Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 2006

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 2006

President's column.(library management)(Column)
December 1, 2006... Leadership--what is it? ALA President Leslie Burger has me thinking about it a lot these days. As I write, the LITA Board is in the process of determining who LITA will sponsor in the ALA Emerging Leaders Program. The task is difficult. LITA...

Guest editorial: organizational structure--yesterday informs the present.(Library and Information Technology Association )(Column)
December 1, 2006... Organization structure and reorganization are never exciting topics. The world rarely pauses to take a deep breath or offer a round of applause when an organization adds a new committee or decides to split into subgroups. However, organizations...

Search across different media: numeric data sets and text files.
December 1, 2006... Digital technology encourages the hope of searching across and between different media forms (text, sound, image, numeric data). Topic searches are described in two different media: text files and socioeconomic numeric databases and also for...

Machine assistance in collection building: new tools, research, issues, and reflections.
December 1, 2006... Digital tool making offers many challenges, involving much trial and error. Developing machine learning and assistance in automated and semi-automated Internet resource discovery, metadata generation, and rich-text identification provides...

Academic Web site design and academic templates: where does the library fit in?
December 1, 2006... Academic Web site design continues to evolve as colleges and universities are under increasing pressure to create a Web site that is both hip and professional looking. Many colleges and universities are using templates to unify the look and...

Helping the hacker? Library information, security, and social engineering.
December 1, 2006... Social engineering is the use of nontechnical means to gain unauthorized access to information or computer systems. While this method is recognized as a major security threat in the computer industry, little has been done to address it in the...