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keywords: digital; file; mets
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id: ital-1918
author: Lynch, Clifford
title: Guest Editorial
date: 2008-03-01
words: 341
flesch: 38
summary: It’s a decision that will, I believe, make the journal much more visible, and a more attractive venue for authors; it will also make it easier to use in educational settings, and to further the interactions between librarians, information scientists, computer scientists, and members of other disciplines. AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2012 3 Congratulations LITA and Information Technology and Libraries.
keywords: information
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id: ital-1919
author: Morton-Owens, Emily G; Hanson, Karen L
title: Trends at a Glance: A Management Dashboard of Library Statistics
date: 2012-09-10
words: 5600
flesch: 61
summary: It also inserts a record into the user transactions table, which will be discussed in the section on user data. Several charts draw on EZproxy log data that has been analyzed and linked to other databases to reveal use by different academic departments and user roles (such as faculty or student).
keywords: chart; dashboard; data; information; library; number; user
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id: ital-1926
author: Schlosser, Melanie; Stamper, Brian
title: Learning to Share: Measuring Use of a Digitized Collection on Flickr and in the IR
date: 2012-09-10
words: 5077
flesch: 53
summary: Image collections like the one used in this study make up a small percentage of the items in the repository. Established in 2005, it holds more than 45,000 items, including faculty and student research, gray literature, institutional records, and digitized library collections.
keywords: collection; digital; flickr; library; usage; use
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item: #265 of 778
id: ital-1927
author: Cuddy, Colleen
title: President's Message: Open Access/Open Data
date: 2008-03-01
words: 923
flesch: 52
summary: The number of new journals being offered electronically only is growing and I believe we are beginning to see a decline in the dual publishing model of publishers and societies offering both print and online journals. To see ITAL go open access in my presidential year is extremely gratifying.
keywords: access; open
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id: ital-1928
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments
date: 2008-03-01
words: 378
flesch: 51
summary: We’ll also be exploring ways to better integrate the ITALica blog and the ITAL preprints site with the main site. Our goal is to have all of the back issues of both ITAL and its predecessor, Journal of Library Automation (JOLA), openly available from the ITAL site.
keywords: ital
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id: ital-1930
author: Ward, David; Hahn, Jim; Feist, Kirsten
title: Autocomplete as Research Tool: A Study on Providing Search Suggestions
date: 2012-12-12
words: 5764
flesch: 50
summary: Autocomplete Implementation implementing autocompletion on the front end of a search affected providing search suggestions on the back end (search result pages). This includes having results displayed in a way that is easily ignored if students want to type in an entire search phrase themselves, and having the presentation and selection of search suggestions done in a way that is easy to read and quick to be selected.
keywords: autocomplete; library; research; search; suggestions; use
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id: ital-1941
author: Boberić Krstićev, Danijela
title: Information Retrieval Using a Middleware Approach
date: 2013-03-30
words: 5867
flesch: 41
summary: AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2013 56 RELATED WORK A common approach for adding SRU support to library systems, most of which already support, the Z39.50 search protocol,5 has been to use existing software architecture that supports the Z39.50 protocol. The basic role of the wrapper component is to transform queries received from the mediator into queries supported by library system.
keywords: component; library; query; server; system; z39.50
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id: ital-1946
author: Park, Eun G; Oh, Sam
title: Examining Attributes of Open Standard File Formats for Long-term Preservation and Open Access
date: 2012-12-12
words: 8446
flesch: 38
summary: Some institutions adopt another term, standard file formats, to differentiate accepted and recommended file formats from others. Echoing the LC, Hodge and Anderson also suggest a list of selection criteria that have been grouped under the banner of “technical factors”: disclosure, adoption, transparency, self-documentation, external dependencies, impact of patents, and technical protection mechanisms.27 Researchers agree that open standard file formats are less obsolete and more reliable than proprietary formats.28 Close examination of the NISIS definition mentioned above reveals that standard file formats are in reality not free, nor do they allow unrestricted access to resources.
keywords: file; file formats; formats; open; pdf; preservation; term; yes
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id: ital-2161
author: Cyzyk, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Doesn't Work
date: 2012-06-12
words: 1285
flesch: 61
summary: Our programming languages, application servers, Web application frameworks, AJAX libraries, integrated development environments, source-code repositories, build tools, testing harnesses, switches, routers, single-signon utilities, proxy servers, link resolvers, repositories, bibliographic management utilities, help-desk ticketing applications, and elaborate project-management protocols are all for naught if the final product of our labor, at the end of the day, doesn’t work. It now occurs to me, though, that this notion of “work” is precisely the point of technology, and that sometimes this gets lost for those of us employed fulltime as technologists in libraries.
keywords: technology; work
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id: ital-2163
author: Groza, Tudor; Grimnes, AAstrand; Handschuh, Siegfried
title: Reference Information Extraction and Processing Using Random Conditional Fields
date: 2012-06-12
words: 6557
flesch: 54
summary: We plan to develop a flexible consolidation mechanism by dynamically generating and executing SPARQL queries from chunked reference fields and filtering the results via two string approximation metrics (a combination of Monge-Elkan and Chapman Soundex algorithms). In this paper we present an approach that aims at dealing with this aspect of extraction and processing of reference information.
keywords: dataset; extraction; fields; information; reference
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id: ital-2164
author: Williamson, Stuart
title: Public Library Computer Waiting Queues: Alternatives to the First-Come-First-Served Strategy
date: 2012-06-12
words: 3662
flesch: 62
summary: Our results demonstrate that the SJF strategy is generally best for minimizing overall average waiting time as well as for getting customers needing the least amount of computer time online the fastest. The information about each session required for the simulation includes the time at which the user arrived to sign up for a computer, the number of minutes it took the user to log in once assigned a computer, how many minutes of computer time were used, whether or not this was the user’s first or a subsequent session for the day, and finally, whether the user gave up waiting and abandoned his/her place in the queue.
keywords: computer; priority; waiting
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id: ital-2165
author: Hessel, Heather; Fransen, Janet
title: Resource Discovery: Comparative Results on Two Catalog Interfaces
date: 2012-06-12
words: 7952
flesch: 61
summary: Library staff made up 13 percent of MNCAT Classic respondents and 4 percent of MNCAT Plus respondents, although the actual number of library staff responding was nearly identical (twenty-one for MNCAT Plus, twenty for MNCAT Classic). One cannot assume that MNCAT users in general also would have an 86 percent perception of success were they to use MNCAT Classic; familiarity with the tool could play a part in MNCAT Classic users’ success.
keywords: classic; mncat; respondents;
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id: ital-2166
author: Dresselhaus, Angela; Shrode, Flora
title: Mobile Technologies & Academics: Do Students Use Mobile Technologies in Their Academic Lives and are Librarians Ready to Meet this Challenge?
date: 2012-06-12
words: 6769
flesch: 51
summary: At USU we interpret the numbers of students who use mobile devices for academic purposes as justification for implementing mobile library access, but we have not set a benchmark for a degree of interest that would trigger more development. Results from the first survey helped us to gain insight into where students at Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah, stand regarding their use of mobile devices for academic activities in general and their desire for access to library services and resources in particular.
keywords: access; devices; libraries; library; mobile; services; students; use
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id: ital-2167
author: Kastellec, Mike
title: Practical Limits to the Scope of Digital Preservation
date: 2012-06-12
words: 3684
flesch: 42
summary: The author takes a wide-ranging approach to shed light on limitations to the scope of digital preservation. The author proposes a nested model of constraints to the scope of digital preservation and concludes that costs are digital preservation’s most pervasive limitation.
keywords: access; digital; information; limitations; preservation
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item: #276 of 778
id: ital-2230
author: Cuddy, Colleen
title: President's Message: The Year in Review--Everything Open
date: 2012-06-12
words: 1065
flesch: 65
summary: Sometimes the challenges were ideological or legal, and sometimes the very technology that we embrace has caused problems, but I think it is safe to say that LITA leadership is working towards a common goal of a transparent structure with open communication channels. The team did an outstanding job on this project and completed the deliverable on time, with very little guidance from LITA leadership—a sure sign of leadership!
keywords: lita; open
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id: ital-2241
author: Chan, Ian; Ly, Pearl; Meulemans, Yvonne Nalani
title: Extending IM beyond the Reference Desk: A Case Study on the Integration of Chat Reference and Library-Wide Instant Messaging Network
date: 2012-09-10
words: 6634
flesch: 45
summary: Nicole Johnston, “Improving the Reference and Information Experience of Students in Regional Areas—Does an Instant Messaging Service Make a Difference?” (paper presented at 4th ALIA New Librarians Symposium, December 5–6, 2008, Melbourne, Australia), http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/2076(accessed August 17, 2011); and Alan Cockerill, “Open Source for IM Reference: OpenFire, Fastpath and Spark” (workshop presented at Fair Shake of the Open Source Bottle, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia, November 20, 2009), http://www.quloc.org.au/download.php?doc_id=6932&site_id=255 (accessed August 4, 2011). Openfire supports internal IM networks at educational institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, Central Michigan University, and University of California, San Francisco.
keywords: chat; information; library; network; openfire; reference; use
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item: #278 of 778
id: ital-2268
author: Singh, Vandana
title: Experiences of Migrating to Open Source Integrated Library Systems
date: 2013-03-30
words: 7434
flesch: 65
summary: The experiences of librarians are useful for people who are evaluating open- source ILSs as well as those who are in the process of adoption. • Designate a liaison between library staff and developers.
keywords: libraries; library; migration; open; source; system
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id: ital-2284
author: Thompson, Susan
title: Student Use of Library Computers: Are Desktop Computers Still Relevant in Today's Libraries?
date: 2012-12-12
words: 6169
flesch: 56
summary: For example, the University of Tennessee and Indiana University have shown significant increases in gate counts after they implemented their commons.5 While many studies discuss the value of information commons, very few look at why library computers are preferred over computers in other areas on campus. This study’s results make it clear that we can’t just look at data such as ECAR’s, which show high laptop ownership, and assume that means students don’t want or won’t use library computers.
keywords: computers; library; percent; students; study; use
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id: ital-2309
author: Thorne Wallington, Elizabeth
title: Social Contexts of New Media Literacy: Mapping Libraries
date: 2013-12-22
words: 4910
flesch: 50
summary: This paper examines the issue of universal library access by conducting a geospatial analysis of library location and certain socioeconomic factors in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. Framed around the issue of universal access to Internet, computers, and technology (ICT) for digital natives, this paper demonstrates patterns of library location related to race and income.
keywords: city; libraries; library; literacy; media; new
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id: ital-2311
author: Becker, Danielle A.; Yannotta, Lauren
title: Modeling a Library Web Site Redesign Process: Developing a User-Centered Web Site Through Usability Testing
date: 2013-03-30
words: 5994
flesch: 58
summary: Hulseberg and Monson found in their investigation of student-driven taxonomy for library website design that “by developing our websites based on student-driven taxonomy for library website terminology, features, and organization, we can create sites that allow students to get down to the business of conducting research.” Search engines are preferred because of speed, ease of use, convenience, and availability.1 Similar studies such as Emde et al., and Gross and Sheridan, have shown that students are not using library websites to do their research.2 Gross and Sheridan assert in their article on undergraduate search behavior that “although students are provided with library skills sessions, many of them still struggle with the complex interfaces and myriad of choices the library website provides.”
keywords: design; information; library; participants; testing; usability; website
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id: ital-2384
author: Surla, Bojana Dimić
title: Eclipse Editor for MARC Records
date: 2012-09-10
words: 3901
flesch: 49
summary: Some of them support cataloging by direct-editing of MARC record; others have a user interface that enables entering bibliographic data by a user who knows nothing about how MARC records are organized. In this paper we discuss existing approaches in developing user interfaces for editing MARC records.
keywords: data; editor; marc; record
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item: #283 of 778
id: ital-2526
author: Porter, Cynthia
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Appreciation for History
date: 2012-09-10
words: 909
flesch: 71
summary: He helped me remember library technology. I graduated from library school in 1989.
keywords: library
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id: ital-2528
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments
date: 2012-09-10
words: 455
flesch: 50
summary: We also welcome two new members of the Editorial Board: Brad Eden, the Dean of Library Services and Professor of Library Science at Valparaiso University, and Jerome Yavarkovsky, former University Librarian at Boston College, and the 2004 recipient of ALA’s Hugh C. Atkinson Award. Bob Gerrity (r.gerrity@uq.edu.au) is University Librarian, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
keywords: library
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item: #285 of 778
id: ital-2867
author: Weessies, Kathleen W.; Dotson, Daniel S.
title: Mapping for the Masses: GIS Lite & Online Mapping Tools in Academic Libraries
date: 2013-03-30
words: 4257
flesch: 50
summary: An example of the type of map that could be produced from such data using SAS can be seen in figure 4. Figure 4. The level of geography depicted defaults to county level data.
keywords: data; gis; lite; map; maps; tools
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item: #286 of 778
id: ital-2892
author: Donahue, Tim
title: Animated Subject Maps for Book Collections
date: 2013-06-10
words: 4448
flesch: 57
summary: Flash is proprietary software, so the benefits of open source software cannot be utilized with subject maps at this time. A final concern regarding the long-term success of subject maps should be mentioned.
