Introducing The Source
Metadata provision and standards development at the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP): A History
From the First Monday website
What began in 1998 as the Colorado Digitization Project is now known as the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP), or CDP@BCR. The CDP’s Heritage West database represents not only the primary product of the organization, but also one of the oldest continuously-operating collaborative repositories of cultural heritage metadata in the country. As a basis for the author’s forthcoming quantitative and qualitative analysis of Dublin Core metadata in Heritage West, the following article offers a history of how the CDP has, over time, organized and managed the metadata provision for its digitization projects.
The Anthropology of Digital Natives (Webcast - 119 minutes)
From the Library of Congress website
Young people today born into a digital world are experiencing a far different environment of information-gathering and access to knowledge than a generation ago. Who are these “digital natives” and what are they thinking? How are they using the technology, and are IT experts adequately responding to them? This first lecture explores how young people think, learn and play. Speaker Edith Ackerman is particularly interested in helping shape the future of play and learning in a digital world. “I study how people use place, relate to others and treat things to find their ways — and voices — in an ever-changing world,” she said.
Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools (Note: PDF)
From the YorkSpace, York University website
This monograph on the conceptual model Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, by cataloger William Denton, is several things at once: a swashbuckling, intellectually exciting narrative of cataloging history; a roadmap to FRBR; and a cautionary tale that all things must pass. Denton traces FRBR through brief studies of the work of cataloging theorists Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan, and Lubetzky, arguing, for example, that "FRBR's user tasks are descended from Cutter's Objects."
Trends in Internet Information Behavior, 2000-2004 (Note: PDF)
From the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (dLIST) website
By 2000, the Internet had become an information and communication medium that was integrated in our everyday lives. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the research reported in this article analyzes the wide variety of information that people seek on the Internet and investigates trends in Internet information activities between 2000 and 2004, using repeated cross-sectional data from the Pew Internet and American Life surveys to examine Internet activities that contribute to everyday life and their predictors. The study also contributes to emerging research on the digital divide, namely emphasis on the study of use rather than access to technology. Identifying trends in key Internet use dimensions enables policymakers to target populations who under-utilize the potential of networked technologies.
Libraries Unleashed
From the EducationGuardian website
This special supplement in the Guardian newspaper contains 18 articles highlighting a number of contemporary library-related topics, including information literacy, learning spaces, open access, library 2.0, digitization, and the evolving roles and skills of users and librarians. Coverage is anecdotal and introductory, but it is rare to see librarianship getting such attention from a major newspaper, and the issues are clearly, if not deeply, laid out for a general audience (and useful, perhaps, for those friends and relatives who still can't quite grasp that your library job involves more than checking out and re-shelving books). The focus is academic libraries.
Articles include:
* Buildings need to inspire
Physical spaces are changing as a result of new technologies and student-centred approaches to learning. So what does the learning space of the future look like?
* No paper required
Despite initially being sneered at, the e-book is gaining popularity. Is this the dawn of the bookless library?
* Time's running out to preserve our treasures
Transferring text, audio and images to a PC often unearths forgotten gems from the archives. But will we be able to save them all?
* Digitisation in practice
The National Library of Wales cannot be said to lack vision or ambition. It aims to digitalise everything printed about Wales and the Welsh people since the 16th century.
The State of America's Libraries (Note: PDF)
From the American Library Association website
Libraries of all kinds continue to be engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide. Americans are acting on their conviction that school library media centers are a key element in delivering the kind of education the next generation needs in order to succeed in a global society, and public libraries are redoubling their efforts to serve linguistically isolated communities. These are among the findings detailed in the 2008 State of America's Libraries report.
Library Management Systems Study: An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK higher education (Note: PDF)
From the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) website
This is a period of uncertainty and change for Higher Education (HE) libraries in terms of institutional priorities, user perceptions, globalisation of services and communities and new technologies. Users expect ease of discovery, workflow and delivery influenced by major web companies such as Google and Amazon and Web2.0. In this context, JISC is working towards an Information Environment for learning, teaching and research, involving deep integration of services and resources within the personal, institutional, national and global landscape.
Open doors and open minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution (Note: PDF)
From the Association of Research Libraries website
The Internet has brought unparalleled opportunities for expanding availability of research by bringing down economic and physical barriers to sharing. The digitally networked environment promises to democratize access, carry knowledge beyond traditional research niches, accelerate discovery, encourage new and interdisciplinary approaches to ever more complex research challenges, and enable new computational research strategies. However, despite these opportunities for increasing access to knowledge, the prices of scholarly journals have risen sharply over the past two decades, often forcing libraries to cancel subscriptions.
To take advantage of the opportunities created by the Internet and to further their mission of creating, preserving, and disseminating knowledge, many academic institutions are taking steps to capture the benefits of more open research sharing. Colleges and universities have built digital repositories and many individual authors have taken steps to retain the rights they need, under copyright law, to allow their work to be made freely available on the Internet and in their institution’s repository.
Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?
From the Scientific American website
The first generation of World Wide Web capabilities rapidly transformed retailing and information search. More recent attributes such as blogging, tagging and social networking have just as quickly expanded people’s ability not just to consume online information but to publish it, edit it and collaborate about it—forcing such old-line institutions as journalism, marketing and even politicking to adopt whole new ways of thinking and operating. Science could be next. A small but growing number of researchers (and not just the younger ones) have begun to carry out their work via the wide-open tools of Web 2.0. And although their efforts are still too scattered to be called a movement - yet - their experiences to date suggest that this kind of Web-based “Science 2.0” is not only more collegial than traditional science but considerably more productive.
Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing (Note: PDF)
From the Association of Research Libraries website
Discussions of library-based publishing are becoming increasingly prominent. Now comes the first broad survey of library-based publishing activity, and it confirms that library-based publishing is becoming an increasingly common service, at least among ARL libraries. Of 80 ARL libraries surveyed, 44% are involved in publishing (usually with a focus on electronic journals) and another 21% are planning to get involved. Author Karla Hahn concludes: "the question is no longer whether libraries should offer publishing services, but what kinds of services libraries will offer."
Reality Checks
From the Library Journal website
Andrew Richard Albanese poses ten truths, guesses, and warnings about the future of publishing.
2 comments:
I cannot thank you enough for gathering and passing on these links! The only one I knew about was the Guardian supplement because I happen to buy that paper daily.
Thanks Paul! I'll make sure Maria sees your comment.
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