This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 3124 | How does LITA participate? |
| 3132 | Are they worth it? |
| 3135 | So where does that leave libraries? |
| 3146 | Google, “ Who ’s Using the Book Search APIs? ” http:// code.google.com/apis/books/casestudies/( accessed June 16, 2009). |
| 3147 | But Can It Deliver? ” Nature 449, no. |
| 3150 | In fairness, Carl did n’t say anything about tchotchkes, so why am I? |
| 3128 | C. L. Borgmann, “ What are Digital Libraries? |
| 3128 | What is XDoclet? |
| 3141 | Do I list my accomplishments of the last year? |
| 3141 | Tackle some controversial topic? |
| 3130 | M. M. Yee, “ Can Bibliographic Data be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web? ” Information Technology& Libraries 28, no. |
| 3130 | Where Is Their Meeting Point? ” Data& Knowledge Engineering 46, no. |
| 3165 | Politics and economics? |
| 3165 | What can we do? |
| 3250 | wherever that is? ” It ’s often said that today we have to run three libraries at once: the library of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. |
| 3178 | “ ”;}?> This code uses XML_RSS to parse the RSS feed and then prints out a list of linked results. |
| 3172 | All those meetings, all that bureaucracy? |
| 3172 | guess what? |
| 3126 | *** Why does ITAL matter to you? |
| 3126 | After reading, we ask you to consider: Why does ITAL matter to you? |
| 3126 | eDitOriAl| MArMiON 167 Dan MarmionEditorial: Why Is ITAL Important? |
| 3151 | Does it clearly bring value to the other organizations in the arrangement? |
| 3151 | If not, what can be done to address that disparity? |
| 3151 | If so, how? |
| 3265 | What role does ITAL play in this rapidly changing environment? |
| 3222 | Jakub Swacha( jakubs@uoo.univ.szczecin.pl) is[ QY: title? |
| 3153 | 22 iNFORMAtiON tecHNOlOGY AND liBRARies| MARcH 2010}} if( lc($ hipSearchType) eq ‘ xml ’){ if($ content=~/\ |
| 3236 | Do you enjoy watch- ing a raft of adventurers go over the waterfall, careening from rock to rock? |
| 3229 | Are there any documents in UNLV Libraries about the Las Vegas chapter? |
| 3229 | Are there any documents in UNLV Libraries about the lawsuit associated with the test? |
| 3134 | How can you do that? |
| 3134 | What does your association gain? |
| 3134 | What is in it for you? |
| 3134 | Why is this process important now more than ever? |
| 3237 | Author ID? |
| 3245 | The searchable interface supports a Did You Mean? |
| 3245 | This information forms the basis for potential What ’s New? |
| 3251 | Hate it? |
| 3251 | Love it? |
| 1857 | How do you decide when something is worth keeping, or when something is n’t quite the right fit and gets placed back on the line? |
| 1857 | How do you gather information on them, and when do you decide to take one off and give it a whirl? |
| 1857 | Or, even better, why not write about your experience and submit it to ITAL? |
| 1857 | So, I ask you, our ITAL readers, how do you manage the assembly line of tools? |
| 1857 | Why not let us know by posting on the ITALica blog? |
| 3255 | You can visit FSU Special Collections EAD Finding Aids Inventories at http://digitool3.lib.fsu.edu/R/? |
| 3255 | n What is an EAD finding aid? |
| 3248 | What does having the LC clas- sification online in our catalog accomplish for our users? |
| 3258 | Is this a “ done- deal ”? |
| 3258 | So what, you may fairly ask, does the weather in Edmonton have to do with ITAL? |
| 3224 | I fig- ured I would find something there, right? |
| 3224 | This got me to thinking: Why is this so hard? |
| 3224 | This should be easy, right? |
| 3228 | What kind of adjustments would need to be made to accommodate effective workflows, and what might those workflows look like? |
| 3228 | Would the benefits make the effort worthwhile? |
| 3228 | Would the effort be implementable and sustainable given the limitations of the present generation of “ silo ” systems? |
| 3240 | But if the bandwidth was not showing inadequacy and the traffic was light, why was this happening? |
| 3240 | This was confusing: If the problem was neither with the bandwidth nor the vendors, what was causing the slow network performance? |
| 3240 | W hy is everything so slow? ” This is the question that library systems depart- ments often have the most trouble answering. |
| 3283 | Is privacy a concern you have about students using Facebook in the library? |
| 3283 | Please check all answers that best describe what effect, if any, use of Facebook in the library has had on library services and operations? |
| 3158 | n How many people are using the facility for other rea- sons, such as relaxation, meeting friends, and so on? |
| 3158 | n How many people are using traditional library resources, such as books and computers? |
| 3158 | n Which area(s) of the library facility receive the highest level of use? |
| 3166 | Had she published or otherwise been active professionally? |
| 3166 | Where had she worked, and when? |
| 3166 | Who was Ms. Guasco? |
| 3166 | Why, you may reasonably ask, am I belaboring ITAL readers with the details of our weather? |
| 3166 | n So, when is it “ too cold ” for a server room? |
| 3268 | Christopher G. Reddick, “ Citizen Interaction with Egov ernment: From the Streets to Servers?, ” Government Information Quarterly 22, no. |
| 3334 | How users find information on IRS.gov How do you usually find information on IRS.gov? |
| 3340 | Is it any wonder I am awed by it all? |
| 3270 | Can we ensure that barriers to participation are either eliminated or so low as to include everyone? |
| 3270 | So how can we make LITA mirror how we want to work and play? |
| 3270 | So then does innovation come only when all the lowhanging fruit has finally been plucked, and there ’s nothing else to procrastinate on? |
| 3270 | What delivery systems should and can we adopt and develop to fulfill the promise of services we ’d like? |
| 3125 | And how do the numbers shake out for us old geezers? |
| 3125 | Bothered by this? |
| 3125 | Dan ’s edito- rial, “ Why Is ITAL Important? ” originally published in our June 2002 issue, appears again immediately following this column. |
| 3125 | How are we doing? |
| 3125 | Where should we be going? |
| 3125 | Who are we? |
| 3125 | Who, for instance, favors continuance of a paper ITAL, and who prefers electronic- only? |
| 3351 | 180 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| DECEMBER 2006 ■ Large Research Libraries ■ Z39.50 ■ What happens next? |
| 3127 | If other schools are also requiring basic IT skills prior to entry, how do those required by SLIS compare? |
| 3127 | Is it simply assumed that today ’s students already have these skills? |
| 3127 | Is this because there is still some uncertainty as to the utility of such tools in libraries? |
| 3127 | Or is it because of a belief that the members of the Millennial or “ digital ” generation are already expert in using them? |
| 3127 | Or is it expected that they will be picked up along the way? |
| 3127 | and( 2) are those who do require them asking enough of their prospective students? |
| 3331 | Susan Gardner and Susanna Eng, “ Gaga over Google? |
| 3155 | Danskin asks, “ Will the benefits of international co- operation outweigh the costs of effecting changes? |
| 3155 | Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin, “ Folksonomies: Tidy- ing up Tags? ” D- Lib Magazine 12, no. |
| 3155 | Should these elements( format, contents, and so on) be cross- linked as well, and is this even possible? |
| 3155 | What should reasonably be considered an access point? |
| 3266 | Can it be done at the end of the semester, or does it need to be completed immediately? |
| 3266 | This creates a dilemma: if other assets have been cre ated using it, do all of them have to be withdrawn? |
| 3346 | Mark Pilgrim, “ What is RSS? ” O’Reilly XML.com, Dec. 18, 2002, www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html( accessed May 8, 2006). |
| 3346 | What does a metasearch engine need in order to use a local search engine? |
| 3140 | It may tHe Next GeNerAtioN liBrArY cAtAloG| ZHou 153Are Your DiGitAl DocuMeNts weB FrieNDlY? |
| 3140 | Reduce file size example: combine images tHe Next GeNerAtioN liBrArY cAtAloG| ZHou 159Are Your DiGitAl DocuMeNts weB FrieNDlY? |
| 3140 | Which one is appro- priate for your project? |
| 3140 | tHe Next GeNerAtioN liBrArY cAtAloG| ZHou 151Are Your DiGitAl DocuMeNts weB FrieNDlY? |
| 3140 | | ZHou 151 Are Your Digital Documents Web Friendly? |
| 3284 | ( 2) what strategies do they apply when seeking information for academic research? |
| 3284 | H. C. Hobohm, “ Social Science Information and Docu mentation: Time for a State of the Art? ” Inspel 33, no. |
| 3176 | The following research questions guided the site visits: n What are the community and library contexts in which the library provides PAT? |
| 3176 | n How does the library manage and maintain its PAT? |
| 3176 | n What PAT services and resources does the library desire to provide to its community? |
| 3176 | n What are the PAT services and resources that the library makes available to its community? |
| 3176 | n What are the issues and barriers that the library encounters in providing PAT services and resources? |
| 3176 | n What are the perceived benefits to the library and its community gains through PAT in the library? |
| 3176 | n What is the relationship between provided and desired PAT and the effect on the library( e.g., staff, finances, the building, and management)? |
| 3145 | Are mandates the only way to ensure faculty cooperation and compliance, or are mandates even neces- sarily the best way? |
| 3145 | Even if most institutions are successful in instituting mandates, will they be sufficient to obtain faculty cooperation? |
| 3145 | They then made additional solicitations, this time asking, “ Would you contribute? |
| 3145 | What of those that do not? |
| 3145 | Will all colleges and universities, or even a majority, adopt mandates that require faculty to deposit their work in repositories? |
| 3257 | All well and good, but do we have a plan? |
| 3257 | President ’s Message: Doing Something about Life ’s Persistent Problems? |
| 3257 | What ’s the end achievement? |
| 3257 | What ’s the goal? |
| 3348 | How valuable was usability testing to the Web- site design? |
| 3218 | And how much will readers pay for content? |
| 3218 | Expense is the main concern: Just how much are users willing to pay to read something in digital rather than analog? |
| 3218 | Michael V. Copeland, “ The End of Paper? ” CNNMoney.com, Mar. |