keywords: book; libraries; library; map; maps; subject
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id: ital-2922
author: Morris, Ned C.
title: Computer Based Acquisitions System at Texas A&I University
date: 1968-03-01
words: 4281
flesch: 77
summary: After the change cards have been interpreted by the IBM 548 interpreter, all parts of the orders, the original request cards, and both change cards are delivered to the Li- brary, where order parts are separated and the originals are mailed to their respective dealers. Appreciation is extended also to Mr. R. C. Jane- way, Librarian at Texas Technological College, for submitting some worthy ideas on design of order forms and on acquisitions procedures in general.
keywords: card; change; computer; library; order; system
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item: #288 of 778
id: ital-2923
author: Johnson, Richard D.
title: A Book Catalog at Stanford
date: 1968-03-01
words: 17933
flesch: 78
summary: The catalog, issued an- nually, is in three parts: an author & title catalog, a subject catalog, and a shelf list. Output for the annual author & title catalog and subject catalog from the com- puter printer were to be photographically reduced, offset masters created, and fifty copies printed.
keywords: area; author; book catalog; card; catalog; entries; entry; information; library; list; number; order; program; record; shelf; sort; subject; tape; title; title catalog
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item: #289 of 778
id: ital-2924
author: Wedgeworth, Robert
title: Brown University Library Fund Accounting System
date: 1968-03-01
words: 3653
flesch: 64
summary: The series of order numbers beginning with 900000 was originally reserved for assignment to our standing order agree- ments with presses, societies, etc. · The Outstanding Order File is in ascending algebraic sequence by Fund Group, Fund Code and order number.
keywords: card; file; fund; library; order
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item: #290 of 778
id: ital-2925
author: Chapin, Richard E.; Pretzer, Dale H.
title: Comparative Costs of Converting Shelf List Records to Machine Readable Form
date: 1968-03-01
words: 3244
flesch: 69
summary: Cost figures for converting library records are scarce. The use of paper-tape typewriter for conversion costs more than the other two methods. 3.
keywords: conversion; library; record; tape
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item: #291 of 778
id: ital-2926
author: De Gennaro, Richard
title: The Development and Administration of Automated Systems in Academic Libraries
date: 1968-03-01
words: 8119
flesch: 51
summary: The discussion that follows will deal with one of the most obvious: to contract much of the work out to private research and development firms specializing in library systems. There were no firms or consultants with the requisite knowledge and experience in library systems, and the state of the library automation art was confused and lacking in clear h·ends or direction.
keywords: approach; automation; computer; libraries; library; library automation; library systems; systems
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item: #292 of 778
id: ital-2927
author: Auld, Lawrence
title: Automated Book Order and Circulation Control Procedures at the Oakland University Library
date: 1968-05-31
words: 6452
flesch: 68
summary: AT THE OAKLAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Lawrence AULD: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 93 Automated systems of book order and circulation control using an IBM 1620 Computer are described as developed at Oakland University. Output from the computer is a series of printouts: purchase orders, Library of Congress card orders, Oakland University invoice-vouchers, a complete Fig.
keywords: book; card; file; library; number; order; system; university
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item: #293 of 778
id: ital-2928
author: Black, Donald V.
title: Creation of Computer Input in an Expanded Character Set
date: 1968-05-31
words: 4743
flesch: 73
summary: Catalog cards were only:iii .product of the system, but their production was designed to be as clent as possible within constraints of the system. > ....... Ed «: .'ifJ square, which was not used at Santa Cruz, was not counted.fu ~ All data elements were encoded in fixed card fields; that is, the field for each type of inforrnation had a fixed length, generally 300 characters.
keywords: card; catalog; data; library; machine; title
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item: #294 of 778
id: ital-2929
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.
title: Costs of Library Catalog Cards Produced by Computer
date: 1968-05-31
words: 2751
flesch: 64
summary: Nevertheless, this paper will examine CHY card production costs as though this segment of the system were an isolated procedure, yielding but one product, as is the case in classical library procedures. Nevertheless, other institutions adopted the CHY procedure for catalog card production, among them the Medical Library at the University of Rochester, which used the programs for two years following February, 1966.
keywords: cards; catalog; computer
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id: ital-2930
author: Kennedy, R. A.
title: Bell Laboratories' Library Real-Time Loan System (BELLREL)
date: 1968-05-31
words: 7423
flesch: 66
summary: Comparable systems are in use or planned by other libraries (6,7). 130 Journal of Library Automation Vol. 1/2 June, 1968 Reservations for individuals or other libraries in the network are hand posted on the charge card.
keywords: bellrel; book; computer; libraries; library; loan; number; system; time
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item: #296 of 778
id: ital-2931
author: Scott, Jack W.
title: An Integrated Computer Based Technical Processing System in a Small College Library
date: 1968-08-31
words: 2270
flesch: 61
summary: Output from the Friden consists of the multiple order, a punched paper tape containing the full bibliographic entry but no order information, and tab cards, punched by the slave IBM Key Punch, which contain full order information but only abbreviated bibliographic data. The tab cards, containing full order information, are used as input to the 1440 computer to create an on order file arranged by order 152 /ou·rnal of Library Automation Vol.
keywords: library; order; tape
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item: #297 of 778
id: ital-2932
author: Kountz, John C.
title: Cost Comparison of Computer Versus Manual Catalog Maintenance
date: 1968-08-31
words: 5669
flesch: 67
summary: However, essentially the same burden rate is applicable to both, primarily because of the amortization of computer system development costs, the dollar amount of which approximates the supervisorial an~ administrative costs of the manual system. However, the cost per entry figure for computer assisted file maintenance must also be derived before comparison with the total manual figure of $1.71 per entry is possible.
keywords: catalog; cost; entry; file; library
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item: #298 of 778
id: ital-2933
author: Chen, Ching-chih; Kingham, E. Robert
title: Subject Reference Lists Produced by Computer
date: 1968-08-31
words: 5444
flesch: 71
summary: It was decided that the existing Library Serials Maintenance Form could be used with minor modifications to produce reference lists. Such subject reference lists could be easily generated if the library catalogue were in machine readable form ( 6, 8), but since a computer- ized catalogue was not foreseen at Waterloo for some time to come, the library had to design and develop an independent system to fulfil refer- ence needs.
keywords: card; code; engineering; library; list; number; record; reference; subject
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item: #299 of 778
id: ital-2934
author: Murrill, Donald P.
title: Production of Library Catalog Cards and Bulletin Using an IBM 1620 Computer and an IBM 870 Document Writing System
date: 1968-08-31
words: 4862
flesch: 74
summary: Computerizing the production of catalog cards enables one set of key- punched cards to produce several sets of computer punched cards and, thus, several catalog cards for each book. Another pro· gram produces punched cards which instruct the 870 to type a library accessions bulletin.
keywords: cards; catalog; library; statement
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item: #300 of 778
id: ital-2935
author: Balfour, Frederick M.
title: Conversion of Bibliographic Information to Machine Readable Form Using On-Line Computer Terminals
date: 1968-12-01
words: 3546
flesch: 63
summary: Allowing 350 char- acters per shelf list card, typists were making one error for every 830 keystrokes. Line numbers, as they are stored on the disc, are included on the right margin for ease of explanation.
keywords: computer; conversion; information; library; line
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item: #301 of 778
id: ital-2936
author: Ruecking, Jr., Frederick H.
title: Bibliographic Retrieval from Bibliographic Input; the Hypothesis and Construction of a Test
date: 1968-12-01
words: 4013
flesch: 63
summary: Before the retrieval methodology can be described, it is necessary to outline the compression technique to be used with author and title words. Thus, the uniqueness of a string of title words is reduced to the following chance of duplication: (2.5 X 1.33 )• 3.3• n• or-n 232 Journal of Library Automation Vol.
keywords: american; author; data; table; title; words
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id: ital-2937
author: Weil, Cherie B.
title: Automatic Retrieval of Biographical Reference Books
date: 1968-12-01
words: 4814
flesch: 61
summary: BASIC ASSUMPTIONS The categorizing system was based on two nearly universal generaliza- ti.ons about biographical reference books: 1) They are consistently con- fined to biographies of persons who have something in common: for ex- ample, being alive or dead; or having the same nationality, sex, occupa- tion, religion, race, memberships; or possessing some combination of those attributes. RESULTS To obtain some measure of the program's accuracy, fourteen textbook questions, probably more challenging than the average patron would ask, were submitted to the computer and to a professional librarian who was especially familiar with biographical reference books.
keywords: biographical; books; data; reference; sex
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id: ital-2938
author: Nugent, William R.
title: Compression Word Coding Techniques for Information Retrieval
date: 1968-12-01
words: 3669
flesch: 63
summary: The following principle, not quite a theorem, applies: Considering letters in their normal ordinal alphabetic position, and considering letter transitions to be unidirectional and cyclic, the distribution of transition distances in English words is essentially uniform. ( 22,4,1,16,3,11) letter numbers distances ( 3 ) Associate with each transition distance a corresponding prime number.
keywords: code; distance; letters; transition; word
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id: ital-2939
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Droz, Julius R.
title: MARC II and COBOL
date: 1968-12-01
words: 4319
flesch: 71
summary: Griffin ( 1) expressed his concern by stating, Users will r~quire program- mers skilled in languages other than FORTRAN or COBOL to take ad- vantage of MARC records. 1/ 4 December, 1968 ment within which to test the use of COBOL, it was decided to integrate the analysis of the COBOL language with the task at hand, i.e, the pro- gramming effort required to produce the necessary reports from a mag- netic tape file of MARC records.
keywords: data; directory; field; fixed; format; marc; record
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id: ital-3001
author: Tallent, Ed
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Technology and Mission: Reflections of a First-Year Library Director
date: 2012-12-12
words: 1364
flesch: 50
summary: What is perhaps less unique is how these issues of library technology intersect with some very high priority college initiatives and challenges. My library will be working with the appropriate campus offices next year to develop a plan for funding targeted library content for alumni as part of the college’s broader strategic activities to engage alumni.
keywords: library; technology
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id: ital-3002
author: Starr, Karen J.
title: President's Message: 21st Century Skills, 21st Century Infrastructure
date: 2011-06-01
words: 792
flesch: 43
summary: AnD liBrAries | June 2011 recreation, law enforcement and public safety, and social services available in the community ■■ access to electronic encyclopedias, local libraries’ cata- logs, full-text articles online, and document delivery.”2 The results reflected the pub- lic’s interest at that time in the following: ■■ “expert advice on a variety of topics including medi- cine, law, car repair, computer technology, animal husbandry, and gardening ■■ economic development, investment, bank rates, con- sumer product safety, and insurance ■■ community-based information such as events, vol- unteers, local classified advertisements, special interest groups, housing information, public meet- ings, transportation schedules, and local employment opportunities ■■ computer training, foreign language programs, homework service, teacher recertification, school activities, school scheduling, and adult education ■■ electronic mail and the ability to transfer files locally as well as worldwide ■■ access to public records, voting records of legisla- tors, absentee voting, the ability to renew a driver’s license, the rules and regulations from governmental agencies, and taxes ■■ information about hunting and fishing, environmen- tal quality, the local weather, road advisories, sports, Karen J. starr (karen.j.starr@gmail.com) is Lita President 2010-11 and assistant administrator for Library and develop- ment Services, nevada State Library and archives, carson city.
keywords: information
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id: ital-3003
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: Singularity--Are We There Yet?
date: 2011-06-01
words: 3846
flesch: 65
summary: In this case, “alive enough” was sufficient for the purpose at hand.4 Sometime later, Turkle read and publicly expressed her reservations about British computer scientist David Levy’s book, Love and Sex with Robots, in which Levy pre- dicted that by the middle of this century, Love with robots will be as normal as love with other humans, while the number of sexual acts and lovemak- ing positions commonly practiced between humans will be extended, as robots will teach more than is in all of the world’s published sex manuals combined.5 Contacted by a reporter from Scientific American about her comments regarding Levy’s book, Turkle was stunned when the reporter, equating the possibility of relation- ships between humans and robots with gay and lesbian relationships, accused her of likewise opposing these human-to-human relationships. The first half of Turkle’s book is the history of “socia- ble robots” and our interactions with them.
keywords: aboujaoude; ibid; libraries; robots; turkle
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id: ital-3006
author: DeRidder, Jody L.
title: Benign Neglect: Developing Life Rafts for Digital Content
date: 2011-06-01
words: 3077
flesch: 44
summary: This is an acknowledgment of current resource limitations relative to the burgeon- ing quantities of digital content that need to be preserved. However, a short survey of some of the leading efforts clarifies for even the casual observer that implementation of the proposed standards is beyond many of those who are creating or hosting digital content, particularly because of restrictions on acceptable formats, requirements for extensive metadata in specific XML encodings, need for programmers for implementation, costs for participation, or simply a lack of a clear set of steps for the unini- tiated to follow (examples include: Planets, PREMIS, DCC, CASPAR, iRods, Sound Directions, HathiTrust).1 The deluge of digital content coupled with the lack of funding for digital preservation and exacerbated by the expanding variety of formats, makes the application of extensive standards and extraordinary techniques beyond the reach of the majority.
