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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.

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 …

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

Carol Tenopir

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

El Cerro De Las Balsas Y El Chinchorro: Una Aproximación A La Arqueología Del Poblamiento Prehistórico E Ibérico En La Albufereta De Alicante., Pablo Rosser

pablo rosser

PABLO ROSSER, J. ELAYI, J.M. PÉREZ BURGOS. Estudio amplio de las intervenciones arqueológicas realizadas en el Cerro de las Balsas / Tossal de les Basses, Albufereta, Alicante. Monográfico nº 2, de la Revista LQNT.

The Press For Help Project Concept, Program And Working Paper Of Emmanuel Mario B Santos And His Marc Guerrero Communications Inc., Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero

Emmanuel Mario B Santos aka Marc Guerrero

FORETHOUGHT. DECLARATION OF IDEAOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES. VISION. MISSION. VALUES. GOALS. BASIC HELP project. EDUCATIONAL HELP project. MEDICAL HELP project. LEGAL HELP project. EMERGENCY HELP project. LIVELIHOOD HELP project. SPIRITUAL and CULTURAL HELP project. ENVIRONMENTAL HELP project. REENGINEERING HELP project. INTERNATIONAL HELP project. QUADRO CREDO Matthew 5.1-12, the Jerusalem Bible. The Universal Filipino Beatitudes. SALIN SA FILIPINO. DESIDERATA. AFTERTHOUGHT.

The Serious Leisure Frontier In Library And Informtion Science: Hobby Domains, Jenna Hartel

Jenna Hartel

Research on information behavior rarely focuses on leisure realms while favoring scholarly and professional contexts as subjects. Such is the case despite compelling evidence of the desirability and profundity of leisure in human life. This article introduces one popular form of leisure, hobbies, a potentially provocative topic for ISB scholarship. To facilitate research on information within hobbies, the article discusses two conceptual devices. Serious leisure (Stebbins, 1982) describes essential characteristics of leisure, establishes that some types are information-rich, and provides a framework to study leisure systematically. The collectivist theory of domain analysis (Hjørland and Albrechtsen, 1995) orients research to the …

Introduction To The Special Issue Of Knowledge Organization, Birger Hjorland, Jenna Hartel

Jenna Hartel

No abstract provided.

Synthesis Of 3- Or 4-Phenyl-1,8-Naphthyridine Derivatives And Evaluation Of Antimycobacterial And Antimicrobial Activity, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Historical Development Of Islamic Libraries Internationally And In South Africa : A Case Study Of The Islamic Library In Gatesville, Roldah Adams

Roldah Adams

The purpose of the study was to examine the historical development of Islamic libraries internationally and in South Africa and to examine the Islamic Library in Gatesville as a case study in order to understand in which way communities have sought to provide a solution for adequate library facilities for the specific needs of the Muslim community in the greater Cape Town area. The following objectives are derived from this purpose, namely to examine the:

-- Historical development of Islamic libraries internationally and in South Africa

-- Historical background of the Islamic Library in Gatesville

-- Services rendered at the …

Translation Events In Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, And Correct Translations, Anne R. Diekema

Anne Diekema

Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems enable users to formulate queries in their native language to retrieve documents in foreign languages. Because queries and documents in CLIR do not necessarily share the same language, translation is needed before matching can take

place. This translation step tends to cause a reduction in the retrieval performance of CLIR as compared to monolingual information retrieval.

The prevailing CLIR approach and the focus of this study is query translation. The translation of queries is inherently difficult due to the lack of a one-to-one mapping of a lexical item and its meaning, which creates lexical ambiguity. …

Book Reviews: A History Of The Tennessee Supreme Court;, Cathy Cochran

Cathy Cochran

No abstract provided.

Images Of The Great Smoky Mountains: The Albert "Dutch" Roth Photograph Collection, Ken Wise

Ken Wise

No abstract provided.

Increasing Effective Student Use Of The Scientific Journal Literature, Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Increasing Effective Student Use Of The Scientific Journal Literature, Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Literacy, Learning And Libraries: Common Issues And Common Concerns, Ken Haycock

Ken Haycock

Discusses common issues in literacy, learning and libraries in Canada. Role of libraries and librarians in literacy; Need to have collaboration between public libraries and school districts on professional family literacy programs; Measures to succeed in making library programs effective for students.

Can Document-Genre Metadata Improve Information Access To Large Digital Collections?, Kevin Crowston, Barbara H. Kwasnik

Barbara H. Kwasnik

No abstract provided.

Stretching Conceptual Structures In Classifications Across Languages And Cultures., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Victoria L. Rubin

Barbara H. Kwasnik

The authors describe the difficulties of translating classifications from a source language and culture to another language and culture. To demonstrate these problems, kinship terms and concepts from native speakers of fourteen languages were collected and analyzed to find differences between their terms and structures and those used in English. Using the representations of kinship terms in the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) as examples, the authors identified the source of possible lack of mapping between the domain of kinship in the fourteen languages studied and the LCC and DDC. Finally, some preliminary suggestions …