Information Technology and Libraries articles from March 2001

Information Technology and Libraries archives from March 2001

Library Web Page Design: Are We Doing It Right?
March 1, 2001... Some months back, a topic of discussion on Web4Lib was that of the library home page. It arose when Tim Smith, of Ohio University's Alden Library, noted that most libraries "use a pretty traditional `libraryish' model to organize our home pages:...

Human Values in a Technological Age
March 1, 2001... Editor's note: The following is the text of the keynote speech delivered at the LITA National Forum, November 2-5, 2000, in Portland, OR. We live in the single, shining moment of "now," but our lives are overwhelmingly made up of the past. We...

Boolean Browsing in an Information System: An Experimental Test
March 1, 2001... Boolean browsing presents a two-dimensional word map in response to an initial user query. Users interact with this word map to obtain a list of suggested search terms, which then can be used in information retrieval. This experiment tested the...

Customization of Library Service in a Cross-Platform Programming Environment
March 1, 2001... This paper describes how library operations can be integrated in a cross-platform programming environment. It discusses the organizational and technical issues in planning and designing of macro applications from the technical services...

People Servers vs. Information Providers: The Impact of Service Orientation on Technology Training
March 1, 2001... As libraries implement new technology it will become important to understand how employees' views of library service impacts their willingness to learn about the technology. This article posits the existence of two categories of service...

Measure for Measure: Statistics about Statistics
March 1, 2001... With the proliferation and often prohibitive cost of electronic resources, it is important that librarians have accurate methods for selection and retention. This study measures vendors' statistical reporting useful to librarians for decision...

Laser Printing at Public Workstations: User Behaviors and Attitudes
March 1, 2001... The provision of laser printing may become an increasingly common but potentially costly change at libraries' public workstations. This article reports findings from a survey of student library users at Penn State Erie during the first semester...

Use of CD-ROM Databases in Nigerian Academic Libraries
March 1, 2001... This study is aimed at examining the impact of and constraints to the use of CD-ROM databases in Nigerian academic libraries. The questionnaire was sent to ten academic libraries in Nigeria identified from a preliminary studies on their CD-ROM...

New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems.(Review)
March 1, 2001... New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin. Reading, Mass.: ACM Press, 2000. 256 p. $24.95 (ISBN 0-201-37937-6) Jef Raskin has the chops to write a book about humane interfaces. He's been in the business of interface...

Fookes Software
March 1, 2001... Fookes Software Av. Eugene-Pittard 22 Ter CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland fax: +41/22-789 58 44 sales@fookes.com www.notetab.com Price: $19.95 System requirements: Windows 95/98/ ME/NT4/2000 or higher, 486 processor or faster, 4 MB of free disk...

Sausage Software
March 1, 2001... Sausage Software 6500 Citywest Pkwy., Ste. 310 Eden Prairie, MN 55347 (952) 942-5858 www.sausagetools.com Price: $99.95; SuperToolz plug-ins, $99.95; Visual Table Editor, $9.95; order directly from Web site. Minimum System Requirements:...