Information Technology and Libraries articles from June 2008

Information Technology and Libraries archives from June 2008

President's message.(Mark Beatty)
June 1, 2008... I've recently read three quite different articles that surprisingly all had something similar to say with a different twist on the theme uppermost in my brain the last year or two. Here's the briefest of quotes from the three. I would suggest...

Editorial.(Editorial)
June 1, 2008... The catalog. Love it? Hate it? Depending upon who is speaking, it may be cast as the ultimate portal that enables user access to all local and networked resources, or it may be a tool of Byzantine complexity, comprehensible at best to but a...

Editorial board thoughts.(Essay)
June 1, 2008... Any librarian who has been following the professional literature at all in the past ten years knows that there has been an increasing emphasis on user-centeredness in the design and creation of library services. Librarians are trying to...

Metadata to support next-generation library resource discovery: lessons from the eXtensible catalog, Phase 1.
June 1, 2008... The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project at the University of Rochester will design and develop a set of open-source applications to provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users. The goals and functional...

An assessment of student satisfaction with a circulating laptop service.(Morgan Library Laptop service )
June 1, 2008... Since May of 2000, Colorado State University's (CSU) Morgan Library has provided a laptop computer lending service. In five years the service had expanded from 20 to 172 laptops. Although the service was deemed a success, users complained about...

Preparing locally encoded electronic finding aid inventories for union environments: a publishing model for encoded archival description.
June 1, 2008... This paper will briefly discuss encoded archival description (EAD) finding aids, the workflow and process involved in encoding finding aids using EAD metadata standard, our institution's current publishing model for EAD finding aids, current...

Discovering the library with Google Earth.(Communications)
June 1, 2008... Libraries need to provide attractive and exciting discovery tools to draw patrons to the valuable resources in their catalogs. The authors conducted a pilot project to explore the free version of Google Earth as such a discover tool for...