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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sfx But Were Afraid To Ask, Wendy C. Robertson, Paul A. Soderdahl

Paul A Soderdahl

Link resolvers, including Ex Libris’ SFX, use OpenURL to provide library patrons with context-sensitive links, such as the ability to move quickly from a citation in an abstracting and indexing database to the full text. In SFX, information for determining the appropriate links is maintained in the knowledge base, which contains details about a library’s electronic holdings and other information about electronic information resources. This article describes SFX functionality, what the service looks like from a patron’s point of view, and how it can be of particular assistance to a serials librarian.

Does The Medium Matter?: A Comparison Of A Web-Based Tutorial With Face-To-Face Library Instruction On Education Students' Self-Efficacy Levels And Learning Outcomes, Penny Beile, David Boote

Penny Beile

Radio Frequency Id And Privacy With Information Goods, Laura Quilter, Nathan Good, John Han, Elizabeth Miles, David Molnar, Deirdre Mulligan, Jennifer M. Urban, David Wagner

Jennifer M. Urban

No abstract provided.

Zines And The Library, Richard A. Stoddart, Teresa Kiser

Rick A Stoddart

Zines, loosely defined as self-published magazines, provide a cultural insight to the time in which they are published, making them a genre that libraries may want to consider collecting. Due to their ephemeral nature, however, they create collecting, cataloging, and preserving challenges to libraries. Few libraries across the country have met these challenges and maintain zine collections. Although no two libraries met the challenges in the same way, their unique approaches to zine collections may inspire other librarians to investigate the appropriateness and feasibility of zine collections

Planning Bioinformatics Education And Information Services In An Academic Health Sciences Library, W. John Macmullen, K.T. L. Vaughan, Margaret E. Moore

K.T. L. Vaughan

Connecting Diversity To Management: A Study Of Career Development Patterns Of Library Managers In Selected Arl Member Libraries And Arl Lcdp Participants, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou

La Loria Konata

This study focuses on diversity in library management. The impetus for our study is based on Thomas and Ely’s Paradigms for Managing Diversity. The first paradigm addresses the “discrimination-and-fairness” issues in business management and measures success in diversity initiatives in terms of how well a company does in recruitment and retention of minority employees. This paradigm aims to increase the number of minorities employed and correct any discrimination and unfairness in the hiring and promotion process. The Spectrum Scholars Initiative is a good example of this. The second paradigm focuses on the aspects of “access-and-legitimacy” of workforce diversity. Employees are …

Beyond The Basics: Expanding The Results Of A Preliminary Patent Search, Jan Comfort

Jan Comfort

No abstract provided.

Utilizing The Power Of Continuous Process Improvement In Technical Services, Lisa A. Palmer, Barbara C. Ingrarssia, Jennifer Varney, Penny Glassman, Elaine Russo Martin

Lisa A. Palmer

Objective: Examine the efficiency of work processes in the Technical Services Department, with the goal of reducing the turnaround time by 50% or more for three specific processes: (1) acquiring books for requestors; (2) implementing serials title changes; and (3) handling of journal issues from receipt to binding.

Method: In summer 2003 the Library initiated a Continuous Process Improvement project. The project’s goal is to reduce time and/or save money by examining and improving work processes. The charge for the Technical Services team is to (1) reduce the turnaround time by 50% or more for firm orders from when the …

Periodicals Price Survey 2004: Closing In On Open Access, Lee C. Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Finglish, Kent Randell

Kent Randell

On her first day in the Americas, Finnish Professor Marja-Liisa Martin was told by her hostess: Artturilla on paita uunissa. Translated from Finnish this meant: Arthur has a shirt in the oven. However, translated from Finglish, the sentence makes a lot more sense: Arthur has a pie in the oven.1 Similar confusing, often comical, exchanges have been happening for about 100 years. Finglish is what happened to the Finnish language when Finns, apart from their mother-land, adapted to the English speaking environs of the United States and Canada while being kept apart from linguistic changes in Finland.

