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Rethinking Technical Services For A Digital World, Fredrick Miller

Fred Miller

Libraries should consider new ways to integrate and streamline their organization and work processes for effective and efficient service to library patrons. This paper looks at recent efforts in academic libraries to explore cost-saving measures without sacrificing service quality. It presents an overview of ways libraries can improve technical services to provide electronic resources and other services for library patrons.

The Argus Digital Collection: A Digital Archive For Access And Preservation, Fredrick Miller

Fred Miller

The Argus Digital Collection is Illinois Wesleyan University’s first digital library project. This project began as an archival and preservation project, and presented management and technical challenges for the University’s library and central Information Technology organizations. This paper reviews how the project came to be, project hurdles, lessons learned, and where we go from here. Academic institutions contemplating similar digital archive projects can benefit from Illinois Wesleyan University’s experience with the Argus Digital Collection.

Not All Users Are Alike: How Do Age And Productivity Affect User Behavior?, Carol Tenopir, Peter B. Boyce, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Journal Use: What Are Our Users Telling Us?, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King, Peter B. Boyce

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Mas 2010: Models For Academic Support: Final Report To The Mellon Foundation, Oya Rieger, Karen S. Calhoun, Susan Currie, Edward Weissman

Karen S Calhoun

Assisted by a Mellon planning grant and led by principal investigator Sarah Thomas, a Cornell University project team investigated the potential of significant structural reorganization that would increase the value of the Library’s services to the University. The study revealed that the proposed benefits of restructuring are better support for scholarly creativity and communication; use of library space that privileges library users; more cost-effective allocation of resources; and the development of a new infrastructure to permit new relationships between libraries to flourish, enabling improved services at lower cost. To provide information from all the relevant stakeholders who would be affected …

Undergraduate Science Students And Electronic Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Richard Pollard, Peiling Wang, Dan Greene, Elizabeth Kline, Julia Krummen

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Bridging The Great Divide: Combining Engineers And Musicians, Document Delivery And Circulation, Pauline Lister, Grace Saw

Grace Saw

At the end of 1999 two physically separate University of Queensland branch libraries, the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library and the Architecture and Music Library, grouped under one service – The Physical Sciences and Engineering Library Service. At the end of 2000 the University of Queensland Library was forced to reduce staffing levels following a reduction in income and a plummeting Australian dollar. To continue to deliver excellence in customer service, a group of library technicians, previously divided by branch location, user involvements, organisational culture, team membership and task responsibility, were brought together to become a focussed and …

Informed Discussion In Information Technology Survey Courses, Amber Settle, André Berthiaume, Evelyn Lulis, Abdulrahman Mirza, Saudi Arabia

Amber Settle

The Seventy Percent Solution: Assessing Criteria For Model Fund Allocations, Mary Ellen Kenreich, Claudia Weston, Sarah Beasley, Cyril Oberlander, Don Frank

Mary Ellen Kenreich

Conference report presented at the NASIG 18th annual conference held in 2003. Portland State University Library's fund allocation committee presented information and practical advice on the process of developing a model to reallocate funding for library materials. After experimenting with funding ratios, they decided to use their model to reallocate 30 percent of the funds earmarked for discipline-specific materials while protecting 70 percent of each discipline's original allocation.

The Seventy Percent Solution: Assessing Criteria For Model Fund Allocations, Mary Ellen Kenreich, Claudia Weston, Sarah Beasley, Cyril Oberlander, Don Frank

Cyril Oberlander

Conference report presented at the NASIG 18th annual conference held in 2003. Portland State University Library's fund allocation committee presented information and practical advice on the process of developing a model to reallocate funding for library materials. After experimenting with funding ratios, they decided to use their model to reallocate 30 percent of the funds earmarked for discipline-specific materials while protecting 70 percent of each discipline's original allocation.

Use And Users Of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview And Analysis Of Recent Research Studies, Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

The Case Against Libraries As ‘Safe Places’, Anthony Bernier

Anthony Bernier

No abstract provided.

Enhanced Resource Sharing Through Group Interlibrary Loan Best Practices: A Conceptual, Structural, And Procedural Approach., Lars Leon, June Deweese, Carol Kochan, Billie Peterson-Lugo, Brian Pytlik Zillig,

Carol Kochan

: Members of the Greater Western Library Alliance Interlibrary Loan Committee have spent more than two years developing a Best Practices model for Interlibrary Borrowing and Lending for consortia and local operations. The model includes the practices to be followed, a monitoring plan, and a process for regular evaluation. The GWLA Interlibrary Loan Committee has not yet determined the regular evaluation process, including the timeline. We anticipate that process being established in Spring 2003.

Googling - Our Future?, Lawrence W. Onsager

Lawrence W. Onsager

No abstract provided.

