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Lacuny Disability Services Roundtable Meeting Minutes, December 2007, Lacuny Dec 2007

Lacuny Disability Services Roundtable Meeting Minutes, December 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, December 2007, Lacuny Dec 2007

Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, December 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, November 2007, Lacuny Nov 2007

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, November 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Serials Roundtable Meeting Minutes, November 2007, Lacuny Nov 2007

Lacuny Serials Roundtable Meeting Minutes, November 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Acquisitions Roundtable Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny Oct 2007

Lacuny Acquisitions Roundtable Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Collection Development Roundtable Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny Oct 2007

Lacuny Collection Development Roundtable Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny Oct 2007

Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, September 2007, Lacuny Sep 2007

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, September 2007, Lacuny

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Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki Sep 2007

Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.


Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki Jul 2007

Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the website Cyndi’s list of genealogy sites on the internet.


Research Authority In The Age Of Google: Equilibrium Sought, Mariana Regalado Jun 2007

Research Authority In The Age Of Google: Equilibrium Sought, Mariana Regalado

Publications and Research

The article examines the major shift in the relationship of students, instructors and librarians to information. It is argued that this shift is due to some fundamental changes to authority in the relationship in terms of Web publication, access to content and technical know-how. In addition, it also discusses the impact of the introduction of the Google search engine.


Digg.Com And Socially-Driven Authority, Steven Ovadia Jun 2007

Digg.Com And Socially-Driven Authority, Steven Ovadia

Publications and Research

For years, librarians have been able to distill the notion of authority, in its purest form, to two simple questions: “Who said it?” and “Under whose auspices?” The answer to either, or preferably both, of these questions could tell a researcher whether to rely on the information retrieved. Today, however, in the world of online information, the notion of authority is shifting and librarians working in an instructional capacity must understand the shift and determine ways to help students cope with the changes. Searching in today’s socially-driven information era requires a different skill set for researchers looking for authoritative information. …


Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again In The Age Of Google, Mariana Regalado, Jill Cirasella Jun 2007

Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again In The Age Of Google, Mariana Regalado, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Like all organisms and organizations, librarians and libraries evolve by adapting to changes and pressures in their environments. From scroll to codex to online text: every upgrade in technology is matched by an adaptation in librarianship. Nevertheless, despite centuries of evolution, the activities of librarians and the mission of libraries have remained essentially constant and are still recognizable. The pace of change in libraries has been especially rapid since the introduction of computers, and an important recent change is the advent of the “age of Google.” Heralded by the arrival in 1998 of the Google search engine, with its clean …


You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella Jun 2007

You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Library patrons often approach the reference desk with indirect, incomplete, or misleading questions, known as "ill-formed" questions. Transforming ill-formed questions into well-formed ones is a crucial part of the reference interview, and Google can be an active participant in that process. This paper discusses how Google can help librarians and patrons deal with incomplete citations, incorrect citations, incorrect spellings, tip-of-the-tongue questions, and forgotten searches.


Lacuny Cataloging Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny May 2007

Lacuny Cataloging Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny

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Lacuny Acquisitions Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny May 2007

Lacuny Acquisitions Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny

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To Perpetuity … And Beyond, Curtis Kendrick May 2007

To Perpetuity … And Beyond, Curtis Kendrick

Urban Library Journal

Good morning. I am delighted that LACUNY has organized this conference on Scholarly Publishing and Open Access. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Kenneth Schlesinger, LACUNY President, and the two Institute Co-chairs, Scott White and Beth Evans. ...


The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Summary Of A Presentation By Monica Berger And Gloria Rohman, Beth Evans May 2007

The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Summary Of A Presentation By Monica Berger And Gloria Rohman, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Monica Berger and Gloria Rohmann bring to the open access discussion the librarian’s point of view, both from the standpoint of the cataloger (Berger) and of the position of the public access librarian (Rohmann). ...


The Research Impact Of Open Access Journals, Summary Of A Presentation By Kristin Antelman, Irwin Weintraub May 2007

The Research Impact Of Open Access Journals, Summary Of A Presentation By Kristin Antelman, Irwin Weintraub

Urban Library Journal

The purpose of this study was to examine whether articles have a greater impact in citation numbers if they are open access compared to non-open access in the same journals. ...


Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Stewart Bodner, Eric Neubacher May 2007

Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Stewart Bodner, Eric Neubacher

Urban Library Journal

The Research Libraries of the New York Public Library is one of the most significant public information centers in the world. Since the opening in 1911 of its flagship building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in the heart of Manhattan , the Library has aimed to serve people from all walks of life and on a global scale. ...


Institutional Repositories (Ir) In Higher Education – A Panel Discussion, Summary, Beth Evans May 2007

Institutional Repositories (Ir) In Higher Education – A Panel Discussion, Summary, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Theresa McManus, the moderator, introduced the panel and opened with her own concerns about IRs. She finds herself caught between faculty advocating for mandating e-print repositories, priorities in a context of budget reductions, and faculty who view repositories sometimes with trepidation and doubt in regard to them being mandated to put materials in them. ...


Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Summary Of A Presentation By Stewart Bodner And Eric Neubacher, Beth Evans May 2007

Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Summary Of A Presentation By Stewart Bodner And Eric Neubacher, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Stewart Bodner opened his talk giving background information on institutional repositories (IR). He also spoke of the idea of NYPL as “an institution that collects for the historical record.” His quote from former director James Wood Henderson reminds us that the ideal research library should not select its collection based on “what the librarian or the contemporary public regards as good or important,” but rather it should “record life as it passes, its evil, vulgarity and triviality, as well as its more agreeable aspects.” ...


How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Summary Of A Presentation By Marcus A. Banks, Louise Fluk May 2007

How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Summary Of A Presentation By Marcus A. Banks, Louise Fluk

Urban Library Journal

Banks compares the accessibility of peer-reviewed and grey literature, particularly in the health field, and argues that the open access movement which is improving availability of commercially-published work provides a model for improving that of grey literature. ...


How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Marcus A. Banks May 2007

How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Marcus A. Banks

Urban Library Journal

With a focus on biomedicine and public health, this paper will demonstrate that the emerging success of open access publishing provides a model for improved access to grey literature. It will describe pioneering efforts to provide access to grey literature, and recommend ways to build upon these initiatives. Finally, it will argue that the evolution of electronic scholarship will eventually collapse the distinction between grey and non-grey literature.


Digital Archiving: A Fedora-Based Infrastructure To Preserve Electronic Journal Articles, Summary Of A Presentation By Ronald Jantz, Beth Evans May 2007

Digital Archiving: A Fedora-Based Infrastructure To Preserve Electronic Journal Articles, Summary Of A Presentation By Ronald Jantz, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Ronald Jantz, is Data Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. He spends a good deal of time working on digital libraries, digital repositories and digital preservation. ...


Designing For The Discipline: Open Libraries And Scholarly Communication, Summary Of A Presentation By Thomas Krichel, Beth Evans May 2007

Designing For The Discipline: Open Libraries And Scholarly Communication, Summary Of A Presentation By Thomas Krichel, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Thomas Krichel speaks about the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) system (http://RePEc.org). RePEc is a large digital library Krichel founded. Krichel says he is “bringing the world of economics into the world of computing and live information.” ...


Evaluating Means For Opportunities In Open Access Publishing At A Mid-Sized Private University, Summary Of A Presentation By Edward Keane, Monica Berger May 2007

Evaluating Means For Opportunities In Open Access Publishing At A Mid-Sized Private University, Summary Of A Presentation By Edward Keane, Monica Berger

Urban Library Journal

Edward Keane, formerly Periodicals Librarian at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, examines how teaching faculty perceive the value of Open Access (OA) publishing. His main interest is whether or not faculty are receptive to publishing in OA journals. In spring 2005, a survey was administered to faculty at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. Keane also documents subsequent efforts to inform faculty about OA publishing. ...


Lacuny Archives And Special Collections Roundtable Meeting Minutes, April 2007, Lacuny Apr 2007

Lacuny Archives And Special Collections Roundtable Meeting Minutes, April 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

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Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, April 2007, Lacuny Apr 2007

Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, April 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

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Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, April 2007, Lacuny Apr 2007

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, April 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

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