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Standing Up For Open Source, Lee David Jaffe, Greg Careaga

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The open source movement is a vital and innovative challenger to commercial channels for software and publishing. Interests and values shared between libraries and open source communities, along with significant functional advantages to the open source model, should lead librarians to adopt open source tools and become more engaged with open source developers and their projects. Instead, there is a significant gap between the potential of open source and the adoption of these tools in libraries. The authors address the causes and potential consequences, and suggest strategies that can be adopted by advocates for open source in libraries.

Factors Affecting Website Reconstruction From The Web Infrastructure, Frank Mccown, Norou Diawara, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

When a website is suddenly lost without a backup, it may be reconstituted by probing web archives and search engine caches for missing content. In this paper we describe an experiment where we crawled and reconstructed 300 randomly selected websites on a weekly basis for 14 weeks. The reconstructions were performed using our web-repository crawler named Warrick which recovers missing resources from the Web Infrastructure (WI), the collective preservation effort of web archives and search engine caches. We examine several characteristics of the websites over time including birth rate, decay and age of resources. We evaluate the reconstructions when compared …

Volume 27, Number 2, June 2007 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Amy K. Weiss

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized June 2007 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Information Outlook, June 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 6

Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again In The Age Of Google, Mariana Regalado, Jill Cirasella

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Like all organisms and organizations, librarians and libraries evolve by adapting to changes and pressures in their environments. From scroll to codex to online text: every upgrade in technology is matched by an adaptation in librarianship. Nevertheless, despite centuries of evolution, the activities of librarians and the mission of libraries have remained essentially constant and are still recognizable. The pace of change in libraries has been especially rapid since the introduction of computers, and an important recent change is the advent of the “age of Google.” Heralded by the arrival in 1998 of the Google search engine, with its clean …

Using Google Analytics For Improving Library Website Content And Design: A Case Study, Wei Fang

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Google Analytics is a free web analytics solution that provides webmasters with insightful information about how visitors find and interact with their websites. In this case study, we have experimented in using Google Analytics to analyze two of our websites: The Rutgers-Newark Law Library main website and The New Jersey Digital Legal Library website. It was used to monitor our visitors' browsing activities and viewing behaviors for three months. Based on our findings from Google Analytics reports, we have redesigned our website. Subsequent data collected by Google Analytics have confirmed that our new design better fits the information needs of …

You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library patrons often approach the reference desk with indirect, incomplete, or misleading questions, known as "ill-formed" questions. Transforming ill-formed questions into well-formed ones is a crucial part of the reference interview, and Google can be an active participant in that process. This paper discusses how Google can help librarians and patrons deal with incomplete citations, incorrect citations, incorrect spellings, tip-of-the-tongue questions, and forgotten searches.

Library Resource Sharing In The Early Age Of Google, Beth Posner

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library information resource sharing has traditionally been organized around the physical transfer of loans and copies from one location to another. Such interlibrary loan activities have become successively easier and more efficient because of the use of various technologies. Some of the latest and most successful of these include various web-based information services, such as Google, which help to facilitate both physical delivery and online access to information resources. The challenge now facing ILL librarians is to evaluate how to best incorporate these services into their existing operations and to determine whether these constitute additional ways to help patrons access …

What About The Book? Google-Izing The Catalog With Tables Of Contents, Angi Faiks, Amy Radermacher, Amy Sheehan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

One of the many ways to meet the challenge of offering users a better search experience—and to continue the library's existence as a “growing organism” (Ranganathan)—in the current information atmosphere is to provide more text to search against, just as Google's Book Search does. One method for achieving this is to add tables of contents (TOC) and summary notes into a catalog's bibliographic records for books, thereby offering additional, highly relevant search terms into a library's database. While adding access points is not a new notion, libraries can start to meet users' expectations by providing them with more information about …

Google 'Til They Goggle: Trawling Electronic Databases To Build Your Collection And Better Serve Your Client Base, Carol Ottolenghi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Too often, organizations and the public consider properly trained Library staff as “overhead,” or even "dead weight." Budget crunches and the “I’ll just Google it” attitude prevalent today can mean a shrinking – or completely eliminated – library. This paper discusses how the Library staff at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office paired the power of traditional librarian skills with Google, electronic data bases, and a variety of online “alert” systems for greatly increased outreach, effectiveness, and visibility within their organization.

Unclear On The Context: Refocusing On Information Literacy's Evaluative Component In The Age Of Google, Genevieve Williams

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In an era of information decontextualization, the evaluative component of information literacy is more important than ever. College students believe themselves to be expert researchers, due to their familiarity with Google; yet they also value the library and know to be critical about information resources. Previous theoretical work, including Marcia Bates's "berrypicking" model and Christine Pawley's analysis of the discourse of information literacy, provides a ground for developing a proactive response to the age of Google. Far from being made redundant by ease of access to information, our task of developing information literacy in college students is more critical than …

The View From An Elder: Closing Essay, Joellen Broome

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The author explores the shapeshifting of Wart, the young King Arthur in T.H. White's The Once and Future King, as a metaphor for professional and personal transformation as a librarian. The shape shift has been an attitude shift, a mental reshaping, of a librarian come lately to the field. Concerns about the staying power of new technology coexist with the magical gift of connection from tools like Google.

