Introducing The Source
Users’ trust in information resources in the web environment: A status report
From the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) information environment repository website
This study has three aims:
- to provide an overview of the ways in which trust is either assessed or asserted in relation to the use and provision of resources in the Web environment for research and learning
- to assess what solutions might be worth further investigation and whether establishing ways to assert trust in academic information resources could assist the development of information literacy
- to help increase understanding of how perceptions of trust influence the behaviour of information users
Library Card Act
From the School Library Journal website
New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg recently signed into law the Library Card Act, which requires that his city's Department of Education supply library card applications and information about how to obtain a card to students entering kindergarten, sixth grade, ninth grade, or when transferring into a new school.
Accessing the collection of a large public library: an analysis of OPAC use
From the LIBRES Research Electronic Journal website
Despite widespread use of internet search engines, the online catalogue is still the main pathway to the collection of a particular library. The use of internet search engines does, however, have implications for user expectations around the online catalogue, and search strategies when using the online catalogue. There is much research on online catalogue use that predates search engine use, and there is a need for more up-to-date research, particularly on the use of online catalogues in public libraries.
This paper reports on an analysis of transaction logs of end users of the online catalogue of a large public library in Australia, the State Library of Victoria. It compares searches over four years, taking into account the search settings and search strategies and looking at search success, including the reasons for search failure. The paper also introduces the concept of abandonment rates to online catalogue search, defining a metric that adds to the useful information that can be determined from transaction logs. The paper uses the findings as the basis for its concluding recommendations for how public library users can be assisted to find what they are looking for on the library catalogue.
Milwaukee library proposal calls for fewer but larger libraries, mixed uses
From the JS (Journal Sentinel) Online website
More than half of Milwaukee's city libraries would be dramatically reshaped by a 10-year, $18.1 million plan to merge some neighbourhood libraries into regional centres and move others into buildings shared with housing, stores or hotels.
Struggling with increasingly tight operating budgets, Milwaukee Public Library officials are trying to avoid rising maintenance costs by replacing aging facilities with a new array of libraries more in tune with a digital world. But, they will have to overcome scepticism from residents and some aldermen, who cherish the network of 13 libraries, spaced no more than three miles apart.
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