesaurus (p. 228) - Ontology (p. 255) - Facetted
Knowledge Organization Systems (p. 273) - Crosswalks between Knowledge
Organization Systems (p. 290)
Text-Oriented Methods of
Knowledge Organization
Text-Word Method (p. 311) -
Citation Indexing (p. 323)
Indexing
Intellectual Indexing (p.
342) - Automatic Indexing (p. 365)
Information Summarization
Abstracts (p. 380) -
Automatic Information Extraction (p. 398)
Glossary (p. 410) - Index of
Names (p. 419) - Subject Index (p. 428)
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Melbourne
joins Edinburgh as 2nd City of Literature
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee, Doyun [mailto:D.Lee@unesco.org]
Sent: Thursday, 4 September
2008 5:55 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L]
Importance: High
The Director-General of
UNESCO has appointed
With its new title and
status, the city aims to increase its international profile by increasing its
commitment to literary life. It expects
to draw new audiences and participation, local and international, in the
variety of literary activities and create new partnership initiatives across
public, private and civil society sectors as well as in cooperation with the
other member cities of the network. As a
part of its bid to be a
There are currently 12 cities
appointed to the Network - Aswan, <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36962&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Santa Fe in Crafts and Folk Art; <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36961&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Berlin, <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36960&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Buenos Aires, <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36959&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Montreal in Design; <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36958&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Popayan <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36957&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> in Gastronomy; Edinburgh and Melbourne in
Literature; <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36965&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Bologna, <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36964&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>
Seville <http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36963&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> and Glasgow in Music; Lyon in media arts.
More information: www.unesco.org/culture/en/creativecities
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National
Library of China has begun to submit bibliographic records to UNESCO for Index
Translationum
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Gu [mailto:bgu@nlc.gov.cn]
Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2008
9:40 PM
To: Catsmail IFLA;
ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] National
Library of China began to submit blbiographic records for UNESCO "Index
Translationum"
National Library of China
has begun to submit bibliographic records to UNESCO for Index Translationum
<http://www.unesco.org/culture/translationum>
. Founded in 1932, Index Translationum <http://www.unesco.org/culture/translationum> contains about 1.7 million bibliographic
records of translations from about 100 UNESCO member countries. Before 2008,
Index Translationum <http://www.unesco.org/culture/translationum> contacted related organizations many times
for Chinese records, but failed. In January 2008, I received a letter from
Peter Lor, Secretary General of IFLA, concerning Index Translationum <http://www.unesco.org/culture/translationum>
. I contacted the editor immediately and submitted 1,000 test records. By now,
we have gone through all the procedures and begun to submit records on a
regular basis. I hope users can search Chinese records in the database in the
near future.
--
Ben GU, Ph.D.
Director, Chinese
Acquisitions & Cataloging Department / Online Library Cataloging Center /
ISSN China Centre National Library of
33 Zhongguancun Nandajie,
Work Phone: +86-10-88545661
Mobile Phone: 13910414028
Fax: +86-10-68482790
NLC HomePage: http://www.nlc.gov.cn
Personal HomePage:
Chinese Blog:
English Blog:
Reply Address:
bgu@nlc.gov.cn
Alternative e-mail addresses
in case of our system failure:
bgu61@yahoo.com
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No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research
Libraries for the 21st Century [Council on Library and Information Resources]
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From:
mailinglistbouncer@dreamhost.com [mailto:mailinglistbouncer@dreamhost.com]
On Behalf Of Library Link of the Day
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August
2008 3:06 PM
To: Kerry Smith
Subject: [LibraryLink]
Library Link of the Day for 2008-08-27
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/contents.html
No Brief Candle:
Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century [Council on Library and
Information Resources]
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Library Link of the Day
http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ (archive, rss, subscribe options)
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From: AUTOCAT on behalf of
Janet Hill
Sent: Thu 5/1/2008 1:57 PM
To: AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [ACAT] FW: Letter
from Deanna Marcum and Joint Statement on RDA
Forwarded by request ....
