Information Technology and Libraries articles from June 1998

Information Technology and Libraries archives from June 1998

The social construction of a digital library: a case study examining implications for evaluation.
June 1, 1998... The social construction of technology (SCOT) frame-work encourages a focus on the multiple perspectives inherent in the development and evaluation of digital libraries. SCOT concepts such as relevant social groups, interpretative flexibility, and...

Successful web pages: what are they and do they exist?
June 1, 1998... The Internet and its World Wide Web (WWW) are rapidly becoming a way of life for many in business, industry, and education. Many libraries are placing a Web home page on the Internet. However, who knows what a successful Web page should look...

Special section: coalition for networked information introduction.
June 1, 1998... This issue of ITAL highlights some of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) initiatives that have taken shape during the 1990s. CNI was founded in 1990 by the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and Educom to advance scholarship...

Working together: building collaboration between librarians and information technologists.(Coalition for Networked Information)
June 1, 1998... CNI's Working Together professional development program is designed to provide institutional teams of librarians and information technologists with the tools they need to work collaboratively on projects of mutual interest and need. The...

Institution Wide Information Strategies: a CNI initiative.(Coalition for Networked Information)
June 1, 1998... The Institution Wide Information Strategies project was conceived by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) as an initiative at the intersection of two powerful forces in education and research: the rapidly changing network platform (which...

Virginia Tech report: CNI's Assessing the Academic Networked Environment Project.(Coalition for Networked Information)
June 1, 1998... Virginia Tech is one of nine institutions participating in CNI's Assessing the Academic Networked Environment Project, which has been developed to field test measures of the impact of networks and networked information resources on higher...

New Learning Communities: collaboration, networking, and information literacy.(Coalition for Networked Information)
June 1, 1998... CNI's New Learning Communities Program brought together pioneer teams from higher education institutions. These teams, often including faculty, librarians, information technologists, students, instructional designers, and others, developed new...

The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.(NINCH)(Coalition for Networked Information)
June 1, 1998... The National Inititative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a broad membership coalition of the arts, humanities, and information technology communities committed to successful integrated networking of cultural resources. Its primary...

GIF versus JPEG: choosing a graphics compression format for Web publications.(Tutorial)
June 1, 1998... Currently there are two formats for graphics that are used in Web publications: GIF and JPEG. The common myth is that JPEG creates smaller files, but this is not always true. The intention of this article is to help Web page creators make an...