Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 1998

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 1998

The Catalogs of the Future: A Speculative Essay
December 1, 1998... This article originally appeared in the Journal of Library Automation 13, no. 2 (June 1980): 88-95. The foundations of the card catalog, catalog use studies, and what we can conjecture about user needs suggest that the catalogs of the future,...

Looking Back at Looking Ahead, or "The Catalogs of the Future Revisted" with Additional Speculation
December 1, 1998... This is a brief re-examination of the views expressed in the essay "The Catalogs of the Future: A Speculative Essay" that originally appeared in Journal of Library Automation (vol. 13, no. 2 [1980], pp. 88-95). That essay suggested that...

What If Libraries Are Artifact-Bound Institutions?
December 1, 1998... Libraries are artifact-bound institutions, and as such, will be replaced as the dominant technology for information communication moves from tangible objects to electronic bits on a network. As this transition occurs, it is important to...

Managing Licensed Networked Electronic Resources in a University Library
December 1, 1998... The issues faced in delivering licensed networked electronic information resources to users have received much attention in university libraries and in the library literature in recent years. Management of those resources has been addressed on...

Constructing a Global Time Capsule: Challenges in the Digital Preservation of Society's Cultural Memory Archive
December 1, 1998... Educator and conservation expert Guy Petherbridge once said that "the perpetuation of society as we are accustomed to conceive or idealize it is dependent to a very large extent on the preservation en masse of our accumulated group memories and...

Without Walls Means Collaboration
December 1, 1998... Reports from the past decade show that many research libraries are collecting much of the same materials and are becoming more homogeneous. With 2 percent of U.S. publishers accounting for over 75 percent of output, it is little wonder that...

Facing the Challenge: Technology Training in Libraries
December 1, 1998... The biggest technology challenge facing the library profession today is that of preparing our employees to use the technology effectively. To meet this challenge, libraries must pay much more attention to technology training and computer skills...

Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Indexed, Abstracted, and Full Text Resources
December 1, 1998... International Coalition of Library Consortia The use of licensed electronic information resources will continue to expand and in some cases become the sole or dominant means of access to content. The electronic environment, as manifested by...

The Potential of CGI: Using Pre-Built CGI Scripts to Make Interactive Web Pages
December 1, 1998... The Web is full of freeware or pre-built CGI scripts available for anyone to download and configure. Not only do these pre-built scripts quickly make library Web pages more interactive, but they also provide librarians with a beginning tutorial...

Internet Tools of the Profession: A Guide for Information Professionals.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Internet Tools of the Profession: A Guide for Information Professionals 2d ed. Ed. Hope N. Tillman. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association, 1997. 249p. paper. (ISBN: 0-87111-467-4). This is the second edition of a work on...

Of Note
December 1, 1998... The articles in this issue of ITAL highlight a number of important resources on the Web. Information on the Scholarly Publications and Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) can be found at http://...

Cumulative Contents of the Journal of Library Automation, 1968-1981.(Directory)
December 1, 1998... As part of the commemoration of thirty years of publication of the journals of the Library and Information Technology Association and its precursor, the Information Science and Automation Division, an effort has been undertaken to bring...

Information Technology and Libraries Index to Volume 17 (1998)
December 1, 1998... All-out Internet Access: The Cambridge Public Library Model by Fidelman, Miles R., (Book Review), 180. Allen, Barbara McFadden and Hirshon, Arnold. Hanging Together to Avoid Hanging Separately: Opportunities for Academic Libraries and...