Janet Swan Hill, Professor
Associate Director for
Technical Services University of Colorado Libraries, CB184 Boulder, CO 80309
janet.hill@colorado.edu
*****
Tradition is the handing-on
of Fire, and not the worship of Ashes.
- Gustav Mahler
May 1, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
The Working Group on the
Future of Bibliographic Control submitted its final report, On the Record, to
me on January 9, 2008. I have distributed the document to three groups within
the Library of Congress for analysis and comment. I expect to respond formally
to the report in early June.
On the Record contains more
than one hundred recommendations aimed at the Library of Congress, other
specific organizations and entities, and to the broader library community. In
the words of the members of the Working Group, they envision "a future for
bibliographic control that will be collaborative, decentralized, international
in scope, and Web-based…change will happen quickly, and bibliographic control
will be dynamic, not static." The group urged the readers of the report to
view it as a " 'call to action' that informs and broadens participation in
discussion and debate, conveys a sense of urgency, stimulates collaboration,
and catalyzes thoughtful and deliberative action." The many recommendations
suggest ways in which the necessary systemic change can take place.
When the Library of Congress
issues its response, we will be focusing on how it will position itself to work
in this new, networked, and collaborative environment, not simply on single
recommendations. We recognize that any cataloging code (AACR2 or the proposed
Resource Description and Access--RDA) is but a part of this environment.
It may seem counterintuitive
that we issue a joint statement with our colleagues from the National
Agricultural Library and the National Library of Medicine on RDA before we
issue a full response to On the Record, but we do so because the international
Joint Steering Committee and the Committee of Principals continue their work,
and because so many librarians are asking about the national libraries' plans
to implement the proposed code.
We are pleased to report
that we three libraries have worked together to establish an approach to the
consideration of RDA in the attached joint statement.
We ask that you bear in mind
that it is the entire bibliographic system that needs to be considered and
reworked, and the cataloging code is only one small piece of the work that lies
ahead.
Sincerely,
Deanna B. Marcum
Associate Librarian for
Library Services The Library of Congress
Joint Statement of the
Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National
Agricultural Library on Resource Description and Access
May 1, 2008
Leaders of the Library of
Congress (LC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National
Agricultural Library (NAL) met on March 10, 2008 to discuss the recommendation
from On the Record: the Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the
Future of Bibliographic Control to suspend work on RDA.
The group agreed that the
Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA's work on Resource Description
and Access (RDA) is an important international initiative that has been
underway for several years and is one that requires continued collaboration
with our international partners who have joined with the United States in a
global initiative to update bibliographic practices to make the library
resources more accessible and useful to users. The participants also agreed
that their decisions whether or not to implement this new standard must be made
jointly. Further, participants agreed that LC, NLM, and NAL have collective
leadership responsibilities to assist the
Colleagues from NLM and NAL
are most concerned that a systematic review of RDA has not yet been possible
and, given the potential magnitude and broad impact of the changes, such a
review is essential. While draft chapters of RDA have been available, a clear,
concise, and cohesive understanding of the overall impact of the entire
standard is needed.
Until the completion of the
rules and the availability of the RDA online tool, reviewers will not be able
fully to assess their impact on:
--Description, access, and
navigation practices for a broad array of users and types of materials
--Current and future
electronic carriers and information management systems to support RDA goals
--Estimated costs for
implementation and maintenance during a time of flat, even reduced, budgets
The three national libraries
agreed on the following approach: First, we jointly commit to further
development and completion of RDA.
Second, following its completion, a decision to implement the rules will
be based upon the positive evaluation of RDA's utility within the library and
information environment, and criteria reflecting the technical, operational,
and financial implications of the new code. This will include an articulation
of the business case for RDA, including benefits to libraries and end users and
cost analyses for retraining staff and re-engineering cataloging processes.