An International Prospectus For Library & Information Professionals: Development, Leadership And Resources For Evolving Patron Needs, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons

The roles of library and information professionals must change and evolve to: 1. accommodate needs of tech-savvy patrons; 2. thrive in the Commons & Library 2.0; 3. provide integrated, just-in-time services; 4. constantly update and enhance technology; 5. design appropriate library spaces for research and productivity; 6.adapt to new models of scholarly communication and publication, especially: the Open Archives Initiative and digital repositories; 7. remain abreast of national and interanational academic and legislative initiatives affecting the provision of information services and resources.

Professionals will need to collaborate in: 1. Formal & informal networks – regional, national, and international; and; 2. …

Letter To Robert Byrd, May 22, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Robert C. Byrd asking Byrd to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Letter To Thad Cochran, May 22, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Thad Cochran asking Cochran to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Letter To Debbie Wasserman Schultz, May 22, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz asking Schultz to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 031, Number 38, May 21, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2006-2007, Volume 31

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Magnet Again! Librarian's Role In Collaboration To Maintain Magnet Status: Demonstrating The Commitment To Supporting Evidence Based Practice (Ebp), Barbara J. Iobst Mls, Ahip, Linda M. Schwartz Mde, Ahip, Cm

Continuing Education

No abstract provided.

Final Grant Performance Report (Pa-51183-05), Arrangement And Description Of The Julia Morgan Architectural Archives, Nancy E. Loe

Library Scholarship

The Julia Morgan Architectural Archives project concluded under budget and on time on April 30, 2007.

The two-year project’s goals were to arrange and describe the Julia Morgan and Sara Boutelle collections according to national standards for architectural archives; create EAD-encoded finding aids delivered via the Online Archives of California; create MARC catalog records for the collections; and create a digital image database of 750 images from the collections.

At the project’s conclusion, 291 linear feet of materials were processed and a total of 142 linear feet of boxed material were retained. Thirty-one flat files of drawings and plans were …

Changing Learning, Changing Roles: Collaboration At Every Angle, Patricia A. Iannuzzi

Library Faculty Presentations

When I look out into this audience I see a room of campus leaders – by the very nature of our professional expertise and training. I see generalists who think broadly about student learning – who see the connections between disciplines as well as between research and teaching – and between learning that happens within the classroom and external to it. I see organized, articulate, service oriented professionals who know how to facilitate – who are committed to group process – who are task oriented – product driven – and creative. I see strong collaborators – that’s why I want …

Use Statistics For Electronic Government Publications, Susan Kendall, Celia Bakke

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Who Moved My Desk? The Future Reference Platforms, Anamika Dasgupta, Steven Ovadia

Faculty and Staff Publications

New communication platforms such as Wikis, Bots, MySpace, Webex, Podcasts, Text-to-speech programs and community-based reference sites offer a means to share information in different formats, supporting specific learning styles, and instruction environments. The effectiveness of these communication platforms in providing reference services depends on many factors: the nature of information being shared, the attitudes of the information seeker and sharer, and the environment and context in which the information is being shared. This presentation will include an introduction and overview of these communication platforms.

The Next Generation Depository Library: Addressing Public Access To Goverment Publications In The Electronic Era, James T. Shaw, Both Goble

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A presentation on depository libraries discussing public access to government publications, US documents (titles) received by Criss Library at UNO, determining is being a US Depository was still worth the effort, cataloging electronic documents to maintain local access, and electronic documents (titles) cataloged by Criss Library at UNO.

Lanthorn, Vol. 41, No. 61, May 17, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 41, July 13, 2006 - June 14, 2007

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Letter To Mary Landrieu, May 17, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Mary Landrieu asking Landrieu to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Creating Local Holdings Records In Oclc Connexion Using Marc Format, Debra G. Skinner

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given during the GIL Users Group Meeting.

Easy Shelf Reading And Weeding Lists In Access, David A. Lowder

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Presentation obtained from the GIL Users site.

Dr. George Vande Woude Introduction, Delivered On May 17, 2007, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Dr. George Vande Woude Introduction, delivered on May 17, 2007 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Lacuny Cataloging Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Invited Presentation, “Perspectives From The Usa”, Patlib Conference, May 16, 2007, Seville, Spain , Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

To give conference attendess of patent librarians from all over Europe an overview of patent and trademark organization characteristics in the United States. Included were details about:

1. United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program (PTDLP)
2. Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association (PTDLA)
3. PTDLA Goals and Objectives – responding to the USPTO “2007-2012 Strategic Plan”
4. Patent Statistics
5. University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Office of Technology Development and “Tech Transfer”