| 3218 | Or will the “ pay by the article ” model, like that used for digital music sales, become the norm? |
| 3218 | So how much to charge and how to make money selling content? |
| 3218 | So what should or do these developments mean for libraries? |
| 3218 | What better avenue than college students? |
| 3276 | How many LITA members have authority — real authority — to set policy for their libraries? |
| 3276 | I hope( and do I dare beg again?) |
| 3276 | I ’ve read all of these, and I could not help but won der, what if ITAL accepted manuscripts as short as lital postings? |
| 3276 | What would our referees do? |
| 3276 | What, pray tell, is the editor trying to communicate to readers? |
| 3143 | Could we use other platforms to do things beyond simply discussing articles that appear in the print edition? |
| 3143 | How can we use ALA Connect in ways that would be useful? |
| 3143 | Is a blog format the best way to encour- age discussion? |
| 3143 | Is it useful? |
| 3143 | T he title of this recurring column is “ Editorial Board Thoughts, ” so as I sit here in the middle of February, what am I thinking about? |
| 3143 | What could we be doing to enhance its usefulness? |
| 3143 | What social Web technologies do you use, and how could we apply them to ITAL? |
| 3143 | What ’s your opinion of ITALica? |
| 3260 | ? ”); http://www.hud.ac.uk/cls( accessed July 10, 2007). |
| 3235 | Can the help desk technician deduce why our vendor for Web of Science has suddenly and inexplicably disabled our access? |
| 3235 | Can the webmaster, in the midst of a crisis, support staff workstations? |
| 3235 | How many of us offer critical technology ser- vices that suffer from that IT manager ’s ultimate staffing nightmare, the single point of failure? |
| 3235 | Lest there be doubt, does anyone recall what drove evacuees into public libraries in the wake of Katrina? |
| 3235 | Look at it this way: Would you roll out a critical and highly visible new Web service without careful prep- aration and testing? |
| 3139 | ? |
| 3139 | ? |
| 3139 | ? |
| 3139 | ? |
| 3139 | ? ” WebVoyage, the Voyager OPAC from Ex Libris, comes in third, providing only three out of the ten features for Figure 15. |
| 3139 | ? ” in Koha does not work the way the next- generation catalog is envisioned. |
| 3139 | In a competition for a modernized OPAC, which OPAC is closest to our visions for the next- generation library catalog: open- source or proprietary? |
| 3273 | The research results pose the questions: Why are wikis pre dominantly used for collaboration within the library community? |
| 3273 | Why are wikis minimally used for collaborating with patrons and helping patrons to collaborate with one another? |
| 3273 | Why are wikis predominantly used for collaboration within the library community? |
| 3273 | and Why are wikis minimally used for col laborating with patrons and helping patrons to collabo rate with one another? |
| 3273 | ■ Literature review What ’s a wiki? |
| 3170 | Did n’t find it? |
| 3170 | Have you tried?). |
| 3170 | He makes a typing error, which invokes the “ Did you mean? ” function( see figure 3). |
| 3170 | The SmartSearch component embeds a set of the metasearch results into the LaneConnex interface as “ have you tried? ” clickable links. |
| 3254 | How long did you wait before you were able to check out your laptop? |
| 3254 | How often do you use a library PC? |
| 3254 | How often do you use a library laptop? |
| 3254 | How often have you experience problems saving files, connecting to the wireless network, or had a laptop that locked up or crashed? |
| 3254 | How often have you returned a library laptop that was not working properly? |
| 3254 | Why did you choose to use a laptop rather than a library PC? |
| 3234 | Education? |
| 3234 | Membership? |
| 3234 | Program Planning? |
| 3234 | Publications? |
| 3234 | Web Coordinating? |
| 3234 | Which one should be responsible for commu- nicating LITA opportunities and events to the member- ship using twenty- first- century technology? |
| 1859 | Charles W. Bailey Jr., “ Strong Copyright+ DRM+ Weak Net Neutrality= Digital Dystopia? ” Information Technology& Libraries 25, no. |
| 1859 | Copyright: Regulation Out of Line with Our Digital Reality? |
| 1859 | Could a show of support from the library community have saved these bills? |
| 1859 | Do you want to allow modifications or not? |
| 1859 | If you allow modifications, do you want to require a kind of copyleft idea that other people release the modifications under a similarly free license? |
| 1859 | Ivy Anderson, “ Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Book Settlement be Approved? ” Against the Grain 22, no. |
| 1859 | Lawrence Lessig, “ The Vision for the Creative Commons? |
| 1859 | Lessig, “ The Vision for the Creative Commons? ” 45. |
| 1859 | What are We and Where are We Headed? |
| 3244 | FIVE HOURS? |
| 3244 | Now what to do? |
| 3244 | Something in the way your configuration is interacting with an external library is wrong? |
| 3244 | Something in your configuration is wrong? |
| 3244 | “ Five hours? |
| 3244 | “ That ’s it? ” I thought. |
| 3221 | Bente Rasmussen and Tove Hapnes, “ Excluding Women from the Technologies of the Future? |
| 3221 | Judy Wajcman, “ Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: What is State of the Art? ” Social Studies of Science 30, no. |
| 3221 | Nancy Ramsey and Pamela McCorduck, “ Where are the Women in Information Technology? |
| 3221 | Ramsey and McCorduck, “ Where are the Women in Infor- mation Technology? ” 9 24. |
| 3221 | Vivian Anette Lagesen, “ Extreme Make- over? |
| 3279 | Brooks: How important are “ niche ” or subjectspecific databases to support research in a given area such as H&T? |
| 3279 | Brooks: When and why did Purdue decide to create the Lodging Restaurant& Tourism Index( LRTI)? |
| 3279 | Brooks: Why did Purdue decide to partner with EBSCO, and subsequently merge LRTI in the larger Hospitality& Tourism Index( HTI)? |
| 3279 | But how often is this a realistic approach to evaluating a given item for purchase? |
| 3279 | Why the delay? |
| 3225 | Alexander Stille, “ Are we losing our memory? |
| 3225 | Can we meaningfully plan for the preservation of digital content over centuries given our poor track record over just the past few decades? |
| 3225 | So, what about the title of this editorial? |
| 3225 | When we talk of digital preservation, just how long are we think- ing of preserving an object? |
| 3129 | And how will we ascertain what the best approach to supporting the individual voice should be? |
| 3129 | Can the library be the bridge between those on the edge, those in the middle, and those at the end? |
| 3129 | Can we let people remain without access to robust broadband and the necessary skill set to use it effectively? |
| 3129 | Horrigan, “ Broadband: What ’s All the Fuss About? ” 2. |
| 3129 | What if the library ’s own technology needs are not met? |
| 3129 | What will be the fallout from the library not being able to provide Internet services the patrons desire and require? |
| 3129 | What will the social impact be of remaining off line either completely or only marginally? |
| 3129 | Who will bring this perspective to the table? |
| 3259 | After taking these classes, do students use Boolean operators when searching? |
| 3259 | Karen Markey, “ The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained? ” D- Lib Magazine 13, no.1/2( 2007). |
| 3259 | The purpose of the study is to find answers to the following questions: Why is the current OPAC ineffective? |
| 3259 | What can libraries and librarians do to deliver an OPAC that is as good as search engines to better serve our users? |
| 3259 | Why have our users switched to online search engines? |
| 3259 | to truncate a word, e.g., browser? |
| 3259 | to truncate( cut off) words: theat? |
| 3259 | ■ Use quotation marks to search for a phrase, e.g.,"United States"■ Use? |
| 3226 | ( Can you tell I ’m writing this around Halloween?) |
| 3226 | DISCOVERY: WHAT DO You MEAN BY THAT? |
| 3226 | Other tools? |
| 3226 | While serving on a search committee, we posed a question to all the candi- dates: “ What do you see the library catalog looking like in the future? |
| 3226 | | CARTER 161 Judith Carter Editorial Board Thoughts: Issue Introduction Discovery: What Do You Mean by That? |
| 3337 | Therefore, why not go back to the drawing board on all of it? |
| 3337 | What if someone who does not care at all about paintings makes an inquiry — which ten should they be shown to get them interested? |
| 3337 | What would this map look like( figure 4)? |
| 3223 | Figure 1. welcome screen and what do you want to do? |
| 3223 | H ow does one engage students in the library research pro- cess? |
| 3223 | Here is a checklist of things to think about when selecting software: n What do you want to accom- plish with the software? |
| 3223 | n Do you want audio, video, or both? |
| 3223 | n Have you researched the soft- ware to make sure it meets your needs? |
| 3223 | n How much money do you want to spend? |
| 3223 | n Is it easy for the student to access and understand? |
| 3223 | n What additional equipment is necessary? |
| 3223 | n What kind of access are you trying to give? |
| 3329 | How can we better communicate with members and nonmembers? |
| 3329 | If we had a clean sheet of paper, what would we write? |
| 3329 | What do we want our association to be? |
| 3329 | What programs and services can we provide that others do not? |
| 3329 | What would we dream? |
| 3329 | Where should we be going? |
| 3329 | Who can we involve to broaden our reach? |
| 3156 | Can the Internet support an organizational system controlled by user- generated tags? |
| 3156 | Charles F. Thomas and Linda S. Griffin, “ Who Will Cre- ate the Metadata for the Internet? ” First Monday 3, no. |
| 3156 | Does it need an organizational scheme at all? |
| 3156 | How does the folksonomy or Delicious model of open- ended tagging affect searching, information retriev- ing, and resource sharing? |
| 3156 | How will it be organized? |
| 3156 | Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin, “ Folksonomies: Tidy- ing up Tags? ” D- Lib Magazine 12, no. |
| 3156 | W ho will organize the information available on the Internet? |
| 3287 | A. Ciliberti et al., “ Empty Handed? |
| 3287 | Ciliberti et al., “ Empty Handed? |
| 3287 | Ciliberti et al., “ Empty Handed? |