keywords: content; digital; file; preservation; system
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id: ital-3007
author: Zhang, Hong; Smith, Linda C.; Twidale, Michael; Gao, Fang Huang
title: Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Enhancing Metadata Subject Elements with Weights
date: 2011-06-01
words: 3779
flesch: 54
summary: The fact that weighted indexing has become more prominently needed over the past decade may be related to the shift in the continuum from subject indexing as representation/ surrogate to subject indexing as access points, which is consistent with the shift from a small number of subject terms to more subject terms. Because of the difficulty of selecting words to represent visual/aural sym- bolism, subject indexing for art and cultural objects is usually guided by Panofsky’s three levels of meaning (pre-iconographical, iconographical, and post-iconographical), further refined by Layne in “ofness” and “aboutness” in each level.
keywords: indexing; information; metadata; subject; weighting
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id: ital-3008
author: Wang, Fang
title: Building an Open Source Institutional Repository at a Small Law School Library: Is it Realistic or Unattainable?
date: 2011-06-01
words: 3161
flesch: 54
summary: Greenstone is a tool developed in New Zealand for building and dis- tributing digital library collections. “The Texas Tech University School of Law digital repository,” http://reposi tory.law.ttu.edu/ (accessed Apr. 5, 2011).
keywords: digital; law; library; repository
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id: ital-3012
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments
date: 2012-12-12
words: 381
flesch: 47
summary: This month’s issue takes some of these themes further, with articles that examine the usability of autocompletion features in library search interfaces (Ward, Hahn, and Feist), reveal patterns of student use of library computers (Thompson), propose a cloud-based digital library storage solution (Sosa-Sosa), and summarize attributes of open standard file formats (Park, Oh). The first volume of JOLA offers a fascinating glimpse into early days of library automation, when many things were different, such as the size (big) and capacity (small) of computer hardware, and many things were the same (e.g., Richard Johnson’s description of the book catalog project at Stanford, where “the major achievement of the preliminary systems design was to establish a meaningful dialogue between the librarian and systems and computer personnel.”
keywords: library
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id: ital-3037
author: Starr, Karen J.
title: President's Message: Membership, Leadership, Emerging Leaders, and LITA
date: 2011-03-01
words: 538
flesch: 34
summary: LITA leadership, including the Membership Development Committee, Committee and Interest Group Chairs, the Education Committee, LITA Emerging Leaders, and others, will be included in an ongoing dialogue to see how and what can be implemented from the LITA Leadership Institute and the LITA Mentorship Program recommendations as submitted by the 2009 Emerging Leaders Team T. Follow-up by LITA to implement the recommendations of emerging leader projects is important to the vitality and longevity of the association. Team members included Amanda Hornby (University of Washington), Angelica Guerrero Fortin (San Diego County Library), Dan Overfield (Cuyahoga Community College), and Lisa Carlucci Thomas (Yale University).
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3038
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: "The Air is Full of People"
date: 2011-03-01
words: 1921
flesch: 64
summary: eDitOriAl | truitt 3 W ithin the last few months, two provocative books have been published that take different approaches to the question of how we learn in the always-on, always-connected electronic environment of “screens.” Powers then reviews how he and his family used these techniques to regain the sense of control and depth they felt they’d lost to screens.
keywords: carr; libraries
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id: ital-3039
author: Porter, Cynthia
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Is Open Access the Answer?
date: 2011-03-01
words: 845
flesch: 56
summary: I like the definition provided by EnablingOpenScholarship: Open Access is the immediate (upon or before publica- tion), online, free availability of research outputs with- out any of the restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements.1 My focus on OA journals increased precipitously when the licensing for a popular American weekly medi- cal journal changed. The number of OA journals is increasing, and I believe we will continue to see that the articles are reach- ing readers and making a difference.
keywords: access
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id: ital-3040
author: Yelton, Andromeda
title: A Simple Scheme for Book Classification Using Wikipedia
date: 2011-03-01
words: 5404
flesch: 54
summary: ■■ Conclusions Even a simple system, quickly assembled from freely available parts, can have modest success in identifying book categories. He then used that relat- edness to determine how strongly words from a target document predicted various Wikipedia categories.
keywords: book; categories; category; wikipedia; ■ ■
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id: ital-3041
author: Maceli, Monica; Wiedenbeck, Susan; Abels, Eileen
title: The Internet Public Library (IPL): An Exploratory Case Study on User Perceptions
date: 2011-03-01
words: 6152
flesch: 45
summary: For participants that were current public library users, physical public libraries (and other local academic libraries) were used to fill in the gaps current public library users, and four (P2, P3, P7, and P10) had used public libraries in the past but were no longer using their services. In respect to our study, we found no literature that studied perceptions of Internet public libraries.
keywords: information; internet; ipl; libraries; library; public
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id: ital-3042
author: Tous, Ruben; Guerrero, Manel; Delgado, Jaime
title: Semantic Web for Reliable Citation Analysis in Scholarly Publishing
date: 2011-03-01
words: 5645
flesch: 41
summary: As a collateral effect, authors and publishers also will be able to store evidences (in the form of digitally signed metadata graphs) that demonstrate different facts related to the creating–edit- ing–publishing process (e.g., paper submission, paper acceptance, and paper publication). PuBlisHiNG | tOus, GuerrerO, AND DelGADO 27 the purpose of the reference architecture described in this paper, we do not instruct which of the two described approaches for signing RDF graphs is to be used.
keywords: analysis; citation; paper; rdf; scholarly; web
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id: ital-3043
author: Fulton, Camilla
title: Web Accessibility, Libraries, and the Law
date: 2011-03-01
words: 5219
flesch: 41
summary: ■■ Most libraries are not included as entities that must comply with state web accessibility statutes. “Most libraries are not included as entities that must comply with state web accessibility statutes.” True—From the perspective of a librarian, the above data means that forty-eight states would require web accessibility compliance for their state libraries (see appendix).
keywords: accessibility; code; libraries; state; statutes; web
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id: ital-3044
author: Emanuel, Jennifer
title: Usability of the VuFind Next-Generation Online Catalog
date: 2011-03-01
words: 7022
flesch: 63
summary: Library users are now accustomed to using a single search box, such as with Google; they also use nonlibrary online tools to find information about books and no longer view library cata- logs as the primary place to look for books.11 As users are no longer accustomed to using the con- trolled language and particular searching methods of library catalogs because they have moved to discover- ing materials online, libraries must adapt to new way of obtaining information and focus not on teaching users how to locate library materials, but give them the tools to discover on their own.12 VuFind is one option among many in the genre of next-generation or discovery-catalog tools. Some librarians view the interface as only part of the problem of library catalogs and point to cataloging and metadata practices as the larger underlying problem.
keywords: catalog; information; library; participants; search; users; vufind
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id: ital-3093
author: Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina
title: Searchable Signatures: Context and the Struggle for Recognition
date: 2013-09-15
words: 5724
flesch: 46
summary: 27 In fact, some are currently utilizing social tags in an effort to describe and facilitate access to collections. Capturing context remains a challenge for those working with digital collections, but searchable signatures allow viewers to derive valuable use data and sociohistorical information to better understand the world in which digital images originated and exist.
keywords: digital; information; recognition; searchable; signatures; social
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id: ital-3123
author: DeRidder, Jody L.
title: First Aid Training for Those on the Front Lines: Digital Preservation Needs Survey Results 2012
date: 2013-06-10
words: 2993
flesch: 37
summary: This article reports on the results of a follow-up survey to identify the topics and types of materials most important to webinar attendees and their institutions for digital preservation, in the fall of 2012. • Creating and maintaining effective organizational models for digital preservation (i.e. collaboration with Central IT and/or external vendors, etc.).
keywords: digital; percent; respondents
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id: ital-3124
author: Starr, Karen J.
title: President’s Message: BTOP, Broadband, E-Rate, and LITA
date: 2010-12-01
words: 565
flesch: 46
summary: The new strategic plan includes an advocacy and policy goal that calls for LITA to advocate for and participate in the adoption of legislation, policies, technologies, and standards that promote equitable access to information and technology. Colby Riggs (University of California–Irvine) rep- resents LITA on the Office for Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3125
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: The Space in Between, or, Why ITAL Matters
date: 2010-12-01
words: 2918
flesch: 56
summary: A number of narrative answers to the survey make it clear that ITAL readers who are LITA members perceive a link In years past, ITAL’s income from advertising paid the bills and even generated additional revenue for LITA coffers.
keywords: ital; lita; percent
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id: ital-3126
author: Marmion, Dan
title: Editorial: Why Is ITAL Important?
date: 2010-12-01
words: 998
flesch: 52
summary: [I would] be more likely to purchase it for either my office or for the gen- eral collection. (Donna Cranmer) ITAL begins as the oldest and best-established journal for refereed scholarly work in library automation and information technology, a role that by itself is impor- tant to libraries and the library profession. As the official publication of America’s largest professional association for library and information technology, ITAL assures a broad audience for important work—and, thanks to its cost- recovery subscription pricing, ITAL makes that work available to nonmembers at prices far below the norm for scholarly publishing.
keywords: ital
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id: ital-3127
author: Farnel, Sharon
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: System Requirements
date: 2010-12-01
words: 1099
flesch: 43
summary: I should also note that five of the lists I found focus more on software and hardware than on skills in using said software and hardware. Once I had found the requirements, I examined them in some detail to get a sense of the kinds of skills listed.
keywords: information
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id: ital-3128
author: Malizia, Alessio; Bottoni, Paolo; Levialdi, S.
title: Generating Collaborative Systems for Digital Libraries: a Model-Driven Approach
date: 2010-12-01
words: 11062
flesch: 43
summary: The entities of the CRADLE metamodel allow the specification of col- lections, structures, services, and communities of users (called “societies” in CRADLE) and partially reflect the DELOS Manifesto. Designers of DLs can exploit the domain-specific visual language (DVSL) available in the CRADLE envi- ronment—where familiar entities extracted from the referred taxonomies are represented graphically—to model data structures, interfaces and services offered to the final users.
keywords: code; cradle; digital; dls; document; information; libraries; library; model; services
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id: ital-3129
author: Visser, Marijke; Ball, Mary Alice
title: The Middle Mile: The Role of the Public Library in Ensuring Access to Broadband
date: 2010-12-01
words: 6825
flesch: 40
summary: Access to broadband Internet today increases This paper discusses the role of the public library in ensuring access to the broadband communication that is so critical in today’s knowledge-based society. Three anticipated outcomes of providing community access to broadband are ■■ civic participation will increase; ■■ communities will realize economic growth; and ■■ individual quality of life will improve.
keywords: access; broadband; community; information; internet; library; local; public
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id: ital-3130
author: Hilera, José R.; Pagés, Carmen; Martínez, J. Javier; Gutiérrez, J. Antonio; de-Marcos, Luis
title: An Evolutive Process to Convert Glossaries into Ontologies
date: 2010-12-01
words: 7266
flesch: 37
summary: This paper describes the process of creating a lightweight ontology of the domain of software engineering, starting from the IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology.7 ■■ Ontologies, the Semantic Web, and Libraries Within the field of librarianship, ontologies are already being used as alternative tools to traditional controlled vocabularies. Ontology development process HighOrderLanguage embedding the thumbnail image Wrap span/div in link to preview at Google Book Search (GBS) Wrap span/div in link to info page at GBS Wrap span/div in link to thumbnail at GBS Directly embed a viewer for book’s content into the page, if possible Keep this span/div only if GBS reports that book’s viewability is “noview” Keep this span/div only if GBS reports that book’s viewability is at least “partial” Keep this span/div only if GBS reports that book’s viewability is “partial” Keep this span/div only if GBS reports that book’s viewability is “full” Remove this span/div if GBS doesn’t return book information for this item attribute to instruct the widget library to harvest the ISBN from the current page via screen scraping. Godmar Back and Annette Bailey Web Services and Widgets for Library Information Systems As more libraries integrate information from web services to enhance their online public displays, techniques that facilitate this integration are needed.
keywords: book; google; information; library; majax; mash; server; web
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id: ital-3147
author: Han, Yan
title: On the Clouds: A New Way of Computing
date: 2010-06-01
words: 3869
flesch: 49
summary: This article introduces cloud computing and discusses the author’s experience “on the clouds.” He evaluates costs, discusses advantages, and addresses some issues about cloud computing.
keywords: cloud; computing; data; library; systems
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id: ital-3148
author: Eden, Bradford Lee
title: The New User Environment: The End of Technical Services?
date: 2010-06-01
words: 6377
flesch: 49
summary: Libraries have long worked in the Mercedes arena, providing features such as authority control, subject classification, and redundant localizing of bibliographic records that were essential when libraries held the monopoly on informa- tion access but are no longer cost-efficient—nor even sane—strategies in the current information marketplace. That component of the staff was entirely devoted to arcane and mysterious processes involved in selecting, acquiring, cataloging, pro- cessing, and otherwise making available to library users physical material containing information con- tent pieces (incops).
keywords: information; libraries; library; new; services; technical; ■ ■
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id: ital-3149
author: Frisque, Michelle
title: President's Message: Join Us at the Forum!
