Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 2000

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 2000

Guest Editorial: Talking about Public Access-PACS-L's First Decade
September 1, 2000... Sharing ideas, information, perspectives, and views: a human need and one core aspect of librarianship. Computers have helped people to share perspectives for years, going back long before the World Wide Web. One key tool has been e-mail list...

Library Webmasters: Satisfactions, Dissatisfactions, and Expectations
September 1, 2000... ARL library webmasters were surveyed about aspects of their roles and job tasks. Information was obtained about their education, job responsibilities, job satisfactions and dissatisfactions, and their opinions about Web committees and the role...

Comprehension by Clicks: D'Angelo Standards for Web Page Design, and Time, Comprehension, and Preference
September 1, 2000... This study expands on a preliminary study (see ITAL 17, no. 2) that identified ten characteristics of successful Web pages. This study examines the relationship between the number of D'Angelo Standards for successful Web pages, and time spent...

Utilizing Internet Resources by Educational Professionals in the New Millennium
September 1, 2000... This article concentrates on providing information concerning the current status of using the Internet in scholarly research in the field of education on the eve of the millennium. The first section provides a brief summary of the concepts of...

Usability Testing at the University of Arizona Library: How to Let the Users in on the Design
September 1, 2000... While the business world has made great strides in focusing on customer service by studying customers' needs and behaviors, libraries have tended to structure their holdings and services around what they believed was good for their customers. It...

The Vocabulary of Library Home Pages: An Influence on Diverse and Remote End-Users
September 1, 2000... This article focuses on the elucidation of vocabulary on library home pages. It examines the ability to communicate to diverse, remote users. Even a relatively low frequency of jargon is troublesome in view of the parsimony of the introductory...

Teaching Adult Students to Use Computerized Resources: Utilizing Lawler's Keys to Adult Learning to Make Instruction More Effective
September 1, 2000... Adult students are found in most institutions of higher education today, yet when librarians design instruction on computerized resources such as online catalogs, the Internet , and CD-ROM tools, they seldom consider the principles of adult...

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig. New York: Basic Books, 1999. 297p. $30 (ISBN 0-465-03912-X). National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United...