| 3287 | P. Wallace, “ How Do Patrons Search the Online Catalog When No One ’s Looking? |
| 3287 | To what extent have these improvements affected the use of library materials by public library patrons? |
| 3287 | Wallace, “ How Do Patrons Search the Online Catalog When No One ’s Looking? ” 239. |
| 3350 | 178 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| DECEMBER 2006 L eadership — what is it? |
| 3350 | Consequently I feel assured that LITA has a strong future because what is an association, if not its members? |
| 3350 | Lifelong learning, is n’t that what librarians are all about? |
| 3350 | Sir John Harvey- Jones framed the question thusly: “ How do you know you have won? |
| 3350 | So one of the questions the Board asked was what does it mean to be an emerg- ing leader? |
| 3350 | When has one emerged? |
| 3131 | Answer Response Percent Strongly disliked 0 0 Disliked 4 6 Liked 41 64 Strongly liked 19 30 Would you participate in another Technology Challenge? |
| 3131 | Answer Response Percent Yes 64 100 No 0 0 What percentage of time did you spend using the following methods of learning? |
| 3131 | Bates, “ Can I Facebook That? ” 64. |
| 3131 | Make a phone call using Skype 212 iNFOrMAtiON tecHNOlOGY AND liBrAries| DeceMBer 2010 How did you like the Technology Challenge overall? |
| 3131 | Mary Ellen Bates, “ Can I Facebook That? ” Online: Explor- ing Technology and Resources for Information Professionals 31, no. |
| 3131 | Sweeney, “ Reinventing Library Buildings ”; Bates, “ Can I Facebook That? ” 18. |
| 3131 | ■ ■ In what was do you feel the Technology Challenge has benefited you the most? |
| 3131 | ■ ■ What did you like about the Technology Challenge? |
| 3131 | ■ ■ What technologies were you introduced to during the Technology Challenge that you now use on a regular basis? |
| 3261 | Do library staff prefer traditional face- to- face train- ing over online training? |
| 3261 | Do you think that online training is less effective than traditional face- to- face training? |
| 3261 | Haley, C. K. 2006. Who participates in online workplace training in libraries? |
| 3261 | How does preference for online workplace training in libraries relate to employee gender? |
| 3261 | Mathematics anxiety and learning styles: what is the relationship in elementary preservice teachers? |
| 3261 | What is competence? |
| 3261 | What is the relationship between ethnicity and online workplace training preferences? |
| 3261 | What is the relationship of employees ’ educational levels, age, and years of library experience to online workplace training preferences? |
| 3238 | 22 inFormation tEcHnoloGY anD liBrariEs| DEcEmBEr 2008 n Why not contributing to the NJDH collections? |
| 3238 | Where did you hear about NJDH? |
| 3238 | Will you use NJDH again? |
| 3238 | n Findings How do users find out about the nJDH and will they come back? |
| 3345 | Based on research rather than anecdotal evidence, which is best? |
| 3345 | Bernard J. Jansen and Amanda Spink, “ How Are We Searching the World Wide Web? |
| 3345 | Does this cause problems for relevance- thinking students? |
| 3345 | Is this typical? |
| 3345 | Would this strategy hold up to a variety of research topics? |
| 3243 | Of the ten social software applications in the SPEC kit, how many of them were at our disposal in 1995? |
| 3243 | Of these three, how many were in use in librar- ies? |
| 3243 | So, what does the future hold for IT and libraries, whether it be thirteen or five years in the future? |
| 3243 | What things out on the distant horizon will eventually become com- monplace? |
| 3243 | What things that are currently state- of- the- art will we leave behind in the next decade? |
| 3243 | What ’s DOS? |
| 3243 | What ’s a CD- ROM? |
| 3243 | What ’s a desktop computer? |
| 3243 | What ’s software? |
| 3243 | Who would have thought that library computers would outpace Moore ’s Law?! |
| 3243 | Will we soon say, What ’s a hard drive? |
| 3242 | Carr, “ Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” 8. |
| 3242 | How has scholarship especially been changed by the ease with which we can reduce works to snippets with- out having considered their overall context? |
| 3242 | Nicholas Carr, “ Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” The Atlantic Monthly 301( July/ Aug. |
| 3242 | Spalding, “ Re: ‘ Is Google Making Us Stupid? ’ ” |
| 3242 | Tim Spalding, “ Re: ‘ Is Google Making Us Stupid? |
| 3285 | 104104)? |
| 3285 | And, in attempting to answer that question, what are measures and benchmarks of quality Internet access? |
| 3285 | One key question, however, is what is qual- ity PAC and Internet bandwidth for public libraries? |
| 3285 | Research questions to explore include: ■ Is it possible to define quality PAC and Internet access in a public library context? |
| 3285 | ■ Can these attributes be operationalized and mea sured? |
| 3285 | ■ How can public librarians be better informed regard ing the planning and deployment of sufficient and quality bandwidth? |
| 3285 | ■ If so, what are the attributes included in the defini tion? |
| 3285 | ■ Missing the mark? |
| 3285 | ■ Should there be standards for sufficient connectivity and quality PAC in public libraries? |
| 3338 | Can I put a copy of my article online? |
| 3338 | How can I find funding for my research? |
| 3338 | How do I actually do the research? |
| 3338 | How do I start writing the paper? |
| 3338 | How do I start? |
| 3338 | Now what? |
| 3338 | What goes on when I submit my work? |
| 3338 | What should I write about? |
| 3338 | When will it come out? |
| 3142 | And ever since then, it ’s been an endless treadmill race to find the perfect, user- centric library Web presence? |
| 3142 | And if so, why and how much? |
| 3142 | And if the far- fetched should actually happen, and we all disappear? |
| 3142 | In short, would it matter? |
| 3142 | Remember how every- one — including us — simply had to have a website in the 1990s? |
| 3142 | The book begins with our total, overnight disappearance, and asks( 1) What would the earth be like without us? |
| 3142 | What do we provide that is unique and valuable? |
| 3142 | Will the present disclaimer be the subject of similar speculation? |
| 3142 | Would anyone notice? |
| 3142 | and( 2) What evidence of our works would remain, and for how long? |
| 3142 | it ’s all out there on the Web anyway, and Google will make it findable? |
| 3217 | 108 iNForMaTioN TECHNoloGY aND liBrariES| SEpTEMBEr 2009 repurposed, or made available to other parties? |
| 3217 | Can we reclaim all of our stuff easily and portably, leaving no sign that we ’d ever sent it to the cloud? |
| 3217 | EDiTorial| TruiTT 107 Marc TruittEditorial: Computing in the “ Cloud ” Silver Lining or Stormy Weather Ahead? |
| 3217 | It is our stuff, right? |
| 3217 | What do we hope to gain? |
| 3217 | What if we want to pick up and move elsewhere? |
| 3217 | What is the gain or loss to our staff and patrons in terms of local customization options, functionality, access, etc? |
| 3217 | What will it cost us? |
| 3217 | What ’s the exit strategy? |
| 3217 | Why are we doing this? |
| 3227 | Answer this question: Do you have other preferred starting points when looking for information that the Libraries own or provide access to? |
| 3227 | Answer this question: Do you have other preferred starting points when looking for information that the Libraries own or provide access to? |
| 3227 | Does UNLV Libraries have any books about that? |
| 3227 | Does UNLV Libraries have any documents about the history of the university that reference it? |
| 3227 | Investigate the organization of knowledge at a broad level — what is the added value that libraries provide? |
| 3227 | Libraries Catalog Libraries Website Google Thoughts, etc., on what I discovered What ’s all the fuss about Frazier Hall? |
| 3227 | Summit Matrix What am I looking for? |
| 3227 | What are the three highest priority/ most impor- tant tasks on your to- do list right now? |
| 3227 | What do you think the major functions of Technical Services are? |
| 3227 | Why is it important? |
| 3252 | Her advice? |
| 3252 | How do they do their work? |
| 3252 | How do they think about the library in relation to the research process? |
| 3252 | How do they use technology as part of that process? |
| 3252 | How do we know when we ’ve built a successful service? |
| 3252 | How does that process fit into the larger context of the assignment? |
| 3252 | How many of us have done user assessment and launched a new service, only to find a less than warm reception for it? |
| 3252 | How many of us have had users tell us they want something, only to see it go unused when it ’s implemented? |
| 3252 | What are they most concerned with? |
| 3252 | Which of these can serve as the foundation for real, useful services? |
| 3347 | C. Cheepen, “ Guidelines for Dialogue Design — What is Our Approach? |
| 3347 | Does this imply that guidelines can best be applied by commit- tees or groups of designers? |
| 3347 | If guidelines intentionally leave room for interpretation, what factor does expert opinion and experience play in design? |
| 3347 | J. D. D’Angelo and S. K. Little, “ Successful Web Pages: What are They and Do They Exist? ” Information Technology and Libraries 17, no. |
| 3173 | Am I serious? |
| 3173 | AmazonCat Local, anyone? |
| 3173 | And, most recently, what is the environmental cost of attendance? |
| 3173 | But what about Amazon? |
| 3173 | How might we do this? |
| 3173 | I ’ve been reflecting( stewing?) |
| 3173 | Is attendance responsible in a time of straitened budgets? |
| 3173 | Is it just me, or does this seem to be an extravagance these days? |
| 3173 | Is the vendor/ exhibitor “ tail ” wagging the ALA/ attendee “ dog ”? |
| 3173 | Sounds pretty simple, no? |
| 3173 | There would be complexities aplenty, but who knows? |
| 3173 | Who wants to be the pilot site? |
| 3173 | WorldCat Local? |
| 3173 | for some time now about the question of ALA conferences: Why do I attend, and what do I get from these gatherings? |
| 3171 | But could there be a way to satisfy the concerns without the book in hand? |
| 3171 | CATQC AND SHELF- READY MATERIAL| JAY, SIMPSON, AND SMITH 41 Michael Jay([ e- mail?]) |
| 3171 | Why the relatively high rate of false positives( 45 per- cent)? |
| 3167 | For example, a label of “ Economics ” would be assessed as highly relevant to the question, what is the current unemployment rate? |
| 3167 | Miles and Scott J. Bergstrom Classification of Library Resources by Subject on the Library Website: Is There an Optimal Number of Subject Labels? |