date: 2010-03-01
words: 834
flesch: 64
summary: Program proposals are due February 19, so I cannot give you specifics about the concurrent sessions, but we do hope to have presentations about projects, plans, or discoveries in areas of library-related technology involv- ing emerging cloud technologies; software-as-service, as well as social technologies of various kinds; using vir- tualized or cloud resources for storage or computing in libraries; library-specific open-source software (OSS) and other OSS “in” libraries; technology on a budget; using crowdsourcing and user groups for supporting technol- ogy projects; and training via the crowd. T he first LITA National Forum I attended was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
keywords: forum
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id: ital-3150
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: And Now for Something (Completely) Different
date: 2010-03-01
words: 1944
flesch: 59
summary: A brief round of e-mails among principals at LITA, Ex Libris, and ITAL ensued, with the outcome being that Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, gra- ciously agreed to continue sponsorship for another year and reevaluate underwriting the award for the future. With that, I will end this by again thanking Carl and Ex Libris—because we don’t say thank you often enough!—for their generous support of the LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award.
keywords: ital; libris
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id: ital-3151
author: Grant, Carl
title: A Partnership for Creating Successful Partnerships
date: 2010-03-01
words: 1183
flesch: 60
summary: n The elements of successful sponsorships and partnerships For a sponsorship or partnership to be successful in today’s environment, it should offer at least the following components: 1. A Partnership for Creating Successful Partnerships continued from page 5
keywords: partnership
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id: ital-3152
author: Shores, Sandra
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Issue Introduction to Student Essays
date: 2010-03-01
words: 1310
flesch: 51
summary: His paper, which details the implementation of an open-source mon- itoring system to ensure the availability of library systems and services, is a fine example of the blending of best practices from two professions. She is excited by “the potential for creativity made possible by technol- ogy” and by the way librarians incorporate “collaborative tools and interactive applications into library service.”
keywords: libraries; library
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id: ital-3153
author: Silver, T. Michael
title: Monitoring Network and Service Availability with Open-Source Software
date: 2010-03-01
words: 5666
flesch: 48
summary: AND liBRARies | MARcH 2010 # Define a template for switches that we can reuse define host{ name generic-switch use generic-host check_period 24x7 check_interval 5 retry_interval 1 max_check_attempts 10 check_command check-host-alive notification_period 24x7 notification_interval 30 notification_options d,r contact_groups admins register 0 } ############################################################################ # SERVICE TEMPLATES ############################################################################ # Generic service definition template - This is NOT a real service, # just a template! Service monitoring does not appear frequently in library literature, and what is written often relates to single-purpose custom monitoring.
keywords: appendix; define; file; host; monitoring; nagios; network; service
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id: ital-3154
author: Vandenbark, R. Todd
title: Tending a Wild Garden: Library Web Design for Persons with Disabilities
date: 2010-03-01
words: 5531
flesch: 54
summary: Shawn Lawton Henry and Pasquale Popolizio, “WAI, Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites,” World Wide Web Consortium, Feb. 5, 2008, http://www.w3.org/WAI/quicktips/ Overview.php (accessed Mar. 30, 2008). By following these guidelines, developers create Web content that is readily available to every user regardless of the way it’s accessed.
keywords: accessibility; accessible; content; information; text; use; web
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id: ital-3155
author: Tolkoff, Ilana
title: The Path toward Global Interoperability in Cataloging
date: 2010-03-01
words: 4381
flesch: 54
summary: Even within a single language, subject headings can be compli- cated and inconsistent because they can be expressed as a single noun, compound noun, noun phrase, or inverted phrase; the problem becomes even greater when trying to translate these to other languages. There would be a single bibliographic record for a single work, rather than multiple bibliographic records in different languages for the same work.
keywords: authority; cataloging; headings; libraries; library; subject
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id: ital-3156
author: Visser, Marijke A.
title: Tagging: An Organization Scheme for the Internet
date: 2010-03-01
words: 4882
flesch: 49
summary: Internet users in general have barely grasped the concept of Web 2.0 and already the advanced “Internet cognoscenti” write about Web 3.0.2 Regarding the organization and availability of Internet content, librarians need to be ahead of the crowd as the voice who will assure content will be readily accessible to those that seek it. Internet users actively participat- ing in and shaping the online communities are, perhaps unintentionally, influencing how those who access infor- mation via the Internet expect to be able to receive and use digital resources.
keywords: delicious; information; internet; system; users; web
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id: ital-3157
author: Kurtz, Mary
title: Dublin Core, DSpace, and a Brief Analysis of Three University Repositories
date: 2010-03-01
words: 4881
flesch: 51
summary: Therefore DSpace records have 100 percent participation in the date element. At the time of record creation, DSpace records the identity of the contributor (derived from the sign-in identity and pass- word) and places this information into a dc.provenance element field.
keywords: contributor; dspace; elements; metadata; record
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id: ital-3158
author: Mandel, Lauren H.
title: Geographic Information Systems: Tools for Displaying In-Library Use Data
date: 2010-03-01
words: 4733
flesch: 44
summary: Understanding how people use the public library facility beyond traditional measures of circulation statis- tics and reference transactions can lead to new theories of library use, an area of significant research interest for LIS. Instead of a library presenting tables and graphs of library use, it would be able to produce illus- trative maps that would help explain patterns of use to funding and supervising authorities.
keywords: data; facility; gis; libraries; library; use
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id: ital-3159
author: Aveny, Brian
title: Editorial: Tails Wagging Dogs
date: 1981-03-01
words: 385
flesch: 60
summary: Further methods of relating and using records from different libraries, and even different networks, are becoming necessities in our increasingly interdependent world. Not following recommended OCLC practice of fully updating the rec- ord at each use has created archive tapes requiring significant manual effort to properly reflect library holdings.
keywords: libraries
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id: ital-3160
author: Morita, Ichiko
title: Japanese Character Input: Its State and Problems
date: 1981-03-01
words: 7377
flesch: 67
summary: These are then handled as other Kanji with an individual code. The bit may be changed by shifting, and different Kanji can Block A (For left, left)
keywords: character; input; japanese; kana; kanji; keyboard; system
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id: ital-3161
author: Druschel, Joselyn
title: Cost Analysis of an Automated and Manual Cataloging and Book Processing System
date: 1981-03-01
words: 7572
flesch: 71
summary: Arrange and file sheljlist copy of fanfold Timeslip (.03/min@ 1.5 min/slip) .045 Revise filing of shelflist copy LT II (.094/min @ l min/slip) .094 Verify authorities (984 x 4) Timeslip (.03/min@ 4 min/item) .12 Type multilith master for card production LT I (.084/min @ 6 min/master) .504 .06/ master Revise typed multilith master LT I (.084/min @ 3 min/master) 4526 136 Separate card sets LT I (.084/min@ 2 sets/min) .042 .042 4297 180 File subject catalog cards (2263x2) LT II (.094/m in @ 1 min/card ) .094 .094 4526 425 File AIT catalog cards (2263 x3 )
keywords: costs; item; item item; min; month; total
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id: ital-3162
author: Borrell, Jerry
title: How Long the Wait until We Can Call It Television
date: 1981-03-01
words: 1900
flesch: 63
summary: The card will allow system users to access material that will have controlled readership. In a more complex effort, the largest retailer in Paris will advertise material via teletext and system users will be able to make ac- quisitions with their smart card, which can be programmed with financial data.
keywords: data; information; system
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id: ital-3163
author: Cook, Sherry
title: Data Processing Library: A Very Special Library
date: 1981-03-01
words: 830
flesch: 62
summary: Developing the collection involved basic cataloging techniques which were greatly modified to encompass all the information that computer programs generate, includ- ing actual code, documentation, and list- ings . The centralization and control of computer programs elimi- nates the chaos that can occur if too many individuals maintain and use the same computer program .
keywords: computer; library
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item: #361 of 778
id: ital-3165
author: Pace, Andrew K.
title: President's Message: LITA Now
date: 2009-03-01
words: 758
flesch: 61
summary: While we all make sacrifices of time, money, and talent to support our profession, it is often tempting when economic times are hard to isolate ourselves from the professional networks that sustain us in times of plenty. One anecdotal view of this is the number of e-mails I’ve received from committee appointees apologizing that they will not be able to attend ALA conferences as planned because of the economic downturn and local cuts to library budgets.
keywords: time
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id: ital-3166
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial
date: 2009-03-01
words: 1944
flesch: 66
summary: n In memoriam Most of the snail mail I receive as editor consists of advertisements and press releases from various firms providing IT and other services to libraries. If we are at all typi- cal of large libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (and I think we are), then it will come as no surprise that we seem to add new services with alarming frequency.
keywords: cooling; services
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id: ital-3167
author: Miles, Mathew J.; Bergstrom, Scott J.
title: Classification of Library Resources by Subject on the Library Website: Is There an Optimal Number of Subject Labels?
date: 2009-03-01
words: 3724
flesch: 67
summary: n Background In preparation for this study, library subject lists were col- lected from a set of thirty library websites in the United However, the number of subject labels varies greatly.
keywords: gr p; ite m; m s; subject
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id: ital-3168
author: Jaeger, Paul T.; Yan, Zheng
title: One Law with Two Outcomes: Comparing the Implementation of CIPA in Public Libraries and Schools
date: 2009-03-01
words: 7726
flesch: 42
summary: Furthermore, the fact that public schools also contain school library media centers highlights some very inter- esting points of intersection between public libraries and school libraries in terms of the consequences of CIPA: While CIPA requires filtering of computers throughout public libraries and public schools, the presence of school library media centers makes the connection between libraries and schools stronger, as do the teaching roles of public libraries (e.g., training classes, workshops, and evening classes). By 2001, more than 99 percent of public school libraries provided students with Internet access.17 By 2007, 99.7 percent of public library branches were connected to the Internet, and 99.1 percent of public library branches offered pub- lic Internet access.18
keywords: access; cipa; internet; libraries; library; public; public libraries; schools
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id: ital-3169
author: Morales-del-Castillo, J. M.; Pedraza-Jiménez, R.; Peis, E.; Herrera-Viedma, E.
title: A Semantic Model of Selective Dissemination of Information for Digital Libraries
date: 2009-03-01
words: 7275
flesch: 43
summary: Elements of the model There are four basic elements that make up the system: 24 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2009 the thesaurus, user profiles, RSS feeds, and recommenda- tion log files. User profiles are meant to store long-term prefer- ences, but the system must be able to detect any subtle change in these preferences over time to offer accurate recommendations.
keywords: information; linguistic; model; semantic; system; terms; user; web
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id: ital-3170
author: Ketchell, Debra S.; Steinberg, Ryan Max; Yates, Charles; Heilemann, Heidi A.
title: LaneConnex: An Integrated Biomedical Digital Library Interface
date: 2009-03-01
words: 5617
flesch: 52
summary: The specific objectives of the search application are the following: n The user interface should be fast, simple, and intui- tive, with embedded suggestions for improving search results (e.g., Did you mean? The Lane content owner can directly change the inclusion of search results, how they are displayed, and additional path-finding information.
keywords: clinical; content; information; laneconnex; metasearch; results; search; user
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id: ital-3171
author: Jay, Michael; Simpson, Betsy; Smith, Doug
title: CatQC and Shelf-Ready Material: Speeding Collections to Users While Preserving Data Quality
date: 2009-03-01
words: 4678
flesch: 60
summary: Parallel records (2) CatQC identifies foreign library records that are candi- dates for parallel record treatment by indicating in the report if the 040 has a non-English subfield b. The results were so favorable that the author speculated that PromptCat would herald a future where libraries can “reassess their local practices and develop greater confidence in national standards so that catalog records can be integrated into local OPACs with minimal revision and library hold- ings can be made available in bibliographic databases as quickly as possible.”2
keywords: cataloging; catqc; element; libraries; records
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id: ital-3172
author: Pace, Andrew K.
title: President's Message: LITA Forever
date: 2009-06-01
words: 750
flesch: 73
summary: I was warned when I started my term as LITA president that my time at the helm would seem fleeting in retro- spect, and I didn’t believe it. Being elected LITA president is for all intents and purposes a three-year term with shifting responsibili- ties.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3173
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: ALA and Our Carbon Footprint
date: 2009-06-01
words: 1526
flesch: 60
summary: I’ve been reflecting (stewing?) for some time now about the question of ALA conferences: Why do I attend, and what do I get from these gatherings? I used the Carbon Footprint Calculator at www .carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx (accessed Feb. 5, 2009) to compute the CO2 footprint in metric tons for one round-trip flight between Denver and each of the following cities: Atlanta (.40), Boston (.58), Chicago (.30), Dallas (.22), Houston (.29), Los Angeles (.27), Miami (.57), Minneapolis (.23), New York–JFK (.54), Philadelphia (.52), Phoenix (.19), Pittsburgh (.43), Salt Lake City (.23), San Diego (.27), San Francisco (.31), Seattle (.34), and Washington, D.C. (.49).
keywords: ala; meeting
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id: ital-3174
author: Dehmlow, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: The Ten Commandments of Interacting with Nontechnical People
date: 2009-06-01
words: 1391
flesch: 54
summary: Somehow, in that time, I have been fortunate to learn some effective mechanisms for providing constructive support and leading successful technical projects with both technically and “semitechnically” minded patrons and librarians. The single best strategy I have found to getting buy-in for technical projects is to include key stakeholders and those with influence in project planning and core decision-making.
