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Editorial note:
This section contains items culled from various Internet news services, discussion lists and other announcements. Unless specifically noted, I have not visited the sites, used any of the software, reviewed the literature, or written the news items. I present this digest to you in good faith but cannot vouch for the accuracy of its content.
Kerry Smith
Issue 59
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Issue 59 of Ariadne available
In this issue the main articles are as follows:
*Publish and Cherish with Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems
- Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA
publishing conditions by stimulating the market.
*e-Framework Implements New Workplan
- Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming
developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research.
*A Support Framework for Remote Workers
- Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne
with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent
support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.
*Encouraging More Open Educational Resources with Southampton's EdShare
- Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and
the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching
materials within and beyond the institution.
*To VRE or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a
Virtual Research Environment?
- Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of
a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South
*EThOS: From Project to Service
- Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online
Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.
*Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional
Research Repositories in Europe
- Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf
report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted
to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the
European Union.
*The REMAP Project: Steps towards a Repository-enabled Information
- Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository
can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation
of its own digital content.
*Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR
- Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of
developing components for the Information Environment Metadata
Schema Registry.
At the Event reports:
*NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability
- Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana
*IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation
- Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens
Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT
Conference, held in The Hague.
*From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures
for a Global Knowledge Society
- Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by
the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin.
*Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure
Workshop, Amsterdam
- Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which formed part
of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the
Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam.
*The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009
- Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information
Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University.
News and Reviews
*Newsline: News and events
*Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries: Issues
and Practices
- Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following
question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?
*Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
- Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern
institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both
challenging and thought-provoking.
*Reader Development in Practice: bringing literature to readers
- Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the
topic of reader development.
*Sketching Tomorrow
- Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of
modern society to information and communication technologies and
observes more sins of omission than commission.
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April 2009
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Current Cites
April 2009
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: Keri Cascio, [3]Warren Cheetham, [4]Alison Cody, [5]Susan
Gibbons, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant
"Special Issue: Next Generation OPACs" [8]Library Hi Tech 27(1)(2009)
- "Next Gen OPACs" is an oft-used phrase these days -- at conferences,
in hallway conversations, and in the library literature. Thus this
special issue is hardly a surprise, but it does have some interesting
articles. If you want more information on some next gen library
catalogs (I despise the term "OPAC"), the articles on [9]VUFind and
[10]Blacklight (two of the systems built on the [11]Solr platform) may
be of interest. There are also more conceptual pieces as well as
articles on federated searching, e-reserves, statistics, and other
topics. Basically, if you're interested in anything related to library
resource discovery and use you will probably find something of interest
in this issue. - [12]RT
Casden, Jason, Kim Duckett, and Tito Sierra, et. al."[13]Course
Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library
Resources" [14]Code4Lib Journal (6)(20 March
2009)(http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1218). - The goal was
ambitious: to automatically generate library course pages for every
course at NCSU. In order to do this, they needed to develop a hierarchy
or framework of resources and services with varying degrees of
granularity, from the completely generic to subject- and
course-specific. Each page then takes the input of the course
identifier, such as 'ENG 101' and then populates the page with
resources that would be helpful for English Lit at the 100 level. A
certain amount of old-style manual customization is also allowed for.
The finished pages are then integrated into the Course Management
Software. Through this customization and integration with various
systems, they've been able to increase usage of library resources. -
Houser, John. "Open Source Public Workstations in Libraries"
[16]Library Technology Reports (April 2009) - Libraries are always
trying to find a balance between their IT budgets and the demand for
more and more public access workstations. John Houser takes us through
open source systems and products for public access computers for
academic and public libraries. He gives a clear synopsis of available
open source solutions for operating systems, server software, session
management tools, system imaging, desktop applications, and running
Windows. Houser introduces us to case studies for three different
libraries: one running Linux with open source applications; another
sharing a single PC with two to ten people; and the last running open
source applications on a server with thin-client software. The article
includes a link to an interesting podcast conversation with John Brice
which discusses the barriers and benefits for implementing open source
software. - KC
Pew Internet & American Life Project. [17]Internet Typology: The Mobile
Difference Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, 25 March
ommunication-devices). - Anyone going home on a bus or train is witness
to a revolution in technology and access to information: all around are
sure to be people using smart-phones or netbooks, people texting each
other, sending email and photos, and otherwise accessing the Internet.
Now we have a report by the Pew Research Center which reflects pretty
much what anyone using public transportation can observe every day:
"Cast a glance at any coffee shop, train station or airport boarding
gate, and it is easy to see that mobile access to the internet is
taking root in our society. Open laptops or furrowed brows staring at
palm-sized screens are evidence of how routinely information is
exchanged on wireless networks." The report goes on to look at the roll
that "mobile internet access" plays in various user groups. It
concludes that the tech bar "has risen": "In the past, having tech gear
such as broadband at home generally placed people on the cutting edge;
that is no longer the case.... Our new study shows that mobile
connectivity is the new centerpiece of high-tech life." - [18]LRK
Richardson, Janice, Andrea Milwood Hargrave, and Basil Moratille, et.
al.[19]The Internet Literacy Handbook (December
.asp). - The Internet Literacy Handbook is a clear, simple online tool
that most internet trainers in library settings could find a use for.
This is the third edition updated in December 2008. There are two free
online versions (Flash and HTML) and a printed copy may be purchased
online. The handbook is aimed at parents, teachers and young people and
covers introductory explanations of the world wide web, email, spam and
chat, through to blogs, Web 2.0 and e-democracy. Issues like privacy,
security and online bullying are also covered. Links to external sites
offer further reading. - [20]WC
Taylor, Mark C.O "[21]End the University as We Know It" [22]The New
York Times (27 April,
2009)(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html). - This
Op-Ed piece from the New York Times is certainly causing quite a stir.
Taylor begins with the assertion that "most graduate programs in
American universities produce a product for which there is no market."