Information Studies Without Information, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

In philosophy of language, the phenomena fundamental to human communication are routinely modeled in ways that do not require commitment to a concept of "information" separate from those of "data," "meaning," "communication," "knowledge," and "relevance" (inter alia). A taxonomy of conceptions of information may be developed that relies on commonly drawn philosophical distinctions (between linguistic, mental, and physical entities, between objects and events, and between particulars and universals); in such a taxonomy, no category requires the label "information" in order to be differentiated from others. It is suggested that a conception of information-as-relevance is currently the most productive of advances …

Oliver Optic 1822-1897, Children's Author, Dale Freeman

Dale H. Freeman

No abstract provided.

Conceptual Analysis: A Method For Understanding Information As Evidence, And Evidence As Information, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

The utility of conceptual analysis for archival science is assessed by means of an exploratory evaluation in which the concept of evidence is analyzed. Usage of the term “evidence” in the philosophies of science, law, and history is briefly reviewed; candidates for necessary conditions of evidentiariness are identified and examined; and taxonomies are built of evidentiariness and of archival inference. Correspondences are shown to exist between the concepts of evidentiariness and relevance, and between the domains of archival science and social epistemology, thereby pointing in promising directions for further research. The tentative conclusion is reached that conceptual analysis may profitably …

Review Of Multinational Strategic Management: An Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process By Robert J. Mockler, Marc Vinyard

Marc Vinyard

Book review of Multinational Strategic Management: An Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process by Robert J. Mockler.

Ephemeral To Enduring: The Internet Archive And Its Role In Preserving Digital Media, Eli Edwards

Eli Edwards

The Internet was first created as a communications network, but it has produced myriad effects in many sectors of technology, business, and society. Among these important changes are the growth of electronic publishing and the increasing use of the Internet as a medium for disseminating diverse documents, literature, art, journalism, commentary, and miscellaneous expressions of information and thought. Digital media, and the rise of Internet distribution of it, has caused profound changes in librarianship as well.

In Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana, Kristine R. Brancolini

Kristine R. Brancolini

No abstract provided.

Russian Periodical Index Digital Project (Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, 1956-1975, Kristine R. Brancolini, Michelle Dalmau, John A. Walsh

Kristine R. Brancolini

No abstract provided.

Digital Libraries Education Program, Kristine R. Brancolini

Kristine R. Brancolini

No abstract provided.

Further Additions To The Bibliography Of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles H. Smith

Charles Kay Smith

No abstract provided.

Enhanced Staff Development Programs: Strengthening The Personal Through Collegial Reflection, Trisha Mileham, Ruth S. Connell

Ruth S. Connell

No abstract provided.

Striving For Success: Practical Advice For Reference Graduate Assistants, Brett Spencer, Amia Baker, Rick A. Stoddart, Sheri Helt, Adrienne Lee (Mcphaul), Bryan Tronstad

Rick A Stoddart

No abstract provided.

A Citation Analysis Of The Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate's Reflection In Sociology Research: Implications For Library Collection Development, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh

This study examines how the social sciences’ debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected in the citation patterns of sociology journal articles. Citation analysis revealed that quantitative articles were more likely to cite journal articles than monographs, while qualitative articles were more likely to cite monographs than journals. Quantitative articles cited other articles from their own quantitative-dominated journals but virtually excluded citations to articles from qualitative journals, while qualitative articles cited articles from the quantitative-dominated journals as well as their own qualitative-specialized journals. Discussion and conclusions include this study’s implications for library collection development.

Public Library Of Science (Plos) Biology, Betty Ladner, Barbara Tierney

Barbara Tierney

Finding And Creating Possibility: Reading In The Lives Of Lesbian, Bisexual And Queer Young Women, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer

The Internet In The Reading Accounts Of Lesbian And Queer Young Women: Failed Searches And Unsanctioned Reading, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer

Teaching, Learning And Research: Linking High School Teachers To Information Literacy, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

The Compton Teacher Information Literacy Institute (CTILI) is a teacher professional development program funded by the Compton (CA) Unified School District and delivered by the University of California at Irvine Libraries’ Department of Education and Outreach. Teacher professional development, university and library outreach activities and influences are discussed to give background on CTILI curriculum development. Institute goals and objectives are outlined, as is our curriculum remodeling effort after a mid-year assessment. Plans for future institutes are included.

"People Aren't Afraid Anymore, But It's Hard To Find Books": Reading Practices That Inform The Personal And Social Identities Of Self-Identified Lesbian And Queer Young Women, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer