Information Technology and Libraries articles from June 2002

Information Technology and Libraries archives from June 2002

Editorial: listening to our users.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 1, 2002... What are your users telling you about your library? You are getting feedback from them, aren't you? If you are not, you should be. One of the traps we can fall into is thinking we are doing a good job of designing user interfaces when in fact...

Pinyin romanization for OPAC retrieval--is everyone being served?(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... As conversion of Wade-Giles entries to pinyin is underway, this paper reconsiders the usefulness of providing romanization-based retrieval in OPACs for Chinese-language resources. An in-house experiment designed to measure retrieval performance...

Bringing them in and checking them out: laptop use in the modern academic library.(designing the library for laptop usage)
June 1, 2002... Laptop computers provide unsurpassed flexibility and convenience for students in the modern academic environment. Many libraries, including the University of Nevada--Las Vegas's (UNLV) Lied Library, allow students to bring in their own laptops...

Building database-backed Web applications: process and issues.
June 1, 2002... In this article, the process of implementing database-backed Web applications from initial planning to final implementation and beyond will be explored. Both technical and "people" issues will be addressed, including choosing hardware and...

Multimedia research support for visiting scholars in museums, libraries, and universities. (Communications).
June 1, 2002... Results are reported from a study conducted to determine the state of the art in the provision of multimedia support by cultural institutions to visiting scholars. In the study, conducted under the auspices of the Getty Research Institute...

Bel Jour: a discipline-specific portal to periodicals. (Communications).
June 1, 2002... Convenient, subject-based access to current periodicals can be difficult to achieve in today's mixed and changing journals environment. This paper describes the creation of a Web-accessible database of journals in business and economics, using...

Designing a library staff computer training program: implementation of core competencies. (Tutorial).
June 1, 2002... Through a process of data gathering and analysis along with a review of current library literature, a need was identified to establish a continuum of staff training in technology. The educational needs of library staff at the Ehrman Medical...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
June 1, 2002... by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 1998. 202p. $29.95 (ISBN 1-56592-282-4). Information Architecture, published in 1998, is a relatively old book. In Internet time, that's at least a couple of generations...