Together, we will:
--Jointly develop milestones
for evaluating how we will implement RDA
--Conduct tests of RDA that
determine if each milestone has been reached; paying particular attention to
the benefits and costs of implementation
--Widely distribute analyses
of benefits and costs for review by the
--Consult with the vendor
and bibliographic utility communities to address their concerns about RDA
Included among the tests
that will be developed to assist in formulating implementation decisions:
--Usability testing with
cataloging staff, i.e. librarians and technicians, experienced and newer staff
from the three national libraries in consultation with representatives from the
U.S. library community (including OCLC and library vendors) about its
participation in the process
--Testing of records for a
broad array of materials created during usability studies to determine
compatibility with existing record sets and ensuring records are usable and
understandable for our end users
--Testing the feasibility of
integrating this new cataloging standard into all relevant technology systems
The three institutions
agreed that these steps will be followed and, if there is a decision to
implement RDA, that the implementation would not occur before the end of 2009.
The collective resolve is to
complete the development of RDA, to conduct appropriate tests that will inform
and involve the broader
library community as to the
utility of the code, and to ensure a product that is useful, usable, and cost
effective. The Library of Congress will
continue to work with its international colleagues on the Joint Steering
Committee for Development of RDA and the Committee of Principals and keep them
apprised of the evaluation progress and outcomes as the three national
libraries, representing their constituents, undertake the tests outlined above.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Open Lib/Info Sci
Education Forum [mailto:JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]
On Behalf Of Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008
1:31 AM
To: JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject:
Those of you who are
concerned about the current state of open access to research journals from the
American Library Association, the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, and the Canadian Library Association may find the below postings to
be of interest. (TinyURL follows full URL.)
On
More on OA to ALA
Publications (Open Access News) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/06/more-on-oa-to-ala-publications.html
More about
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology Goes Green (DigitalKoans) http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/06/20/journal-of-the-american-society-for-information-science-and-technology-goes-green/
JASIST Allows Self-Archiving
(Open Access News) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/06/jasist-allows-self-archiving.html
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital
Scholarship
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/
DigitalKoans
Electronic Theses and
Dissertations Bibliography Google Book Search Bibliography Open Access
Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Weblog
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Open Source Social Networking
Software/Sites Facebook Group
-----Original Message-----
From:
asis-l-bounces@asis.org [mailto:asis-l-bounces@asis.org]
On Behalf Of Gerry Mckiernan
Sent: Saturday, 17 May 2008
2:01 AM
To: lita-l@ala1.ala.org;
asis-L@asis.org; SYSLIB-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU; web4lib@webjunction.com
Subject: [Asis-l] Open
Source Social Networking Software/Sites Facebook Group
Friends/
I have created a Global
Facebook Group devoted to Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites.
The Focus of Open Source
Social Networking Software/Sites Group is to document and foster discussion
about Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites.
The Group Is Available
Through
[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-source-social-networking.html
]
OR
Please JOIN!
Happy Friday !
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology
Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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Originality,
Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age
-----Original Message-----
From:
asis-l-bounces@asis.org [mailto:asis-l-bounces@asis.org]
On Behalf Of Gerry Mckiernan
Sent: Saturday, 17 May 2008
3:40 AM
To: lita-l@ala1.ala.org;
asis-l@asis.org; <EDTECH Editor-Beil; web4lib@webjunction.org
Subject: [Asis-l] New Book:
_Originality, Imitation,and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age_
Friends/
Another Most Excellent New
Book:
_Originality, Imitation, and
Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age_ / Caroline Eisner and Martha
Vicinus, Editors
timely intervention in national debates about
what constitutes original or plagiarized writing
This collection is a timely
intervention in national debates about what constitutes original or plagiarized
writing in the digital age. Somewhat ironically, the Internet makes it both
easier to copy and easier to detect copying. The essays in this volume explore
the complex issues of originality, imitation, and plagiarism, particularly as
they concern students, scholars, professional writers, and readers, while also
addressing a range of related issues, including copyright conventions and the
ownership of original work, the appropriate dissemination of innovative ideas,
and the authority and role of the writer/author. Throughout these essays, the
contributors grapple with their desire to encourage and maintain free access to
copyrighted material for noncommercial purposes while also respecting the
reasonable desires of authors to maintain control over their own work.