Graduate programs are little more than a way to harness the work of
underpaid graduate students in the laboratories and classrooms of
universities. Taylor recommends a 6-step plan to make "higher learning
more agile, adaptive and imaginative," which he parallels to the types
of significant overhauls needed on Wall Street and in the auto
industry. A quick but thought-provoking read. - [23]SG
Xie, B., and J. M. Bugg. "Public Library Computer Training for Older
Adults to Access High-Quality Internet Health Information "
[24]Library & Information Science Research (2009) - This pre-press
article discusses a collaboration between a public library system and a
nearby LIS program. Using materials provided by the National Library of
Medicine, the project taught older adults how to find high-quality
health information online. Participants self-selected into the program,
and pre-testing showed that 47% of participants reported no prior
experience with computers. The program provided 16 hours of training
over two weeks; post-test results showed that the participants had an
overwhelmingly positive experience -- 97% reported that they "learned a
lot." Analysis of pre- and post-test results also showed that
participants' computer anxiety decreased, and interest increased. Many
respondents also indicated that they had a more positive view of their
library after the training. This program demonstrated that a
collaboration between local institutions can greatly benefit both the
population being targeted by the training as well as the public
library. While many libraries may not be able to work directly with a
library school, partnerships with other institutions or community
groups could be formed to develop a similar program. - [25]AC
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I'm very sorry, but due to a production problem which was completely my mistake, the May issue of Current Cites was published without one of the citations (the piece by Josh Hadro). My apologies to Charles Bailey, Jr., the author of the citation, as well as all of our loyal readers for this error. Below, and on the web site, is the corrected issue. Thanks,
Current Cites
May 2009
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Warren Cheetham, [5]Alison
Cody, [6]Roy Tennant
Folkestad, James E. "[7]Promoting Collaboration: The Physical
Arrangement of Library Computers" [8]Library Hi Tech News
26(1/2)(2009): 18-19.
- As library print collections shrink and libraries are reconfigured to
provide learning spaces and easy access to growing digital collections,
the fundamental layout of computing spaces becomes an important
consideration. Web 2.0 tools encourage collaboration, discussion and
sharing, so why shouldn't the physical layout of the computers used to
access online information do the same? This paper looks at "the
interface of the concepts of collaborative learning and physical
arrangements of computer laboratories". The author considers a number
of layout options for computer desks in a library / learning
environment based on published case studies, and then proposes an
adaptation of the Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology
Education (CSMATE) model of computer work station arrangement. - [9]WC
Hadro, Josh. "[10]Cornell Library Lifts Restrictions on Public Domain
Works" [11]Library Journal Academic Newswire (14 May
2009)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6658219.html). - The
[12]Cornell University Library has eliminated license requirements for
reproductions of digitized public domain works, including over 70,000
e-books donated to the Internet Archive. In a May 11, 2009 [13]press
release, Oya Y. Rieger, Associate University Librarian for Information
Technologies, said: "Imposing legally binding restrictions on these
digital files would have been very difficult and in a way contrary to
our broad support of open access principles. It seemed better just to
acknowledge their public domain status and make them freely usable for
any purpose. And since it doesn't make sense to have different rules
for material that is reproduced at the request of patrons, we have
removed permission obligations from public domain works." The press
release also said: "Institutional restrictions on the use of public
domain work, sometimes labeled 'copyfraud,' have been the subject of
much scholarly criticism. The Cornell initiative goes further than many
other recent attempts to open access to public domain material by
removing restrictions on both commercial and non-commercial use." -
Jaeger, Paul T., Jimmy Lin, and Justin M. Grimes, et. al."[15]Where
is the Cloud? Geography, Economics, Environment, and Jurisdiction in
Cloud Computing" [16]First Monday 14(5)(4 May
w/2456/2171). - The concept of "cloud computing" seems to have burst
upon the general consciousness in recent times, although it is not all
that new. Amazon has been offering cloud services for several years,
for example, to anyone willing to pay. And before that there were
research implementations. But nonetheless, the authors assert that
there are several important questions to ponder regarding effective
cloud computing that have yet to be answered. Some of these questions
include legal jurisdictions, corporate or government control of
information, legal and policy issues, and environmental concerns. One
of their key recommendations is that "it is imperative for cloud
providers and cloud users to promulgate initiatives to promote
awareness of these issues among government officials and to bring these
issues before the proper legislative bodies." - [17]RT
Liston, Samuel. "[18]OPACs and the Mobile Revolution" [19]Computers in
Libraries 29(5)(May 2009): 6-17.
(http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/index.shtml). - Have you ever
tried to use your library's website and OPAC from a smartphone (such as
the iPhone or a BlackBerry)? Many of us probably think that the number
of patrons who try to use the library from a smartphone is relatively
small, and thus not worth worrying about. While the author notes that
smartphone adoption within the general public ranges from 5-10%, use of
these types of devices by college freshman is already up to 66%. That's
a number that should make you wonder what they're seeing when they try
to find a book from their BlackBerry. In this article, Liston uses
online emulators that simulate the experience of surfing the web from
an iPhone, a BlackBerry, and a phone running the Windows Mobile
operating system. Using these tools, he conducts a search for a book in
a SirsiDynix catalog, one from Innovative Interfaces, and finally an
AquaBrowser catalog. Results for Windows Mobile and the BlackBerry's OS
were mixed; they ran into a variety of problems, but in most cases
managed to display the information in some way. It is probably not
surprising to hear that the iPhone's browser handled all of the
catalogs quite well. Overall, Liston finds that Innovative does the
best job of displaying on a mobile device, while AquaBrowser does the
worst -- it won't even load on the BlackBerry. Along the way, he points
out a variety of pitfalls and display problems; these include the
BlackBerry's inability to use JavaScript, and problems with Flash on
the iPhone. While there may not be much that an individual library can
do to make their catalog more accessible for mobile users, we can lobby
our vendors to do so, and at least make our websites usable. That way,
when someone can't find a book from their BlackBerry, they can at least
find the number for the reference desk. - [20]AC
Milstein, Sarah. "[21]Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)"
[22]Computers in Libraries 29(5)(May 2009): 17-18.
(http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/Milstein.shtml). - My brother
recently said that he hadn't ever heard of Twitter and now he hears
about it all the time. Although Twitter has been around for years, it
only recently made it big -- at least partly through the attention of
famous people. So this piece is timely and serves as a useful
introduction to this "microblogging" service and how it can be
effectively used by librarians -- both for personal reasons and to
promote their organizations. Milstein provides examples on how
different types of libraries use Twitter as well as specific
suggestions on how to interact. - [23]RT
Suber, Peter. "[24]An OA Mandate for U of Oregon Library Faculty"
[25]Open Access News (7 May
egon-library.html). - On May 7, 2009, the University of Oregon Library
Faculty unanimously adopted a strong open access mandate that included
putting its scholarly articles under a Creative Commons
[26]Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
license. The mandate states that: "To facilitate distribution of the
scholarly articles, as of the date of publication, each faculty member
will make available an electronic copy of the author's final version of
the article and full citation at no charge to a designated
representative of the Libraries in appropriate formats (such as PDF)
specified by the Libraries. After publication, the University of Oregon
Libraries will make the scholarly article available to the public in
the UO's institutional repository." The mandate provides for a waiver
that can be granted by the Dean of the Libraries. The mandate follows
[27]one by the Oregon State University Libraries faculty on March 6,
2009 and a [28]mandate by the Academic Council of Libraries and
Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary on May 1, 2009. It was
followed by an [29]open access pledge by the Gustavus Adolphus College
library faculty on May 14, 2009. In an interesting related development,
the [30]Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon
adopted a mandate on May 14, 2009 that also included a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States license
requirement. - [31]CB
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Current Cites
June 2009
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: Keri Cascio, [3]Frank Cervone, [4]Susan Gibbons, [5]Leo
Robert Klein, [6]Brian Rosenblum, [7]Roy Tennant, [8]Jesus Tramullas
[9]M-Libraries: Information Use on the Move Cambridge, UK: Arcadia
Programme, Cambridge University Library, 29 May
- What do students do with their cellphones and how should libraries
support these devices? Those are the questions addressed in this report
that surveyed cellphone use at two universities in the UK. The study
found that most students use their phones for calling, texting, and
taking photos, while less than a quarter use them to routinely access
the Internet. Reason enough, the author concludes, to hold off on
developing content such as websites and ebooks specifically for the
devices. The author then goes over a number of potential services such
as mobile-friendly OPACs and library alerts through SMS that she feels
are more promising. While it's hard to say at what level of adoption,
mobile-specific or smartphone-specific content and services should be
developed, perhaps the author's best point is simply to make sure that
what we already have online, is also accessible to these newer devices.
