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Information Technology and Libraries back issues
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One law with two outcomes: comparing the implementation of CIPA in public libraries and schools.
March 1, 2009... Though the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) established requirements for both public libraries and public schools to adopt filters on all of their computers when they receive certain federal funding, it has not attracted a great amount of research into the effects on libraries and...
President's message.
December 1, 2008... In my first column, I mentioned that the LITA board's main objective is "to oversee the affairs of the division during the period between meetings." Of course, oversight requires communication. Sometimes this is among board members, or it's an e-mail update, or a post to the LITA-L discussion...
Editorial.(Editorial)
December 1, 2008... As I write this, Hurricane Ike is within twelve hours of making landfall in Texas; currently, it appears that the storm will strike directly at the Houston-Galveston area. Houstonians with long memories will be comparing Ike to Hurricane Alicia, which devastated the region in 1983, killing...
The Iowa City flood of 2008: a librarian and IT professional's perspective.(Editorial Board Thoughts)
December 1, 2008... Do you like to chase fire trucks? Do you enjoy watching a raft of adventurers go over the waterfall, careening from rock to rock? Well, this is a story of the Iowa City flood of 2008, a flood projected to happen once every five hundred years, from the perspective of a librarian and IT...
Metaphor's role in the information behavior of humans interacting with computers.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Metaphors convey information, communicate abstractions, and help us understand new concepts. While the nascent field of information behavior (IB) has adopted common metaphors like "berry-picking" and "gap-bridging" for its models, the study of how people use metaphors is only now emerging in...