| 3167 | The same label would be assessed as not relevant for the question, what are the names of four moons of Saturn? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion about modern graphical design? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion about the Aztec Empire of ancient Mexico? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion about the French Revolution? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion about the effects of increased use of nuclear power on the price of natural gas? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion about the effects of standardized testing on high school classroom teaching? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion concerning Walmart ’s marketing strategy? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion on repetitive stress injuries? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion on skateboarding? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion on the Electoral College? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have informa- tion on the philosopher Emmanuel Kant? |
| 3167 | Which category would most likely have information on the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone Park? |
| 3286 | 24, 2005, http://www.yaledailynews.com/ article.asp?aid=28845( accessed Jan. 15, 2006; Mingyang Liu, “ Would you Friend Your Professor? |
| 3286 | Brian S. Mathews, “ Do You Facebook? |
| 3286 | Has your institution been added to the Facebook directory? |
| 3286 | Has your library added additional equipment such as computers or scanners as a result of Facebook use? |
| 3286 | Has your library had to develop a policy or had to address computer use concerns as a result of Facebook use? |
| 3286 | Have patrons complained about other patrons using library computers for Facebook? |
| 3286 | Have you assisted students with the library ’s scan ner for Facebook? |
| 3286 | If your library provides public access to a scanner, has patron use of scanners increased due to the use of Facebook? |
| 3286 | Is privacy a concern you have about students using Facebook in the library? |
| 3286 | Please check all answers that best describe what effect, if any, use of Facebook in the library has had on library services and operations? |
| 3286 | Tim O’Reilly, “ What is Web 2.0? ” http://www.oreilly net.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/whatisweb 20.html( accessed Aug. 6, 2006). |
| 3286 | Which best describes your involvement with Facebook? |
| 3286 | Which best describes your observation of student use of library computers to access Facebook? |
| 3286 | Would you consider Facebook to be a relevant aca demic endeavor? |
| 3144 | Both the results and the methods of these studies are analyzed by asking, What do we cur- rently know about faceted browsing? |
| 3144 | But do these benefits hold true for systems as complex as library catalogs? |
| 3144 | But to what extent does it improve user performance in searching within today ’s library catalog systems? |
| 3144 | How can we design better studies of faceted browsing in library catalogs? |
| 3144 | What is the call number of the book? |
| 3144 | Will you measure the time spent on a task? |
| 3144 | that require users to understand and make sense of the information collection: “ In which decade did Steven Spielberg direct the most movies? ”). |
| 3144 | ■ ■ Task 2: How many items of each format are there? |
| 3144 | ■ ■ Task 3: Please use interface B to search on “ family communication. ” What formats of materials do you see in your results set? |
| 3136 | Criteria for selecting metadata schemata( multiple responses) Question: which criteria were applied in selecting metadata schemata? |
| 3136 | Metadata schemata used( multiple responses) Survey question: which metadata schema(s) do you and your fellow catalogers/ metadata librarians use? |
| 3136 | Park, “ Semantic Interoperability ”; Sarah L. Shreeves et al., “ Is ‘ Quality ’ Metadata ‘ Shareable ’ Metadata? |
| 3136 | Survey question: what is your working job title? |
| 3136 | Survey question: which metadata schema(s) do you and your fellow catalogers/ metadata librarians use the most? |
| 3136 | To what extent are mechanisms for exposing and sharing metadata integrated into current metadata- creation practices? |
| 3136 | To what extent are mechanisms for sharing metadata integrated into the current metadata- creation practices described by the respondents? |
| 3136 | What criteria are applied in selecting metadata and controlled- vocabulary schema(ta)? |
| 3136 | Which controlled vocabulary schema(ta) are used to facilitate subject access? |
| 3136 | Which metadata schema(ta) and content standard(s) are employed in individual digital repositories and collections? |
| 3246 | Even with these tools, editing is not as intui- tive as editing a plain text tagged with HTML, and it is aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | However, this does not prevent Reader from making extensive zooms of the content of the PDF aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | Only as of version 1.7. aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | Reduced vision makes it difficult to read or capture the informa- tion offered; for persons with this disability, screen aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | What are PDF tags and why should I care? |
| 3246 | aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | n Are PDF documents accessible according to the ISO standard? |
| 3246 | n Are PDF documents accessible from a computer ’s viewpoint? |
| 3246 | n Are PDF documents accessible? |
| 3246 | n What does accessible really mean? |
| 3246 | x aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | x aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | x2 Level 2 Success Criteria for Guideline 3.1 aRE pDF DocumEnts accEssiBLE? |
| 3246 | | RiBERa tuRRó 25 Are PDF Documents Accessible? |
| 3148 | 94 iNFormAtioN tecHNoloGY ANd liBrAries| JuNe 2010 What is there in this new user environment for those who work in technical services? |
| 3148 | Are there ways that technical services staff can assist in these efforts? |
| 3148 | Does it make sense to devote local efforts to the cataloging of unique materials only rather than the regular books and journals? |
| 3148 | From our reAders| edeN 93 Bradford Lee EdenFrom Our Readers The New User Environment: The End of Technical Services? |
| 3148 | How do we make massive changes without creating chaos? |
| 3148 | So, where do we go from here? |
| 3148 | Why not buy a Mercedes over a Kia? |
| 3148 | what are our choices? |
| 3148 | ■ ❏ Assert over and over that we ’re already doing everything right — why should we change? |
| 3278 | 16 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| JuNE 200716 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| JuNE 2007 What is bias? |
| 3278 | :: |
| 3278 | ;[ Morocco? |
| 3278 | Context — Matching and bias How are matching and bias related to each other? |
| 3278 | Does it help to know in what format a record arrived, or under what rules it was created? |
| 3278 | Good: Incoming publisher trotta Match: editorial trotta Incoming publisher wiley Match: john wiley Questionable? |
| 3278 | How can we deal with other advance publication issues? |
| 3278 | Should it be called a match? |
| 3278 | What are some costs? |
| 3278 | What is this, really? |
| 3278 | Why is matching a challenge? |
| 3278 | ]< v260 i1= ” “ i2= ” “>< sa> |
| 3278 | n How can the process of matching accomodate objects that change over time? |
| 3278 | n How can we address sparseness in vendor records or legal citations? |
| 3278 | n How do changes in philosophy of the database affect the integrity of the matching process? |
| 3278 | n How does the conversion from new metadata schemes affect matching to MARC records? |
| 3354 | 218 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| DECEMBER 2006 How common are academic templates in library Web sites? |
| 3354 | Academic Web Site Design and Academic Templates: Where Does the Library Fit In? |
| 3354 | Another example is a search box as part of the academic template — what are users searching? |
| 3354 | Mignon Adams and Richard M. Dougherty, “ How Useful is Your Homepage? |
| 3354 | The World Wide Web? |
| 3354 | The following questions were asked: ■ Does the college or university Web site use an aca- demic template? |
| 3354 | The library Web site? |
| 3354 | The library catalog? |
| 3354 | The university Web site? |
| 3354 | What effect do they have on the content and services provided by libraries? |
| 3354 | Where does the library Web site fit into a comprehensive campus design scheme? |
| 3354 | ■ If yes, is the library using the template, and for how much of the library Web site? |
| 3354 | ■ To what extent is the template being used? |
| 1830 | 2) Which choice best describes your library? |
| 1830 | Angela Horne and Steve Adams, “ Do the Outcomes Justify the Buzz? |
| 1830 | Jimmy Ghaphery, VCU Libraries Erin White, VCU Libraries 1) What is the name of your organization? |
| 1830 | Martin Courtois, Martha Higgins, Aditya Kapur, “ Was this Guide Helpful? |
| 1830 | What are the implications for the library technology community and what questions arise for future research? |
| 3272 | ), and noncount, or mass nouns( how much?). |
| 3272 | At what point does jargon become a neologism? |
| 3272 | Does the spell checker allow for cultural variations in spell ing( for example, labor or labour)? |
| 3272 | Furthermore, if a tag does not exist in the spell checker, does this necessarily mean that the tag is incor rect? |
| 3272 | How are the tags that constitute the folksonomies structured? |
| 3272 | How wellrecognized and comprehensive is the source vocabulary for this spell checker? |
| 3272 | How, for example, is a discipline to be determined? |
| 3272 | If a named entity( person or organization) was not recognized by Aspell, does this mean that the tag was classified as incorrect? |
| 3272 | Is it necessary for a discipline to be recognized as such among a majority of educational institutions? |
| 3272 | Is the term podcasting, for example, an instance of slang, jargon, or neologism? |
| 3272 | Keeping and re- finding information on the web: What do people do and what do they need? |
| 3272 | Nouns( plural and singular forms) NISO divides nouns into two categories: Count nouns( how many? |
