Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 2000

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 2000

Guest editorial: the challenges of user-centered, customizable interfaces to library resources.(Editorial)
December 1, 2000... This editorial introduces the articles in this theme issue of ITAL, an issue surrounding the concepts and implementations of user-centered, customizable interfaces to collections of library resources. It also provides me with the opportunity to...

Personalized library portals as an organizational culture change agent.
December 1, 2000... A library Web portal has the potential of changing how libraries are used and how librarians will do their work. These portals have the potential of bringing about real change to our professional and organizational culture. These changes will...

Too many channels: making sense out of portals and personalization.
December 1, 2000... Academic clientele expect their library to select the best and organize it effectively for their personal consumption. Most libraries currently organize content according to organizational, service, or subject categories. For many faculty,...

My Gateway at the University of Washington Libraries.
December 1, 2000... Much of the content of the University of Washington Libraries' Information Gateway is generated from an SQL database extracted from the libraries' OPAC. The database, known locally as the Digital Registry, drives multiple services on the...

VCU's my library: librarians love it.... users? Well, maybe.
December 1, 2000... Virginia Commonwealth University's My Library project (www.library.vcu.edu/mylibrary) has chosen "ease of use" as its primary design criteria. The development of this tool using Perl scripting is described, and reports derived from usage logs...

Pioneering portals: MyLibrary@NCState.
December 1, 2000... MyLibrary@NCState is a user-driven, customizable information service hosted by the NCSU Libraries. First conceived in January 1998, the service emerged from a series of focus group discussions with faculty, students, and staff on the provision...

The development and launch of the headline personal information environment.
December 1, 2000... This article explains the rationale behind the development of the HeadLine Personal Information Environment (PIE). The HeadLine hybrid library model is explained and PIE is described from the user's point of view. The launch of PIE at the...

Open the fortress: a new proposal for public access workstation security.(Tutorial)
December 1, 2000... As computer use increases, library staff spend increasing amounts of time cleaning hard disks of saved files, reloading browser bookmark files, and troubleshooting overwritten files and applications. This article evaluates the two most common...

The Social Life of Information.
December 1, 2000... The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. Boston: Harvard Business School Pr., 2000. 336p. $25.95 (ISBN 0-87584-762-5). To the familiar refrain, "Information wants to be free," the title of Brown and Duguid's...

EndNote 4: Research Made [begin strikethrough]Easy[end strikethrough] a Little Less Difficult.
December 1, 2000... ISI ResearchSoft info@isiresearchsoft.com, 800 Jones St. Berkeley, CA 94710 (510) 559-8592 Price: $210 retail full version, $100 student price or upgrade from 3.0 Minimum system requirements for Apple Macintosh: OS 7.5.5 or later,...

HumanClick Pro.
December 1, 2000... HumanClick USA info@humanclick.com. 3718 Grand Ave., Ste. 10, Oakland, CA 94610 (510) 839-1088 Price: undetermined (under $100/month); basic version is free System requirements: For the operator console, Windows 95/98/NT/2000 or...

Startup manager.
December 1, 2000... Creative Gaffers Software www.delphifreestuff.com Price: free System requirements: Windows 9x or NT If there's one thing I like it's good software. If it's inexpensive, that's even better. Startup Manager is a program for Windows...