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Federal Indian Law Internet Tools: Indian Territory Cases At The Oklahoma State Courts Network And Kappler’S Indian Affairs: Laws And Treaties At The Oklahoma State University, Charles D. Bernholz

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Academic Library Web Sites For Distance Learners In Greater Western Library Alliance Member Institutions, Mary Cassner, Kate E. Adams

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Through the library web site, academic libraries present extensive resources and a suite of services to support distance learners. The web site is a vital communication link between the distance student and reference-based instructional component that the librarian provides. This article examines web sites and distance learning library services pages of Greater Western Library Alliance members.

The Importance Of Marketing And Total Quality Management In Libraries, Rajashekhar D. Kumbar

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Introduction

Herb White, states in Library Journal, “... it should be fairly clear that librarians do not market and that they never have marketed.” He concludes, “What we need to tell people is not how wonderful our public libraries are but rather how wonderful they could be. The awakening of these dreams is the purpose of marketing” (Besant & Sharp, 2000). Since the 1960’s, the most widely taught marketing concept was the marketing mix theory: the 4Ps (product, price, place and promotion)—so clean, so neat, so inappropriate for libraries. Marketing theory cannot always be so succinctly described since relationships …

The Empowering Role Of Enterprise Information Portals In Knowledge Management, Alireza Hejazi

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

The increasing role of enterprise information portals (EIPs) in different applications of information, including knowledge management (KM), makes it a necessity to elaborate the issue in a more serious and scientific way. The contribution and role that these kinds of portals have in empowering KM provide a theoretical framework through which to offer a conceptual basis for present and future KM trends. So the main purpose of this article is to organize theoretical concepts discussed on EIPs in a summarized manner and provide a conceptual context for thinking and working on them. It should be noted that the perspective …

Clinical Librarianship (Cl): A Historical Perspective, Evaliga Lappa

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Introduction

A number of previous studies have collected data on a hospital’s use of databases and the librarian’s role in the process. These studies express common themes and suggest activities for librarians wishing to promote the use of new technologies.

The first theme: While it seems clear that some physicians are competent and satisfied users of new computer search systems, many more, unfortunately, are unaware of the potential time saving features and powerful search capabilities of their search systems. Health sciences librarians have been advocating the use of indexes and abstracts for as long as these products have been available. …

If It Ain't Broke ... : Changing Search Philosophies, John M. Weiner

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

This study employs simulation analyses to determine the consequences of two search philosophies. The first is called the a posteriori approach and involves terms selected arbitrarily by the user without knowledge of the specific content of the documents. The second is the a priori approach and involves terms selected because the user knows that the author employed those exact terms in describing his/her findings. Further, the authors' combinations of these terms would be known. The results of simulation studies show that the a posteriori approach was comparable to a random walk. If the need to correctly identify documents was …

Language-Related Open Archives: Impact On Scholarly Communities And Academic Librarianship, Jung-Ran Park

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

The evolution of new forms of scholarly communication since the advent of Web technology has brought unprecedented opportunities for potential global connection among the rapidly growing number of electronic repositories among scholarly communities. Under the open archive infrastructures, scholarly resources that had been invisible to Web search engines and thus afforded limited dissemination and access are now becoming increasingly visible with speedy and wide distribution. This paper addresses the emergent issues and challenges faced by academic librarians: participation in archiving, organization, and preservation of open repositories; integration of Web-based repositories into traditional collections; and mediation and direction of academic users …

Nigerian University Libraries And The Challenges Of Globalization: The Way Forward, L. A. Ogunsola

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to examine the importance, implications, and opportunities opened to Nigerian libraries in the current Information Age as related to the concept of globalization. This paper shall attempt to address possible areas of importance and advantages that can propel Nigerian universities and their libraries into being a respective player in the global IT revolution and enhance their status in what is now widely called as Global Village. This paper stresses the necessity for Nigerian universities to be part of the new and emerging technologies which are challenging the traditional process of teaching and …

An Analysis Of Entry-Level Librarian Ads Published In American Libraries, 1982-2002, Claudene Sproles, David Ratledge

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Much discussion has taken place in the literature over the difficulty finding qualified candidates to fill vacancies within libraries. Emphasis has been placed on recruitment, internships, scholarships, and other partnerships by library science schools and libraries to attract new people to the profession. Even so, applicant pools are dwindling [Simmons-Welburn and McNeil, 2004] and many institutions have been forced to rewrite job ads after initial postings to locate a qualified candidate. Factors hindering vacancy searches include:

• Graying of the profession, “Thousands of librarians will be retiring in the next ten years” [Simmons-Welburn and McNeil, 2004]
• Budget constraints/less positions [Bureau of …

University Library Partnerships: Promoting Economic Development, J. Cory Tucker

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

The article discusses an innovative partnership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The collaborative project involves the UNLV Libraries and the Nevada Small Business Development Center, which is affiliated with the College of Business. The partnership was created to assist the University's goal of promoting economic development in the Las Vegas and Southern Nevada region.