| 3272 | Similarly, does skiing refer to an activity, or the sport? |
| 3272 | Tidying up tags? |
| 3272 | What are the strengths and weaknesses of folksonomies( for example, reflect user need, ambiguous headings, redun dant headings, and so forth)? |
| 3168 | Is this issue mainly value driven, dollar driven, both, or neither in these two public institutions? |
| 3168 | Sandra Braman, “ Where Has Media Policy Gone? |
| 3168 | This difference raises a number of questions: For what reasons has CIPA been much more widely implemented in schools? |
| 3168 | Why are these two institutions so dif- ferent regarding CIPA implementation while they share many social and educational similarities? |
| 3168 | n Has CIPA changed the social expectations for libraries and schools? |
| 3168 | n Have adult patron information behaviors changed in libraries? |
| 3168 | n Have minor patron information behaviors changed in libraries? |
| 3168 | n Have student information behaviors changed in school? |
| 3168 | n How has CIPA changed the management of librar- ies and schools? |
| 3168 | n The current state of filtering when did CIPA actually come into effect in libraries and schools? |
| 3168 | n Will Congress view CIPA as successful enough to merit using libraries and schools as the means of enforcing other legislation? |
| 3138 | Are affiliated users required to authenticate in order to access computers in the public area of your library? |
| 3138 | Do these libraries provide both open- access computers and the means for guest user authentication? |
| 3138 | Does your library have a written policy for authenticating guest users? |
| 3138 | Does your library have a written policy for use of open access computers in the public area of the library? |
| 3138 | Don L. Tolliver, “ Citizens May Use Any Tax- Supported Library? ” Wisconsin Library Bulletin( Nov./Dec. |
| 3138 | If a policy exists, what is it? |
| 3138 | If a policy exists, what is it? |
| 3138 | If you answered “ yes ” to the previous question, does your library provide the means for guest users to authenticate? |
| 3138 | If your library has open- access computers, how many do you provide? |
| 3138 | Is your institution public or private? |
| 3138 | Is your library a Federal Depository Library? |
| 3138 | Mary Ellen Bobp and Debora Richey, “ Serving Secondary Users: Can It Continue? ” College& Undergraduate Libraries 1, no. |
| 3138 | Rita Barsun, “ Library Web Pages and Policies Toward ‘ Outsiders ’: Is the Information There? ” Public Services Quarterly 1, no. |
| 3138 | What is the name of your academic institution? |
| 3138 | ■ ■ How many ARL libraries have written policies for authenticating guest users? |
| 3138 | ■ ■ How many ARL libraries have written policies for the use of open- access computers? |
| 3138 | ■ ■ How many ARL libraries offer open- access comput- ers for guests to use? |
| 3138 | ■ ■ How many ARL libraries provide the means to authenticate guest users and allow them to log on to the same computers used by affiliates? |
| 3342 | Abandon authority searching? |
| 3342 | Borgman, “ Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use? ” 30. |
| 3342 | Borgman, “ Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use? ” 494. |
| 3342 | Borgman, “ Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use? ” 495. |
| 3342 | But what are “ good ” or “ relevant ” results? |
| 3342 | Charles R. Hildreth, Online Catalog Design Models: Are We Moving in the Right Direction? |
| 3342 | Christine L. Borgman, “ Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use? ” Journal of the American Society for Information Sci- ence 47, no. |
| 3342 | Does the Design Library have any journals about landscape architecture? ” Appendix A: NCSU Libraries Catalog Usability Test Tasks |
| 3342 | Does the library have any materials about building passive solar homes? ” 8. |
| 3342 | TOWARD A TWENTY- FIRST- CENTURY LIBRARY CATALOG| ANTELMAN, LYNEMA, AND PACE 129 Where are we now? |
| 3342 | Thomas Mann, “ Is Precoordination Unnecessary in LCSH? |
| 3342 | “ Can you show me how would you find the most recently published book about nuclear energy policy in the United States? ” 9. |
| 3342 | “ Do library users have access to the volume that actually contains this article( either electronically or in print)? ” Topical Questions 5. |
| 3342 | “ Is there a copy of this book you could check out from D. H. Hill Library? ” 4. |
| 3342 | “ Using the library catalog, can you determine if the library owns this journal? ” b. |
| 3342 | “ What is the title of one of his books? ” b. |
| 3342 | “ Where would you go to find this book physically? ” 2. |
| 3281 | And who manages the product at your library? |
| 3281 | Are there response issues? |
| 3281 | Frost, “ Do We Want or Need Metasearching? ” Library Journal 129, no. |
| 3281 | If the vendor support staff has to make some of the changes, how responsive are they? |
| 3281 | Judy Luther, “ Trumping Google? |
| 3281 | Mick O’Leary, “ Google Scholar: What ’s in It for You? ” Information Today 22, no. |
| 3281 | Or do you only have the option to set up global categories? |
| 3281 | Provided are a list of recommended questions: n Who is responsible for setting up each resource — the vendor or you? |
| 3281 | Roy Tennant, “ Is Metasearching Dead? ” Library Journal 130, no. |
| 3281 | The big question is, Where are the resources to support the product? |
| 3281 | What Is EBSCOhost Connection?, http://support.epnet.com/ knowledge_base/ detail.php?id=2716( accessed May 10, 2006). |
| 3281 | What does Google Scholar have to do with MetaSearching? |
| 3281 | n How does the vendor handle broken resources or subscription changes? |
| 3281 | n How much time does it typically take to set up a new resource and what is the standard cost to add a new resource? |
| 3281 | n How much time goes into managing the product monthly? |
| 3281 | n How much time would you estimate that it took to implement the product? |
| 3281 | n How satisfied are you with the training, implementa tion support, and technical documentation? |
| 3281 | n Impact on the OPAC What will this mean for the “ beloved ” OPAC? |
| 3281 | n Is there a list or database of alreadyestablished pro files for electronic resources for this product? |
| 3281 | n Is there an administrative module to allow you to maintain categories, resource values, and configura tion options? |
| 3281 | n Is your installation local or does the vendor host it? |
| 3281 | n What kind of statistical information does the vendor provide? |
| 3281 | n Will you be able to edit all of the public Web pages yourself or will you be using vendor support staff to make changes? |
| 3355 | 555- 555- 6789, is that right? ” “ 555- 555- 6789. |
| 3355 | After all, do we really want to be helping the hacker? |
| 3355 | But what else could it have been — research for an identity theft, or a stalker trying to get personal information? |
| 3355 | Could you log off and let me know if any messages come up? ” “ No problem. ” Marcy logs off of the reference computer; nothing strange happens. |
| 3355 | Could you pass on the new password to the other reference per- sonnel? ” “ Sure. ” “ Wonderful. |
| 3355 | Could you tell me what I have out? ” “ No problem. |
| 3355 | Do you have our new number or is it still 555- 555- 1234 in your records? ” “ Let me see. |
| 3355 | HELPING THE HACKER? |
| 3355 | Has everything been okay at the Seashore Branch reference desk? ” “ I think so. ” “ Okay, that ’s good. |
| 3355 | Have a great day. ” “ You too. ”< click> 224 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| DECEMBER 2006 Why are libraries vulnerable? |
| 3355 | I mean which login name are you using? ” “ Searef. |
| 3355 | Is that correct? ” “ Thank you so much, that ’s it. |
| 3355 | Okay, I ’m logged on now. ” “ No strange messages? ” “ Nothing. ” “ That ’s great. |
| 3355 | Thank you very much, you ’ve been very helpful. ’ “ No problem, that ’s what we ’re here for. ”< click> What just happened? |
| 3355 | What can I do for you? ” “ Thanks. |
| 3355 | What do libraries have that is worth possibly committing a crime to get? |
| 3355 | What user are you going in as? |
| 3355 | no, I think we have your new number. ” “ Could you read it back to me? ” “ Sure. |
| 3355 | “ Could you give me your name please? ” “ The card is in my wife ’s name, Jennifer Greene. |
| 3355 | “ Seashore Branch Public Library, how may we help you? ” she asks, smiling. |
| 3355 | ■ Do not provide passwords or login names over the phone or HELPING THE HACKER? |
| 3344 | Does the Design Library have any journals about landscape architecture? ” Appendix A: NCSU Libraries Catalog Usability Test Tasks |
| 3344 | Does the library have any materials about building passive solar homes? ” 8. |
| 3344 | If that balance has been lost, how can it be restored? |
| 3344 | One type of Strong Copyright+ DRM+ Weak Net Neutrality= Digital Dystopia? |
| 3344 | Or can it? |
| 3344 | The bottom line? |
| 3344 | What would it be like if all old works in print and analog formats were only reissued in digital form, protected by DRM? |
| 3344 | Would new Internet companies and noncom- mercial services prosper better if it was gone, spurring on new waves of innovation? |
| 3344 | Would the same be true for library- oriented publishers and vendors? |
| 3344 | Would “ Progress of Science and useful Arts ” be promoted or squashed? |
| 3344 | a s p? |
| 3344 | “ Can you show me how would you find the most recently published book about nuclear energy policy in the United States? ” 9. |
| 3344 | “ Do library users have access to the volume that actually contains this article( either electronically or in print)? ” Topical Questions 5. |
| 3344 | “ Is there a copy of this book you could check out from D. H. Hill Library? ” 4. |
| 3344 | “ Using the library catalog, can you determine if the library owns this journal? ” b. |
| 3344 | “ What is the title of one of his books? ” b. |
| 3344 | “ Where would you go to find this book physically? ” 2. |
| 1855 | ( Less than a third, Less than half, Half, Most, All) Pre – Test 6: Have you used LEO? |
| 1855 | ( Rarely/ Never, Sometimes, Often, Very Often) Post – Test 1: When would you use this search tool? |
| 1855 | ( Yes, No, Not Sure) Pre – Test 11( Faculty participants only): How often do you give assignments that require the use of library resources? |
| 1855 | ( open ended) Pre – Test 5: How much of the library ’s resources do you think the Quick Search will search? |
