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2002

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Library and Information Science

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The Design And Evaluation Of Interactivities In A Digital Library, Muniram Budhu, Anita Coleman Nov 2002

The Design And Evaluation Of Interactivities In A Digital Library, Muniram Budhu, Anita Coleman

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The US National Science Foundation has established a program to create a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL). One of the subsidiary NSDL libraries under development is the National Civil Engineering Educational Resources Library (NCERL). The first phase of NCERL is the creation and collection of digital resources in three areas of civil engineering—geotechnical (soil), rock, and water engineering (GROW). The concept of interactivities guides the design, development, and evaluation efforts of the GROW digital collection. This article describes the salient features of GROW, defines and discusses interactivities as an emerging, integral part of teaching and …

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Interactional Digital Libraries: Uses And Users, Anita Coleman Oct 2002

Interactional Digital Libraries: Uses And Users, Anita Coleman

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Experiments With Grow, Anita Coleman Oct 2002

Experiments With Grow, Anita Coleman

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Negotiating And Analyzing Electronic License Agreements, Duncan E. Alford Oct 2002

Negotiating And Analyzing Electronic License Agreements, Duncan E. Alford

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Mr Alford analyzes license agreements for electronic resources and suggests certain negotiation points to consider when entering into such an agreement. He begins by describing the results of a survey of law librarians about their preparation for and techniques used when negotiating electronic license agreements and the legal strategies used by publishers to support the licensing of electronic information. After reviewing selected principles of licensing issued by library associations and several standardized electronic license agreements, he identifies provisions in a typical agreement that should concern libraries and suggests certain arguments to use in negotiating terms more favorable to the library.

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Library Service To African Americans In Kentucky, Patterson Toby Graham Oct 2002

Library Service To African Americans In Kentucky, Patterson Toby Graham

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A Metadata Approach To Preservation Of Digital Resources: The University Of North Texas Libraries' Experience, Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Samantha K. Hastings, Cathy Hartman Aug 2002

A Metadata Approach To Preservation Of Digital Resources: The University Of North Texas Libraries' Experience, Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Samantha K. Hastings, Cathy Hartman

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Preserving long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing libraries and information centers today. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has entered into partnership agreements with federal and state agencies to ensure permanent storage and public access to a variety of government information sources. As digital resource preservation encompasses a wide variety of interrelated activities, the UNT Libraries are taking a phased approach to ensure the long-term access to its digital resources. Formulation of preservation policy and creation of preservation metadata for electronic files and digital collections are among the most important steps. This …

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Intellectual Access: Introduction To The Organization Of Information, Anita Coleman Aug 2002

Intellectual Access: Introduction To The Organization Of Information, Anita Coleman

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This is a presentation to the Strong Start program (new MLS students) at the University of Arizona on 19 August 2002. There are 32 slides. Contents: Definitions, Assumptions, Limitations; What are Information Environments? The Roles We Play; Knowledge Organization (KO); The Cataloging/Metadata Process; Metadata â standards, types, initiatives; Q & A; Discussion; Resources. Interestingly, dLIST is mentioned and volunteers solicited!

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Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead For Education In Digital Libraries, Anita Coleman Jul 2002

Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead For Education In Digital Libraries, Anita Coleman

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This article reviews the state of education in digital libraries and curriculum planning documents from professional associations in two areas: Library and Information Science; and Computing. It examines suggestions for integration and interdisciplinarity in education for digital libraries curricula using definitions of a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and the transdisciplinary structure of a university in order to discover how such integration may be successfully accomplished. A plan to use learning communities and develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for Knowledge Organization is briefly discussed.

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Library Liaison Programs In The 21st Century, Lauren R. Matacio Jun 2002

Library Liaison Programs In The 21st Century, Lauren R. Matacio

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Facilitating And Assessing Asynchronous Learning: Concept Mapping, Digital Libraries, And The Lis Learning Showcase, Anita Coleman Mar 2002

Facilitating And Assessing Asynchronous Learning: Concept Mapping, Digital Libraries, And The Lis Learning Showcase, Anita Coleman

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The characteristics and nature of asynchronous learning, in a graduate level, core course, Knowledge Structures I, are first discussed in the context of digital libraries, the twenty-first century learner, and a professional program of study. Strategies used to facilitate and assess asynchronous learning such as concept mapping and the Learning Showcase are introduced and examples shown.

