Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 1999

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 1999

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 1999... We would like to take this opportunity to thank your magazine and Mr. Crawford for the complementary comment regarding Sirsi's online catalog in his article "Webcats and Checklists: Some Cautionary Notes" in Information Technology and Libraries...

South Africa's GAELIC: The Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium.
September 1, 1999... The Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium (GAELIC) is the largest academic library consortium in South Africa. It was formed in response to conditions in the higher education sector at the time, and in recognition of the need to cooperate and...

Novanet, Inc.--Nova Scotia, Canada.
September 1, 1999... Novanet, a consortium often Nova Scotia postsecondary education institutions with twenty-six libraries serving twenty-three campuses, cooperates to enhance access to information and knowledge/or the benefit of its user communities. The core...

University Library Cooperation in Israel: The MALMAD Consortium.
September 1, 1999... The MALMAD (Israel Center for Digital Information Services) consortium was set up by the eight universities of Israel to serve as a common framework for the procurement and licensing of digital information. Now in its second year of operation,...

Working Together, Learning Together: The Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia.
September 1, 1999... Cooperation between libraries is a universal language spoken in different dialects. In 1996 the libraries of the state-funded universities and the State Library of Catalonia (Spain) formed a consortium to act as a channel for cooperation. The...

New Wine in a New Bottle: Purchasing by Library Consortia in the United Kingdom.
September 1, 1999... Regular discussion among librarians has led to a realization of the common problems they face in dealing with price increases and one common solution in the formation of consortia to negotiate for the purchase of books and journals. In the...

A Treasure CHEST of Software and Data.
September 1, 1999... The Combined Higher Education Software Team (CHEST) differs from most library consortia because it is not rooted in libraries, deals with software and courseware as well as data, and leaves each institution free to decide whether to subscribe...

More, Better, Cheaper: The Impossible Dream?
September 1, 1999... The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is dedicated to improving access by the staff and students of Australian universities to the scholarly information resources that are fundamental to the advancement of teaching, learning...

Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Indexed, Abstracted, and Full-Text Resources.
September 1, 1999... The use of licensed electronic information resources will continue to expand and in some cases become the sole or dominant means of access to content. The electronic environment, as manifested by the World Wide Web, provides an opportunity to...

Guidelines for Technical Issues in Request for Proposal Requirements and Contract Negotiations.
September 1, 1999... The licensing and use of electronic information resources continues to expand and, in some cases, become the sole or dominant means of access to particular resources. As such, the reliability and performance of vendor hardware/software...

The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer is So Complex, and Information Appliances are the Solution.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer is So Complex, and Information Appliances are the Solution by Donald A. Norman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. 302p. $25 (ISBN 0-262-14065-9). These are both swell...

When Things Start To Think.(Review)
September 1, 1999... When Things Start To Think by Neil Gershenfeld. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. 225p. $25 (ISBN 0-8050-5874-5). These are both swell books and everyone ought to read them. Don't you hate reviews that start this way? The truth,...

Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education Christie Stephenson and Patricia McClung, editors. Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, 1998.196p. $24.95 (ISBN 0-89236-509-9) A new pair of books from the Getty...

Images Online: Perspectives from the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Images Online: Perspectives from the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project Patricia McClung and Christie Stephenson, editors. Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, 1998. 88p. $12.95 (ISBN 0-89236-508-0) A new pair of books from the...

LITA NOTES.
September 1, 1999... A Note from the President I have been active in LITA for more than 20 years and cannot recall a time in which LITA's future seemed brighter and LITA seemed more relevant to the concerns of all librarians. The Top Technology Trends have...