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What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher
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
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 …
Finding Quality Business Information On The Internet, Andrée Rathemacher
Finding Quality Business Information On The Internet, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Article on strategies for finding reliable business information on the Internet. The article appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of the MBA Alumni Newsletter online, published by the University of Rhode Island College of Business Administration.
Business Databases On The Web: Report On Business Librarians' Spring Meeting, Andrée Rathemacher, Carol West
Business Databases On The Web: Report On Business Librarians' Spring Meeting, Andrée Rathemacher, Carol West
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Report on a program of the Business Librarians' Interest Group of ACRL/New England Chapter about Web-based business databases, held on May 21, 1998.