keywords: people; technical
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id: ital-3175
author: Yee, Martha M.
title: Can Bibliographic Data be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web?
date: 2009-06-01
words: 14836
flesch: 42
summary: | YEE 73 Model Entity FRBR FRAD Place term for the place coordinates other geographical information Discipline Genre/form Name type of name scope of usage dates of usage language of name script of name transliteration scheme of name Identifier type of identifier identifier string suffix Controlled access point type of controlled access point status of controlled access point designated usage of controlled access point undifferentiated access point language of base access point script of base access point script of cataloguing transliteration scheme of base access point transliteration scheme of cataloguing source of controlled access point base access point addition Rules citation for rules rules identifier Agency name of agency agency identifier location of agency attributes/properties in FrBr compared to FraD (cont.) 74 iNForMaTioN TECHNoloGY aND liBrariEs | JuNE 2009 attributes/properties in rDa compared to YCr Model Entity RDA YCR Work title of the work form of work date of work place of origin of work medium of performance numeric designation key signatory to a treaty, etc. other distinguishing characteristic of the work original language of the work history of the work identifier for the work nature of the content coverage of the content coordinates of cartographic content equinox epoch intended audience system of organization dissertation or theses information key identifier for work language-based identifier (preferred lexical label) variant language-based identifier (alternate lexical label) language-based identifier (preferred lexical label) for work language-based identifier for work (preferred lexical label) identified by PrincipalCreator in combination with uniform title language-based identifier (preferred lexical label) for work identified by title alone (uniform title) supplied title for work variant title for work original language of work responsibility for work original publication statement of work dates associated with work original publication/release/broadcast date of work copyright date of work creation date of work date of first recording of a work date of first performance of a work finding date of naturally occurring object original publisher/distributor/broadcaster of work places associated with work original place of publication/distribution/broadcasting for work country of origin of work place of creation of work place of first recording of work place of first performance of work finding place of naturally occurring object original method of publication/distribution/broadcast of work serial or integrating work original numeric and/or alphabetic designations—beginning serial or integrating work original chronological designations— beginning serial or integrating work original numeric and/or alphabetic designations—ending serial or integrating work original chronological designations— ending encoding of content of work genre/form of content of work original instrumentation of musical work instrumentation of musical work—number of a particular instrument instrumentation of musical work—type of instrument original voice(s) of musical work voice(s) of musical work—number of a particular type of voice voice(s) of musical work—type of voice original key of musical work numeric designation of musical work coordinates of cartographic work equinox of cartographic work original physical characteristics of work original extent of work original dimensions of work mode of issuance of work CaN BiBlioGraPHiC DaTa BE PuT DirECTlY oNTo THE sEMaNTiC wEB? | YEE 69 Entities/classes in rDa, FrBr, FraD compared to Yee Cataloging rules (YCr) RDA, FRBR, and FRAD YCR Group 1: Work Work Group 1: Expression Expression Surrogate Group 1: Manifestation Manifestation Title-manifestation Serial title Group 1: Item Item Group 2: Person Person Fictitious character Performing animal Group 2: Corporate body Corporate body Corporate subdivision Place as jurisdictional corporate body Conference or other event as corporate body creator Jurisdictional corporate subdivision Family (RDA and FRAD only) Group 3: Concept Concept Group 3: Object Object Group 3: Event Event or historical period as subject Group 3: Place Place as geographic area Discipline Genre/form Name Identifier Controlled access point Rules (FRAD only) Agency (FRAD only) APPENDIx.
keywords: corporate; data; entity; expression; manifestation; model; person; place; rdf; semantic; title; web; work
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id: ital-3176
author: Bertot, John Carlo
title: Public Access Technologies in Public Libraries: Effects and Implications
date: 2009-06-01
words: 8451
flesch: 46
summary: The successful libraries in terms of PAT services and resources visited had staff that could n understand PAT (both in terms of functionality and potential); n think creatively across the technology and library service spectrum; n integrate online content, PAT, and library services; n articulate the value of PAT as an essential commu- nity need and public library service; n articulate the role of the perception of the library by its community as a critical bridge to online con- tent; n demonstrate leadership within the community and library; n form partnerships and extend PAT services and resources into the community; and n raise funds and develop other support mecha- nisms to enhance PAT services and resources in the library and throughout the community. At that time, public libraries essentially experimented with public- access Internet and computer services, largely absorbing this service into existing service and resource provision without substantial consideration of the management, facilities, staffing, and other implications of public-access technology (PAT) services and resources.
keywords: access; libraries; library; pat; public; public libraries; services; technology
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item: #373 of 778
id: ital-3177
author: Smith, Cheri; Guimaraes, Anastasia; Havert, Mandy; Prokrym, Tatiana H.
title: Missing Items: Automating the Replacement Workflow Process
date: 2009-06-01
words: 4121
flesch: 54
summary: This article describes the procedure developed by the Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame to replace missing items or to withdraw them from the catalog. To compound the problem, budgetary constraints resulted in the suspension of spending from the fund earmarked for the replacement of missing items.
keywords: database; items; missing; records
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item: #374 of 778
id: ital-3178
author: Darby, Andrew; Gilmour, Ron
title: Adding Delicious Data to Your Library Website
date: 2009-06-01
words: 2351
flesch: 63
summary: Bag> </taxo:topics> </item> To display Delicious RSS results on a website, the webmaster must use some RSS parsing tool in com- bination with a script to display the results. We begin with a description of Delicious Linkrolls and Tagrolls, the simplest but least flexible method of dis- playing Delicious results.
keywords: delicious; rss
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id: ital-3216
author: Frisque, Michelle
title: President's Message
date: 2009-09-01
words: 762
flesch: 74
summary: Over the last year I have been working closely with this year’s LITA Emerging Leaders, Lisa Thomas and Holly Tomren. I wish every LITA member could have been at this year’s LITA Camp in Columbus, Ohio, on May 8.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3217
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: Computing in the "Cloud"
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1192
flesch: 66
summary: Interest Group at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, two topics dominated the list of proposed HoLT programs for the 2010 Annual Conference. The sexy ones—cloud computing, for example—empha- size New Age-y, “2.0” virtues of collaboration and sharing with perhaps slightly mystic overtones: Exactly where and what is the “cloud,” after all?
keywords: cloud; stuff
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id: ital-3218
author: Eden, Bradford Lee
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Musings on the Demise of Paper
date: 2009-09-01
words: 876
flesch: 61
summary: They are explor- ing the use of color and video, but both have problems in terms of reading experience and battery wear. Or will the “pay by the article” model, like that used for digital music sales, become the norm?
keywords: libraries; university
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id: ital-3219
author: Hutt, Arwen; Stuart, Michael; Suchy, Daniel; Westbrook, Bradley D.
title: Employing Virtualization in Library Computing: Use Cases and Lessons Learned
date: 2009-09-01
words: 4471
flesch: 41
summary: This paper provides a broad overview of virtualization technology and explains its benefits and drawbacks by describing some of the ways virtualization has been used at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Libraries.2 n Virtualization overview Virtualization is used to partition the physical resources (processor, hard drive, network card, etc.) of one com- puter to run one or more instances of concurrent, but not necessarily identical, operating systems (OSs). n Conclusion As our use cases illustrate, there are numerous potential applications and benefits of virtualization technology in the library environment.
keywords: application; database; host; user; virtualization
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item: #379 of 778
id: ital-3220
author: Lampert, Cory; Vaughan, Jason
title: Success Factors and Strategic Planning: Rebuilding an Academic Library Digitization Program
date: 2009-09-01
words: 11018
flesch: 40
summary: 116 iNForMaTioN TECHNoloGY aND liBrariES | SEpTEMBEr 2009 Success Factors and Strategic Planning: Rebuilding an Academic Library Digitization Program Cory Lampert and Jason Vaughan This paper discusses a dual approach of case study and research survey to investigate the complex factors in sustaining academic library digitization programs. One UNLV Library Digitization Survey question asked, “how would you characterize support for digitization in your library by the majority of those providing content for digitization projects?”
keywords: collections; digital; digitization; libraries; library; program; project; responses; survey; unlv
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id: ital-3221
author: Lamont, Melissa
title: Gender, Technology, and Libraries
date: 2009-09-01
words: 4451
flesch: 46
summary: Hargittai and Shafer conducted a study of Internet skills that draws the same conclusion.18 organizational culture Women may underestimate their abilities and disassoci- ate with IT in part because of the perception of IT orga- nizational culture.19 Technical positions are associated with long and irregular hours, leading to the assump- tion that family and home responsibilities will cause women to be less able to contribute. Wilson points to research indicating that “women’s work tends to be regarded as semi-skilled merely because it is women’s work.
keywords: authors; libraries; library; technology; women
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id: ital-3222
author: Skibiński, Przemyslaw; Swacha, Jakub
title: The Efficient Storage of Text Documents in Digital Libraries
date: 2009-09-01
words: 6968
flesch: 54
summary: Although text documents are often compressed with general-purpose methods such as Deflate, much better compression can be obtained with a scheme specialized for text, and even better if the scheme is additionally specialized for individual document formats. Table 1 shows the assignment of the mentioned sub- schemes to document formats, with “+” denoting that a given subscheme should be applied when processing a given document format.
keywords: compression; ctdl+; dictionary; documents; lzma; percent; text
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item: #382 of 778
id: ital-3223
author: Carlson, Kathleen
title: Tutorial: Delivering Information to Students 24/7 with Camtasia
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1411
flesch: 66
summary: The Camtasia Studio software allows the author to create streaming videos which gives students 24 hour access on any topics including how to order books through interlibrary loan. I examined three software appli- cations that help create video tutori- als and presentations: Cam Studio, Macromedia’s Captivate, and TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio.
keywords: camtasia
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item: #383 of 778
id: ital-3224
author: Frisque, Michelle
title: President's Message
date: 2009-09-01
words: 832
flesch: 79
summary: Michelle Frisque (mfrisque@northwestern.edu) is LITA President 2009–10 and Head, Information Systems, North- western University, Chicago. I also am a new part-time student in the Masters of Learning and Organizational Change pro- gram at Northwestern University.
keywords: information
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id: ital-3225
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: Reflections on What We Mean by “Forever”
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1752
flesch: 59
summary: Wood of Sun gave a presentation at the 2008 PASIG Spring Meeting in which he estimated that the cost to supply power and cooling alone to maintain a peta- byte (1,000 TB) of disk-based digital content for a mere ten years would easily exceed $1 million.1 Refining his figures downward somewhat, Wood noted a few months later at the following PASIG meeting that for a 1 TB drive, the five- year estimated power and cooling for 2008–12 could be estimated at approximately $320, or $640,000 per petabyte over ten years, still a considerable sum.2 Add to this the costs of migration—consider that a modern spinning disk is generally thought to have a use- ful lifespan of about five years, and tape may have two or three decades—and the need regular integrity-checking of digital content for “bit-rot,” and you have the stuff of a sustainability nightmare. Can we meaningfully plan for the preservation of digital content over centuries given our poor track record over just the past few decades?
keywords: digital; pasig; sun
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id: ital-3226
author: Carter, Judith
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Issue Introduction
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1599
flesch: 58
summary: What do you see as the relationship between the library catalog and other access or discovery tools?” Relating discovery behaviors to electronic discovery tools User wants . . .
keywords: discovery; information; library
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author: Fabbi, Jennifer L.
title: Discovery Focus as Impetus for Organizational Learning
date: 2009-09-01
words: 5040
flesch: 40
summary: n Revisioning Technical Services This review of Technical Services was a process consist- ing of several distinct steps over many months, and each step was informed by the data and opinions gained in the prior steps: Phase 1: Technical Services Baseline, focusing on the nature of Technical Services work at UNLV Libraries, in the library profession, and factors that affect this work now and in the future Phase 2: Organizational Call to Action, engaging the entire organization in shared learning and input Phase 3: Summit on Discovery, shifting significantly away from Technical Services and toward the concept of discovery of information and the experi- ence of our users Technical Services Baseline The first phase of the process, which I called the “Technical Services Baseline,” included a face-to-face meeting with me and all Technical Services staff. Outcomes of the process were guided by the dean of libraries, were written by me, and received input from Technical Services staff, resulting in the following goals: 1.
keywords: discovery; libraries; process; services; technical
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id: ital-3228
author: Dolski, Alex A.
title: Information Discovery Insights Gained from MultiPAC, a Prototype Library Discovery System
date: 2009-09-01
words: 4377
flesch: 51
summary: In light of this dilemma, the Libraries and various units within have deployed finding and search tools that provide browsing and searching access to certain subsets of these resources, depending on criteria such as n the type of resource; n its place within the libraries’ organizational structure; n its place within some arbitrarily defined topical categorization of library resources; n the perceived quality of its content; and n its uniqueness relative to other resources. n The case for MultiPAC Fragmentation of library resources and their interfaces is a growing problem in libraries, and UNLV Libraries is no exception.
keywords: figure; library; metadata; multipac; resources; search; view
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id: ital-3229
author: Ipri, Tom; Yunkin, Michael; Brown, Jeanne M.
