Information Technology and Libraries articles from June 2006

Information Technology and Libraries archives from June 2006

President's Column
June 1, 2006... Forty years! In July 1966, the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) was officially born at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in New York as the Information Science and Automation Division (ISAD). It was...

Editorial: LITA and ITAL: Forty and Still Counting
June 1, 2006... By now, most Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) members and Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) readers know that 2006 is the fortieth anniversary of LITA's predecessor, the Information Science and Automation Division...

Google Scholar and 100 Percent Availability of Information
June 1, 2006... This paper discusses Google Scholar as an extension of Kilgour's goal to improve the availability of information. Kilgour was instrumental in the early development of the online library catalog, and he proposed passage retrieval to aid in...

Using Ajax to Empower Dynamic Searching
June 1, 2006... The use of Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, can result in Web applications that demonstrate the flexibility, responsiveness, and usability traditionally found only in desktop software. To illustrate this, a repository metasearch user...

Digital Collection Management through the Library Catalog
June 1, 2006... Digitization has bestowed upon librarians and archivists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries the opportunity to reexamine how they access their collections. It draws these two traditional groups together with IT specialists in order to...

A Dynamic Methodology for Improving the Search Experience
June 1, 2006... In the early years of modern information retrieval, the fundamental way in which we understood and evaluated search performance was by measuring precision and recall. In recent decades, however, models of evaluation have expanded to incorporate...

Visualizations for Digital Libraries
June 1, 2006... The concept of digital libraries is familiar to both librarians and library patrons today. These new libraries have broken the limits of space and distance by delivering information in various formats via the Internet. Since most digital...

Digitizing the Non-Digital: Creating a Global Context for Events, Artifacts, Ideas, and Information
June 1, 2006... This paper discusses some of the problems associated with search and digital-rights management in the emerging age of interconnectivity. An open-source system called Context Driven Topologies (CDT) is proposed to create one global context of...

Expanding Access to Library Collections and Services Using Small-Screen Devices
June 1, 2006... This research report summarizes the challenges and solutions with using small-screen mobile computing devices to access library resources and services. These smart-devices include notebook computers, Palm/ PocketPC devices, and Internet-enabled...

Writing Your First Scholarly Article: A Guide for Budding Authors in Librarianship
June 1, 2006... This series of questions and answers is designed to help you take the first steps toward the successful production of a scholarly article in librarianship. You may find yourself in a library position that requires writing or you may have just...

Strategic Planning and Management for Library Managers.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Strategic Planning and Management for Library Managers By Joseph R. Matthews. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2005. xiv, 150p. $40 (ISBN 1-59158-231-8). The reality for most librarians is that, sometime in their career, they...