ALA Office for Research and Statistics, . "[11]Public Libraries and
E-Government Services " [12]ALA Office for Research and Statistics
ov.pdf). - E-government has become more and more prevalent over the
past few years. Many programs and services are available to citizens
only after navigating an online application. This fact hit home with
Missouri public libraries earlier this year--the Department of Revenue
decided to save money by not sending MO tax forms to public libraries.
This change in procedures led to long conversations with our customers
on how they could find forms online or file electronically. As part of
their Public Library Funding&Technology Access Study, the ALA Office
for Research and Statistics just published an issue brief titled
"Public Libraries and E-Government Services." Public libraries are hubs
for internet connectivity and computer access, which in turn makes them
hubs for users of E-government services. There are challenges to be
faced as public libraries move forward with assisting customers:
financial constraints due to a poor economy; users who are not familiar
with computers or the internet; staff who are either overworked or
don't have the skills to navigate E-government; and the inconsistency
of services and Web site usability across E-Government services.
Hopefully collaboration between government agencies and public
libraries will make the process more efficient for all parties
involved. - KC
Bailey, Charles W., Jr. [13]A Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet
Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/: Digital
Scholarship, June
2009.(http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/twentyyears.htm). - Charles W.
Bailey, Jr. started the PACS-L discussion list for librarians back
before most of us knew about discussion lists at all. It was a seminal
event in bringing librarians to the Internet, and it was a defining
experience for me, a new librarian eager to learn about computer
networks. The list then spawned a journal, and helped ignite Bailey's
ongoing professional interest in open access publishing. This interest
was embodied in a number of well-regarded publications including the
[14]Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography and the [15]Open
Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and
Open Access Journals (PDF). Bailey's bibliographic reminiscence, then,
is much more than explicating a personal journey -- it's a record of
much of the open access scholarly publishing movement over the last
couple decades. Any of us who have been involved in such activities may
wish to look back with Charles, and think about how far we've come.
Also, Charles has contributed regularly and well to this particular
open access publication for over eight years. - [16]RT
Chudnov, Dan. "The Illusion of Stability" [17]Computers in Libraries
29(6)(June 2009): 31-33. - This column looks at strategies for making
sure your online infrastructure is solid. Chudnov covers a number of
strategies, including how to test software as it is being developed by
writing and using unit tests, using "continuous build" tools such as
[18]Hudson, using a version control system such as [19]Bazaar, and
monitoring your servers and processes using applications such as
[20]Nagios. He also highlights an application introduced at the 2009
Code4Lib Conference by Brown University called the [21]library
dashboard, which is designed to not just monitor systems but also usage
of library services such as checkouts. Overall, an excellent column on
a vital topic written in a very accessible way, even for those who do
not write software. - [22]RT
Corn, Michael A. [23]Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing: Reality
Is a Sober Adversary (Research Bulletin, Issue 12) Boulder, CO:
EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 16 June
173358). - "Be very afraid." That's the warning of this ECAR Research
Bulletin for those thinking about outsourcing IT services. Emerging
cloud-based services are attractive because of their quick access and
usability, but Michael Corn, Chief Privacy and Security Officer at the
University of Illinois, thinks we might be embracing these services too
quickly. While recognizing that higher education institutions must find
ways to make use of these services for data storage and sharing,
project management, and communication, Corn argues that institutions
need to take a cautious and strategic approach to outsourcing, thinking
about long-term effects rather than viewing outsourcing as the solution
to individual services. Corn outlines several parameters that are
crucial to consider, including vendor trust, governance, and agility,
and provides examples of specific questions that institutions should
ask (Do we have a documented strategy for outsourcing? What is the
maturity of the commercial market for this service? What is the broader
impact on the local IT environment?). Drawing a connection to the
debate over centralized vs. decentralized IT, Corn reminds us that
"effective outsourcing requires its own particular expertise; an
expertise that controls for the loss of the flexibility and functional
insight that in-house solutions offer." - [24]BR
Dehmlow, Mark. "[25]The Ten Commandments of Interacting with
Nontechnical People" [26]Information Technology and Libraries
28(2)(June 2009): 53-54.
). - Like the author, I too have worked "in between" the tech and
non-tech worlds -- able to communicate with denizens of both but not
fully of either. Perhaps that is why this short piece resonates so much
with me. "Ironically," Dehmlow points out, "it turns out the most
critical pieces to successfully implementing technology solutions and
bridging the digital divide in libraries has been categorically
nontechnical in nature; it all comes down to collegiality, clear
communication, and a commitment to collaboration." Amen. He then goes
on to enumerate his ten "commandments" for working with those who are
not technically inclined. I suppose another reason I like this piece so
much is that it reminds me very much of a recent piece I wrote,
[27]"Talking Tech: Explaining Technical Topics to a Non-Technical
Audience". Knowing Mark personally, I'm flattered to think we agree so
much on advice that can be so important to the success of managing
technical change. - [28]RT
FESABID, . [29]Actas de las XI Jornadas Espa?olas de Documentaci?n
. - The Jornadas Espa?olas de Documentaci?n (FESABID) are the reference
forum for the specialized professional community in Spain. The XI
Conference was held in Zaragoza from 20 to 22 of May, and the presented
papers have been openly published in the Federaci?n Espa?ola de
Sociedades de Archiv?stica, Biblioteconom?a, Documentaci?n y Muse?stica
(FESABID) website. In the Conference Blog you can also find a great
quantity of the presentations made in the different sessions. - [30]JT
Pochoda, Phil. "[31]University Press 2.0" [32]The University of
Michigan Press Blog (27 May
niversity-press-20-by-phil-pochoda.html). - University presses, for a
variety of reasons, have been particularly challenged during this time
of transition to digital publishing. Financially fragile even before
the larger economic downturn, many university presses are now facing
serious budgets cuts that may threaten their very survival -- and in
turn have a large impact on publishing opportunities for many
professors. (See [33]"Could a Press End Up on Chopping Block?"
published in Inside Higher Ed earlier this year.) At the University of
Michigan, the Press was recently restructured from an independent unit
to a department that reports to the dean of the University Library,
with a new emphasis on the production of digital monographs rather than
print. In this essay Michigan Press director Phil Pochoda discusses the
transition to digital publishing and the current challenges of
university presses, focusing not just on economics, but also on
cultural issues -- in particular the tension between traditional
book-centered humanities research and emerging digital scholarly
practices. Pochoda then offers some thoughts on the direction presses
need to head to remain viable in the digital age while preserving the
integrity of scholarship: "The hallmark of UP 2.0 will be the creation
of far-flung, interactive, digital, disciplinary-based communities,
mediated by the digital book." - [34]BR
Sartain, Julie. "[35]Used IT Gear: How to Get Good Stuff Cheap and
Avoid the Lemons" [36]Computerworld 43(22)(June 22, 2009): 28-31.
c&articleId=339633). - As budgets in most libraries continue to shrink,
being more creative in purchasing technology is becoming an imperative.
Something that has not traditionally been on most purchasing radars is
used computer equipment. As a general guide, this article is peppered
with tips on getting the best value out of used hardware. However,
similar to the cautions one must exercise when purchasing a used car,
there are many factors to consider before making a used computer
purchase. For example, purchasing used equipment can factor nicely into
a "Green IT" plan; however, you also have to consider that older
equipment is generally less energy-efficient, which may outway the
benefits of reuse. A quick read, this article may spur some creative
purchasing in your library that will actually allow you to do more by
paying less. - [37]FC
Tapscott, Don. "[38]The Impending Demise of the University" [39]Edge:
The Third Culture 288(4 June
. - In this essay, Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital questions
how large research universities can survive in a world of digital
natives. He suggests that traditional "broadcast learning" wherein the
professor transmits knowledge to the student, the receiver, in a
one-way, linear fashion is reaching a breaking point. The digital
native students will demand a learning pedagogy that is interactive,
collaborative and contextualized. "Universities should be places to
learn, not to teach." We often hear the argument that universities,
which dominate the list of oldest institutions, will be around long
into the future. But Tapscott's essay serves to remind us all that a
glorious past does not equal a glorious future. - [40]SG
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Gibbons, [6]Peter Hirtle, [7]Leo Robert Klein, [8]Roy Tennant
Alexander, Bryan. "[9]Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies,
from Science Fiction to Campus Reality" [10]EDUCAUSE Review
ume44/ApprehendingtheFutureEmergingT/171774). - This survey article
identifies a range of techniques often used to try to predict the
future. Included are environmental scans, the Delphi Method, prediction
markets, scenarios, and crowdsourcing. But, Alexander readily admits,
"Futurological methods are still, at best, partial works in progress.
No method has yet succeeded in accurately predicting the
future...Perhaps the gravest challenge to any approach for apprehending
the future is what Nassim Nicholas Taleb has memorably dubbed 'The
Black Swan.' Taleb uses the phrase to refer to unlikely events, either
unperceived in the present or determined to be statistically improbable
-- until they occur and have enormous effects." To counter this,
Alexander cites J. Scott Armstrong who suggested nine high-level best
practices for predicting the future: "1) Match the forecasting method
to the situation, 2) Use domain knowledge, 3) Structure the problem, 4)
Model experts' forecasts, 5) Represent the problem realistically, 6)
Use causal models when you have good information, 7) Use simple
quantitative methods, 8) Be conservative when uncertain, and 9) Combine
forecasts." - [11]RT
Ashenfelder, Michael. "[12]21st Century Shipping: File Transfer at the
Library of Congress" [13]D-Lib Magazine 15(7/8)(July/August
- "Between 2008 and 2009 the Library of Congress added approximately
100 TB of data to its digital collections," Ashenfelder states,
"transferred from universities, publishers, web archivists and other
organizations." Much of this, he writes, was transferred over the
Internet rather than being shipped on hard drives. This is hardly
surprising, but the accompanying details in this article are
interesting. Among the techniques they use are a file transfer utility
that can start and manage multiple downloading threads and a simple
packaging protocol called, aptly enough, [14]"BagIt". This may all seem
rather mundane stuff, but it is upon just such mundane procedures,
carried out on a regular basis, that today's digital libraries rest. -
Baker, Nicholson. "[16]A New Page: Kindle vs. the Book" [17]The New
Yorker (3 August
). - Nicholson Baker is back! (In case you don't recall the name, Baker
caused quite a bit of controversy with Double Fold: Libraries and the
Assault on Paper, when he accused libraries of neglecting cultural
heritage by discarding materials, newspapers in particular, once they
had been microfilmed). In this entertaining essay, Baker shares his
early experiences with a Kindle. As one would expect, Baker does not
find reading from a Kindle to be as good an experience as reading from
a paper book. He criticizes the Kindle's "dark gray on paler greenish
gray" palette and includes a litany of important literary titles that
are not available in Topaz, the proprietary encoding format used by
Amazon. But, interestingly, in the last few paragraphs of this essay,
Baker admits to experiencing that wonderful state when we are fully
immersed in a story and "Poof, the Kindle disappeared, just as Jeff
Bezos had promised it would." - [18]SG
Cascio, Jamais. "[19]Get Smarter" [20]The Atlantic (July/August
2009)(http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence/). - This is a
thoughtful piece on the various ways in which humans are getting
smarter. Cascio touches on evolution, technological aids, and drugs as
potential avenues. Lest you imagine that the author is one who believes
in the "hive mind" aspect of the Internet and the eventuality of it
becoming smart enough to think (Google "singularity" if you must), he
specifically discounts this. "My own suspicion," he states, "is that a
stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than
something especially apocalyptic. I don't think the theory of an
explosively self-improving AI is convincing -- it's based on too many
assumptions about behavior and the nature of the mind." As a futurist
(he is an affiliate at the Institute of the Future and a senior fellow
at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies), he is
considerably less starry-eyed (or perhaps googly-eyed?) than many of
that calling. And that helps to make this down-to-earth and yet
up-to-date assessment of our future all that more compelling and
believable. - [21]RT
Dougherty, William C. "[22]Managing Technology During Times of Economic
Downturns: Challenges and Opportunities " [23]Journal of Academic
Librarianship 35(4)(July 2009): 373-376 .
