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Digital Preservation In Action: Toward A Campus-Wide Program, Richard Fyffe, Deborah M. Ludwig, Beth F. Warner

Deborah M. Ludwig

Integrating Resources Cataloging Workshop, Steven Miller, Wendy Robertson

Wendy C Robertson

This pre-conference covered the first four sessions of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program’s Integrating Resources Cataloging Workshop, focusing on electronic resources. Steven Miller defined integrating resources and how to identify them. He then explained initial decisions to make when cataloging these resources. He covered the MARC fields and AACR2 rules that are unique for integrating resources and new to people accustomed to cataloging e-journals. Miller discussed how records should be updated to reflect changes in the resources, including how to update records created before the new rules. He concluded by discussing the difficulties of maintaining records for these resources. …

Open Access Or Differential Pricing For Journals: The Road Best Traveled?, David Stern

David Stern

Open access (OA) is becoming a reality, with new cost models under development. The various cost models will have serious short- and long-term implications for libraries and dangerously impact the scholarly communication network. I believe that the adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. OA, as a business model, is neither necessary nor desirable. With or without the often-discussed author charges approach, it would be almost impossible to obtain the same amount of total revenue through selected libraries as now exists from the much larger base of library subscriptions. Tiered …

Teaching Roles Of Librarians: New Variations, Melissa Harvey

Missy Harvey

Librarians have had to adapt in many ways over the last 20 years, and approaches to teaching information literacy have had to be modified. Not only do we have to think about online, 24/7 access to digital resources both inside and outside of the library, we often have to look at the larger role of our impact on workers in the digital economy.

List Of Thomas Hardy's Letters At Colby, Karen Gillum

Karen J Gillum

Annotated list of Colby College's Special Collections' holdings of letters written by Thomas Hardy. For those letters that appear to relate to letters described in Carl J. Weber's book, Thomas Hardy's Correspondence at Max Gate, the corresponding numbers in that book are given for reference.

Guide To Historical Research With Government Publications, 1789-1989, Cheryl Truesdell

Cheryl B. Truesdell

This is an examination of 200 years of historical documents series, 1789-1989. This guide identifies and locates major historical print and digital collections within the Indiana University library system and collections now being made available free on the Internet. It also provides a review of executive publications of the nineteenth century as part of the United States Congressional Serial Set, a discussion of the development of executive agency publications in the twentieth century, current indexing and access tools for identifying historical materials, and recommendations for obtaining materials.

Guide To Library And Information Agency Management, Charles Curran, Lewis Miller

Lewis R. Miller

Note: Link is to the catalog entry in WorldCat's catalog. Please see your local librarian for assistance in borrowing this item via interlibrary loan.

This guide identifies major concerns and involves interested parties in thoughtful consideration and discussion of challenges and opportunities embedded in managerial and administrative practice. By talking about the management of information places and with managers and mangers-to-be, authors Curran and Miller provide a more thorough and realistic outlook on the managerial experience. The authors assert that:

· Information agencies of all stripes share a common purpose

· The act of deciding is the primary administrative/managerial responsibility …

Focusing On Assignments: Engaging Students In Library Research, Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh

Amanda "Mandy" J. Swygart-Hobaugh

An online assignment guide that provides pedagogical taxonomies as well as sample assignments and assessments for integrating library-research assignments informed by information literacy standards into a course.

Reformatting Preservation Departments: The Effect Of Digitization On Workload And Staff, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

Voice Recognition Technology: Has It Come Of Age?, Joseph Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Voice recognition software allows computer users to bypass their keyboards and use their voices to enter text. While the library literature is somewhat silent about voice recognition technology, the medical and legal communities have reported some success using it. Voice recognition software was tested for dictation accuracy and usability within an agriculture library at the University of Illinois. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8.0 was found to be more accurate than speech recognition within Microsoft Office 2003. Helpful Web sites and a short history regarding this breakthrough technology are included.

Learning About Grey Literature By Interviewing Subject Librarians, Pat Sulouff, Judi Briden, Suzanne Bell, Stephanie Frontz, Ann Marshall

Ann Marshall

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