Information Technology and Libraries articles from March 2012

Information Technology and Libraries archives from March 2012

President's Message: Open Access/open Data
March 1, 2012... I am very excited to write this column. This issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) marks the beginning of a new era for the journal. ITAL is now an open-access, electronic-only journal. There are many people to thank for this...

Guest Editorial
March 1, 2012... Congratulations LITA and Information Technology and Libraries. Since the early days of the Internet, I've been continually struck by the incredible opportunities that it offers organizations concerned with the creation, organization, and...

Editor's Comments
March 1, 2012... Welcome to the first issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) as an open-access, eonly publication. As announced to LITA members in early January, this change in publishing model will help ensure the long-term viability of ITAL by...

Editorial Board Thoughts: Tools of the Trade
March 1, 2012... As I was trying to settle on a possible topic for this, my second "Editorial Board Thoughts" piece, I was struggling to find something that I'd like to talk about and that ITAL readers would (I hope) find interesting. I had my "Eureka!" moment...

Copyright: Regulation out of Line with Our Digital Reality?
March 1, 2012... ABSTRACT This paper provides a brief overview of the current state of copyright law in the United States, focusing on the negative impacts of these policies on libraries and patrons. The article discusses four challenges current copyright law...

Library Use of Web-Based Research Guides
March 1, 2012... ABSTRACT This paper describes the ways in which libraries are currently implementing and managing web-based research guides (a.k.a. Pathfinders, LibGuides, Subject Guides, etc.) by examining two sets of data from the spring of 2011. One set...

Investigations into Library Web-Scale Discovery Services
March 1, 2012... ABSTRACT Web-scale discovery services for libraries provide deep discovery to a library's local and licensed content and represent an evolution--perhaps a revolution--for end-user information discovery as pertains to library collections. This...

Usability Test Results for a Discovery Tool in an Academic Library
March 1, 2012... ABSTRACT Discovery tools are emerging in libraries. These tools offer library patrons the ability to concurrently search the library catalog and journal articles. While vendors rush to provide feature-rich interfaces and access to as much...

Batch Ingesting into EPrints Digital Repository Software
March 1, 2012... ABSTRACT This paper describes the batch importing strategy and workflow used for the import of theses metadata and PDF documents in to the EPrints digital repository software. A two-step strategy of importing metadata in MARC format followed...