Review Of The Children Of Africa Confront Aids Edited By Arvind Singhal And W. Stephen Howard; Ohio University Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

This slim volume is packed full of information about the plight of children in Africa due to the AIDS crisis. It is divided into four sections-Vulnerability, Coping, Courage, and Possibility-containing not just a litany of the horrors that children in Africa face but also descriptions of attempts at solutions to the problems. The challenges that many children in Africa confront are daunting. There is widespread sexual violence and sexual coercion of children, and there is currently inadequate infrastructure in health care and nutrition, education, and social structure to deal with the problems effectively. The issue of sexual violence and coercion …

An Online Guide To Walt Whitman's Dispersed Manuscripts, Katherine L. Walter, Kenneth M. Price

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Museum and Library Services, the University of Nebraska– Lincoln and the University of Virginia embarked on a project to create a unified finding aid to Walt Whitman manuscript collections held in many different institutions. By working collaboratively, the project team is developing a finding aid that is tailored to the needs of Whitman scholars while following a standard developed in the archival community, encoded archival description (EAD). XSLT stylesheets are used to harvest information from various repositories’ finding aids and to create an integrated finding aid with links back to the original versions. Digital images of poetry manuscripts and descriptive …

Electronic Publishing And The University Presses, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

A pre-mortem on the death of scholarly publishing and an assessment of the current (as of the summer of 2004) state of electronic publishing among the university presses in the United States. Includes a financial analysis of the problems in scholarly publishing, as practiced by university presses, and suggestions how electronic forms of delivery may relate to these. Includes active links to many digital projects and vendors. Other panel participants included William Parrish, Department of History, Mississippi State University, chair; Steve Wrinn, Director, University Press of Kentucky; Fred Woodward, Director, University Press of Kansas; and Beverly Jarrett, Director, University of …

American Indian Treaties And The Supreme Court: A Guide To Treaty Citations From Opinions Of The United States Supreme Court, Charles D. Bernholz

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Distributing And Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata In Geospatial Information Repositories For Access, Elaine L. Westbrooks

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

IN 1998 THE Albert R. Mann Library created the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR), a web-based repository providing free access to geospatial data and metadata for New York State. Since its inception, CUGIR has undergone a series of changes and upgrades in response to emerging standards and technologies in the field of geospatial information systems (GIs) and digital library research. Its continuous adoption of new library and GIs standards and developments has made CUGIR increasingly more accessible to users within Cornell University and beyond.

The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository has a number of characteristics that pose unique challenges …

"Introduction" To Metadata In Practice, Diane I. Hillmann, Elaine L. Westbrooks

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

IT IS BOTH an exciting and frustrating time to be working in the world of metadata. Exciting because so many new communities are discovering the usefulness of metadata at the same time as librarians seriously consider the limitations of our traditional notions of the functions of libraries. New metadata formats seem to erupt like dandelions on a spring lawn, each seeking to bring together new communities with genuine needs to organize their important information.

For librarians or project managers who attempt to understand this world enough to plan a project implementation with a metadata component, the frustrations are also considerable. …

External Review For Promotion And Tenure, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, Kay Logan-Peters

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Using Your Local Library, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

No abstract provided.

Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

The story of the scourge of pellagra, a fatal niacin deficiency characterized by a severe skin rash, diarrhea, and dementia, has faded into obscurity in this country. With a mortality rate of upwards of 30 percent, it plagued the southern United States as late as the 1940s, claiming the lives of hundreds or thousands of impoverished Southerners every year. Joseph Goldberger's family, Hungarian Jews, emigrated to New York City in 1883 when he was nine years old. He became a scientist working in the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. An occasional victim of the pathogens he studied, Goldberger …

The Work And Goals Of The Sts Task Force On Information Literacy For Science And Technology, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

"The Work and Goals of the STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology" presentation was given as part of the program of the Science and Technology Section (STS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries Division of the American Library Association at the 2004 American Library Association Annual Conference. The intent of the presentation was to outline the history, process, feedback methods, and outcome of the STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology.

Introducing Rita Mae Brown, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Remarks delivered at The Loft at The Mill, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 21, 2004, before a reading and talk by Rita Mae Brown, as part of the Nebraska Writers’ Conference. Includes thanks to sponsors, a commercial message for the University of Nebraska Press, and a recollection and interpretation of the novel RUBY FRUIT JUNGLE, its impact on a graduate student in American literature in New York City in the 1970s, its relation to Puritan spiritual autobiography, and its continuing call for the interrelationship of the personal and political in literature. Length = 850 words.

A Survey Of Distance-Administrators In Arl Libraries: An Overview Of Library Resources And Services, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

The authors conducted a survey of distance librarian-administrators at Association of Research Libraries member libraries who plan for and manage distance learning library services. Survey questions included: What resources and services do ARL libraries currently offer to distance learners? What changes are being planned for in the immediate future? With libraries experiencing flattened budgets, what will be the impact on distance learners? Findings from the survey will inform librarian- administrators and library deans/directors of the current state of, and emerging trends in, distance learning library services.