{MORE}
Links to Table of Contents /
Amazon Search Inside / Etc. Available at
[ http://infolitweb20.blogspot.com/2008/05/originality-imitation-and-plagiarism.html
]
OR
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
There is Nothing More
Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490
]
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Recruitment,
Development, and Retention of Information Professionals
Call for chapters
-----Original Message-----
From: Open Lib/Info Sci
Education Forum [mailto:JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]
On Behalf Of M. Jean Darbyshire
Sent: Thursday, 4 September
2008 10:52 PM
To: JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Fwd: Call for
Chapters: Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals
Colleagues,
I believe that several of
you could provide excellent, insightful chapters for this publication. Please consider contributing. It is a fascinating area of inquiry and I
suspect this will be a valuable volume in the future.
JD
---------- Forwarded message
----------
From: Danielle Theiss-White
<dtheiss@ksu.edu>
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at
12:06 PM
Subject: Call for Chapters:
Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals
Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a
chapter proposal for the upcoming book titled "Recruitment, Development,
and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and
Knowledge Management". Chapter
proposals are due Oct. 30th. Please
forward this call to others who may be interested.
Thanks!
Danielle and Elisabeth
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission
Deadline: October 30, 2008
Full Chapter Deadline:
February 15, 2009
Book: "Recruitment,
Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human
Resources and Knowledge Management"
A book edited by: Elisabeth
Pankl, Danielle Theiss-White, and Mary C. Bushing
Introduction
With the projected
retirement openings in the field of information science and management and the
ever growing need for knowledge management, the need for a viable workforce is
more pressing than ever before. Our
handbook will provide both information professionals and their organizations
with the skills and knowledge necessary to strengthen and develop the
profession.
Objectives of the book
Our objective is to inform
and to expand the current literature on the career development of information
professionals by bringing together the expertise of practicing information
professionals in the 21st century. This handbook will bring together this
disparate yet exciting and vibrant profession by sharing how various
information professionals encourage the recruitment, retention and career
development of individuals within their organizations whether at a single
workplace or on a regional, state, or national level. Thus, this handbook will
provide a toolkit for employers, new information professionals, and information
organizations.
The target audience
The prospective audience of
our proposed text is composed of several distinct groups. Perhaps the most
important group is the future information professionals. This group will
benefit immensely from the information, real-life experiences, advice, and
future developments detailed in the book. Another important group is the
employers of information professionals. Employers will be able to use the
information in the book to design and implement recruitment, development, and
retention policies and procedures that further both the success and longevity
of the profession and their own organizations. A third, but not final, group is
the teachers and trainers of information professionals. All quality
professional training incorporates not only the technical skills required for
employment and advancement, but also the myriad of affective elements that
shape one's professional career.
Recommended topics include,
but are not limited to, the following:
· Retention and/or recruitment research
and/or practices and the information professional
· Retention and/or recruitment research
and/or practices and diversity in the workplace or profession
· Mentoring policies, programs,
procedures, and outcomes from an individual, organizational, regional, state,
or national level
· Mentor/mentee relationships
· Mentoring in the professions/peer
mentoring
· State, Regional, National leadership programs
and outcomes
· Succession leadership planning
· Trends in Human Resources and the
information professional/personnel management
· Career development guidance
· Organizational culture/group dynamics
· Orientation programs
· Continuing
education/training/in-service education
· Librarianship as a profession
· MLS/MLIS/Library Media
Specialist/Library Certification education programs
· Regional, state, and/or national information
professional associations and their involvement with career development,
recruitment to the profession, and retention
Submission Procedure
Researchers and
practitioners are invited to submit a 2-5 page proposal clearly explaining the
objectives and concerns of the proposed chapter by October 30, 2008. The status
of submitted proposals will be communicated by November 15, 2008. At that time, the authors of accepted proposals
will be provided with chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by February 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published
by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.), www.igi-global.com, publisher of the
"Information Science Reference" (formally Idea Group Reference) and
"Medical Information Science Reference" imprints.
