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Whole Lotta Movin’ Goin’ On, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

WHEN I LIVED IN California, the hot, dry days of September and October were always referred to as "earthquake weather." Although the term may not be accurate geologically, shaking and moving was the autumnal activity of some of the major California-based information companies. The parent companies of both Dialog and Information Access Company (IAC) announced in September that they would be moving corporate headquarters out of California (see InfoTech, U 10/15/98, p. 25-26). What will it mean for us, their customers?

Designing Electronic Journals With 30 Years Of Lessons Learned From Print: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Scientists find journals useful, both for their teaching and their research — so useful, in fact, that they are willing to pay for them. If electronic journals prove to be as useful, or more useful, their viability is assured.

Hot Topic: National Guard's Weekend Drills Are Considered Training, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

This Hot Topic discusses the Attorney General's Opinion No. 98-155, which addresses whether National Guard weekend drills are considered training under the law and subject to the military leave provisions of the Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.). According to the Attorney General's opinion, "Weekend training appears to be within the statutory terms of the T.C.A." The term "training" ordinarily would encompass the term "drill." Drill is defined by Webster's dictionary as "the act of training soldiers in the military art ... a kind or method of military exercises." The A.G. cited an Alabama case, Britton vs. Jackson, 414 So.2d 966 (Ala. …

Proving Your Point With Word Searches, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Online search services may be used to trace word usage which in turn may be used to determine the growth of an industry or to help in budgetary planning. Dialog and Lexis-Nexis are effective online services for use in analyzing word usage.

The Impact Of Digital Reference On Librarians And Library Users, Carol Tenopir, Lisa Ennis

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

University reference librarians report a variety of effects, both positive and negative, from the rapid and widespread adoption of electronic media during the last decades. Heightened expectations from students and, to a lesser degree, from faculty are noticed by many librarians. Partly because of media hype about the wonders of the Internet and the ubiquity of the World Wide Web, students expect to be able to answer every question and do every research project online. One major impact of electronic services is the growing need for user instruction. Part of the problem is that there are still many students with …

Hot Topic: Community Water Systems Required To Distribute Consumer Confidence Reports, Steve Wyatt

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

A recent amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act established the requirement for community water systems (CWS) to prepare a consumer confidence report (CCR) to distribute to their customers.

Online Meetings Of Minds, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The two big online conferences in the US are the National Online Meeting (NOM) and Online World. Tenopir discusses highlights of the 1998 NOM and offers information on the upcoming Online World conference.

An Exploratory Study Of User Searching Of The World Wide Web: A Holistic Approach, Carol Tenopir, Peiling Wang, Elizabeth Layman, David Penniman, Shawn Collins

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Pricing Options, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir discusses database pricing issues in libraries. Pricing for digital products has been found to be much more complex than print pricing. The options that most libraries use fall into the categories of pay-as-you-go pricing, fixed-pricing, and user-based licensing.

Hot Topic: Public Acts Affecting Cities, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The 1998 Tennessee General Assembly passed into law several acts that affect Tennessee municipalities. This Hot Topic summarizes some of these acts.

Hot Topic: State Revises Travel Reimbursement Rates, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The state of Tennessee revised its travel reimbursement rates, with new, higher state rates effective August 1, 1998.

The Digital Reference World Of Academic Librarians., Carol Tenopir, Lisa Ennis

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Throughout the 1990s, the reference departments of academic libraries have seen a rapid evolution from a print-centered world to a digital-intensive one. Online, CD-ROM, and World Wide Web resources are often the first choice of both library users and reference librarians. For the latest measure of how academic libraries incorporate electronic information sources into their reference activities and the effect on library services, a questionnaire was sent to all academic members of the Association of Research Libraries in the 4th quarter of 1997. Over 73% of ARL libraries report more than 100 workstations or terminals. Not surprisingly, the big growth …

Furor Over Prices, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir discusses online databases and the major shift in pricing policies that just occurred at the DIALOG corporation. Right now is really not the best time for vendors to start increasing prices.

Hot Topic: New Law Requires Countywide Growth Plan And Limits Annexation And Incorporation, Jim Finane, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Effective May 19, 1998, Public Acts 1998, Chapter 1101, was a new law governing annexation and incorporation in Tennessee. Changes in annexation and incorporation included a required countywide land use planning process that limits annexations and incorporations to certain areas and subjects them to new restrictions. The law also gave counties a major new role in the annexation planning process and in annexation and incorporation decisions. It also preserved their revenues in newly-annexed and incorporated territories.

Expert Views Of The Future, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

While no one knows for sure what the future holds for libraries or the online industry, experts have their opinions. Tenopir buttonholed 17 of them for their views of coming changes in information science and delivery.

