Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

In the final vision session of the 2009 NASIG Annual Conference, Geoffrey Bilder from CrossRef discussed the problem of how to identify trustworthy scholarly information on the Internet. This problem is exacerbated by readers’ growing distrust of intermediaries such as publishers and librarians, by the fact that the Internet lacks the traditions that have developed in scholarly communication to ensure trust, and by the sheer amount of information now readily available. Paratext is understood as anything outside of a text that sets expectations about that text. In the past, paratext, for example a publisher logo, provided important clues as to …

Open Forum: The Future Of Library Systems, Maria Collins, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Moderated by Maria Collins of North Carolina State University, discussion at this open forum on the future of library systems touched on open-source library systems, cloud computing, new initiatives by the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project and OCLC, and desired characteristics of future integrated library systems. Most participants had limited experience with next-generation library systems and attended the open forum with the desire to broaden their understanding, although some were exposed to or had worked with the open-source discovery tool VuFind, the OLE Project, WorldCat Local, and the OCLC Web-scale service. A strong desire to customize library systems to meet …

Library Web Site Statistics 2008-2009, Andree J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the number of requests to the Web site of the University Libraries, University of Rhode Island during 2008-2009.

Data are available for number of requests to the library home page and to the top levels of specific sub-directories within the site.

The number of total aggregate visits to the www.uri.edu/library site as a whole are not available. Also not available are data for certain months, thus annual totals given here are lower than the actual number of requests for the year.

Choosing The Right Free Im Providers And Clients For Your Library, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Publications

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