Inquiries and Submissions
can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
recruitment-development-retention@googlegroups.com
Elisabeth Pankl
Humanities Librarian and
Assistant Professor
K-State Libraries
epankl@ksu.edu
Danielle Theiss-White
General Reference
Coordinator and Assistant Professor
K-State Libraries
dtheiss@ksu.edu
Danielle Theiss-White
General Reference
Coordinator
219 Hale Library
Manhattan, KS 66506
dtheiss@ksu.edu
785.532.5008
--
M. Jean Darbyshire
Organization Development
Programs Director
Hale Library Room 122
Phone 785-532-7465
FAX 785-532-7415
E-mail jdarby@ksu.edu
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Saur Publication on Government Information
-----Original Message-----
From: Sjoerd Koopman [mailto:Sjoerd.Koopman@IFLA.nl]
Sent: Friday, 16 May 2008
5:09 PM
To: IFLA-L
Subject: [IFLA-L] New Saur
Publication on Government Information
New Saur Publication on
Government Information
Just off the press: Best
Practices in Government Information: A Global Perspective. Edited on behalf of
IFLA by Irina Lynden and Jane Wu.
A rare opportunity to
discover international trends and developments in access to government
information is presented to you in selected papers from Africa, the
Originally presented at
seminars and open sessions of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress
over the past five years, the papers have been thoroughly reviewed and updated
by their authors.
As this volume illustrates,
providing access to government information in whatever form presents enormous
challenges. Issues range from basic to
sophisticated: public access, including censorship; legislation, facilities for
the user, including training; and the possibilities for enhancement of on-line
information, through maps, statistics, videos, and sound. Underlying all is access and use of
government documents to increase political literacy. The editors highly recommend this book to
practitioners of government document management, to reference and public
service staff, to library educators and to the information literate in all
walks of life.
Best Practices in Government
Information: A Global Perspective. Edited on behalf of IFLA by Irina Lynden and
Jane Wu.
Order:
K. G. Saur Verlag: www.saur.de <http://www.saur.de/>
or Rhenus Medien Logistik GmbH & Co. KG Justus-von-Liebig-Straße 1
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Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A
Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access
-----Original Message-----
From: McKiernan, Gerard
[LIB] [mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu]
Sent: Monday, 4 August 2008
6:43 AM
To:
diglib@infoserv.inist.fr; ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr; ifla-mm@infoserv.inist.fr;
univers@infoserv.inist.fr; LIS-LINK@JISCMAIL.AC.UK; LIS-UKEIG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IFLA-L] Science
Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open
Access
Colleagues/
>>>Now
Available<<<
Science Dissemination Using
Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access / Editors E.
Canessa and M. Zennaro (
The Abdus Salam
International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Science Dissemination Unit (SDU)
/ July 2008 / 207 pp. / ISBN 92-95003-40-3.
/Gerry
Open Access means aims to
remove restrictions that exist on the access to articles and knowledge to the
world-wide scholarly community, in particular to those in developing countries.
Scientists in these countries still have difficulty in publishing their work
due to the lack of access to the network, to their institutional economic
difficulties or to the lack of awareness of available Open Access solutions.
The visibility, usage and
impact of researchers' own findings can increase with Open Access, as does
their power to find, access and use the work of others.
This book aims to guide the
scientific community on the requirements of Open Access, and the plethora of
low-cost solutions available. A compendium of selected literature on Open
Access is presented to increase the awareness of the potential of open
publishing in general.