Yad Vashem And The Comprehensive History Of The Holocaust, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Remarks delivered at the Henry and Gretl Wald Lecture, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 8, 2004, introducing Christopher R. Browning’s lecture on “The Origins of the Final Solution: The Fateful Months of September–October 1941.” The remarks outline the history of the publication project and concern the history and mission of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Includes recognition of the roles played by Estee Du-Nour, Bella Gutterman, Yehuda Bauer, and Renée Poznanski of Yad Vashem; Daniel J. J. Ross, then director of the University of Nebraska Press; Alan Steinweis, Doris Bergen, Peter Hayes, Susannah Heschel, and Michael Marrus of …

Independence Of Nations And The Role Of Libraries: The American Library System As The Stakeholder For Freedom Of Information, Lana Zink

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

The nations of the world community are independent of each other. There is no higher authority to bring together like and unlike nations for the betterment of world order. Each nation stands alone. It is realized, even in America, that international affairs dictate there is no one moral code common to all people and to all governments of the world. Political order in the world community depends upon an independence of nations, but an independence that recognizes a moral, reasoned mind. The so-called American library system plays a role in the assurances toward tempered, human behavior at the international …

A First In Africa: Implementation Of Metalib And Sfx At The Cape Technikon Library, Deborah Becker

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

The Cape Technikon was the first member of the CALICO consortium of five academic libraries in the Western Cape, South Africa to implement Metalib and SFX technology.

Metalib is a library portal that enables users to search multiple database sources simultaneously, while SFX provides “context-sensitive” linking. This article examines local technical and staffing issues, managing the implementation process using the traditional African principles of ubuntu and batho pele (putting “people first”), and the marketing campaign leading to the final launch of the product.

The use of questionnaires at various stages of the implementation process to evaluate users’ opinions and …

The Next Step In Scholarly Communication: Is The Traditional Journal Dead?, Jeanne Galvin

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Electronic journals have been applauded as a solution to the serials pricing crisis, a step toward environmentally responsible behavior and a means for scholars to expedite and expand their modes of communication. On the other hand, until fairly recently some scholars regarded electronic journals as ephemeral and inaccessible to all but the technologically proficient. As rising prices force libraries to cancel subscriptions each year and publication delays slow scholarly communication and academic careers, electronic journals seem to offer some promise. The article will review the recent advances made by electronic journals and the current challenges remaining for scholarly communication.

Review Of Stories In The Time Of Cholera: Racial Profiling During A Medical Nightmare By Charles L. Briggs With Clara Mantini-Briggs; University Of California Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Briggs chronicles the cholera epidemic in the Amacuro Delta of Venezuela in 1992 and 1993 and examines the modes of discourse that shaped perceptions of the tragedy. He demonstrates how the dominant narrative-that is, that of public health officials, journalists, and doctors-was based not on data and reason, but primarily on deeply ingrained cultural and racial stereotypes. He contends that the racialized discourse adversely affected the response of the health care community to the epidemic, resulting in hundreds of preventable deaths. Briggs reports that health care facilities were unavailable to the indigenous Warao, and due to an ineffectual outreach infrastructure, …

Willa Cather's Greenwich Village: New Contexts For 'Coming, Aphrodite!', Andrew Jewell

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Two assumptions confront anyone exploring Willa Cather's relationship to Greenwich Village. First, that Willa Cather, who lived in the Village from 1906 until 1927, and made New York her permanent residence until her death in 1947, was at American modernism's geographic center: around her in these years was the highest concentration of artistic talent that twentieth century America ever knew. According to Ann Douglas, "Modern American culture ... is unimaginable without New York City." To Alfred Kazin, Greenwich Village "ushered in the first great literary society in America after Concord." "Nowhere did the instinct for the new flourish more extravagantly," …

Libraries Stuck In The Middle: Reactive Vs. Proactive Responses To The Science Journal Crisis, Elaine Maytag Nowick, Claudine A. Jenda

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Libraries and the scholarly community share a dream of creating a world where scholarly articles are easily available on the Internet to everyone who wants them, without any fees, restrictions or barriers of any kind. What is preventing us from fulfilling such a noble and worthy goal? This paper examines selected case studies that show how libraries and scholars are coping with the science journal crisis. By highlighting responses that are innovative and proactive, this paper hopes to contribute to a general awareness of responses that have the potential for transforming the current scholarly communication process into an open, unimpeded, …

Introduction To Online Ecological And Environmental Data, Virginia A. Baldwin

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

The advent of the Internet and proliferation of materials on it has brought significant and rapid change in scholarly communication. Perhaps more gradually has come the posting of research data for sharing with other researchers in the field. This volume describes several projects that have made environmental and ecological researchers' data freely available online. Librarians from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), from one regional agency based in Oregon, one university, and one research corporation describe aspects of the online data projects developed by their respective institutions. A sixth paper, from a librarian …