Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 2007

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 2007

President's Column
September 1, 2007... Welcome to my first ITAL president's column. Each president only gets a year to do these columns, so expectations must be low all around. My hope is to stimulate some thinking and conversation that results in LITA members' ideas being exchanged...

Testing Information Literacy in Digital Environments: ETS's iSkills Assessment
September 1, 2007... Despite coming of age with the Internet and other technology, many college students lack the information and communication technology (ICT) literacy skills necessary to navigate, evaluate, and use the overabundance of information available...

The Structure and Form of Folksonomy Tags: The Road to the Public Library Catalog
September 1, 2007... This article examines the linguistic structure of folksonomy tags collected over a thirty-day period from the daily tag logs of Del.icio.us, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against the National Information Standards Organization...

Wikis in Libraries
September 1, 2007... Wikis have recently been adopted to support a variety of collaborative activities within libraries. This article and its companion wiki, LibraryWikis (http://librarywikis.pbwiki.com/), seek to document the phenomenon of wikis in libraries. This...

ThManager: An Open Source Tool for Creating and Visualizing SKOS
September 1, 2007... Knowledge organization systems denotes formally represented knowledge that is used within the context of digital libraries to improve data sharing and information retrieval. To increase their use, and to reuse them when possible, it is vital to...