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2009.04.007). - The big story for a
while now has been the economy; so it's only natural to start running
into articles on how to cut costs in IT. In this article we have a
number of suggestions including looking at this as an "opportunity to
shake up the status quo". While that might sound off-putting at first,
the author continues, "These are the times to summon the courage to
suggest eliminating ineffective systems, services or processes, and
making changes that may not have been considered previously. Practices
that may have been sacrosanct can be reviewed and even questioned
during times such as these." If there is any benefit to be derived,
this in fact may be the way. - [24]LRK
Fischer, Karen. [25]Author Addenda, SPEC Kit 310 Washington, DC:
Association of Research Libraries,
2009.(http://www.arl.org/news/pr/spec310-1july09.shtml). - This survey
provides a rare glimpse into author rights in practice. Fischer got 70
responses from ARL libraries to her author addenda survey (57% of ARL
member libraries). Fifty percent of respondents reported that authors
at their institutions were using author addenda, and 52% said that "an
author addendum had been endorsed by administrators or a governing body
at their institution or by their consortia" (institutional endorsement
was under consideration by another 12%). The SPEC Kit's [26]table of
contents and executive summary are freely available. - [27]CB
Hadro, Josh. "[28]Michigan Deal a New Twist on Access to Scanned Book
Content" [29]Library Journal (23 July
2009)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6672693.html). - The
University of Michigan will offer print-on-demand paperback editions of
over 400,000 digitized books in over 200 languages via BookSurge and
Amazon for between $10 to about $45. According to Michigan's [30]press
release, the service offers books digitized by Michigan's partnership
with Google as well as books digitized solely by Michigan. University
Librarian and Dean of Libraries Paul N. Courant said: "This agreement
means that titles that have been generally unavailable for a century or
more will be able to go back into print, one copy at a time." - [31]CB
Jansen, Bernard J., Mimi Zhang, and Carsten D. Schultz. "[32]Brand
and its Effect on User Perception of Search Engine Performance"
[33]Journal of the American Society for Information Science &
Technology 60(8)(August 2009): 1572-1595.
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122327002/abstract). - In
this study, the authors investigated whether or not the branding of a
search engine has any impact on the user's perception of how the engine
performs. Study participants were presented with four different results
pages for four different queries (medical, entertainment, travel and
housing questions). Each results page showed the same links (curated by
the researchers ahead of time) in the same order and using the same
formatting (the default Google format). The top and bottom of the page
was replaced with branding for Google, Yahoo!, or MSN's search engine,
as well as that of an in-house search engine (AI2RS), called No Name
for the purposes of the study. The researchers ultimately found that
searchers placed quite a lot of trust in the ranking algorithms of the
search engines with which they were familiar: on those search engines,
users tended to click on more search results, but overall those results
were of a lower quality. On those with which users were less familiar,
they appeared to become more discriminating about which links they
selected, and those links were of a higher quality. The researchers
noted that users also felt more confident using their preferred search
engines, and were concerned with the performance of those with which
they were unfamiliar. The study brings up some interesting points for
instruction librarians to consider, as it seems to indicate that it may
be possible to force users to be more critical of search results simply
by requiring them to use an unfamiliar or unbranded search engine. -
Tanner, Simon, Trevor Mu?oz, and Pich Hemy Ros. "[35]Measuring Mass
Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness: Lessons Learned from
Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online
Newspaper Archive" [36]D-Lib Magazine 15(7/8)(July/August
2009)(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july09/munoz/07munoz.html). - Given the
importance of OCR in mass digitization projects, it is surprising that
more attention has not been paid to it. How can we tell if the OCR used
in projects is useful, or which OCR engine would work the best with a
particular type of text? This article proposes a methodology for
measuring OCR effectiveness on multiple levels, but with special
attention paid to what would matter to users: namely, the ability of
the OCR engine to transcribe accurately proper names and places. It
then tests that methodology against several newspaper databases. The
results are surprising and somewhat discouraging. Only 63% of proper
names were correctly identified in the 19th-century newspapers; the
figure drops to below 50% for 17th- and 18th-century papers. This might
be acceptable in projects that make images and uncorrected OCR freely
available, but seems substandard for expensive commercial projects such
as the British Library's newspaper offerings. And even the users of
free sites might unknowingly assume too great an accuracy in the
underlying text. Let's hope that the authors receive further funding to
characterize the appropriateness of different OCR engines for different
projects, and commercial image databases start providing figures on the
accuracy of their OCR using this methodology. - [37]PH
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Capps, Robert. "[8]The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is
Just Fine" [9]Wired (17)(September
enough?currentPage=all). - I've long written about the concept of "good
enough" and how many library users are satisfied in their information
search long before librarians (see, for example,
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA185367.html). So this piece in
Wired was not news to me, but I appreciated the examples provided and
was surprised by how Kaiser was applying these principles to medical
care. In explaining why services and products can be successful while
being of lower quality than others, Capps cites the Pareto principle,
"also known as the 80/20 rule. And it happens to be a recurring theme
in Good Enough products. You can think of it this way: 20 percent of
the effort, features, or investment often delivers 80 percent of the
value to consumers. That means you can drastically simplify a product
or service in order to make it more accessible and still keep 80
percent of what users want -- making it Good Enough." There are lessons
for all of our institutions in here, and for the services we aim to
provide, but don't misunderstand. Capps is not advocating dumbing-down
or reducing the quality of services necessarily. It's more nuanced than
that. Kaiser is not seeking to lower the quality of medical care, it is
seeking to appropriately manage care. When 80% of patient needs can be
served by a doctor in an inexpensive office setting, this allows for
the remaining 20% to be concentrated at a regional hospital, thereby
cutting costs. Those of us in cultural heritage institutions should
think carefully about how we can apply these principles to our own
services. - [10]RT
Dryden, Jean. "[11]Copyright Issues in the Selection of Archival
Material for Internet Access" [12]Archival Science 8(2)(June
2008): 123-147.
(http://www.springerlink.com/index/d68378548316j886.pdf). - With Google
having basically solved the problem of digitizing our print heritage,
attention will soon shift to digitizing unpublished materials. Dryden's
pioneering study examines how Canadian archival repositories address
copyright issues in their projects. The bad news is that repositories
may be more restrictive than is necessary when selecting material for
digitization. The good news is that most repositories do not really
understand copyright and so do things beyond what their default
practices would condone. In addition, very few institutions have been
challenged by copyright owners. The study suggests that digitization
projects should become much more comfortable with risk assessment when
planning an archival digitization project. - [13]PH
EDUCAUSE. [14]7 Things You Should Know about Cloud Computing Boulder,
CO: EDUCAUSE, 3 August
176856). - "Cloud computing" is the buzzword du jour, but what is it
really? This succinct overview says: "In its broadest usage, the term
cloud computing refers to the delivery of scalable IT resources over
the Internet, as opposed to hosting and operating those resources
locally, such as on a college or university network. Those resources
can include applications and services, as well as the infrastructure on
which they operate. By deploying IT infrastructure and services over
the network, an organization can purchase these resources on an
as-needed basis and avoid the capital costs of software and hardware."