The book also aims to
encourage decision makers in academia and research centers to adopt
institutional and regional Open Access Journals and Archives to make their own
scientific results public and fully searchable on the Internet.
For (Open) Access To The
Full Text ... Plus .. Please Visit
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology
Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Open Lib/Info Sci
Education Forum [mailto:JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]
On Behalf Of Debbie Rabina
Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2008
8:32 AM
To: JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Shera Winners/Press
Release
Congratulation to the 2008
LRRT Shera award winners (see press release
below)
For Distinguished Published
Research:
Eric M. Meyers, Karen E.
Fisher, and Elizabeth Marcoux for their work on “Studying the Everyday
Information Behaviors of Tweens: Notes from the Field,” _Library and
Information Science Research_, 29(3), 2007, pp.
310-331.
For Support of Dissertation
Research:
Sharon McQueen,
The Library Research Round
Table announces 2008 Award Recipients - http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/may2008/LRRTShera.cfm.
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*The Library Research Round
Table announces *
*2008 Award Recipients *
The Library Research Round
Table (LRRT) of the American Library
Association (
Jesse H. Shera Award for
Distinguished Published Research and the Jesse
H. Shera Award for the
Support of Dissertation Research, which honors
work that advances library
research.
The Jesse H. Shera Award for
Distinguished Published Research is given
to the author(s) of a
research article published in English during the
calendar year and nominated
by any member of LRRT or by editors of
research journals in the
field of library and information studies. The
2008 recipients are Eric M.
Meyers, Karen E. Fisher, and Elizabeth
Marcoux for their work on
“Studying the Everyday Information Behaviors
of Tweens: Notes from the
Field,” _Library and Information Science
Research_, 29(3), 2007, pp.
310-331. The study investigated how children
engage with everyday
information poses methodological challenges that
differ significantly from
those associated with adult populations.
The Jesse H. Shera Award for
the Support of Dissertation Research is
given to provide recognition
and monetary support for dissertation
research employing exemplary
research design and methods. The 2008
recipient is Sharon McQueen,
Library and Information
Studies, for “The Story of ‘Ferdinand’: The
Creation of a Cultural
Icon.”
LRRT was founded in 1968 to
contribute toward the extension and
improvement of library
research by providing public program
opportunities for describing
and evaluating library research projects
and for disseminating their
findings. LRRT is dedicated to informing and
educating
in obtaining information.
The information must help users reach
administrative decisions and
solve problems and expand the theoretical
base of the field by serving
as a forum for discussion and action on
issues related to the
literature and information needs for the field of
library and information
science.
For more information on the
Library Research Round Table please visit
--
Debbie Rabina, Ph.D,
Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute,
drabina@pratt.edu
http://pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
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On Behalf Of Gerry Mckiernan
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008
2:17 AM
To: lita-l@ala1.ala.org;
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web4lib@webjunction.org
Subject: [Asis-l] Social
Science Research Network: Everyone Can Be A Star
Friends/
Social Scientists Network
Two ... [:-)
/Gerry
Social Science Research
Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social
science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks
in each of the social sciences.
SSRN Research Networks:
Accounting Research Network
(ARN)
Economics Research Network
(ERN)
Entrepreneurship &
Policy Network (ERPN) Financial Economics Newtork (FEN) Health Economics
Network (HEN) Information Systems Network (ISN) Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)
Submitted abstracts and by
soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. We now
have hundreds of journals, publishers, and institutions in Partners in
Publishing that provide working papers for distribution through SSRN's eLibrary
and abstracts for publication in SSRN's electronic journals.