Physical Places And Virtual Spaces: Fostering Innovative Partnerships Between The Library And The Stakeholder, Grace Saw, Nicole Clark

Grace Saw

The 21st Century continues to see rapid change in the role of both the academic science and technology engineering librarian and the research environment in which they operate. Innovative approaches are required in order to ensure that the Librarian retains a central role in the teaching, learning and research processes. The Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library has been actively and fundamentally redefining the role of the Library at the University of Queensland. Qualitative research such as focus groups and user interviews have been undertaken to ensure that the Library remains aware of and responsive to the changing needs …

Student Expectations For Library Web Site Organization, Charity B. Hope, Shannon M. Staley

Shannon M. Staley

The authors solicited 201 San Jose State University student volunteers to participate in card-sorting exercises. This was to determine how the students envisioned the organization of the library web site. Each card in the sorting exercises represented a major page of the library web site, and students were asked to categorize them into groups and then label the groups. Cluster analysis was used to determine categorical strengths.

Looking From The Outside In: An Evidence-Based Model For Website Usability Assessment, Anna H. Perrault, Vicki L. Gregory, Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth

Anna H. Perrault

No abstract provided.

The Journal Stop: A Complete Serials Information System, Dan Lester, Peggy S. Cooper

Peggy S. Cooper

No abstract provided.

Periodiclas Price Survey 2003: Big Chill On The Big Deal, Lee Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Associations And The Economic Viability Of Open Access Publishing, John Willinsky

IR Research

This article explores the contradictory and redundant economic aspects of the current scholarly publishing situation with a focus on the viability of an open-access model for publishing. The author examines the overlap in content between subscription-based and open access sources. Currently open access journals make up 10-20 percent of online journals The author's close examination of the economic issues of journal publishing is aimed at assisting scholarly associations and their members in determining whether open access journal publishing is the business model that should be followed.

Increasing Effective Student Use Of The Scientific Journal Literature (Phase I - Volume I), Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Increasing Effective Student Use Of The Scientific Journal Literature (Phase I - Volume Ii - Appendices), Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

A Primer On U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Applicable To Music Information Retrieval Systems, Michael W. Carroll

Michael W. Carroll

Digital technology has had a significant impact on the ways in which music information can be stored, transmitted, and used. Within the information sciences, music information retrieval has become an increasingly important and complex field. This brief article is addressed primarily to those involved in the design and implementation of systems for storing and retrieving digital files containing musical notation, recorded music, and relevant metadata – hereinafter referred to as a Music Information Retrieval System (“MIRS”). In particular, this group includes information specialists, software engineers, and the attorneys who advise them. Although peer-to-peer computer applications, such as Napster’s MusicShare or …

Beyond Training: Law Librarianship’S Quest For The Pedagogy Of Legal Research Instruction, Paul D. Callister

Paul D. Callister

The paper (I) outlines the nature and extent of the dissatisfaction with legal research instruction and demonstrates that the problem predates computer-assisted legal research, (II) presents the history of the debate (focusing on a heated exchange between advocates of a “process-oriented” approach and proponents of the traditional, “bibliographic” methods), and (III) presents the requisite elements of a satisfactory pedagogical model, discussing various issues surrounding each of these elements.

In part III, the paper proposes that a complete pedagogical model requires (A) an identifiable and fully understood objective in teaching legal research (which objective must distinguish between the kinds of research …

Australian Virtual Libraries For Crocodile Dundee And The Sheilas, Joe Fernandez

Joe Fernandez

Discusses the growing use of virtual libraries in Australia to reach information seekers dispersed in a huge country.

Awake, Ye Saints Of God, Awake! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An SATB choir and piano arrangement of the hymn by Evan Stephens, with words by Eliza R. Snow.

There Is A Green Hill Far Away - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An Easter anthem for SATB choir and piano arranged from a song by Charles Gounod with words by Cecil Frances Alexander.

Scientific Data Archiving: The State Of The Art In Information, Data, And Metadata Management, Kalpana Shankar

Christine L. Borgman

This white paper is the product of a one-year postdoctoral fellowship to study data archiving requirements for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing during its first year of operation. The paper focuses on introducing current thinking on scientific data management issues and primarily on relevant standards in data description (metadata) and management for scientific archives. Appendices include a

rudimentary data dictionary for the current James Reserve database, and sample metadata crosswalks for Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and Sensor ML. This paper covers current standards, developments, and sources of datasets (where appropriate) for:

• General data management and discovery - tools …

Use Of Internet By Undergraduate Students Of Pda College Of Engineering, Gulbarga, Tadasad P. G, Maheswarappa B S, Seema A. Allur

Prof B S Maheswarappa

No abstract provided.

Report Of The Metadata Access To Digital Collections Task Force, Ardis Hanson, Ilene Frank, Charles Gordon, Susan Heron, Linda Mcrae, Jim Michael, Tom Miller, Pete Reehling, Sue Vastine, Walter Rowe

Ardis Hanson

The charge of this Task Force evolved from an assignment to “work with the Head of Cataloging to develop a plan to strengthen the output of metadata needed for digital and electronic collections." This assignment grew out of a concern by Derrie Perez, Interim Dean of the USF Library System, that there was increased fragmentation of the USF Libraries collections, with electronic and digital collections accessed by means other than the online catalog. This report examines the USF Libraries Digital Collections from its foundation, its overall strategy, and structure of the current system. This model will allow a fuller picture …