This two-page overview quickly gives you the basics without requiring a
Ph.D. in computer science to understand it. - [15]CB
Head, Alison, Joan Lippincott, and John Law
(Moderator). "[16]Returning the Researcher to the Library"
[17]Returning the Researcher to the Library (June
2009)(http://www.libraryjournal.com/webcastsDetail/2140374033.html). -
A lively webcast focused on "creative thinking about academic
libraries," featuring the insights and evidence from two leading
researchers, Joan Lippincott Associate Executive Director of the
Coalition for Networked Information, and Alison Head, who leads the
cutting-edge Project Information Literacy (PIL). Listen to Lippincott
discuss the known behavior of "screenagers" and other user groups while
Head shares PIL's research findings that what users want for their
research needs are the "3 F's" -- full-text, findable, and free. Head
also discusses user expectations, alluding to the gulf between what
services libraries provide and what students expect, as well as user
behavior, such as "presearch" in tools such as Wikipedia (not that any
of us would ever do that). As for reading traditional print books and
asking questions of traditional in-situ librarians--to this group, both
information behaviors are so last-century. Use this webcast as a
roadmap for rethinking academic services from the bottom up. Moderated
by John Law of Serial Solutions (note that the webcast does begin with
a three-minute "infomercial" for Summon, a product by Serial
Solutions). Includes a bibliography. - [18]KGS
Samuelson, Pamela. "[19]The Audacity of the Google Book Search
Settlement" [20]The Huffington Post (10 August
e-googl_b_255490.html). - As the official September 4, 2009 deadline
has approached for filing an objection to the Google Book Search
Copyright Class Action Settlement, there has been a frenzy of
commentary about it. Pamela Samuelson's post is a good place to start
to understand the controversy and how it could affect about 22 million
authors who have published books in the U.S. since 1923. Also see her
follow-up post, "[21]Why Is the Antitrust Division Investigating the
Google Book Search Settlement?" - [22]CB
Shieber, Stuart M. "[23]Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing"
[24]PLOS Biology 7(8)(August 2009): 1-3.
65). - A connection between the current debate about health care and
scholarly publishing would not occur to most people, but Shieber, the
Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard
University, argues that both of them are examples of "moral hazard."
Consumers who are insulated from the true costs of a product tend to
overconsume. Shieber argues that one way to improve scholarly
publishing is to make authors more aware of its costs by encouraging
journals to shift from a subscription model to an open-access model
supported by payments from authors. In this opinion piece, Shieber
proposes an open-access compact in which universities, which currently
fund much of the subscription model, commit to underwriting the cost of
open-access journals through the payment of publishing fees. He
sketches out some of the implementation issues that would need to be
addressed to make this happen. Who knows if Shieber's suggested
solution will work, but his opening is an excellent brief summary of
some of the current problems in scholarly communications and
publishing. - [25]PH
Soltani, Ashkan, Shannon Canty, and Quentin Mayo, et. al."[26]Flash
Cookies and Privacy" [27]SSRN (10 August
2009)(http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446862). - Librarians have
traditionally guarded the rights of users to read anonymously. But as
more and more library services shift to commercial information
providers, reader confidentiality may be disappearing. This pilot study
looks at the use of "Flash cookies" on major web sites and discovers
that they are common, immune to most of the privacy protections built
into browsers, and seemingly often used to track user behavior. It made
me wonder if any of the resources that our library has licensed are
using this persistent bit of code - and what those companies might be
doing with the data. - [28]PH
Whitworth, Brian, and Rob Friedman. "[29]Reinventing Academic
Publishing Online: Part 1: Rigor, Relevance and Practice" [30]First
Monday 14(8)(3 August
w/2609/2248). - The first part of what will be a two part examination
of academic publishing. This theory-based article focuses on why the
innovations of the digital age are largely absent from academic
publishing. The authors portray the current knowledge exchange system
as a feudal one that is "run by the few for the few." Whitworth and
Friedman hypothesize that digital technology will trigger an upheaval
in academic publishing that will push the knowledge exchange system
into more democratic structure that will foster more cross-disciplinary
research. Not an easy read, but well worth the effort. - [31]SG
Yoffe, Emily. "[32]Seeking: How the Brain Hard-Wires Us To love Google,
Twitter, and Texting. And Why That's Dangerous" [33]Slate (12 August
2009)(http://www.slate.com/id/2224932). - People familiar with my work
(Hi Mom!) have heard my over-used saying "Only librarians like to
search, everyone else prefers to find". Although librarians almost
invariably laugh at what appears to be a wry truth, Slate is here to
tell you that I'm wrong. We all prefer to search. At least, there are
some research findings that seem to indicate that we are "hard-wired"
to seek. "The juice that fuels the seeking system," states Yoffe, "is
the neurotransmitter dopamine." That's right, the same neurotransmitter
stimulated by such substances as cocaine and amphetamines. This doesn't
necessarily mean that students needing to do research for a paper will
perform online searches until they fall into a stupor (after all, at
some point the mating instinct kicks in), but it does point out that
any simplistic statement such as my favorite chestnut tends to hide the
true complexity of human motivations. A good to thing to keep in mind
as we seek new ways to engage our users in useful (and healthy) seeking
behavior. - [34]RT
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"[7]The iSchools, Education for Librarianship, and the Voice of Doom
and Gloom" [8]Journal of Academic Librarianship 35(5)(September
2009): 405-409. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2009.07.001). -
Editorial on the anxiety (I think I'd call that) of library schools
trading in their name of 'library' for the bright new shiny name of
'information', and in the process losing track of their original
mission. The author doesn't see this anxiety as justified. He has a
look at degrees that the various schools give out and enrollment
figures and concludes that the majority still support a library-based
curriculum. His 'bottom line'? That "library and information studies
education does not appear to be broken, that opportunities to broaden
and extend the field are decidedly more beneficial than harmful, and
that the future appears to be quite secure". - [9]LRK
Creative Commons. [10]Defining "Noncommercial" San Francisco, CA:
Creative Commons Corporation, September
2009.(http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial). -
Creative Commons licenses have been a godsend to creators who wish to
allow some uses of their works. CC licenses can only work, however, if
creators and users are in agreement as to extent of the licensing
terms. This study investigates what creators and users mean by
"noncommercial," a limitation that is found in two-thirds of CC
licenses. The surprising results are that while there is some level of
general agreement about the meaning of the term, "there is more
uncertainty than clarity around whether specific uses of online content
are commercial or noncommercial." While the report seems to be quite
comfortable with this ambiguity, I have to wonder whether confusion
over fundamental terms in licenses won't eventually hinder CC's core
mission of facilitating the legal reuse of content. - [11]PH
Herring, Mark. "[12]Reviews in History: E-Books Special " [13]Reviews
in History (792-795)(September
2009)(http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/herringm1.html). - While
ostensibly long reviews of four electronic resources, Mark Herring
offers in reality an assessment of the current state and likely future
of electronic monographs and sources in the humanities. His reviews of
the [14]Gutenberg-e project and ACLS's [15]Humanities-e Books are
particularly thoughtful (though the former would have been aided by
reference to the Waters and Meisel [16]report). Anyone interested in
the role of electronic monographs and ebook readers in the humanities
would do well to consider Herring's concerns. - [17]PH
King, David Lee. "Building the Digital Branch: Guidelines to Transform
Your Website" [18]Library Technology Reports 46(6)(August/September
2009) - As my library ponders its options for a new look and feel for
our website, I was pleased to get the current copy of Library
Technology Reports written by David Lee King. "Building the Digital
Branch: Guidelines to Transform Your Website" takes us through the
planning, implementation, and assessment phases of creating a new home
for our libraries on the Internet. Topics include the explaining the
differences between a digital branch and a website; staffing your
digital branch; choosing a content management system; creating a style
guide; and keeping things fresh. A must read for anyone involved in
library website design, content, or maintenance. - KC
Nichols, Jane, Alison M. Bobal, and Susan McEvoy. "[19]Using a
Permanent Usability Team to Advance User-Centered Design in Libraries"
[20]Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
.html). - Best practices for designing or redesigning a website
indicate that we should always do some usability testing, and many
larger libraries run a variety of tests throughout the process. But how
many have considered making usability testing a regular function?
