Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 2005

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 2005

President's Column
December 1, 2005... My thanks to John Webb for the invitation to write a brief column for ITAL. I appreciate the opportunity. I'm writing this at the end of August so my term as president has really just begun. I've been told by Tom Wilson and Colby Riggs that this...

Editorial: Information Technology Dissonance
December 1, 2005... I sit here composing this editorial on a day (August 20) when the temperature may reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit (dry heat, thank you) for an issue that will reach my mailbox on a day when snow may well be piled halfway up its post. The dissonance...

The Open Access Initiative: A New Paradigm for Scholarly Communications
December 1, 2005... This paper gives an account of the origin and development of the Open Access Initiative (OAI) and the digital technology that enables its existence. The researcher explains the crisis in scholarly communications and how open access (OA) can...

Electronic Resources and Web Sites: Replacing a Back-End Database with Innovative's Electronic Resource Management
December 1, 2005... In the fall of 2002, Ohio State University along with the University of Washington, the University of Western Australia, Washington State University, and Glasgow University entered into a development partnership with Innovative Interfaces. The...

The Structure and Content of MARC 21 Records in the Unicode Environment
December 1, 2005... MARC 21 records may be encoded in individual character sets (including ASCII and ANSEL) or in Unicode (as UTF-8). This paper considers the effect of the use of Unicode without any constraints on the structure and data content of MARC 21 records....

Voice Recognition Technology: Has It Come of Age?
December 1, 2005... Voice recognition software allows computer users to bypass their keyboards, and use their voices to enter text. While the library literature is somewhat silent about voice recognition technology, the medical and legal communities have reported...

Citations in Hypermedia: Implementation Issues
December 1, 2005... Internet sources are increasingly used in scholarly work at all levels, yet it is often difficult to collect the information needed to cite these sources properly. The author proposes a method by which bibliographic information embedded in...

From the Great Smokies to the Mountains of the Moon: U.S. and Ugandan Librarians Collaborate in a Digital World
December 1, 2005... Scholarship and learning are truly global endeavors, and rightly so given the challenges of the twenty-first century. Higher education is increasingly at the forefront of these endeavors, pursuing international initiatives in support of...

Use of GIS for Presentation of the Map and Pictorial Collection of the National and University Library of Slovenia
December 1, 2005... The Map and Pictorial Collection of the National and University Library of Slovenia encompasses map and pictorial documents that are part of the national collection. New technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) provide a novel...