Introducing The Source
Screw Cap or Cork? Keeping Tags Fresh (and Related Matters) (Note: PDF)
From the E-LIS website
This article comments to the excitement caused by release of “On the Record,” the final report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The article notes the challenge of maintaining user-supplied tags in the absence of an agency responsible for their upkeep. It also refers to the chaos emerging from the convergence of enriched catalogs, WorldCat Local, and federated tools, all of which are vying for library search.
Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status
From the D-Lib Magazine website
It has long been assumed that most of the works published from 1923 to 1964 in the US are currently in the public domain. Both non-profit and commercial digital libraries have dreamed of making this material available. Most programs have recognized as well that the restoration of US copyright in foreign works in 1996 has made it impossible for them to offer to the public the full text of most foreign works. What has been overlooked up to now is the difficulty that copyright restoration has created for anyone trying to determine if a work published in the United States is still protected by copyright. This paper discusses the impact that copyright restoration of foreign works has had on US copyright status investigations, and offers some new steps that users must follow in order to investigate the copyright status in the US of any work. It argues that copyright restoration has made it almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a book published in the United States after 1922 and before 1964 is in the public domain. Digital libraries that wish to offer books from this period do so at some risk.
A Format for Digital Preservation of Images: A Study on JPEG 2000 File Robustness
From the D-Lib Magazine website
Digital preservation requires a strategy for the storage of large quantities of data, which increases dramatically when dealing with high resolution images. Typically, decision-makers must choose whether to keep terabytes of images in their original TIFF format or compress them. This can be a very difficult decision: to lose visual information though compression could be a waste of the money expended in the creation of the digital assets; however, by choosing to compress, the costs of storage will be reduced.
Public Libraries, Archives and Museums: Trends in Collaboration and Cooperation (Note: PDF)
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) website
This report examines the recent trends in collaboration and cooperation between public libraries, archives and museums. In many cases, the shared or similar missions of the institutions reviewed make them ideal partners in collaborative ventures. Different types of collaborative projects are examined, including exhibits, community programs, digital resources and joint-use facilities. Examples come from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom (UK), as well as from Russia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Between a hard rock and a soft space: design, creative practice and innovation (Note: PDF)
From the Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences website
This paper discusses the contribution that the arts, humanities and social sciences can make to innovation systems and innovation policy by embedding design and creative practice in innovation.
Innovation policy is a major economic development strategy - a strategy that is being adopted and implemented by cities, regions and nations to achieve economic results, measured as positive changes in employment, income, exports and productivity. This paper argues that innovation policy should reflect broader perspectives, and the contribution of the arts, humanities and social sciences to innovation.
From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America (Note: PDF)
From the OCLC website
OCLC was awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to explore attitudes and perceptions about library funding and to evaluate the potential of a large-scale marketing and advocacy campaign to increase public library funding in the U.S. The findings of this research are now available. Though this study was based on data from the United States, there are findings in the report that could be applicable to any library seeking to understand the connections between public perceptions and library support.
Among the findings from the report:
* Library funding support is only marginally related to library visitation
* Perceptions of librarians are an important predictor of library funding support
* Voters who see the library as a 'transformational' force as opposed to an 'informational' source are more likely to increase taxes in its support
Guidelines for Library Services for Young Adults (Note: PDF)
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) website
This publication provides a framework for developing services to young adults and libraries, for the international community. The Guidelines contain both philosophical and practical ideas that can improve a library’s response to meeting the educational, informational, cultural, and leisure needs of young adults, in ways that are developmentally appropriate. It is to be used as a document for librarians, decision-makers, policy makers, library students, and stakeholders in the development of services for young people.
Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges – a Handbook (Note: PDF)
From the European Commission website
The handbook on open access published by the German Commission and the European Commission aims to provide information about the opportunities and challenges offered by Open Access, and to present a wide array of issues and positions under debate.
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