title: Usability as a Method for Assessing Discovery
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1985
flesch: 62
summary: USABILITY AS A METHOD FOR ASSESSING DISCOVERY | IPRI, YUNkIN, AND BROWN 181 Tom Ipri, Michael Yunkin, and Jeanne M. Brown Usability as a Method for Assessing Discovery The University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries engaged in three projects that helped identify areas of its website that had inhibited discovery of services and resources. Reference 1. Jennifer Church, Jeanne Brown, and Diane VanderPol, “Walking the Web: Usability Testing of Navigational Pathways at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries,” in Usability Assessment of Library-Related Web Sites: Methods and Case Studies, ed.
keywords: libraries; usability
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id: ital-3230
author: Sommer, Thomas
title: UNLV Special Collections in the Twenty-First Century
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1656
flesch: 54
summary: ExTENT AND NATURE OF CIRCULATION (Average figures denote the average number of copies printed each issue during the preceding twelve months; actual figures denote actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to filing date: September 2009 issue). This collection brings together a wide range of original materials from var- ious collections located within UNLV Special Collections, the Nevada State Museum, the Historical Society in Las Vegas, and the Clark County Heritage Museum.
keywords: collections; special; unlv
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id: ital-3231
author: Starkweather, Wendy; Stowers, Eva
title: Smartphones: A Potential Discovery Tool
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1361
flesch: 40
summary: Here at UNLV, 37 percent of students and 26 percent of faculty and staff own a smartphone.7 The presentation itself highlighted the mobile appli- cations that were being developed in several libraries to enhance student research, provide library instruction, and promote library services. In response to the UNLV Libraries’ strategic plan’s focus on experimentation and outreach, the authors investigate the current and potential role of smart- phones as a valuable discovery tool for library users.
keywords: july; libraries; library
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id: ital-3232
author: Griffis, Patrick
title: Building Pathfinders with Free Screen Capture Tools
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1594
flesch: 58
summary: ExTENT AND NATURE OF CIRCULATION (Average figures denote the average number of copies printed each issue during the preceding twelve months; actual figures denote actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to filing date: September 2009 issue). Currently, many of these pathfinders are in text form, and experimentation with the tools outlined in this article can empower library staff to enhance their own pathfinders with screencast videos and screenshot tutorials.
keywords: unlv
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id: ital-3233
author: Griffis, Patrick
title: Enhancing OPAC Records for Discovery
date: 2009-09-01
words: 1651
flesch: 48
summary: The authors provide an examination of OPAC records at their own library, which illustrates the disparity of use- ful keywords and descriptions within the notes field for media item records versus electronic database records. n Disparity between media and database records At UNLV Libraries, terms included in the notes fields of bibliographic records are indexed for keyword searching.
keywords: records; subject
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id: ital-3234
author: Pace, Andrew K.
title: President's Message
date: 2008-12-01
words: 892
flesch: 58
summary: andrew K. Pace (pacea@oclc.org) is LITA President 2008/2009 and Executive Director, Networked Library Services at OCLC Inc. in Dublin, Ohio. While ALA itself is addressing this problem with recommendations for virtual participation and online collaboration, LITA should be at the forefront of setting the benchmark for virtual communication, par- ticipation, education, planning, and membership devel- opment.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3235
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial
date: 2008-12-01
words: 1794
flesch: 55
summary: What are not replaceable—at least not immediately—are library services to staff and patrons: access to comput- ing (networking, e-mail, productivity applications, etc.), Internet resources, and perhaps most importantly nowa- days, the licensed electronic content on which we and our patrons have so come to rely. That is, until that unthinkable something happens, and your organization is facing (or suffers) a catastrophic loss of IT services.
keywords: library; planning; services
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id: ital-3236
author: Hirst, Dona
title: Editorial Board Thoughts
date: 2008-12-01
words: 2017
flesch: 64
summary: Select library IT staff began working in the background to set up new work environments for library staff returning to foreign workstations or relocated work environments. As library staff were collecting their critical posses- sions, the town was madly sandbagging.
keywords: library; staff; university
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id: ital-3237
author: Sease, Robin
title: Metaphor’s Role in the Information Behavior of Humans Interacting with Computers
date: 2008-12-01
words: 6645
flesch: 50
summary: Spink and Currier’s work launched a new theory of information use, which has led to recent research into metaphor use. Similar to the categorization theory of metaphor use, they claim that “metaphor instantiation is similar to a form of super- ordinate category instantiation . . .
keywords: behavior; human; information; metaphors; new; system; user
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id: ital-3238
author: Jeng, Judy
title: Evaluation of the New Jersey Digital Highway
date: 2008-12-01
words: 4757
flesch: 41
summary: T he New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH, www .njdigitalhighway.org) is a digital library for New Jersey history and culture, including collections of New Jersey libraries, museums, archives, and his- torical societies. As for the librarians and curators’ portal, those cul- tural heritage professionals identified the Librarians and Curators’ Resource Center as the most useful resource in the NJDH, followed by the Digital Highway Collections Roadmap and associated guidelines, calendar, the searching capabilities of New Jersey Cultural Heritage Organizations, and New Jersey information.
keywords: digital; information; jersey; library; new; njdh; respondents
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id: ital-3239
author: Dalrymple, Tam
title: “Just-in-Case” Answers: The Twenty-FirstCentury Vertical File
date: 2008-12-01
words: 2375
flesch: 58
summary: In contrast, in the past year OCLC Library staff averaged 4.2 local knowledge base searches for every three questions received. The reaction of OCLC staff indicates that such personal messages, with con- tent summaries that allow recipients to quickly evaluate the contents, are more often read than OCLC Library RSS feeds—especially if items sent continue to be valuable.
keywords: knowledge; library; oclc
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id: ital-3240
author: Brown-Sica, Margaret
title: Playing Tag In the Dark: Diagnosing Slowness In Library Response Time
date: 2008-12-01
words: 2972
flesch: 60
summary: This article will discuss the various ways the systems (technology) department of the Auraria Library, which serves the University of Colorado–Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the Community College of Denver, tried to identify problems and improve database response time. When the network administrator checked the switches for network traffic, they showed low traffic, almost always less than 20 percent of capacity.
keywords: bandwidth; library; network; proxy
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id: ital-3241
author: Pace, Andrew K.
title: President's Message
date: 2008-09-01
words: 729
flesch: 67
summary: Andrew K. PacePresident’s Message andrew K. pace (pacea@oclc.org) is LITA President 2008/2009 and Executive Director, Networked Library Services at OCLC Inc. in Dublin, Ohio. Instead, I hope we can define a methodology by which LITA committees, interest groups, and the membership at large are empowered to both do the work of the division and benefit from it.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3242
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial
date: 2008-09-01
words: 1929
flesch: 62
summary: Electronic texts are a fact of life, and are becoming moreso every day. My vague, nagging sense is that what is changing is this style of approaching whole texts.
keywords: electronic; july; texts
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id: ital-3243
author: Bejune, Matthew M.
title: Editorial Board Thoughts
date: 2008-09-01
words: 1646
flesch: 60
summary: Beyond computers, our library now loans out additional equipment including hard drives, digital cameras, and video cameras. Who would have thought that library computers would outpace Moore’s Law?!
keywords: libraries; social; software
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id: ital-3244
author: Cyzyk, Mark
title: From Our Readers: Virtues and Values in Digital Library Architecture
date: 2008-09-01
words: 2898
flesch: 65
summary: “I can’t guess what you’re thinking.” As system developers we’ve probably all had the magical experience of a Mind Meld with a fellow developer when working intensively on a project. Then create a small set of user roles to which these functions will be carefully mapped.
keywords: library; systems; users
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id: ital-3245
author: Morgan, Eric Lease
title: MyLibrary: A Digital Library Framework and Toolkit
date: 2008-09-01
words: 7485
flesch: 51
summary: MyLibrary resource objects provide a means to embody this information in a concise package. Since Dublin Core metadata is required of all OAI data repositories, and since MyLibrary sup- ports a one-to-one mapping to Dublin Core elements, it is trivial to create MyLibrary resource objects based on each of the harvested records.
keywords: combinations; facet; information; librarians; mylibrary; resources; term
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id: ital-3246
author: Turró, Mireia Ribera
title: Are PDF Documents Accessible?
date: 2008-09-01
words: 10580
flesch: 59
summary: | RiBERa tuRRó 25 Are PDF Documents Accessible? The only advantage that the digital presentation may have over a paper presentation is the possibility of optical zooming and increasing the text size to benefit persons with certain visual impairments. pDF text documents The second level of accessibility is that of PDF text docu- ments, which come from the same source as image files but have gone through an optical character recognition process and incorporate the resulting text in the file.
keywords: accessibility; content; documents; guideline; information; level; pdf; text; use
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id: ital-3247
author: Feher, James; Sondag, Tyler
title: Administering an Open-Source Wireless Network
date: 2008-09-01
words: 4114
flesch: 55
summary: APPENDIx A. Squid configuration changes # changes made to squid.conf # Lines needed for Squid 2.5 #httpd_accel_port 80 #httpd_accel_host virtual #httpd_accel_with_proxy on #httpd_accel_uses_host_header on # # One line needed in version 2.6 http_port 3128 transparent APPENDIx B. /etc/hosts entry on marla for localnet entry 127.0.0.1 marla localhost.localdomain localhost 66.128.109.60 bob 66.99.172.252 lance.mckendree.edu lance # next line is for the ssl certificate to work properly 192.168.176.1 chilli.localnet chilli intRoDucinG zoomiFY imaGE | smitH 47aDministERinG an opEn-souRcE wiRELEss nEtwoRK | FEHER anD sonDaG 47 APPENDIx C. Monitoring script #!/usr/bin/perl ######################################################### # = <<OUTPUT_FILE_FOR_REMOTE_HOST; #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Mail::Mailer; use CGI qw(:standard); my \$currentUser = \$ENV{‘USER’}; my \$lastTime = $startTime; my \$currentTime = time(); my \$message = “”; my \$systemStatus = “$defBGColor”; my \$toEmail = ‘$toEmail’; # check system status (FF0000 = down) if (\$currentTime > (\$lastTime + (60 * $updateMin))){ \$systemStatus = “#FF0000”; \$message = “<H1>Status Update Failed</H1>”; } # if this is cron running the script if (\$currentUser =~ “$webServUname”){ # send email if status is down & logFile doesn’t exist &sendEmail() if ( (\$systemStatus =~ “#FF0000”) && !(-e “$logFileName”) ); # delete log file if everything is up unlink(“$logFileName”) if ( (!(\$systemStatus =~ “#FF0000”)) && (-e “$logFileName”) ); } #else apache is accessing the page (its a web request) else{ #print the page print header(); ############################ # start of html output # ############################ print <<WEB_OUTPUT; <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>$instName Wireless Status intRoDucinG zoomiFY imaGE | smitH 51aDministERinG an opEn-souRcE wiRELEss nEtwoRK
keywords: access; network; script
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id: ital-3248
author: Bland, Robert N.; Stoffan, Mark A.
title: Returning Classification to the Catalog
date: 2008-09-01
words: 2907
flesch: 47
summary: While these records could be filtered out by matching against LC class numbers that are found in our catalog and discard- ing non-matches, this would add yet another level of processing to an already complex process, as would handling the LC table subdivisions that are used in the LC schedules and that are separate from the stan- dard class numbers. Secondly, the LC MARC classification files require a subscription costing several thou- sands dollars per year, as well as a substantial payment for the retro- spective file needed to begin building the database of class numbers.
keywords: catalog; classification; subject
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id: ital-3250
author: Beatty, Mark
title: President's Message
date: 2008-06-01
words: 728
flesch: 48
summary: We are now, through surveys and meetings and focus groups, starting to know that new librarians and new LITA members are most interested in networking with their colleagues using multiple methods to fulfill the whole range of their professional and social needs. 2 inFoRmation tEcHnoLoGY anD LiBRaRiEs | junE 2008 mark Beatty (mbeatty@wils.wisc.edu) is LITA President 2007/2008 and Trainer, Wisconsin Library Services, Madison. Mark BeattyPresident’s Message I’ve recently read three quite different articles that surprisingly all had something similar to say with a different twist on the theme uppermost in my brain the last year or two.
keywords: libraries
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id: ital-3251
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial
date: 2008-06-01
words: 891
flesch: 49
summary: This initiative included several innova- tive features not previously found in library catalogs, such as search result relevance ranking and the ability to perform faceted searching against a variety of controlled- vocabulary indices (subject/topical, form/genre, date, etc.) With our publication of Jennifer Bowen’s report on the first phase outcomes of the University of Rochester’s eXtensible catalog (XC) project in this issue of ITAL, we continue our commitment to publish important research in this area.
keywords: bibliographic; catalog
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id: ital-3252
author: Felker, Kyl
title: Editorial Board Thoughts
date: 2008-06-01
words: 1492
flesch: 68
summary: At the same time, most libraries are feeling a finan- cial pinch. In each issue of ITAL, one of our board members will reflect on some question related to technol- ogy and libraries.
keywords: library; marketing
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id: ital-3253
author: Bowen, Jennifer
title: Metadata to Support Next-Generation Library Resource Discovery: Lessons from the eXtensible Catalog, Phase 1
date: 2008-06-01
words: 11049
flesch: 46
summary: XC’s architecture actually solves many of these problems by facilitating the sharing of enriched metadata among XC users. The metadata services hub architecture provides flexibility and possible economy for XC users by offering the option for multiple XC insti- tutions to share a single metadata hub, thus allowing participating institutions to take full advantage of the hub’s capabilities to aggregate and augment metadata from multiple sources.
