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Library and Information Science

Selected Works

2005

Libraries

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Blogging And Libraries, Annie Smith, Jenny Semenza Sep 2005

Blogging And Libraries, Annie Smith, Jenny Semenza

Annie Smith

This presentation takes a close look at blogs and how they are being used in academic libraries. It explains what blogs are, which additional information on their prevalence online. The second half of the presentation shows how blogs are being used to market library services, communicate with other librarians, etc.


Microforms: Marriages, Mergers, And Migrations, Anna H. Perrault Mar 2005

Microforms: Marriages, Mergers, And Migrations, Anna H. Perrault

Anna H. Perrault

“Migration” is a term used to describe the reformatting of materials or the moving of information from one format to a different format. The conversion of printed and original documents to microformats was a migration from paper, which was regarded as impermanent, to film, which was regarded as permanent. Today the term “migration” is most often used to denote the conversion of print or microform texts to electronic format to another. This paper begins with a brief history of the development of microforms as a storage and preservation medium with emphasis on the last two decades of the twentieth century …