Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 2003

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 2003

President's Column: Greetings LITA Members and Friends!
September 1, 2003... I am very pleased to accept the challenge to continue the excellent tradition begun by Pat Ensor in the form of this column. As she discussed, it is an opportunity for the LITA president to increase communication with the membership. My...

Computer Literacy: Necessity or Buzzword?
September 1, 2003... While the concept of computer literacy has existed for some time, the name has certainly changed. Whatever the name, the concept of computer literacy still has merit. By looking at the history of the computer literacy movement for grounding, we...

Building an Internet Gateway
September 1, 2003... The Library of the International Labour Organization created a gateway to Internet sites in the areas of work, employment, and social issues titled WorkGate. This article describes the design decisions that went into the project, such as the...

An Evaluation of Computer-Supported Collaborative Serial Management: A Case Study
September 1, 2003... This case study was performed at Rutgers University to evaluate computer-supported serials management in an academic library context. Information in an ExtInfo folder within each serial control record of an integrated library system was manually...

Implementing the SFX Link Server at the University of Iowa
September 1, 2003... In January 2002, the University of Iowa Libraries introduced its link server--linking related content from one information provider to another--using Ex Libris SFX software. Three basic services appeared on day 1 of the link server's...

A History of Web Portals and Their Development in Libraries
September 1, 2003... This article studies the history of Web portals widely used in business-to-business and business-to-consumer Web applications in the late 1990s. Web portals originated from Web search engines in the early 1990s and evolved through Web push...

The Development of the NISO Committee AX's OpenURL Standard
September 1, 2003... This paper describes the development of the OpenURL standard and how it will impact librarians and information technologists. This article is based on information provided via email inquires sent to members of the National Information Standards...

Using Microsoft Share Point Team Services for Library Committee Management
September 1, 2003... Library committees work for the improvement and technological advancement of library services. Managing these committees is not an easy task, especially when there are subcommittees within a larger committee. Inefficient management often leads...

Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Ben Shneiderman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pr., 2002. 288 p. $24.95 (ISBN 0-262-19476-7). Ben Shneiderman, author of Designing the User Interface (Addison-Wesley, 1997), has written a new book. Head of the Human-Computer Interaction...