The SSRN eLibrary consists
of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 188,200
scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper
Collection currently containing over 151,200 downloadable full text documents
in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of
a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
[more]
Links to SSRN
features/functions, Stats, and Related Articles Available At
[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/social-science-research-network.html
]
OR
Enjoy!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology
Librarian
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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SPARC Europe and the DOAJ Announce the
Launch of the SPARC
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Sent: Saturday, 26 April
2008 1:21 AM
Subject: SPARC Europe and
the DOAJ Announce the Launch of the SPARC
Important news for all
publishers who have journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
Dear publishers of journals
listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
We --the team behind the
DOAJ-- are approaching you to inform about two important issues.
Firstly, as you probably are
aware of, there is a growing discussion and attention to open access to
scholarly information in the research community. The current discussion is
concentrating on open access in a broader sense than just free access to
journal articles.
In order for research to be
really open, researchers need more than just to get free access to the articles
-- that is more than free-to-read. Researchers are increasingly demanding and
expecting to be able to reuse not only the text in various ways, but
increasingly to be able to do text- and data mining in order to more
efficiently extract and discover fractions of the content (i.e. for instance
acronyms for genes, proteins, abbreviations etc.) and to uncover hidden
relations between such fractions by automated computing.
In order for open access
journals to be even more useful and thus receive more exposure and provide more
value to the research community it is very important that open access journals
offer standardized, easily retrievable information about what kinds of reuse
are allowed.
Creative Commons offers a
number of licenses that in a standardized way makes it very easy for content
providers to offer information about these issues. More information about this
under Step 1 below.
Secondly, SPARC Europe and
The Directory of Open Access Journals (operated by
The intention of the scheme
is to motivate open access journals to deliver metadata to DOAJ. The DOAJ team
will then convert the metadata into standardized XML-format and OAI-compliant
format, which will further increase the visibility of articles and provide
means for the easiest possible dissemination thus reaching more readers,
attracting more authors, gaining more prestige and impact.
The team behind the DOAJ
will offer various forms of assistance and guidance in this respect.
What are the advantages of
having the SPARC Europe Seal?
Improved information as to
what users are allowed to do with papers published in your journal(s).
Possible long-term archiving
of your content, which makes publishing in your journal more attractive to
authors.
Better exposure as a
high-quality journal based on state-of-the art dissemination technologies.
The DOAJ team converts your
metadata and makes the metadata harvestable, which means the widest possible
dissemination and thus increased usage and impact.
How to be approved:
Step 1:
Choose the Creative Commons
License CC-BY license.
In order to qualify for the
SPARC Europe Seal you must apply the CC-BY license, which is the most user friendly
license, allowing among other things for long-term preservation and text- and
data-mining
How to choose the CC-BY
license:
Go to the Creative Commons
(CC) web site (http://creativecommons.org/about/license/)
and copy the CC-BY Icon -
-- you might as well consult
this: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing
.
Put the CC-BY icon on the
homepage of your journal(s) and preferably on each article in your journal.
Go to DOAJ web site (http://www.doaj.org) , login to "For
journal owners", click on "license info" and choose CC-license
for your journal(s).
The CC icon will be shown
automatically in DOAJ.
Step 2:
Your journal(s) shall
continuously provide DOAJ with metadata for all of your content.
How to provide us with the
metadata:
Right now DOAJ tools allow
you to do the following:
upload article by article
filling a web form upload files containing one or more records. The files must
conform with the DOAJ XML Schema specification (read more at: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=070507).
These two features can be
found once you have logged in to "For journal owners" on DOAJ web
site (http://www.doaj.org).
Once we have your content
(metadata on article level) in DOAJ, the content become OAI harvestable and
distributed in an XML format to the rest of the world.
Thanks in advance
The DOAJ Team
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Survey of Academic Libraries 2008-09
Edition
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2008 2:10 AM
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Subject: PDF Review Copy of
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2008-09 Edition
Primary Research Group has
published the pdf version of the Survey of Academic Libraries 2008-09 Edition.
The print version, the same in every respect ISBN #1-57440-102-5, will be
published in July 2008. Your PDF review copy is enclosed.
