Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 2006

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 2006

President's column.(A.L.A. Library and Information Technology Association)(Column)
September 1, 2006... Being president of a dynamic organization like LITA is truly a humbling experience. Every day I am awestruck by the dedication, energy, creativity, and excitement exhibited by LITA's members. I see it in everything that LITA does, from its...

Editorial: a confession, a speculation, and a farewell.(Research Libraries Group and OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. merge)(Fred Kilgour )(Obituary)
September 1, 2006... The authors of "The State of RFID Applications in Libraries," that appeared in the March 2006 issue, inadvertently included two sentences that are near quotations from a commentary by Peter Warfield and Lee Tien in the April 8, 2005 issue of...

Strong copyright + DRM + weak net neutrality = digital dystopia?(Digital Rights Management)
September 1, 2006... Three critical issues--a dramatic expansion of the scope, duration, and punitive nature of copyright laws; the ability of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems to lock-down digital content in an unprecedented fashion; and the erosion of Net...

Toward a twenty-first century library catalog.
September 1, 2006... Library catalogs have represented stagnant technology for close to twenty years. Moving toward a next-generation catalog, North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries purchased Endeca 's Information Access Platform to give its users...

Usability testing of a large, multidisciplinary library database: basic search and visual search.
September 1, 2006... Visual search interfaces have been shown by researchers to assist users with information search and retrieval. Recently, several major library vendors have added visual search interfaces or functions to their products. For public service...

OpenSearch and SRU: a continuum of searching.
September 1, 2006... Not all library content can be exposed as HTML pages for harvesting by search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. If a library instead exposes its content through a local search interface, that content can then be found by users of metasearch...

Bibliographic Displays in Web catalogs: does conformity to design guidelines correlate with user performance?
September 1, 2006... The present study investigated whether there is a correlation between user performance and compliance with screen-design guidelines found in the literature. Rather than test individual guidelines and their interactions, the authors took a more...

User-centered design of a Web site for library and information science students: heuristic evaluation and usability testing.
September 1, 2006... This study describes the life cycle of a library Web site created with a user-centered design process to serve a graduate school of library and information science (LIS). Findings based on a heuristic evaluation and usability study were applied...

Content management for the virtual library.(Website overview)
September 1, 2006... Traditional, larger libraries can rely on their physical collection, coffee shops, and study rooms as ways to entice patrons into their library. Yet virtual libraries merely have their online presence to attract students to resources. This can...