| 1855 | ( show screenshot on printout)( Yes, No, Not Sure) Pre – Test 7: Have you used EBSCO? |
| 1855 | Above all, are users able to find the best resources for their research needs? |
| 1855 | Do they understand the scope of the tool and that other online resources exist outside the tool ’s boundaries? |
| 1855 | How do library websites begin to make sense of the current state of library search systems? |
| 1855 | How satisfied are you with the results? |
| 1855 | However, discovery tools present new challenges for users: will they be able to differentiate between source types in the integrated results sets? |
| 1855 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES| MARCH 2012 111 Post – Test 4: What would you say are the major problems with Quick Search? |
| 1855 | If not, what would you call it? |
| 1855 | If you were writing a paper on this topic how satisfied would you be with these results? |
| 1855 | Is this journal available in online full text? |
| 1855 | Post – Test 2: When would you not use this search tool? |
| 1855 | Post – Test 3: What would you say are the major advantages of Quick Search? |
| 1855 | Post – Test 5: If you were unable to find an item using Quick Search/ EBSCO Discovery Service what would your next steps be? |
| 1855 | Post – Test 6: Do you think the name “ Quick Search ” is fitting for this search tool? |
| 1855 | S. C. Williams and A. K. Foster, “ Promise Fulfilled? |
| 1855 | This study found almost no use of the embedded federated search add- on: is this true at other institutions? |
| 1855 | What are the coverage dates? |
| 1855 | What are the ideal design choices for making limiters intuitive? |
| 1855 | What items should libraries continue to include in their catalogs? |
| 1855 | What role do institutional repositories play in the suite of library tools, and how does the discovery tool connect to them( or include them?) |
| 1855 | What was the last thing you searched for when doing a research assignment for class? |
| 1855 | When asked “ when would you not use this search tool? ” the faculty member said “ I would just have to get used to using it. |
| 1855 | When should a user be directed to the catalog versus a discovery tool? |
| 1855 | Will they be able to limit large results sets effectively? |
| 1855 | Williams and Foster, “ Promise Fulfilled? ” 34. |
| 1855 | Williams and Foster, “ Promise Fulfilled? ” 39. |
| 1855 | Williams and Foster, “ Promise Fulfilled? ” 41. |
| 1855 | Williams and Foster, “ Promise Fulfilled? ” 44. |
| 1855 | Williams and Foster, “ Promise Fulfilled? ” 46. |
| 3267 | But why should we? ”). |
| 3267 | Can a user search your catalog and present the results on his or her Web site? |
| 3267 | Can librarians inter fere with and shape conversations? |
| 3267 | Can you capture it? |
| 3267 | Can you enhance it? |
| 3267 | Can you measure it? |
| 3267 | Can you recall it when it would be precisely what a user needs? |
| 3267 | Can your library functions be as easily incorporated into these types of conversations? |
| 3267 | Do we assume that the catalog itself is limited( refer the user to online databases, or other finding aids)? |
| 3267 | Do we assume that the information does not exist( refer the patron to interlibrary loan, pass him or her on to a broader search engine)? |
| 3267 | Do we expand the collection, improve the Web site, or offer blogs to students? |
| 3267 | How can a conversation take place within an individual? |
| 3267 | How can libraries use the technologies and concepts of Facebook and MySpace without being plagued by their problems? |
| 3267 | How can such a traditionally rigid system( in concept, more than in any one feature set) be made more participa tory? |
| 3267 | How can users truly be made part of the collection without the library being liable for all of their actions? |
| 3267 | How do we, as facilitators of conversations, point the way to the next generation of library? |
| 3267 | Is Flickr? |
| 3267 | Is a blog a social networking site? |
| 3267 | Is its mission the same, and only the tools dif ferent? |
| 3267 | Is n’t the catalog really just another database? |
| 3267 | Ken Chad and Paul Miller, “ Do Libraries Matter? |
| 3267 | Many academic libraries attempt to capture the scholarly output of their faculties, why not help generate the output with research data stores? |
| 3267 | Should they search the catalogs first, or the databases? |
| 3267 | Should we incorporate new services into the current library offerings? |
| 3267 | Should we? |
| 3267 | The ques tion is, in what ways? |
| 3267 | There are curricular implications: How do we prepare participatory librarians? |
| 3267 | Thus, the question is not whether the library shapes conversations, but which ones, and how actively? |
| 3267 | To highlight the oneway nature of the catalog, ask a simple question: what happens when the user does n’t find something? |
| 3267 | What do we digitize? |
| 3267 | What do we pre serve? |
| 3267 | What do we select? |
| 3267 | What does the next version of Library 2.0 look like? |
| 3267 | What if we added circulation data to our relevance rankings: how many times this item has been checked out? |
| 3267 | What if we assume that the catalog is just the current place a user is involving in an ongoing conversation — what would that look like? |
| 3267 | What knowledge can be gleaned from these novel interac tions? |
| 3267 | What makes the library different from MySpace — simply a legacy? |
| 3267 | What programs do we offer? |
| 3267 | Which data base do they choose? |
| 3267 | Why not provide Web meeting space in the form of a Web site or Web conferencing? |
| 3267 | Why not simply adopt social networking, Web 2.0, or Library 2.0 for that matter? |
| 3267 | Why should users have to search from among thousands of libraries to find the conversations they want? |
| 3267 | Would n’t it make sense, given such an abstract query, to present the user with Harry Potter first( but not exclusively)? |
| 3267 | and why? ” If libraries focused on conversations, there might be some clarity and cohesion between statistics and other outcomes. |
| 3267 | ■ Libraries as participatory conversations So where are we? |
| 3353 | A significant portion of the success of thousands of individual libraries is dependent on the successful evolution( replacement?) |
| 3353 | Can library standards penetrate and be effec- tively used by other information communities? |
| 3353 | How could the pres- ence of this rich text not so much change as augment these standards? |
| 3353 | How does each approach best complement the other in library collec- tions? |
| 3353 | How might rich- text extraction and searching improve upon searching of whole- object full- text? |
| 3353 | How might these standards themselves change both in terms of changes in and approaches to vocabulary and schema? |
| 3353 | How much rich text is needed and how distilled should it be? |
| 3353 | How will libraries deter- mine best balances of expert and machine in regard to different tasks? |
| 3353 | How will libraries ramp up and tran- sition into this? |
| 3353 | How will this new capability for breadth and depth be defined and used in library collections? |
| 3353 | How will this technology change old and enable new roles, tasks, and production routines for library subject experts and other staff? |
| 3353 | If so, what does this mean for the library community? |
| 3353 | What are the obstacles to greater usage of DC? |
| 3353 | What changes in the standards would be required to achieve this? |
| 3353 | What would be the right mix of subject- vocabulary standard meta- data and accompanying, selected natural- language text for best end- user success? |
| 3353 | comm.)? |
| 3353 | ■ By and for whom is such standard subject vocab- ulary/ schema application technology developed within the community? |
| 3353 | ■ For whom is machine learning/ assistance in collec- tion building patented? |
| 3353 | ■ How do current or traditional approaches to library- based practices and standards help foster or hinder these technologies? |
| 3353 | ■ How do these technologies amplify and enable or simply prematurely dislodge librarian expertise? |
| 3353 | ■ How open to evolution are library metadata stan- dards and the organizations entrusted with their stewardship? |
| 3353 | ■ How will best practices develop in regard to machine- assisted activities? |
| 3353 | ■ How will these technologies impact these standards? |
| 3353 | ■ In which specific ways will labor be saved and machines be capable of assisting in resource discov- ery and metadata generation? |
| 3353 | ■ What will be the effects of this machine amplification in changing the importance/ roles/ content of subject standards? |
| 3353 | ■ Who will own these technologies and tools? |
| 3175 | And would n’t these sortName properties com- plicate maintenance over time as preferred and variant names changed? |
| 3175 | Are there other RDF techniques available to deal with sorting and arrangement? |
| 3175 | Are there standard sorting rules we need to be aware of( in Unicode, for example)? |
| 3175 | CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? |
| 3175 | CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? |
| 3175 | CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? |
| 3175 | CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? |
| 3175 | CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? |
| 3175 | CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? |
| 3175 | Can a property have a property in RDF? |
| 3175 | Can all bibliographic data be reduced to either a class or a property with a finite list of values? |
| 3175 | Can that property itself have the property type of variant title to encompass things like spine title, key title, etc.? |
| 3175 | Defined as ontologies using RDF/ RDFS/ OWL/ SKOS Encoding or labeling of data elements for machine manipulation; same as data format? |
| 3175 | Do all possible inverse relationships need to be expressed explicitly, or can they be inferred? |
| 3175 | Does RDF require that all data be represented only once, either by a literal or by a URI? |
| 3175 | Given that RDF was designed to encode knowledge rather than information, perhaps it is the wrong technol- ogy to use for our purposes? |
| 3175 | How do we distinguish between the corporate behavior of a jurisdiction and the subject behavior of a geographical loca- tion? |
| 3175 | How do we document record display decisions? |
