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Going By The Book: Want To Improve Your Information Seeking And Management Skills? Ask Your Librarian, Marilia Antunez

Marilia Y. Antunez, MLS, MA

As you embark on your career in communication disorders, take advantage of the many services and resources available at your university library.

Aggregated Interdisciplinary Databases And The Needs Of Undergraduate Researchers, Barbara Fister, Amy Fry, Julie Gilbert

Amy Fry

After seeing growing frustration among inexperienced undergraduate researchers searching a popular aggregated interdisciplinary database, the authors questioned whether the leading interdisciplinary databases are serving undergraduates' needs. As a preliminary exploration of this question, the authors queried vendors, analyzed their marketing materials, surveyed librarians and students, and examined what titles were being downloaded at 14 liberal arts institutions. Although librarians are satisfied with these databases, and vendors intend to continue the trend of adding more content, actual usage patterns suggest that these databases are not serving the purpose one might expect. Librarians should learn more about user experiences in order to …

The Case For Collaborative Tools: Long Distance Teamwork On A Shoestring Budget, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Lucie Olejnikova

Jessica de Perio Wittman

An article written on how to create podcasts using readily-available technology, and how to use these podcasts in legal education.

Guide To The Ezra Stoller Collection, 1947, 1987, Nancy Loe, Ken Kenyon

Nancy E. Loe

Collection contains 9 mounted vintage images by famed architectural photographer Ezra Stoller of the Clark residence in Lake Placid, New York, taken in 1947.

Digital Collection Celebrates North Carolina Public Libraries, Christy Allen

Christy Allen

No abstract provided.

The Internet Archive: How You Can Look Into The Web’S Past And Plan Your Future, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

How to find historical pages on the World Wide Web with the Internet Archive.

Teaching The Teacher: How To Integrate Information Literacy Into The Curriculum, Robert Fernekes, Sonya Shepherd

Sonya S. Gaither

No abstract provided.

Final Grant Performance Report (Pa-51183-05), Arrangement And Description Of The Julia Morgan Architectural Archives, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

The Julia Morgan Architectural Archives project concluded under budget and on time on April 30, 2007.

The two-year project’s goals were to arrange and describe the Julia Morgan and Sara Boutelle collections according to national standards for architectural archives; create EAD-encoded finding aids delivered via the Online Archives of California; create MARC catalog records for the collections; and create a digital image database of 750 images from the collections.

At the project’s conclusion, 291 linear feet of materials were processed and a total of 142 linear feet of boxed material were retained. Thirty-one flat files of drawings and plans were …

Guide To The Mcmillan-Wreden California Condor Collection, 1953, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

Contains correspondence between naturalist and environmental activist Ian McMillan and rare book dealer and rancher William P. Wreden and other conservationists and government officials on the conservation of the California condor. Wreden owned the Pinole Land and Cattle Company near McMillan’s ranch in eastern San Luis Obispo County. The two men corresponded on environmental advocacy efforts on behalf of California condors in 1953.

Framing Photographs, Denying Archives: The Difficulty Of Focusing On Archival Photographs, Tim Schlak

Tim Schlak

This article pursues the varying understandings of the photograph in archival literature. An in-depth review of the scholarship uncovers several possible reasons why archivists and those writing about photographic archives apparently continue to struggle with the photograph, including: the sheer difficulty that photographs as an elusive medium present; past debates about photography in art history, history, and archival literature; and the challenges that the photograph as an evasive document presents to the contradictory nature of archives themselves and to conceptions of archival science. Having evolved from an understanding of photographs that conflated content with meaning to postmodernist notions of contingent …

Wollongong: From Bunker To Beauty, Felicity Mcgregor

Felicity McGregor

A transformation is taking place at the University of Wollongong Library. An extension to the building is adding 2,000 square metres of space across three floors and visually changing the façade from a heavy bunker to a light-filled, transparent space. As the extension project progresses, the impact on both the exterior and interior are increasingly evident. The pebblecrete slabs that were suspended over the top floor and appeared to press the brick walls into the ground have been removed. A number of small shrubs and trees obscuring the building have gone. A soaring portico roof now provides shade for the …

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Revamping A Freshman Seminar Information Literacy Program, Amanda Izenstark, Mary Macdonald

Amanda Izenstark

Learn how the University of Rhode Island Library renewed their freshman seminar information literacy sessions without reinventing the wheel. Get ideas for reviving your current presentation and engaging students, while providing first year students with a broad view of your library space and services in 50 minutes or less. This renewed Library Experience program is an engaging and flexible three-part program that introduces students to a multitude of services, spaces and ideas about the who, what, when, where and how of an academic library. The new program reduces student boredom and librarian apathy through a model that accommodates differences in …

Anticipating The Future: The University Of Michigan's Media Union, Michael Miller

Michael D. Miller

The Media Union is a new facility that brings together information resources, information technology, and media production studios. It is unique in the blending of those resources into an integrated program serving the entire University of Michigan and supporting interdisciplinary collaboration. The Media Union anticipates the future not only by the proximity of its informational resources but by bringing together different types of information specialists to work collaboratively. The article provides a thorough description of the facility, its administrative structure, and examples of how pre-existing organizational units made the transition into the new environment.