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How Do Disciplines Grow?, Anita Coleman Mar 2002

How Do Disciplines Grow?, Anita Coleman

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"Do You Have Any Books On..." An Examination Of Public Library Holdings, Cynthia Bassett, John M. Budd Mar 2002

"Do You Have Any Books On..." An Examination Of Public Library Holdings, Cynthia Bassett, John M. Budd

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Public librarians have long debated the question of whether quality or popularity should drive collection decisions. A survey of the selected holdings of twenty medium-sized public libraries indicates that both quality and popularity may be determining factors in whether to acquire particular titles. Furthermore, the study suggests that the existence and content of reviews may also influence the likelihood of libraries to select particular titles, as may the selectors' perception of the diversity of their community.

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Informational Value Of Museum Web Sites, V Kravchyna, Samantha K. Hastings Feb 2002

Informational Value Of Museum Web Sites, V Kravchyna, Samantha K. Hastings

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What information are virtual visitors looking for on museum Web sites? This paper is a first step in a larger investigation into the informational value of museum Web sites. Scholars, teachers, students, museums staff, and museum visitors are the main categories of visitors examined in this study. Questions were asked of these museum audiences about their use of museum Web sites, museum databases, and other aspects of virtual visits.

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Problem Patrons: All Shapes And Sizes, Kelly D. Blessinger Jan 2002

Problem Patrons: All Shapes And Sizes, Kelly D. Blessinger

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Every type of library will inevitably have problem patrons, but this article focuses
mainly on public and academic libraries. As the times have changed, so has the magnitude of the problem patrons. Problems of the past seem irrelevant compared to some of the problems we are currently facing. Discussed in this article are particular types of problem behavior, including, but not limited to anger, harassment of staff, and homelessness. The types of each category include examples to illustrate each concern, and possible remedies.

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Trends In The Job Market For Librarians: 1985-2000, Kelly D. Blessinger Jan 2002

Trends In The Job Market For Librarians: 1985-2000, Kelly D. Blessinger

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This article discusses the major influence that the information age has had on librarianship. Computer-related technology has changed the way librarians do their jobs, their duties, and has created a whole new realm of opportunities for librarians. Data from the Library Journal annual salary surveys and the ALA Placement Center are included in charts and figures to track job market trends from 1985-2000. Issues such as salary, job mobility and education are also discussed.

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The Jewish Community Library In Vienna: From Dispersion And Destruction To Partial Restoration, Richard Hacken Jan 2002

The Jewish Community Library In Vienna: From Dispersion And Destruction To Partial Restoration, Richard Hacken

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On 25 October 2000, Austria’s first memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust was unveiled at the Judenplatz in Vienna. Conceived by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and designed by British sculptress Rachel Whiteread in the form of a nameless library, a concrete block displays shelves of books with their spines turned to the inside, enclosing an area made inaccessible by a permanently locked door. The outer memorial is designed to represent Jewish culture and learning that were lost forever in the Holocaust, while the empty space within symbolises the many readers of the library who did not live on. Parallel …

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The Education And Competencies Of School Library Media Specialists: A Review Of The Literature, Donna M. Shannon Jan 2002

The Education And Competencies Of School Library Media Specialists: A Review Of The Literature, Donna M. Shannon

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The Many Uses Of Digitized Oral History Collections: Implications For Design, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas W. Oard, Samuel Gustman, Lydia Fraser, Jinmook Kim, Joan Meyer, Elizabeth Proffen, Theresa Sartori Jan 2002

The Many Uses Of Digitized Oral History Collections: Implications For Design, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas W. Oard, Samuel Gustman, Lydia Fraser, Jinmook Kim, Joan Meyer, Elizabeth Proffen, Theresa Sartori

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Oral history - and spoken word collections generally - are assuming increasing importance in digital libraries as the storage, transmission and reproduction infrastructure improves. This paper describes three synergistic approaches to user needs analysis, explains how they are being applied to guide the design of systems to provide access oral history collections (using a s test bed the Shoah Foundations collection of over 50,000 videotaped oral history interviews), presents preliminary results from so -called “discount requirements analysis” and an analysis of “early access” requests, and draws some design implications. The results show a wide variety of users and uses of …

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The Use Of Speech Retrieval Systems: A Study Design., Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard Jan 2002

The Use Of Speech Retrieval Systems: A Study Design., Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard

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What relevance criteria do users apply when selecting a speech recording? What attributes of the recording do they rely on for each criterion? This paper proses a qualitative research study design to explore those questions. A conceptual framework is presented, research questions are introduced, and the study design is described. The paper concludes with some observations on how the results of the study might inform the design of future systems.

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