Oregon State University has had a usability team since 2006, when it
was formed to conduct testing on a new metasearch system. Since then,
the team has tested several different interfaces (ranging from chat
boxes to digital libraries) using a variety of methods. The team uses a
model where every member works on every project, but levels of
participation vary. The team consists of staff throughout the library.
Only two members -- the web coordinator and a programmer -- are
considered permanent; others rotate on and off, some spending a year or
two on the team, and others joining to work on a particular project.
This makeup helps to ensure both continuity and consistency, but also
affords a way for the group to more easily facilitate communication for
any given project by pulling aboard a member of that department. OSU
has found that this model has caused an awareness of usability to
permeate the culture at the library, to the point where usability
testing is conducted when almost any new service -- "web or otherwise"
-- is introduced. Overall, this appears to be a successful model,
though it may not be feasible for smaller libraries to create a
permanent team. - [21]AC
Waller, Vivienne. "[22]The Relationship Between Public Libraries and
Google: Too Much Information" [23]First Monday 14(9)(7 September
/view/2477/2279). - Waller uses personal relationship terms to
characterize the relationship between libraries and Google. She posits
that this relationship began as a "romance", then "cracks appeared",
"we want different things", and finally coming to the need to
"negotiate" a new relationship. If you can get beyond the analogy and
the fact that characterizing this as a relationship is like me saying I
have a "relationship" with Rachel Maddow, there are some things to
ponder here. Many will come as no surprise (Waller cites such
well-known issues as sponsored search results, filtering in China,
etc.), but it doesn't hurt for librarians to consider all of these as a
piece, and consider our role within an information environment that is
increasingly dominated by commercial companies that do not share our
mission and goals -- despite a mission statement by one of them that
appears on the face of it to co-opt our role. - [24]RT
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"[9]Password Authentication from a Human Factors Perspective: Results
of a Survey among End-Users" [10]Proceedings of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society 53(2009): 459-463.
D=32). - Everyone loves to grumble about password misuse but rather
than blaming the user, it might be more productive to look at the
system instead. The authors of this study surveyed several hundred
employees of a firm that handles "very sensitive private information".
They found, not surprisingly, that few users adhered 100% to best
practices for password use. People either use simple passwords that
they can remember or complex passwords that they have to write down.
This isn't due to an unwillingness on their part to cooperate but
because, as the authors posit, "they are not capable of 'sticking to
the rules'". While the article is relatively short, its discussion of
the literature and also possible solutions are quite helpful. - [11]LRK
Brindley, Lynne J. "[12]Challenges for Great Libraries in the Age of
the Digital Native" [13]Information Services and Use
29(1)(2009): 3-12.
47b7af84f5b26a27fa7d&pi=1). - All library sectors are facing the
challenge of moving to a digital environment, and this lecture* by Dame
Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, gives the view
from a national institution. By starting with an overview of her career
in digital library services, Dame Brindley touches on some of the
recent overarching developments in the field, especially in the UK. The
rise of the information strategy, the growing recognition of the value
of knowledge management, the creation of electronic libraries and the
emergence of the digital natives provide background to the six issues
that Brindley thinks that libraries "really need to pay attention to
ensure that they are strategically position for continuing relevance".
The issues are: 1) e-Science and e-Research - life beyond the document,
2) Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 - beyond the technologies, 3) Special
collections and digital content, 4) Information literacy for the 21st
Century, 5) Digital preservation and long-term access, and 6) Inspiring
spaces. These issues are presented only as broad outlines, however when
you consider the position and influence of the author, it is the issues
identified, rather than the detail given, that makes this paper
interesting. * Miles Conrad Award Lecture to the National Federation of
Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) - [14]WC
Crow, Raym. [15]Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current
Practice Washington, DC: SPARC,
2009.(http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/incomemodels_v1.pdf). - The
Gordian knot of "gold" open access is how to fund free publications. In
this 56-page report, Crow offers and discusses a range of solutions:
advertising, article processing fees, contextual e-commerce,
convenience-format license, demand-side models and free ridership,
donations and fund raising, endowments, external subsidies, in-kind
support, internal subsidies, partnerships, sponsorships, use-triggered
fees, and value added fee-based services. - [16]CB
Fischer, Ruth, and RickLugg. [17]Study of the North American MARC
Records Marketplace Washington, DC: Library of Congress, October
ace_2009-10.pdf). - This is the report of a study by R2 Consulting
commissioned by the Library of Congress. The charge was
"to investigate and describe
current approaches to the creation and distribution of MARC
records in US and Canadian libraries. The primary focus is on
the economics of existing practice, in effect mapping the marketplace
for cataloging records, including incentives
for and barriers to production. The underlying question is
whether sufficient cataloging capacity exists in North America,
and how that capacity is distributed." In the execution of this charge,
R2 conducted a survey of libraries in North America regarding their
creation, use, and attitudes toward MARC records snd their production
and dissemination. There is a great deal of interest in this report, so
it is highly recommended for anyone interested in the ecology of MARC
record creation and use. - [18]RT
Jaschik, Scott. "[19]Breakthrough on Open Access" [20]Inside Higher
Ed ( 15 September
2009)(http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/15/open). - On
September 14, 2009, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard
University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the
University of California, Berkeley announced the [21]compact for
open-access publishing equity. In the compact, each participating
university "commits to the timely establishment of durable mechanisms
for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by
its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for
which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds." Also,
the initial compact members "encourage other universities and research
funding agencies to join us in this commitment, to provide a sufficient
and sustainable funding basis for open-access publication of the
scholarly literature." The compact has a [22]Web site. In addition to
Jaschik's article, see the Harvard [23]press release, the [24]FAQ, and
Robin Peek's article "[25]A Compact for Open Access Publication
Announced." - [26]CB
Lim, Sook. "How and Why do College Students Use Wikipedia?"