The Survey of Academic
Libraries, 2008-09 Edition is based on data from 75 college libraries in the
Some of the report’s
findings are:
Only 22.5% of the colleges
sampled believed that librarians’ salaries had been going up faster than the
rate of inflation, while more than 34% believed that their salaries in the past
year had gone down in real terms.
Librarians in private colleges were more likely than their counterparts
in public colleges to believe that their salaries had gone down in real terms
in the past year.
For the libraries in the
sample the mean rate of growth in content spending in nominal terms was only
1.75% from the 2006-07 to 2007-08 academic year. Spending actually declined for
the public colleges in the sample and grew only at about the rate of inflation
for the private colleges. The expected rate of increase in spending for the
2008-09 academic year is only 1.66%. Private colleges in the sample had a mean
expected increase of 3.1%, slightly less than the expected rate of inflation,
while the public colleges essentially foresaw an increase of less than 1/10th
of 1 percent, a decline in real terms of about 3.5%.
The libraries in the sample
spent a mean of $456,238 for content accessed online in the 2008-09 academic
year; the major research universities in the sample averaged more than $3.4
million in such expenditures. Spending
per student for online information for colleges with fewer than 1,100 students
FTE was $190.15 per student, while for colleges with more than 4,401 FTE per
student spending averaged $115.04 for online information. Generally, students at
the larger colleges enjoy access to a greater range of databases at much lower
cost.
The libraries in the sample
accrued a mean of about $119,000 from library endowments in the past year,
though the mean accrual was zero.
Receipts by private colleges vastly overshadowed those by public
colleges, by a factor of nearly 30:1. More than a quarter (26.47%) of the
libraries in the sample had endowments specifically to support the purchase of
books for the library. More than half of
the libraries in colleges with more than 4,401 FTE students had endowments
specifically to support book purchases for the library.
For more than 47% of the
libraries in the sample, the library capital budget has remained about the same
over the past three years; it has increased somewhat for 23.54% and increased
significantly for 7.35%. More than 38% of private college libraries have seen
the capital budget increase either somewhat or significantly, while this is
true for only about 23% of public college libraries.
The general level of
investment in chemistry-related info resources appears to have modestly
increased. For about half of those sampled, investment in chemistry info has
remained stable; for roughly a quarter it increased, but decreased for only
13.64% of participants. Investment in psychology-related information has
increased for more than half of the libraries in the sample and has not
decreased for any. Moreover, all types
of libraries, public and private, community colleges and research universities,
increased investment in psychology-related information resources in the past
three years. Similarly, investment in sociology and political science-related
resources has also increased significantly in the past three years. Although
more than 55% held investment in these subjects stable, more than 34% increased
it and only about 4.5% decreased it. Public colleges in particular increased
investment in these subjects, as did colleges offering the most advanced
degrees.
We asked survey participants
to list their top five academic MLS programs in
The price of the report is
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Web 2.0 application for researchers
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From:
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On Behalf Of M.J. Menou
Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2008
5:09 PM
To: asis-l@asis.org;
Euro_Student_ASIST@yahoogroups.com; eurchap; sigiii-l; sigkm-l@asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd.: New
web 2.0 application for researchers
> EurActiv: Science &
Research
> Wednesday 11 June 2008
> [http://news.euractiv.com/Go/index.cfm?WL=73286&WS=1598_1643&WA=6881]
>Researchers' 'Facebook' launched
>05 June 2008
>A new global Facebook-like community for
researchers aims to promote
>cross-sectoral linkages between researchers and their projects
and >allow instant peer-reviewing of
scientific research to help pave the
>way towards innovative solutions to global challenges.
> https://www.researchgate.net/
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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Visiting Professor, SLAIS,
Consultant in ICT policies and
Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of
the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15
F-49350 Les Rosiers sur
Email:
micheljmenou[at]gmail[dot]com
michel[dot]menou[at]orange[dot]fr
Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php
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