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ONLINE January 2001 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading This month, I focus on service, with a book to help you select and manage electronic resources, and one to improve your customer service. Then research secrets are revealed in the financial area with the latest Super Searchers book, and failures are avoided in the digital library initiatives...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation... The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology Is Transforming Work... The Practical Library Trainer... The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher... etc.  |
ONLINE November 2000 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy A look at a few books that define our progress into the digital age, covering the broad topics of digital libraries and organizing information. Then in cyberspace, we get inspiration by stories of folks on the Net, and learn how to get started in ecommerce ourselves...  |
ONLINE September 2000 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy, Recommended Reading This issue's Hardcopy looks at some ways to help your organization become more effective. These books will help you develop long-term strategies for your organization, including ecommerce and competitive intelligence initiatives.  |
ONLINE September 2001 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Library Issues Creating Web-Accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums, and Other Nonprofits... Caught in a Web: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace... Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros... etc.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Wireless Networking Made Easy: Everything You Need to Know
to Build Your Own PANs, LANs, and WANs... PC Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer... etc.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Patriot Act in Libraries... Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers... The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources... etc.  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2003 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Readings on Digital Resources, the Internet Economy, and the Dangers of Cyberspace How to Build a Digital Library... The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk... Re-Thinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace... Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers... etc.  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Ebusiness, Ewriting, and International Business As a new year begins, I thought it useful to look at the shape of ebusiness, so two books cover a range of topics on that ever-changing subject. I also look at a book to improve your writing skills and a guide to international business resources...  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2002 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on New Systems and Prominent People Managing Electronic Reserves... Planning for Integrated Systems and Technologies... Forbes ASAP Big Issues: The Examined Life in the Digital Age... The Quintessential Searcher: The Wit and Wisdom of Barbara Quint...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy Recommended reading on webmastering, classification, and legal issues  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 |
Hardcopy Recommended Reading on the Technical Aspects of Librarianship  |
D-Lib April 2002 Stephen Paul Davis |
Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner have written an excellent overview of the state of affairs in digital libraries...  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2003 |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance... The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet... Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools... Super Searchers on Madison Avenue  |
ONLINE March 2001 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Pleasing Clients and on Super Searchers This month, we look at a couple of books designed to help you please your clients and patrons, either by designing a better Web site or by creating better products and services. Then we examine the latest in the Super Searcher series--News and Health & Medicine...  |
D-Lib April 2000 Wendy P. Lougee |
Book Review: Digital Libraries This book by William Arms draws boundaries broadly and covers issues from the perspective of all the relevant stakeholders -- i.e., librarians, technologists, publishers, and users.  |
ONLINE November 2001 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy A look at books on copyright and intellectual property issues, as well as Internet futures forecasting and a guide to Web indexing...  |
D-Lib October 2009 R.S.R. Varalakshmi |
Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula To make digital information management a reality, Library and Information Science education programs in India now include digital library courses in their syllabi.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Innovation, Usability, Strategies, and Resources Leading for Innovation and Organizing for Results... Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-on Guide... Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Researchers... Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business Strategies for Every Budget...  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Albert Cervera |
Document Management in the Open University of Catalunya Classrooms Through its document management services in Universitat Oberta de Catalunya classrooms, the UOC Library acts as a true learning and teaching facilitator and plays a central role in the university's learning model.  |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.  |
Information Today April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Late Breaks - Endeavor Information Systems In association with Endeavor Information Systems, Sun Microsystems' technology is the incubator for a full-featured digital library solution, called ENCompass...  |
D-Lib June 2004 Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet .  |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Webmastering, Classification, and Legal Issues A look at a book to get you into Webmastering, if you haven't dabbled yet; a quick look at the state of classifying electronic resources; and some legal issues for libraries and e-mail management.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision.  |
D-Lib April 2007 |
Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto The DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries now envisions a Digital Library as a tool at the center of intellectual activity having no logical, conceptual, physical, temporal, or personal borders or barriers to information.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries.  |
ONLINE May 2001 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy, Recommended Reading for Expanding Your Knowledge Base This month we look at some books that I can't categorize with any one theme, except perhaps expanding your knowledge base. The guide to government Web sites will help you learn what's available, while the other three books are great references for tangential facets of your working life...  |
Information Today April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report.  |
D-Lib November 2001 Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library...  |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries.  |
ONLINE July 2000 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy, Recommended Reading This issue's column offers four books to help you lead your organization into a new future--whatever that future might be.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories.  |
D-Lib March 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program... Report Examines Copyright Issues in Digital Archiving, Council on Library and Information Resources... Surveying the Digital Future: Year Three... etc.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries... National Academies to Release First Phase of Counterterrorism Study This Summer... Proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Virtual Communities... etc.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading for Online Professionals Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums... The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See... The Mobile Technology Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Business Managers... etc.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 |
Editorial Last month I attended two digital library meetings, the all-projects meeting of the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Digital Libraries Initiative and a conference of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) -- in Europe, surprisingly enough....  |
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget...  |
Information Today May 17, 2012 |
IFLA Releases Background Paper on E-Lending As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the International Federation of Library Associations Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending.  |
D-Lib December 2000 Edward A. Galloway |
Book Review From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World...  |
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation.  |
Chemistry World November 5, 2013 Simon Coles |
Structure of materials: an introduction to crystallography, diffraction and symmetry Most of the clues as to the content of this book by De Graef and McHenry are in the title, apart from the fact that it really is a very comprehensive introductory text!  |
D-Lib June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library?  |
Information Today November 8, 2010 Barbie E. Keiser |
Some Progress But Not Enough: GAO Issues Update on the EPA Library Network When reading the GAO report released on Nov. 1, it's important to distinguish between indictments of the Agency and the work it was supposed to do from the progress that the library network has made.  |
D-Lib October 2001 Sally Jo Cunningham |
Report on the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries The ECDL 2001 call for papers emphasized "convergence": the drawing together of features from existing libraries, archives, and museums to create integrated digital resources...  |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology.  |
Searcher September 2008 Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries.  |
D-Lib August 2006 Lavoie, Henry & Dempsey |
A Service Framework for Libraries As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts.  |