Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 1995

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 1995

Poor Johnny One-Note: speaking up for libraries.(Editorial)
September 1, 1995... Two lives ago, I had the wonderful experience of playing in the 84th U.S. Army Band, Fulda, Germany. Technically, I was a professional musician for a year, but I never forgot my strictly amateur talent and my good fortune to be sitting in with...

Object-oriented cataloging.
September 1, 1995... Catalogs have developed from lists of physical items present in particular libraries into computerized access and retrieval tools for works dispersed across local and national boundaries. Works themselves are no longer necessarily constrained in...

What will collection developers do? (role of library collection developers when local collections are eliminated)
September 1, 1995... What would collection developers do in the absence of local collections? Collection developers partition the universe of documents, privileging selected documents for acquisition and retention. Their selections of documents, based on expected...

Precision and recall in title keyword searches.(research project on efficiency of online catalog searching)
September 1, 1995... This study examines whether adjacency operators in title keyword searches are effective in improving precision. Title keywords from a random sample of titles in economics were searched in FirstSearch with and without adjacency of the keywords...

"Two thumbs up!": Library applications for video technology.
September 1, 1995... The medium of video is ubiquitous, one with which we are all familiar. It is a predominant means of communication today, and videotapes with diverse applications flood the market. Producers extol the unique features and flexibility of video...

Planning for sustainable automation.(library automation)
September 1, 1995... The potential for organizational instability should always be considered when proposed library functions and services are reviewed, especially when automation is involved. Sustainable automation can help prevent organizational instability....

OPAC database creation problems.(online public access catalog)
September 1, 1995... Nadine L. Baer is Serials Cataloger, James A. Barrett is Monographic Cataloger, and Karl E. Johnson is Monographic Cataloger at the University of Rhode Island. This article reports on a study to determine the nature and extent of the problems...

Migration from LS/2000 to KeyNOTIS: a medium-sized academic library's experience.
September 1, 1995... The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Library migrated from one automated system (LS/2000) to a second-generation integrated automation system (KeyNOTIS). This article describes the terminal network setup and public terminals setup for the new...

Internet use through the University of Toronto Library: demographics, destinations, and users' reactions.(includes survey form)
September 1, 1995... Using an online survey, focus groups, and logs of telnet connections, the authors studied users who gain access to the Internet via the University of Toronto Library online catalog and information system. The study showed that 75% of the users...

Building Information Literacy Using High Technology: A Guide for Schools and Libraries.
September 1, 1995... By Roxanne Mendrinos. Engelwood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. 1994. 190p. $25 (ISBN 1-56308-032-X). The results of two research studies and the author's experience as a library media specialist serve as the basis for this valuable reference...

Hands-On Mosaic: A Tutorial for Windows Users.
September 1, 1995... By David Sachs and Henry Stair. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1995. 366p. Paper, $29.95 (includes diskette) (ISBN 0-13-17231-9). This is a disappointing book, not because it does not tutor but because it deals with details that will...

HTML for Fun and Profit.
September 1, 1995... By Mary E. S. Morris. Mountain View, Calif.: Sun Soft Press (Prentice), 1995. 264p. $35.95 (includes CD-ROM) (ISBN 0-13-359290-1). Mary E. S. Morris has written an introductory guide to both creating documents in HTML (hypertext markup...

The HTML Sourcebook.
September 1, 1995... By Ilan S. Graham. New York: Wiley, 1995. 416p. $29.95 (ISBN 0-471-11849-4). Who among us remains unaware of the exponential growth of the World Wide Web? In April 1993, usage of the Internet for WWW traffic consumed a mere. 1 percent of the...

Implementing an Automated Circulation System.
September 1, 1995... By Kathleen G. Fouty. A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman. 1994. 220p. Paper, $39.95 (ISBN 1-55570-175-2). This title is a fine addition to a practical and insightful series. Any library implementing a new library system is faced with...

Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences, 3d ed.
September 1, 1995... By Fred W Roper and Jo Anne Boorkman. 3d edition. Metuchen, N.J.: Medical Library Association and Scarecrow, 1994. 301p. $35 (ISBN 0-8108-2889-8). "The purpose of reference services," states the introduction to Reference and Information...

Reference and Information Services in Health Sciences Libraries.
September 1, 1995... Ed. by M. Sandra Wood. Vol. 1 of Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship. Metuchen, N.J.: Medical Library Association and Scarecrow, 1994. 371p. $39.50 (ISBN 0-8108-2765-4). "The purpose of reference services," states the...

Privatizing Government Information: The Effects of Policy on Access to Landsat Satellite Data.
September 1, 1995... By Kathleen Eisenbeis. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow, 1995. 327p. $42.50 (ISBN 0-8108-2934-7). Land remote sensing from satellites began in the late 1960s with development of the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), first launched in 1972....

Reference Services in the Humanities.
September 1, 1995... Ed. Judy Reynolds. Binghamton, N.Y: Haworth 1994. 214p. $39.95 (ISBN 1-56024-692.8). Also published as The Reference Librarian, no. 47 (1994). This is a selective compilation of fourteen articles covering various aspects of supplying reference...

TCP/IP for the Internet: The Complete Buyer's Guide to Micro-Based TCP/IP Software.
September 1, 1995... By Marshall Breeding. Westport, Conn.: Mecklermedia, 1995. 305p. Paper, $24.95 (ISBN 0-88736-980-4) How does a library selector handle a book with a very short shelf life, one covering a hot technology topic and oriented to a select group of...