[27]Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology 60(11)(November 2009): 2189-2202. - This study explored how
undergraduate students think about Wikipedia, and the ways in which
they use it. While the study was small - only 134 students completed
the survey - it still provides some food for thought. All of the
students who completed the survey indicated that they had used
Wikipedia in the past (almost certainly a result of the small sample
size, and the fact that the survey was voluntary), and over 30%
indicated that they used the site frequently. (The survey also asked
about use of library databases, and found that 61% indicated that they
were occasional users.) About 60% of students noted that they used
Wikipedia primarily for nonacademic purposes; roughly 30% indicated
that they used it primarily for academic purposes. That said, on the
whole the students indicated that the expected to find "reasonably good
information" on Wikipedia - not the best information on their topic.
(Many of them noted that they use it to look up a quick fact, or gain
some background on an unfamiliar topic. This indicates that while
Wikipedia may be a starting place, it is likely that they are also
looking elsewhere for information, at least for academic purposes.) In
fact, the researchers found that students' perceptions of the quality
of information they found were lower than their actual experiences
indicated. This indicates that, one way or another, students are
getting the message that Wikipedia entries must be taken with a grain
of salt. While the way students use and perceive the service will vary
from institution to institution, this perhaps indicates that in some
cases, instruction librarians may be able to spend a bit less time
talking about the pros and cons of Wikipedia, and more highlighting the
library's scholarly resources. - [28]AC
Pilch, Janice T. [29]Issue Brief : Traditional Cultural Expression
Washington, D.C.: Library Copyright Alliance, 1 September
-brief-traditional-cultural-expression/). - Libraries are filled with
the creative expressions of traditional and indigenous cultures,
including folklore, myths, songs, paintings, dances, and rituals. While
often of great importance to the communities from which they arise,
traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) receive little legal respect
and recognition. Pilch summarizes the complicated legal status of TCEs
and outlines efforts around the world to establish legal foundations
for their protection. While downplayed by Pilch (and the [30]ALA
Working Group that is drafting a [31]statement on the issue), I can't
help but wonder if librarian's willingness to respect cultural norms
won't run afoul of our primary responsibility to provide access. For
anyone interested in this issue of fundamental importance to the future
of the profession, Pilch's issue brief is a great place to start. -
Suber, Peter. "[33]Ten Challenges for Open-Access Journals" [34]SPARC
Open Access Newsletter
challenges). - Scholarly authors typically want to publish in
well-established high-prestige, high-impact journals. This is
especially true of junior faculty members, whose work will be closely
scrutinized by tenure committees making up-or-out decisions. On the
other hand, open access journals are typically relatively new journals,
and, while some have achieved high impact scores and prestige within a
few years, many face an uphill slog in these areas. This is not
surprising. New print journals face these issues as well, and open
access journals also have unconventional characteristics that result
from their "born digital" nature that add to doubts about them. Suber
identifies the ten most pressing issues that open access journals face
and provides helpful advice about how they can be faced. The issues he
deals with are: "the gap between journal performance and what
prevailing metrics say about journal performance (#1); the gap between
the vision of OA embodied in the Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin
statements and the access policies at 85% of OA journals (#2); and the
gap between a journal's quality and its prestige, even when the quality
is high (#3). . . . doubts about quality (#4), preservation (#5),
honesty (#6), publication fees (#7), sustainability (#8), redirection
(#9), and strategy (#10)." - [35]CB
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Time Challenges - Challenging Times for Future Information Search
Thomas Mestl, Olga Cerrato, Jon Ølnes, Per Myrseth, and Inger-Mette
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EScience in Practice: Lessons from the Cornell Web Lab
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Richard Green, Consultant to the University of Hull; and Chris Awre,
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NeoNote: Suggestions for a Global Shared Scholarly Annotation System
Bradley Hemminger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Fierce Urgency of Now: A Proactive, Pervasive Content Awareness Tool
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Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections
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Bunny Holmes, the woman implicated in the quadruple murder in Huntington is back in West Virginia.
She was in a federal prison in Illinois on gun charges but she'll face new charges that she ordered the murder of a prostitute in 2004. Two men are already guilty of shooting Wendy Morgan but they said in their trial that they were ordered by Holmes to do it.
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Original recipe yields 1 - 9x13 inch pan
- Mix together the graham cracker crumbs and melted butter press 2 cups of the mixture into the bottom of a 9x13 inch pan. Set aside the rest for the topping. Dissolve lemon gelatin in boiling water, set aside to cool.
- In a medium bowl, beat together the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Stir in the gelatin mixture and lemon juice. In a separate bowl, whip evaporated milk. Fold milk into the cream cheese mixture. Pour into the prepared pan.
- Chill for 4 hours, then top with cherry pie filling and sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture.
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It was very good!! I changed teh recipe a bit because I didn't have lemon gelitan or evaporated mil. What I did was replace the evaporated milk with a little bit of normalmilk and just cut the amount of lemon juice in half so it wouldn't be sour,but just enough to give it a hint of lemon. It turned out great though!
I followed the recipe completely and it was great. I made it 2 days in advance because I was concerned that it might be runny but it wasn't. I served it at a baby shower and every one loved it. I put cherries in a dish on the side and let everyone decide if they wanted them or not.
Jenny B
Made this with a premade pie shell crust and halved the recipe, it was a perfect amount. However it didn't come out like my mom's which is almost exactly the same recipe so I don't know what happened. It wasn't really cheesy or lemony enough. Maybe I overwhipped the evaporated milk or didn't use exactly half the jello pack, who knows. Was a bit runny as well. Served with frozen berries boiled with sugar, water and cornstarch.
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Amount Per Serving (24 total)
- Calories
- 212 cal
- 11%
- Fat
- 9.2 g
- 14%
- Carbs
- 30.1 g
- 10%
- Protein
- 3.2 g
- 6%
- Cholesterol
- 25 mg
- 8%
- Sodium
- 167 mg
- 7%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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