| 3175 | How do we express the arrangement of elements that have a definite order? |
| 3175 | How do we link related data elements in such a way that effective indexing and displays are possible? |
| 3175 | Is RDF capable of dealing with works that are identified using their creators? |
| 3175 | Is it possible for catalogers to tell in all cases whether a piece of data pertains to the FRBR expression or the FRBR manifestation? |
| 3175 | Is it possible to fit our data into RDF? |
| 3175 | Is the Internet really fast enough to assemble a record from hundreds of URIs in a reasonable amount of time? |
| 3175 | Is this a problem in RDF? |
| 3175 | Is this a work- to- work relation- ship? |
| 3175 | Or is it perhaps possible that data that has a URI could also have a transcribed or composed form as a property? |
| 3175 | Possible reallocation of current functions in a new Semantic Web – based dispensation Function Current Future? |
| 3175 | Structure is an object of a record( structure of docu- ment? |
| 3175 | Will the Internet ever be fast enough to assemble the equivalent of our current records from a collection of hundreds or even thousands of URIs? |
| 3175 | Will there be times when it prevents us from making elegant general- izations in the model about place per se? |
| 3175 | Will this cause problems in the model? |
| 3175 | how might these be best expressed in rdF? |
| 3175 | n What are the next steps? |
| 3175 | n Which standards will carry out which functions? |
| 3175 | n Why my project? |
| 3175 | | YEE 55 Martha M. Yee Can Bibliographic Data be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web? |
| 3175 | | YEE 67 for cases in which variants need to appear in sorted displays? |
| 3220 | Are digital libraries targeting mobile users or other users with unique needs? |
| 3220 | Are digitization program mission statements, selection criteria, or specific prioritization procedures in use? |
| 3220 | Are such collaborations a priority? |
| 3220 | Are there boundaries to the Libraries digitization program? |
| 3220 | Are there new standards you are interested in? |
| 3220 | By the frequency of press in publications and word- of- mouth praise from fellow colleagues? |
| 3220 | By the num- ber of image views or metadata record accesses? |
| 3220 | By the number of published collections? |
| 3220 | By the number of successful grants executed? |
| 3220 | C. How can the Libraries provide rich metadata and useful access points? |
| 3220 | C. Who is the user or audience? |
| 3220 | D. What type of Web design will each project require? |
| 3220 | Did anything go drastically wrong? |
| 3220 | Do digital libraries need their own mission statement or philosophy because they differ from physical collections? |
| 3220 | Do the terms “ repository, ” “ digital project, ” “ exhibit, ” or “ online collection ” connote different things? |
| 3220 | Do you have any experience partnering with teaching faculty to create digital collections? |
| 3220 | Does the digital library need a collection develop- ment policy and if so, what type? |
| 3220 | Does your institution have an institutional repository( e.g., DSpace)? |
| 3220 | E. Project Prioritization: Should we develop a formal review process? |
| 3220 | E. What type of communication needs to exist between groups during the project? |
| 3220 | F. How do the libraries plan on sustaining and evaluating digital collections over time? |
| 3220 | From where have ideas originated for existing, published digital collections at your library? |
| 3220 | G. What type of authority will review projects at completion? |
| 3220 | How are approved projects ultimately prioritized? |
| 3220 | How are collabora- tions initiated? |
| 3220 | How are projects prioritized at your institution? |
| 3220 | How do digitization programs deal with evolving standards? |
| 3220 | How do you achieve consensus with a diverse group of collaborators? |
| 3220 | How do you decide on what technology to use? |
| 3220 | How do you decide what should be included in a digital library? |
| 3220 | How do you decide who your user is? |
| 3220 | How do you define a digital library? |
| 3220 | How do you gauge the success of a digital collection, exhibit, or library? |
| 3220 | How do you market your digital collections? |
| 3220 | How is digitization tied to the mission of your institution? |
| 3220 | How precisely will we define success for the digitization program? |
| 3220 | How should digital libraries be assessed and evaluated? |
| 3220 | How will the project be evaluated and promoted? |
| 3220 | How would you characterize current support for digitization by your library ’s administration? |
| 3220 | If so, what are the differences, similarities, and boundaries for each? |
| 3220 | If the answer was “ yes ” in question 5, is your institutional repository using the same software as your digital collections? |
| 3220 | In other words, have one or more digital collections been the brainchild of one of the following? |
| 3220 | In what ways do these information sources overlap, interoperate, or require boundaries? |
| 3220 | Is the digitization program or digitization activities referenced in your library ’s strategic plan? |
| 3220 | It posed questions related to content criteria( Why does this idea warrant consideration? |
| 3220 | On average over the past 3 years, approximately how many new digital collections are published each year? |
| 3220 | Project Selection: What technical criteria should projects fall within in order to be considered for digitization? |
| 3220 | Should there be boundaries to what is digitized? |
| 3220 | The earlier ARL study asked a somewhat related question: “ Who makes deci- sions about the allocation of staff support for digitiza- tion efforts? |
| 3220 | The earlier ARL survey asked a somewhat related question, “ What is/ has been the purpose of these digitization efforts? |
| 3220 | The earlier ARL survey asked the question, “ What was/ is the source of the funds for digitization activities? |
| 3220 | To date, approximately how many digital collections has your library published? |
| 3220 | To what degree is centralization important or unnecessary? |
| 3220 | To whom are new projects first proposed to be evaluated for digitization consideration? |
| 3220 | Were there any surprises? |
| 3220 | What are some of the factors that you feel have contributed to the success of your institution ’s digitization program? |
| 3220 | What are the biggest challenges for your institution ’s digitization program? |
| 3220 | What are the planning steps that each project requires? |
| 3220 | What are the relationships between library digitization initiatives, the library website, the campus website or por- tal, and the Web? |
| 3220 | What does the future hold? |
| 3220 | What factors have contributed to a successful digitization program at your institution? |
| 3220 | What general evaluation criteria do you employ to measure how successful a typical digital project is? |
| 3220 | What has been proven and disproved in the short time that libraries have been doing digital projects? |
| 3220 | What hosting platform(s) do you use for your digital collections( e.g., CONTENTdm, etc.)? |
| 3220 | What is the decision- making process when implementing a new technology? |
| 3220 | What is the importance of using standards, and are there areas where standards should be relaxed, or not used at all? |
| 3220 | What is the role, specifically, of the academic library in creating digital collections? |
| 3220 | What other types of collaborations are you involved in now? |
| 3220 | What resources are needed to realize program goals? |
| 3220 | What role do digital libraries play in marketing the library? |
| 3220 | What should new digitization programs be cautious and aware of? |
| 3220 | What should the program support? |
| 3220 | What standards are most widely in use at this time? |
| 3220 | What year do you feel your library published its first “ major ” digital collection? |
| 3220 | What ’s your solution or strategy to the problem of preserv- ing digital materials? |
| 3220 | When considering the content available for digitization, which of the following statements apply? |
| 3220 | Where does the majority of digitization work take place? |
| 3220 | Who will be responsible for the different steps in the project plan and department workload? |
| 3220 | Why digitize and for whom? |
| 3220 | Would complex or unique metadata be required from a subject specialist?) |
| 3220 | and listed various potential evaluative measures of proj- ect ideas( Should we do this if another library is already doing a very similar project?). |
| 1916 | ( the tool is currently available to users/ researchers at that institution) How many additional customers have committed to the product? |
| 1916 | ), has the new discovery service become the default or primary search box on your website? |
| 1916 | ), were one or more of these present( and well executed) in this product? |
| 1916 | ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Why Web- scale Discovery? |
| 1916 | After harvesting, how long does it typically take for such updates, additions, and deletions to be reflected in the searchable central index? |
| 1916 | And/ or, could these location based scopes appear as facets which a user could use to drill down a results list? |
| 1916 | Are digital collection records? |
| 1916 | Are the facets and/or other methods that one can use to limit or refine a search appropriate? |
| 1916 | Are there any other design customization capabilities that are significantly important? |
| 1916 | Are there any particular or unique LOOK and FEEL aspects of your interface that you feel elevate your product above your competitors? |
| 1916 | Are there confusing choices? |
| 1916 | Are there major publisher agreements that you feel are especially significant for your service? |
| 1916 | Are there particular key publishers your index currently does n’t include, but whom you are in active negotiations with? |
| 1916 | Are these agreements indefinite or do they have expiration dates? |
| 1916 | Bibliographic Services Task Force, Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California: Final Report([ Pub location?] |
| 1916 | C. See a list of recently viewed items? |
| 1916 | Can they choose to “ bump up ” particular items for a search? |
| 1916 | Could we create a “ smaller, ” more streamlined version of your interface for smartphone access? |
