Information Technology and Libraries articles from March 2007

Information Technology and Libraries archives from March 2007

President's Column
March 1, 2007... Many things happen on the national front that affect libraries and their use of technology. Legislative action, national policy, and standards development are all arenas in which ALA and LITA both take an active role. LITA has articulated in its...

Editorial: Reflections on Forty
March 1, 2007... 2007 is ITAL's 40th volume. My 40th birthday was the occasion of a great deal of bizarre behavior by my work colleagues, who booby-trapped my office. I do not like cake but love radishes. My birthday "cake" at work was a cheese ball decorated...

Information Seeking in Academic Research: A Study of the Sociology Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 1, 2007... This study examines how social scientists arrive at and utilize information in the course of their research. Results are drawn about the use of information resources and channels to address information inquiry, the strategies for information...

Assessing Sufficiency and Quality of Bandwidth for Public Libraries
March 1, 2007... Based on data collected as part of the 2006 Public Libraries and the Internet study, the authors assess the degree to which public libraries provide sufficient and quality bandwidth to support the library's networked services and resources. The...

Checking out Facebook.com: The Impact of a Digital Trend on Academic Libraries
March 1, 2007... While the burgeoning trend in online social networks has gained much attention from the media, few studies in library science have yet to address the topic in depth. This article reports on a survey of 126 academic librarians concerning their...

OPAC Design Enhancements and Their Effects on Circulation and Resource Sharing within the Library Consortium Environment
March 1, 2007... A longitudinal study of three discrete online public access catalog (OPAC) design enhancements examined the possible effects such changes may have on circulation and resource sharing within the automated library consortium environment....

Introducing Zoomify Image
March 1, 2007... Zoomify Image is a mature product for easily publishing large, high-resolution images on the Web. End users view these images with existing Web-browser software as quickly as they do normal, downsampled images. A Flash-based Zoomifyer client...