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Information Today October 13, 2003 Barbara Quint |
RLG's Union Catalog Available on the Open Web Research Libraries Group, builder of one of the world's largest union catalogs of merged library holdings, has opened a Web-based version of its file to all users of the Web.  |
D-Lib February 2007 Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions.  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2004 Nancy O'Neill |
Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective Ultimately even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. If you believe in libraries, as OCLC obviously does, what's not to love about Open WorldCat?  |
Information Today September 2000 |
EOS International Unveils Q Series 3.0, GLAS 3.1 and Toolkit Q Series version 3.0 supports Z39.50, an industry standard that allows dissimilar library automation systems to share information... GLAS version 3.1 features enhancements such as the ability to link and manage URI hyperlinks within bibliographic records...  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes.  |
D-Lib October 2005 Mimno et al. |
Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog Using the Perseus Digital Library catalog to explore the implications of using hierarchical catalog records for searching and browsing.  |
D-Lib February 2007 Karen Markey |
The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained? The time is right to rethink library cataloging and online catalogs. Reading and synthesizing Marcum, Calhoun, Bates, Mann, Hildreth, Borgman, Anderson, etc., should be mandatory for everyone who cares about the future of the online library catalog.  |
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features.  |
Information Today September 2001 Marshall Breeding |
The ALA Annual Conference 2001 This showcase featured the latest in library automation trends and announcements...  |
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 .  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 William Y. Arms |
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation?  |
D-Lib June 2008 Monnich & Spiering |
Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System Recommender systems are useful tools for adding a reference component to a library catalog, and they help develop library catalogs that serve as customer-oriented portals, deploying Web 2.0 technology.  |
Information Today July 9, 2012 |
NoveList Select Gains New Features and Options New features improve the user experience, as well as offer new upgrade options, including book jackets, professional book reviews, sample excerpts, tables of contents, and more, from Content Cafe -- a database offered by Baker & Taylor.  |
D-Lib September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?  |
Information Today October 30, 2000 Barbara Quint |
With OCLC's New Strategy, Is the Earth's Largest Library in Sight? OCLC, the largest library online cooperative, is setting a new strategy that could move it as well as public and academic libraries across the country and the world into an emerging, unified, virtual library service on the Web...  |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.  |
Searcher January 2001 Barbara Quint |
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight?  |
D-Lib March 2000 Paepcke, Brandriff, Janee, Larson, et al. |
Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol "Search middleware" refers to protocols and associated software packages that enable information application writers to access information sources easily.  |
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure...  |
D-Lib March 2003 Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library.  |
D-Lib October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc.  |
D-Lib June 2003 Donald Beagle |
Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space The concept of c-space is proposed as a visualization schema relating containers of content to cataloging surrogates and classification structures. Possible applications of keyword vector clusters within c-space and related advantages are discussed in this article.  |
D-Lib January 2003 Mitchell et al. |
iVia Open Source Virtual Library System iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system.  |
Information Today December 2000 |
Innovative Interfaces Announces E-Book Integration, Millennium Implementations Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the integration of netLibrary e-books into its INNOPAC and Millennium library automation systems...  |
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.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers.  |
D-Lib July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... etc.  |
Information Today October 6, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services.  |
Information Today November 21, 2013 |
Facebook App Enables Library OPAC Searches Syndetic Solutions, ProQuest's OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, introduced a free Facebook app for its library subscribers.  |
Information Today February 11, 2013 |
E-resource Recommendations Added to NoveList Select The recommendations guide library patrons to relevant e-resources -- that may have been hidden or hard to find -- directly from catalog records.  |
Information Today February 2, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum LibLime, an upstart company that has provided open source software solutions for libraries for several years, has made its move to the next frontier of openness by providing open data and open library content.  |
Information Today December 2000 Tom Hogan |
IT Interview: Jay Jordan Settles In at OCLC Jay Jordan became president and CEO of OCLC about 2 years ago, following the retirement of K. Wayne Smith, who had achieved living legend status during his 10-year tenure---a tough act to follow...  |
D-Lib May 2003 |
In Brief The GLobal Access Management Project... DigitalWell: Streaming Media Asset Management... The Xtensible Past: XML as a Means for Easy Access to Historical Research Data and a Strategy for Digital Preservation... etc.  |
Information Today April 17, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Factiva and ProQuest Expand Channel Partnership... New H.W. Wilson Fiction Catalog Available... EBSCO Offers Free Access to Teacher Reference Center...  |
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources  |
D-Lib May 2004 Michael F. Goodchild |
The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Why the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was established, how it progressed, and how the vision of ADL continues to evolve.  |
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.  |
D-Lib January 2000 |
In Brief Campus Computing, 1999: The Continuing Challenge of Instructional Integration... Openly Informatics Unveils Virtual Linking Service... Applications Are Being Accepted for the MOST International Ph.D. Award (2000-2001)... "One-Stop" Scholarly Searching Unveiled in New Release of the California Digital Library... etc.  |
Information Today May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections.  |
D-Lib June 2000 Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place...  |
D-Lib October 2000 John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems...  |
Information Today January 6, 2011 |
National Archives Launches Online Public Access System The public portal provides access to digitized records, and information about the records. It also provides a centralized means of searching multiple National Archives resources at once.  |
Information Today June 10, 2010 |
Bowker Enhances Its Suite of Library Resources Enhancements include Books In Print, Syndetic Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues.  |
Information Today May 7, 2012 |
Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset Now Available via EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Publishing made the newly released Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset available through EBSCO Discovery Service. The dataset contains 12 million open-access catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 |
In Brief and In the News OCLC prints last library catalog cards... VRA Core RDF Ontology available for review... ALA awarded IMLS grant for IFLA 2016 Congress Fellowships...  |
Information Today April 26, 2012 |
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available.  |
Information Today September 24, 2009 |
SirsiDynix Announces General Availability of Enterprise 3.0 Enterprise 3.0 offers users a single search well to discover all resources the library makes available. Those resources might include one or more library catalogs, digital collections, selected websites, and federated resources.  |
D-Lib December 2003 Connaway & Lawrence |
Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study The research reported in this article is an attempt to identify resource allocations for an all-paper library and the all-digital library that provides ejournals, eBooks, electronic maps, and digital audio, video, and images, based on information gathered from a group of research librarians.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Lorcan Dempsey |
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Libraries collectively manage a long tail of research, learning and cultural materials. However, we need to do more work to make sure that this long tail is directly available to improve the work and lives of our users.  |