Data Dealers Face Stormy Weather, Carol Tenopir, Jeff Barry

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Librarians should consider forming alliances to strength for negotiating the stormy database marketplace's flood of new information and new choices being promoted by database companies. Libraries must choose from among at least 29 database providers using 58 separate online, web or CD-ROM systems.

Pricing Options For End User Products In Libraries, Carol Tenopir, George F. Banks, Leslie Lowe Preston

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

As libraries offer more database products for end user searching, information service providers are offering a wider variation in pricing options. While "per use" options are still available (including connect time, per search, or output pricing), flat fee or subscription-based licensing options are becoming more popular. Subscription prices vary widely depending on type and size of library or organization, number of concurrent ("simultaneous") users, number of potential users, or size of population served by a library. My presentation will outline the various options available and the advantages and disadvantages of each for different types of libraries. Pricing based on number …

Reference Use Statistics, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir recently surveyed academic reference librarians to find out about their use of electronic reference sources and how things have changed in the last few years. She discusses the results of her survey.

An Exploratory Study Of User's Interaction With World Wide Web Resources: Information Skills, Cognitive Styles, Affective States, And Searching Behaviors, Peiling Wang, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Hot Topic: The 1997/98 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The MTAS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 1997/98 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees rose at a rate faster than 1996/97. This report contains a summary of the findings as well as a means to request specific information.

Linking To Full Texts, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT HAS BECOME routine for librarians to help a patron compile a comprehensive customized bibliography from online or CD-ROM indexes. In fact, patrons no longer consider it sufficient to compile a list of resources. Although searching indexes and abstracts was never the end of the information seeking process, in the print world an index search was so tedious that users focused energy on the search process. Interlibrary loan could suffice for articles the library didn't hold. Now, as library users become familiar with the convenience of online searching and their expectations rise, they expect instantaneous access to full articles.

To …

Economic Cost Models Of Scientific Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper summarizes costs of publishing scientific scholarly journals. Activities are described for five publishing components: article processing (e.g., manuscript processing, editing , composition, etc.), non-article processing (i.e. similar activities related to covers, tables-of-content, letters, book reviews, etc.), reproduction (e.g., printing, collating, binding, etc.), distribution (e.g., wrapping, labeling, sorting, mailing, subscription maintenance, etc.), and support (e.g., marketing, administration, finance, etc.). A model is derived for each of these components consisting of cost parameters (e.g., number of issues, pages, subscriptions, etc.) and cost elements (e.g., cost per page of editing, set-up cost per issue, postage cost per issue copy mailed, etc.). …

Technical Bulletins: Pricing Your Place On The World Wide Web, Lissa Gay

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Based on price estimates from several Internet Service Providers and Web site designers across Tennessee at the time of publication (April 1998), this Technical Bulletin is a summary of probable expenditures for hardware, software, and services needed to create and maintain a website for a local government.

Technical Bulletins: Sand For Wastewater Drying Beds, Brett Ward

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Drying beds for wastewater sludge require a specific type of sand in order to dewater the sludge quickly.

Designing The Future Of Electronic Journals With Lessons Learned From The Past: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Studies of thousands of both university and non-university scientists demonstrate the importance of scholarly journals to their work. Amount of reading has remained high and scientists who read more, are more successful. Readings have shifted from personal subscriptions to more readings from library provided journals. Personal subscriptions have gone down from 5.8 subscriptions per scientist in 1977 to about 2.9 subscriptions. The drop is due to the rising prices of subscriptions, prices that have increased beyond inflation rates. Processing costs decrease some with electronic journals, but the high fixed costs associated with creating scholarly journals are the same for print …

Hot Topic: Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

For those cities that elected to reimburse for travel using the federal reimbursement rates, the federal government increased the vehicle-cents-per-mile reimbursement rate to 32.5 cents per mile, up from 31.5 cents per mile in 1997.

Plagued By Our Own Successes, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Reference librarians are required to provide more patron support in the last few years because of increased electronic reference sources and services. The overwhelming array of options may lead to 'technostress', which some librarians view as counterproductive, while others see it as exciting.

Electronic Journal Publishing: Economics Of Production, Distribution, And Use, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Will Online Vendors Survive?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Online systems such as IAC, DIALOG, LEXIS/NEXIS and others are refocusing their market strategies following major corporation changes in the last year. Critical mass in the number of services, assets, customer size are necessary to compete in the changing, global information world.

Hot Topic: New Regulations Will Apply To Small Stormwater Discharges, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Discusses a major new rule, proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that would require permits for small stormwater dischargers in urbanized areas of 50,000 or more, various commercial operations, and construction sites of less than five acres.