What Do I Hear?: Ebay's Utility In A Library, Joseph Zumalt, Alison Konieczny

Joseph R. Zumalt

The online auction site eBay provides library staff and patrons an important tool in many areas. Libraries can use eBay as an additional avenue to buy and sell books, answer reference questions, promote computer literacy and even as a means to encourage library use. Examples of easy-to-use strategies are given, as well as a short list of recent book selections about how to get more out of eBay.

Bibliographic Supernova, Steven Ostrem

Steven F Ostrem

The article reviews the Google Book Search Web site.

The Mahout On The Elephant: How The Knowledge Management Practices Of The Wellington Campus Library Enriches Cput Libraries, Michiel Moll, Lynn Kleinveldt

Michiel E Moll

The importance of knowledge management in institutions is widely acknowledged. However, the influence of progressive knowledge management practices in one branch of the organization on the organization as a whole is the theme of this paper. The MJL Olivier Library (Wellington campus library) of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) is one of nine branches, with Cape Town and Bellville being the largest. However the knowledge management practices of Wellington with particular reference to knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge capturing leads to Wellington being seen as an “innovation champion” (Glynn, 1996) within the CPUT Academic Information Services (AIS). …

Framing A Vision For 21st-Century Librarianship: Lis Education In Changing Times, James Elmborg

James K. Elmborg

Librarianship is at a critical juncture. Technological changes have reshaped the information landscape, but libraries as social institutions have not been able to transform themselves to keep pace. This is the challenge of Library and Information Science Education. As we look to a future professional education for librarians, we need to acknowledge the need to reinvent our educational goals and methods so our graduates can lead in this new emerging environment. A relevant education for the information sectors will include a synthesis of global, technical, and critical perspectives to encourage librarians to understand the changes they need to enact to …

Nine Questions To Guide You In Choosing A Metadata Schema, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

No abstract provided.

The Library As Place In California, By Stacy Shotsberger Russo. Jefferson, N.C., Mcfarland & Company, Inc., 2008. Sbn 978- 0-7864-3194-6., Elizabeth Parang

Elizabeth Parang

Milwaukee Historic Photos (Digital Collection), Rose Fortier

Rose Fortier

The Milwaukee Historic Photos digital collection represents the start of the process of making historic photos of Milwaukee available to the public online. The photos from this collection are pulled from the Milwaukee Public Library's historic photograph collection. The entire collection includes over 20,000 photographs of Milwaukee dating from the late 19th century to present day. The current digital collection is only a small fraction of the total available photos, but is growing all the time, so stop back to see what new images become available. The photos were donated to the library by many different means. Some are family …

The Business Information Needs, Seeking Patterns And Information Services In The Small Medium And Micro Enterprises (Smme) Sector In Namibia, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

No abstract provided.

Best Of The Literature: Graduate Student Instruction, Kaijsa Calkins, Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Kaijsa Calkins

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Icts In Namibia’S Sme Sector To Access Business Information Services, Elisha Chiware, Archie Dick

Elisha Chiware

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present current state of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Namibia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector to access business information services. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a doctoral research project on business information needs, seeking patterns and utilisation of ICTs in the SME sector in Namibia that was carried out at the University of Pretoria from 2005 to 2007. The survey methodology using both qualitative and quantitative approaches was employed to collect data. Findings – The findings revealed that there is a very low level …

Going For The Gold: Identifying Academic-Quality Internet Resources, Crystal Renfro, Mary Axford

Crystal L Renfro

The purpose of this professional article is to review some of the key directories of Internet resources with a special focus on those that announce new academic-quality resources. Significant facets of the directories which will be incorporated in the discussion include scope of coverage, update frequency, identification of any e-mail alerts or RSS feeds offered, and resource selection criteria. Factors determining whether a site is given in-depth or brief coverage in this article include authority, currency, and whether sites are annotated and classified (the quality of the metadata). We also consider whether a site is broadly or narrowly selective. Broadly …

Guide To The California Fairs Collection, 1856-1997, Karen Lewis, Lynn Bonfield, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

The Western Fairs Association, the California Joint Committee on Fairs Allocation and Classification, and Louis S. Merrill, former director of the Western Fairs Association gave the California Fairs Collection, one of the major archival collections on fairs and fairs management in the Western United States, to Cal Poly in 1982. In addition to extensive material on the management of fairs in California, the collection also contains information on fairs in other Western states, as well as foreign fairs and world fairs.

The Fairs Collection contains archival and printed material created in three separate offices: Western Fairs Association, a non-profit trade …

First Mate's B-Log, Mel Regnell

Mel Regnell

Log entries of the First Mate on the sailing yacht, Fedele, out of Stockton Springs, Maine. Updated irregularaly as time and weather permits, these are the ramblings of a novice seaman on board the wooden boat Fedele - a 40 foot Ketch.

Regulation Short-Cut: Re-Route Pa. Code Searches To The Internet For Quicker, More Efficient Legal Research, Matthew Mcgovern

Matthew McGovern

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Locally Developed Electronic Resource Management Systems, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

Review Of The Book Icons Of Business: An Encyclopedia Of Mavericks, Movers & Shakers, Teresa Williams

Teresa Williams