keywords: development; libraries; library; marc; metadata; project; requirements; services; system; web
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id: ital-3254
author: Feldmann, Louise; Wess, Lindsey; Moothart, Tom
title: An Assessment of Student Satisfaction with a Circulating Laptop Service
date: 2008-06-01
words: 4223
flesch: 63
summary: n Results With the strong emphasis on assessment at Colorado State University, it was decided to formally survey laptop users on their satisfaction with the program. In the meantime, 100 power strips were added to tables used heavily by laptop users.
keywords: laptop; library; service; survey; wireless
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id: ital-3255
author: Smith II, Plato
title: Preparing Locally Encoded Electronic Finding Aid Inventories for Union Environments: A Publishing Model for Encoded Archival Description
date: 2008-06-01
words: 3125
flesch: 47
summary: Researchers now have a single-point search interface to search EADs @ FSU across all our digital collections/ institutional repository (see figure 3); the ability to search within the finding aids via full-text indexing of PDFs; the option of brief (thumb- nails with EAD, HTM, PDF, and XML manifes- tation icons), table (title, creator, and identifier), and full (complete EAD finding aid DC record with manifestations) views of search results, which provides different levels of exposures of EAD finding aids; and the ability to save/e-mail search results. Preparing Locally Encoded Electronic Finding Aid Inventories for Union Environments: A Publishing Model for Encoded Archival Description Author ID (to come) Plato L. Smith II This paper will briefly discuss encoded archival descrip- tion (EAD) finding aids, the workflow and process involved in encoding finding aids using EAD metadata standard, our institution’s current publishing model for EAD finding aids, current EAD metadata enhancement, and new developments in our publishing model for EAD finding aids at Florida State University Libraries.
keywords: aids; archival; ead; finding; fsu
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id: ital-3256
author: Brenner, Michaela
title: Discovering the Library with Google Earth
date: 2008-06-01
words: 3308
flesch: 61
summary: One more recent feature is that KML files, created in Google Earth, can now also be viewed on the Web by simply entering the URL of the KML file into the search box of Google Maps (figure 12), thus cre- ating Google Earth placemarks in Figure 3. “Google now reigns” “Google now reigns,” claims Karen Markey (Markey 2007), and many others agree that using Google is easier and more appealing to most than using library catalogs.
keywords: earth; figure; google; library
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id: ital-3257
author: Beatty, Mark
title: President’s Message: Doing Something about Life’s Persistent Problems?
date: 2008-03-01
words: 526
flesch: 69
summary: We’ve seen that our LITA members want more community from our association, so it makes sense to us that our patrons also want community. Currently we librarians seem to be hitching our wagon to the idea of library as community because in part it’s what we ourselves want.
keywords: community
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id: ital-3258
author: Truitt, Marc
title: Editorial: Beginnings
date: 2008-03-01
words: 1512
flesch: 57
summary: I’m thinking about how we might expand this to include a similar column contributed by ITAL readers. ■ What’s inside this issue ITAL content has traditionally represented an eclectic blend of the best mainstream and leading/bleeding edge of library technology.
keywords: ital; technology
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id: ital-3259
author: Mi, Jia; Weng, Cathy
title: Revitalizing the Library OPAC: Interface, Searching, and Display Challenges
date: 2008-03-01
words: 11759
flesch: 56
summary: Since presenting keyword search as the default has proved effective, libraries using title search as their OPAC default search option might want to recon- sider switching their default setting to keyword. Instead, what was usually offered was a redirect feature via hyperlink that prompted the system to issue a new author or title search.
keywords: author; bibliographic; display; information; keyword; libraries; library; opac; search; title; users
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id: ital-3260
author: Dickey, Timothy J.
title: FRBRization of a Library Catalog: Better Collocation of Records, Leading to Enhanced Search, Retrieval, and Display
date: 2008-03-01
words: 7848
flesch: 48
summary: Searches were tested on the The Ohio State University Libraries’ OPAC , http://library.osu.edu (accessed Mar. 10, 2007). The FRBR theoretical framework has remained an area of intense research at OCLC, which has even led to some prototype applications and, very recently, deploy- ment in the WorldCat Local interface.32 A scattered few other researchers have crafted FRBR catalogs and catalog displays for their own ends; the Library of Congress has a prototype as well.
keywords: bibliographic; catalog; frbr; information; library; mar; music; records; relationships; work
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id: ital-3261
author: Haley, Connie K.
title: Online Workplace Training in Libraries
date: 2008-03-01
words: 5505
flesch: 57
summary: As more people have online training experience, their attitudes toward online training may change. aRtiCLE titLE | autHoR 33onLinE WoRkpLaCE tRaininG in LiBRaRiEs | HaLEY 33 This study was designed to explore and describe the relationships between preference for online training and traditional face-to-face training.
keywords: face; library; online; preference; training
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id: ital-3262
author: Wan, Gary (Gang); Liu, Zao
title: Content-Based Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
date: 2008-03-01
words: 4656
flesch: 57
summary: The second method—the most popular technique used today—is text- based retrieval. One of the most well-known CBIR systems is query by image content (QBIC), which was developed by IBM.
keywords: content; digital; information; libraries; retrieval; search
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id: ital-3263
author: Jeong, Wooseob
title: Touchable Online Braille Generator
date: 2008-03-01
words: 3472
flesch: 54
summary: These issues hinder the effectiveness of force feedback displays for the blind. 10 Langrana and others used the Rutgers Master II, a dexterous, portable master for virtual reality simulations for force feedback using four fingers.
keywords: blind; braille; feedback; force; information
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id: ital-3265
author: Webb, John
title: Editorial: Farewell and Thank You
date: 2007-12-01
words: 1132
flesch: 67
summary: To Marc Truitt, ITAL managing editor and the incom ing ITAL editor for the 2008–2010 volume years, I must say, “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Editorial: Farewell and Thank You John Webb This issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), December 2007, marks the end of my term as editor.
keywords: ital; lita
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id: ital-3266
author: Kim, Yong-Mi; Ahronheim, Judy; Suzuka, Kara; King, Louis E.; Bruell, Dan; Miller, Ron; Johnson, Lynn
title: Enterprise Digital Asset Management System Pilot: Lessons Learned
date: 2007-12-01
words: 9823
flesch: 47
summary: In brief, DAM systems are not only repositories of digitalrich media content and the associated metadata, but also provide management functionalities similar to database manage ment systems, including access control.3 A DAM system can “ingest digital assets, store and index assets for easy searching, retrieve assets for use in many environments, and manage the rights associated with those assets.”4 The vision for enterprise DAM at UM is for digital assets to not only be stored in a secure repository, but also be findable, accessible, and usable by the appropriate persons in the university community in their academic endeavors.
keywords: assets; dam; digital; enterprise; feb; information; lab; living; metadata; system; university; use
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id: ital-3267
author: Lankes, R. David; Silverstein, Joanne; Nicholson, Scott
title: Participatory Networks: The Library As Conversation
date: 2007-12-01
words: 13506
flesch: 55
summary: This section seeks to highlight promising developments in integrating library systems well beyond the library catalog and to highlight not only an ideal endpoint, but also how this ideal system is truly participatory. merging reference and community involvement The functional area furthest along in the integration of participatory librarianship is reference; as reference is most readily recognizable as a conversation, this comes as no surprise. This new model, of patrons adding information directly to library systems, is not as radical as it may first appear.
keywords: catalog; community; conversation; information; libraries; library; networks; new; participatory; services; systems; technology; user; web
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id: ital-3268
author: Jaeger, Paul T.; Fleischmann, Kenneth R.
title: Public Libraries, Values, Trust, and E-Government
date: 2007-12-01
words: 9022
flesch: 43
summary: Amazingly, federal government support accounts for only about 1 percent of public library funding.59 Given that federal government agencies are already relying on public libraries to ensure access to egovernment and fos ter community response and recovery in times of emer gencies, federal support for these social roles of the public library clearly can and should be increased significantly. In a large scale national survey, 64 percent of respondents, including both users and nonusers of public libraries, asserted that providing public access to the Internet should be one of the highest priorities for public libraries.17
keywords: access; egovernment; information; internet; internet access; library; public libraries; role; trust; values
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id: ital-3269
author: HAN, Yan; Rawan, Atifa
title: Afghanistan Digital Library Initiative: Revitalizing an Integrated Library System
date: 2007-12-01
words: 2183
flesch: 54
summary: Recent developments in digital libraries have resulted in dis tributed systems in libraries, and the ILS is treated as one of many digital library systems. DLA’s goal is to build the capacity of Afghan libraries and librarians to work with open source digital libraries platforms; and to provide and enhance access to schol arly information resources and open content that all Afghanistan univer sities can share.
keywords: afghanistan; ils; library; open
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id: ital-3270
author: Beatty, Mark
title: President's Column
date: 2007-09-01
words: 731
flesch: 69
summary: it was pretty obvious that members want community in all its various forms, facetoface in multiple venues and online in multiple venues. As social organizations, libraries, ALA, LITA and other groups, it appears that we have plucked all the lowhanging fruit of Web 1.0.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3271
author: Katz, Irvin R.
title: Testing Information Literacy in Digital Environments: ETS's iSkills Assessment
date: 2007-09-01
words: 5844
flesch: 41
summary: This article describes ETS’s iSkills assessment (for merly “ICT Literacy Assessment”), an Internetbased assessment of information literacy skills that arise in the context of technology. Assessing information literacy skills in the Cali fornia State University: A progress report.
keywords: assessment; ict; information; literacy; skills; students; tasks; technology
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id: ital-3272
author: Spiteri, Louise F.
title: The Structure and Form of Folksonomy Tags: The Road to the Public Library Catalog
date: 2007-09-01
words: 9263
flesch: 59
summary: Singleterm tags constitute 93 percent of Delicious tags, 76 percent of Furl tags, and 80 percent of Technorati tags. Unique entities constitute 22 percent of Delicious tags, 14 percent of Furl tags, and 49 percent of Technorati tags.
keywords: delicious; example; folksonomy; form; nouns; sites; tags; terms; use
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id: ital-3273
author: Bejune, Matthew
title: Wikis in Libraries
date: 2007-09-01
words: 6954
flesch: 49
summary: This wiki is a collection of resources and services in print and electronic formats to assist library patrons with subject area searching. First, perhaps one of the reasons is the result of the way in which libraries are conceived by library patrons and librarians alike.
keywords: author; collaboration; libraries; library; patrons; staff; university; wiki; work
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id: ital-3274
author: Lacasta, Javier; Nogueras-Iso, Javier; López-Pellicer, Francisco Javier; Muro-Medrano, Pedro Rafail; Zarazaga-Soria, Francisco Javier
title: ThManager: An Open Source Tool for Creating and Visualizing SKOS
date: 2007-09-01
words: 10285
flesch: 56
summary: First, the ergonomics will be improved to show connections between different thesauri. The ThManager tool not only has been created as an independent tool to facilitate thesauri management, but also to allow easy integration in tools that need to use thesauri.
keywords: concepts; information; list; metadata; rdf; skos; thesauri; thesaurus; tool; use
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id: ital-3275
author: Postlethwaite, Bonnie
title: President's Column
date: 2007-06-01
words: 847
flesch: 63
summary: The other important networking opportunity for LITA members was the LITA Town Meeting led by LITA Vice President Mark Beatty. I anticipate that LITA members will see some great new things happening in the next year.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-3276
author: Webb, John
title: Editorial: The Virtues of Deliberation
date: 2007-06-01
words: 924
flesch: 58
summary: Likewise they should be offended if our articles discuss library technology issues misusing technical terms or concepts, or confusing technical issues with policy issues, or stating technology problems or issues in the title or abstract or introduction then omitting any mention of said problems until the final paragraph(s). Admittedly, some of them may have done so because I asked them, and their replies to me were the polite ones that one expects of the honorable members of the Library and Information Technology Association of the American Library Association.
keywords: technology
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id: ital-3277
author: Jaeger, Paul T.; Bertot, John Carlo; McClure, Charles R.; Rodriguez, Miranda
title: Public Libraries and Internet Access across the United States: A Comparison by State 2004–2006
date: 2007-06-01
words: 8556
flesch: 57
summary: Public libraries must also focus on increasing provi sion of Internet access in light of federal, state, and local governments recently adding yet another significant level of services to public libraries by “requesting” that they provide access to and training in using numerous egov ernment services. A sample was drawn to accurately represent metropolitan status (roughly equating to their designation of urban, suburban, or rural libraries), poverty levels (as derived through census data), state libraries, and the national picture, producing a sample of 6,979 public library out lets.7 The survey received a total of 4,818 responses for a response rate of 69 percent.
keywords: access; internet; libraries; library; public; public libraries; states
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id: ital-3278
author: Thornburg, Gail; Oskins, W. Michael
title: Misinformation and Bias in Metadata Processing: Matching in Large Databases
date: 2007-06-01
words: 8254
flesch: 58
summary: Bias can be defined as factors in the creation or processing of database records that feed on misinformation or missing information, and skew charac terizations of the database records in question. Fail to take note of salient differences between incom ing record and database record, and the match will be wrong, undetected, and potentially hard to detect in the future.