| 1916 | Customer Install Base How many current customers do you have that have which have implemented the product at their institution? |
| 1916 | D. Perform typical ILS functions such as viewing checked out items/ renewals/ holds? |
| 1916 | Did the platform offer you the option to request the item via doc delivery/ LINK+? |
| 1916 | Did the platform offer “ did you mean ” spelling suggestions? |
| 1916 | Did you need extensive assistance from the discovery platform vendor to help harvest any of your local collections into the discovery index? |
| 1916 | Do any agreements exist at this time to harvest the data associated with the Google Books or Google Scholar projects into your central index? |
| 1916 | Do you feel there are areas which you need to build up? |
| 1916 | Do you feel your local content( including ILS Bib records) is adequately “ exposed ” during a majority of searches? |
| 1916 | Do you have any sense of how satisfied faculty at your institution are with the discovery service ’s interface? |
| 1916 | Do you have any sense of how satisfied your( non- faculty) end- users are with the discovery service ’s interface? |
| 1916 | Do you sense that your users – students and faculty – have positively received the product? |
| 1916 | Does it take many clicks? |
| 1916 | Does the local library have any influence or level of control over the relevancy algorithm? |
| 1916 | Does your platform, in your opinion, provide seamless, quick access to full text materials, with a minimum of confusion? |
| 1916 | Does your service automatically include( out of the box, no additional charge) materials from open access repositories? |
| 1916 | Does your service include items from major e- book vendors? |
| 1916 | Does your service include the OCLC WorldCat catalog records? |
| 1916 | Does your system enable “ best- match ” retrieval – that is, something will always be returned or recommended? |
| 1916 | Does your system offer an unauthenticated view/ access? |
| 1916 | Does your system offer user accounts? |
| 1916 | Elsevier journal content)? |
| 1916 | For records hosted in systems at the local library, how often do you harvest information to account for record updates, modifications, deletions? |
| 1916 | From the USER perspective, for a full- text pdf journal article, how EASY is it to retrieve the full- text? |
| 1916 | From the USER perspective, how functional do you think the discovery platform is? |
| 1916 | Has your library performed what you might consider any “ major customization ” to the product? |
| 1916 | Have any other customers that have gone live with your service completed usability testing that you ’re aware of? |
| 1916 | Have any particular, common problems surfaced in their attempts to get their local collections searchable and exposed in the discovery platform? |
| 1916 | Have you conducted any end- user usability testing related to the discovery service? |
| 1916 | Have you noticed any consistent “ goofiness, ” or surprises with the returned results? |
| 1916 | Have you observed any big, or appreciable, gaps in any of the three major overarching areas – humanities, social sciences, sciences? |
| 1916 | Have you received any positive or negative comments from faculty related to the interface? |
| 1916 | Have you received any positive or negative comments from users related to the interface? |
| 1916 | Holdings information? |
| 1916 | How long have you had your discovery service available to your end users? |
| 1916 | How many indexed items? |
| 1916 | How many periodical titles does your preharvested, centralized index encompass? |
| 1916 | How many titles are covered for each publisher? |
| 1916 | How satisfied were you with the platform ’s handling of “ dead end ” or “ zero hit ” searches? |
| 1916 | How satisfied were you with the platform ’s integration with the OPAC? |
| 1916 | How “ open ” is your platform to customization or interface design tweaks desired by the library? |
| 1916 | How “ open ” is your platform to porting over to other access points? |
| 1916 | ILS bibliographic records; digital collections) remains visible and discoverable within the larger pool of content indexed by your service? |
| 1916 | INVESTIGATIONS INTO LIBRARY WEB- SCALE DISCOVERY SERVICES| VAUGHAN 72 Are the statistics COUNTER compliant? |
| 1916 | If a student tried to search for an article in this journal – “ Giraffe Behavior During the Drought Season, ” what would happen? |
| 1916 | If so, approximately what percentage of items within your service are “ deep indexed? ” 33. |
| 1916 | If so, are these mandatory or optional? |
| 1916 | If so, can you provide the results, or otherwise some general comments on the results of these tests? |
| 1916 | If so, what attracted you to this particular product, what made it stand out? |
| 1916 | If so, what level of information is included? |
| 1916 | In general, are you happy with the “ openness ” or “ flexibility ” of the system in terms of how customizable it is by your library staff? |
| 1916 | In other words, provided appropriate technical skills exist, can we easily embed the search box for your product into a different webpage? |
| 1916 | In summary, what are some of the chief differentiators of your product from the competition? |
| 1916 | Institutional repository records? |
| 1916 | Is content for both local and remote content normalized to a single schema? |
| 1916 | Is it a browser based interface optimized for smallscreen devices? |
| 1916 | Is it a dedicated iPhone, Android, or Blackberry based executable application? |
| 1916 | Is one approach preferable to the other, or does your approach explicitly depend on one of these particular services? |
| 1916 | Is the vendor ’s implementation of such features well executed, or were they difficult, confusing, or otherwise lacking? |
| 1916 | Is there a process for suggesting enhancement requests for potential future incorporation into the product? |
| 1916 | Is there any particular feature or function that is missing or non- configurable within the discovery service that you wish were available? |
| 1916 | Is this content still somehow indexed in your tool? |
| 1916 | Is your discovery solution compatible with one/ all of these systems for rights management purposes? |
| 1916 | Or did you develop your own ingestors from scratch, or using a toolkit or application profile template provided by the vendor? |
| 1916 | Or do you create a merged/ composite/ super record, and only this single record is displayed? |
| 1916 | Or has it primarily been customizations such as naming the service, defining hyperlinks and the color scheme? |
| 1916 | Our current systems pale beside them.7*** Q: If you could provide one piece of advice to your library, what would it be? |
| 1916 | Overall, do you feel your selection of this vendor ’s product was a good one? |
| 1916 | Overall, how satisfied are you and your local library colleagues with the discovery service ’s interface? |
| 1916 | Particular Sets of Licensed Resources, What ’s Important? |
| 1916 | Publisher/ Aggregator Agreements: General With approximately how many publishers have you forged content agreements with? |
| 1916 | Q: If you could provide one piece of advice to your library, what would it be? |
| 1916 | References Can you provide website addresses for live implementations which you feel serve as a representative model matching our library type? |
| 1916 | Related to searching, are you happy with the relevance of results returned by the discovery service? |
| 1916 | Save a list of results to return to at a later time? |
| 1916 | Save canned queries for later searching? |
| 1916 | Subject descriptors c. Keywords( author supplied?) |
| 1916 | The complete record? |
| 1916 | Were you satisfied with the export options offered by the system( email, export into Refworks, print, etc.)? |
| 1916 | What Library division do you belong to? |
| 1916 | What elements play a role, and how heavily are they weighted for purposes of determining relevancy? |
| 1916 | What elements play into this determination; how is the user prevented from having a completely “ dead- end ” search? |
| 1916 | What have you named your discovery service, and is it the ‘ default ’ search service on your website at this point? |
| 1916 | What is your platform ’s philosophy in terms of “ dead end searches. ” Does such a thing exist with your product? |
| 1916 | What is your product ’s philosophy in regards to this? |
| 1916 | What makes an item appear first or on the first page of results? |
| 1916 | What mandatory record fields for a local resource has to exist for the content to be indexed and discoverable within your platform( title, date)? |
| 1916 | What other statistics would you like to see a discovery platform provide and how important is this to you? |
| 1916 | What other things do you think are REALLY important when thinking about a next- generation discovery platform? |
| 1916 | What services does this user account provide? |
| 1916 | What subject/ content areas, if any, do you feel the service may be somewhat weak? |
| 1916 | What usability testing have your performed and/or do you conduct on an ongoing basis? |
| 1916 | What ’s your philosophy going forward in inking future agreements with publishers to cover more licensed content? |
| 1916 | What, if any, plans do you have to offer or expand such functionality in future releases? |
| 1916 | Why Web- scale Discovery? |
| 1916 | Why is your product the best and most worthy of serious consideration? |
| 1916 | Would the discovery platform invoke our link resolver? |
| 1916 | Would your system be able to incorporate or integrate these pre- existing scopes in an advanced search mode? |
| 1916 | [ Access date?] |
| 1916 | are they searching a full text keyword index?) |
| 1916 | call#, availability, enriched content such as table of contents or book covers?) |
| 1916 | d. Abstracts( author supplied?) |
| 1916 | defining facet categories; completely redesigning the end- user interface with colors, links, logos; etc.)? |
| 1916 | future publisher agreements on the horizon)? |
| 1916 | higher ed academic, public, K-12)? |
| 1916 | newspapers)? |
| 1916 | “ When did product development begin( month, year)? ” Section 2: Locally Hosted Systems and Associated Metadata. |
| 1916 | “ With approximately how many publishers/ aggregators have you forged content agreements? ” Section 4: Records Maintenance and Rights Management. |
| 1916 | “ With what metadata schemas does your discovery platform work? |