Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 2010

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 2010

President's Message: Moving Forward
September 1, 2010... Cloud computing. Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web. Google Editions. Books in copyright and books out of copyright. Born digital. Digitized material. The reduction of Stanford University's Engineering Library book collection by 85 percent. The...

Editorial Board Thoughts: Adding Value in the Internet Age-Libraries, Openness, and Programmers
September 1, 2010... In the age of the Internet, Google, and the nearly crushing proliferation of metadata, libraries have been struggling with how to maintain their relevance and survive in the face of shrinking budgets and misinformed questions about whether...

Batch Loading Collections into DSpace: Using Perl Scripts for Automation and Quality Control
September 1, 2010... This paper describes batch loading workflows developed for the Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University's institutional repository. In the five years since the inception of the repository approximately 80 percent of the items added to the...

Authentication and Access: Accommodating Public Users in an Academic World
September 1, 2010... In the fall of 2004, the Academic Computing Center, a division of the Information Technology Services Department (ITS) at Minnesota State University, Mankato took over responsibility for the computers in the public areas of Memorial Library. For...

The Next Generation Library Catalog: A Comparative Study of the OPACs of Koha, Evergreen, and Voyager
September 1, 2010... Open source has been the center of attention in the library world for the past several years. Koha and Evergreen are the two major open-source integrated library systems (ILSs), and they continue to grow in maturity and popularity. The question...

Are Your Digital Documents Web Friendly?: Making Scanned Documents Web Accessible
September 1, 2010... The Internet has greatly changed how library users search and use library resources. Many of them prefer resources available in electronic format over traditional print materials. While many documents are now born digital, many more are only...