Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 2002

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 2002

Editorial: looking at the publishing process.(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... I recently responded to some questions posed by Rachel Singer Gordon, who is gathering information for a book she will publish in 2004, and I thought they might be of interest to ITAL readers and potential authors. Q. What should authors...

An empirical analysis of Web catalog user experiences.
December 1, 2002... Data from an observation study of a Web catalog in a small private arts college library are used to analyze the determinants of user success and satisfaction. Multiple regression models are estimated to identify the most important causative...

Analysis of Web-based information architecture in a university library: navigating for known items.
December 1, 2002... This paper presents a descriptive study of the Louisiana State University Libraries' Web site. The intent of the study was to gain some idea of user demographics and satisfaction with the site at a given point in time and to test the site's...

E2M: automatic generation of MARC-formatted metadata by crawling e-publications.
December 1, 2002... This paper presents a system called E-pub to MARC (E2M), which automatically generates MARC-formatted metadata by crawling e-publications. The functions of its two key components, the Web Crawler and the MARC Converter, are introduced. The...

Library systems and Unicode: a review of the current state of development.
December 1, 2002... Unicode, a standard developed in 1991, defines a universal character set for encoding the characters in the scripts of the world's languages. Unicode implementation has been gaining momentum in recent years especially in the software and...

A resource description device used for more efficient library services. (Communications).
December 1, 2002... A special portable device designed for retrieving concise library resource descriptions by the user is presented in this article. The device reads a bar code attached to the back of the resource and searches for the corresponding information...

TightVNC 1.2.6.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 1, 2002... Constantin Kaplinsky E-mail: const@ce.cctpu.edu.ru www.tightvnc.com Price: free System requirements: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, or ME; Unix/Linux (various versions) You're at home, or maybe you're at a conference. Wherever you...

WinSCP 2.0 Beta.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 1, 2002... Martin Prikryl martin.prikryl@seznam.cz http://winscp.vse.cz/ Price: free System requirements: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, or ME; SSH server for remote connection Organizations are becoming increasingly conscious of security....

Mailbag Assistant 3.0.
December 1, 2002... Fookes Software Av. Eugene-Pittard 22 Ter CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland +41/22-789 58 44 E-mail: sales@fookes.com www.fookes.com Price: $29.95 System requirements: Windows 9x, 2000, NT4, Me, or XP operating system; 16 MB of RAM (32 MB for...