keywords: bias; database; i2=; information; libraries; matching; metadata; publisher; records; sa> implications of MARC, and the· Library of Congress systems studies. 3/1 March, 1970 book is a valuable study in library systems analysis and design, and its identification and quantification of the various technical processing activi- ties can yield real benefits to librarians everywhere, be they ever so de- centralized.
keywords: automation; book; computer; library; systems
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id: ital-5141
author: Real, Brian; Bertot, John Carlo; Jaeger, Paul T.
title: Rural Public Libraries and Digital Inclusion: Issues and Challenges
date: 2014-03-25
words: 8349
flesch: 34
summary: Through analysis of the PLFTAS data2 about technology access in rural public libraries in conjunction with other studies of rural libraries and librarians, this article explores the causes and effects of the relatively more limited technological and support infrastructures for rural patrons and communities. Rural libraries are also far less likely to have formal guides to help customers understand these government services, with only 15.3% of rural libraries offering such products as compared to 33.6% of urban and 22.2% of suburban counterparts.
keywords: access; digital; libraries; library; public; public libraries; rural; rural libraries; technology
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id: ital-5174
author: Perrin, Joy Marie; Clark, Melanie; De-Leon, Esther; Edgar, Lynne
title: Usability Testing for Greater Impact: A Primo Case Study
date: 2014-12-18
words: 3655
flesch: 57
summary: that the time on tasks, excluding task 4, diminished between task 1 and task 7, suggesting that participants had no trouble learning and remembering how to use the system. Error Rate for Each Task The error rate proved to be the most accurate indicator of usability problems with each task. Each time a participant chose a wrong path, faced an impasse, or had to be guided by the facilitator, the event was labeled as an error. Because the error rate seems to decline from task 1 to task 7 (excluding tasks 3 and 4), the team inferred that users were able to learn how to use the system quite easily.
keywords: task; team
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id: ital-5243
author: Trainor, Cindi
title: President's Message
date: 2013-09-15
words: 594
flesch: 51
summary: Finally, for those of you interested in leadership but not necessarily ready to run for Board, I want to point you to documents put together by the LITA Emerging Leaders team in 2013: http://connect.ala.org/node/197839 Our team of three ALA Emerging Leaders, Margaret Heller, Zach Coble, and Katie Heidgerken- Greene, surveyed LITA leaders, worked with Committee Chairs Coordinator Michelle Frisque and IG Chairs Coordinator Paul Keith, and synthesized tons of information and many documents into the Leadership Guide for New Chairs of Committees and Interest Groups Cindi Trainor (cindiann@gmail.com) is LITA President 2013-14 and Community Specialist & Trainer for Springshare, LLC. Well before Midwinter in Philadelphia will be National Forum 2013.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-5244
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments
date: 2013-09-15
words: 616
flesch: 47
summary: Visiting the discovery side of library services, Megan Johnson from Appalachian State University reports on usability testing of Appalachian’s “one box” integrated articles and catalog search, using Innovative Interfaces’ Encore Discovery Service. Speaking of usability, I had the chance recently to observe a usability testing session for my library’s website, and was reminded of the importance of designing library websites and delivering web-based library services that will actually be of value to our users, delivered with their context in mind rather than ours.
keywords: library
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id: ital-5245
author: Tagliacozzo, Renata; Kochen, Manfred; Rosenberg, Lawrence
title: Orthographic Error Patterns of Author Names in Catalog Searches
date: 1970-06-01
words: 3094
flesch: 66
summary: Michigan An investigation of error patterns in author names based on data from a survey of library catalog searches. To ascertain if this is the case for author names, a data base much larger than that used for this study would be needed.
keywords: author; errors; letter
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id: ital-5246
author: Avram, Henriette D.
title: The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report
date: 1970-06-01
words: 5311
flesch: 55
summary: It is imperative that before levels of completeness of MARC records are defined with respect to content and content desig- nation, the implications of these definitions to future library networks be thoroughly explored. A study of the use of a mini-computer operating in an on-line mode for input, editing, and formatting of MARC records is in progress at the Library and will supplement the RECON effort and provide additional data.
keywords: card; library; marc; recon; records; titles
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id: ital-5247
author: Payne, Charles T.; McGee, Robert S.
title: Comparisons of LC Proofslip and MARC Tape Arrival Dates at the University of Chicago Library
date: 1970-06-01
words: 2438
flesch: 79
summary: Table 2. Number of Proofslip Matches with MARC Indexes by Arrival Week and by LC Card Number Subseries Proof slip LC Tape Tape Tape Tape Tape Tape Tape Tape Tape Tape Week Series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PS 2 65- 68 5 25 13 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 # 88 69 2 8 5 3 3 0 l 0 0 0 7 series 1 2 7 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 Total 8 35 25 8 9 1 1 0 0 0 6!:>-68 6 42 77 37 17 9 2 1 0 0 PS 3 69 7 25 65 32 30 9 5 0 1 0 #497 7 series 0 16 36 41 8 2 0 0 2 0 Total 13 83 178 110 55 20 7 1 3 0 65-68 0 14 35 57 19 12 1 3 2 1 PS 4 #340 69 0 0 26 56 12 3 0 1 1 3 7 serie' 0 0 18 36 19 9 1 0 1 2 Total 0 14 79 149 so 24 2 4 4 6 65-68 0 0 14 56 33 35 0 4 7 4 PS 5 69 0 0 7 62 21 8 0 4 3 2 #398 7 seriel 0 0 9 49 9 9 1 5 2 6 Total 0 0 30 167 63 52 1 13 12 12 65-68 0 0 0 29 108 77 3 5 2 3 PS 6 69 0 0 1 55 95 so 4 2 2 4 #653 7 serie~ 0 0 2 28 72 52 6 0 5 s· Total 0 0 3 112 275 179 13 7 9 12 65-68 0 0 0 9 68 128 29 6 4 2 PS 7 #711 69 0 0 0 2 29 133 54 9 1 8 7 serie! 0 0 0 5 33 92 33 10 3 6 Total 0 0 0 1 6 130 353 116 25 8 16 PS 8 65-68 1 0 0 0 5 87 46 29 6 4 69 0 0 0 0 2 54 49 20 11 4 #503 7 seriel 0 .0 0 0 2 37 46 17 1 2 Total 1 0 0 0 9 178 141 66 18 10 65-68 0 0 0 0 0 10 86 122 52 34 PS 9 69 0 0 0 0 l 3 75 107 53 39 #933 7 «F>ri F>< 0 0 0 0 0 1 49 115 73 42 Total 0 0 0 0 1 14 210 344 178 115 65-68 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 36 159 91 PS 10 #985 · 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 40 180 96 7 series 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 23 165 101 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 99 504 288 Tape Tape Tape 11 12 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 In subsequent weeks, complete collections of proof- slips bearing the MARC acronym (MARC proofslips) were attempted, so that proofslip data beginning with Week 3 (April 14-18) are more complete.
keywords: marc; tape
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id: ital-5248
author: Avram, Henriette; De Gennaro, Richard; Pulsifer, Josephine S.; Rather, John C.; Rosenthal, Joseph A.; Veaner, Allen B.
title: Levels of Machine Readable Records
date: 1970-06-01
words: 2215
flesch: 58
summary: The first involves the distribution of cataloging information in machine readable form for use by library networks, library systems, and individual libraries; the second involves the recording of bibliographic data in a national union catalog to reflect the holdings of libraries in the United States and Canada. At the present stage of library automation, it is impossible to define rigorously all of the potential uses of machine readable catalog records.
keywords: libraries; machine
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id: ital-5249
author: de Varennes, Rosario
title: On-Line Serials System at Laval University Library
date: 1970-06-01
words: 5195
flesch: 63
summary: A year or so from now, it should be possible to evaluate the impact of the system on Laval Library users, by which time additional terminals will have been put at their disposal. Director, Library Analysis and Automation, Laval University Library, Cite Universitaire, Quebec, Canada Description of a system, operational since June 1968, that provides control of all serials holdings in nine campus libraries, permits updating of the complete file every two or three days, and produces various outputs for library users and library staff from data in variable fields on disks (listings, statistics, etc.).
keywords: file; laval; library; serials; system
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item: #538 of 778
id: ital-5250
author: Atherton, Pauline; Miller, Karen B.
title: LC/MARC on MOLDS; An Experiment in Computer-Based Interactive Bibliographic Storage, Search, Retrieval, and Processing
date: 1970-06-01
words: 8570
flesch: 65
summary: Essentially, the user of the program describes each MOLDS file to be produced by specifying: 1) the number of (fixed) fields per MOLDS record; 2) the name and size (in characters) of each field in the MOLDS record; 3) the name of the MARC I field from which the data are to be taken; 4) selection criteria according to which MARC I records are to be chosen for conversion; 5) for any MARC I field, a data conversion procedure to be applied prior to transferring the information to the appropriate MOLDS field; 6) whether or not diacritical codes should be stripped from the MARC MARC I biblio- graphic file to satisfy MOLDS data base requirements.
keywords: base; block; data; list; marc; molds; records; system; user
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item: #539 of 778
id: ital-5251
author: Voigt, Melvin J.; Tars, Arvo; Kilgour, Frederick G.; Csuri, Charles; Richey, James I.; de Gara, John; Oldfather, Margaret
title: Book Reviews
date: 1970-06-01
words: 2857
flesch: 49
summary: Thus this collection of papers can be useful to both student and practitioner interested in research and development of library systems. Frederick G. Kilgour's paper on initial system design for the Ohio College Library Center is excellent, not so much for solutions, but because he raises the questions on the purpose of college libraries and the nature of regional systems which need to be raised before embarking on design.
keywords: college; information; junior; libraries; library
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item: #540 of 778
id: ital-5254
author: Jacob, Mary Ellen
title: Standardized Costs for Automated Library Systems
date: 1970-09-01
words: 3353
flesch: 61
summary: Program maintenance costs usually do not appear until after the system has been up and running for some time, and are usually not included in reports of system costs, since most reports are written before, or soon after, system installation. 3/3 September, 1970 Table 1 shows a simple presentation of system cost.
keywords: computer; costs; equipment; library; system
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item: #541 of 778
id: ital-5255
author: Murray, D. M.
title: A Scatter Storage Scheme for Dictionary Lookups
date: 1970-09-01
words: 8246
flesch: 72
summary: Let H, be the expected number of hash table slots with i entries for i=0,1, ... Expected Storage and Search Properties fo1' Basic Scatter Storage Schemes Measure Load factor Number of empty table slots Number of single entries Number of collision chains of length i Expected sums Fraction of hash table empty Fraction of table filled with single entries Fraction of hash table slots with i entries Expected sums Number of collisions Number of entries in the bump table Total table slots required Average lookup time (probes)
keywords: hash; hash table; number; storage; table; words
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item: #542 of 778
id: ital-5256
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.
title: History of Library Computerization
date: 1970-09-01
words: 4956
flesch: 52
summary: University of California, San Diego, University Library: Report on Serials Computer Project; University Library and UCSD Computer Center (La Jolla, California: University Library, July 1962). REFERENCES l. Kilgom, Frederick G.: The Economic Goal of Library Automation, College & Research Libraries, 30 (July 1969 ), 307-311.
keywords: catalog; computer; information; libraries; library; system; university
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item: #543 of 778
id: ital-5257
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Guiles, Kay D.; Maruyama, Lenore S.
title: The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, November 1969 - April 1970
date: 1970-09-01
words: 8265
flesch: 60
summary: RECON records in the 1969 and 7-series are being input by a service bureau. This gave LC the basis to compare two devices, the key-to- cassette used at the Library of Congress for the MARC Distribution Serv.ice and the equipment used by the contractor for RECON records.
keywords: card; cost; data; input; library; marc; recon; records
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item: #544 of 778
id: ital-5258
author: Wilkinson, Billy R.; Evans, Glyn; Goldwyn, A. J.; Miniter, John J.; Nugent, William R.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1970-09-01
words: 4151
flesch: 62
summary: The literature of librarianship contains descnphons of md1v1dual undergraduate libraries or philosophical essays concerning library services for undergraduates. The literature of librarianship contains descnphons of md1v1dual undergraduate libraries or philosophical essays concerning library services for undergraduates.
keywords: book; library; system
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item: #545 of 778
id: ital-5259
author: Dolby, James L.
title: An Algorithm for Variable-Length Proper-Name Compression
date: 1970-12-01
words: 6228
flesch: 66
summary: I,S and storage specifications are subject to error, but also because various transliteration schemes exist and can provide variant proper name forms in the same data base. A viable on-line search system cannot reasonably assume that each user will invariably provide the proper input information without error.
keywords: algorithm; characters; classes; errors; identification; l 0; vowel; w 0
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item: #546 of 778
id: ital-5260
author: Spigai, Frances G.; Mahan, Thomas
title: On-Line Acquisitions by LOLITA
date: 1970-12-01
words: 6528
flesch: 64
summary: These order records are kept on line, and are assigned a special series of purchase order numbers, prefixed by an H. No account- ing procedures accompany these orders, although a purchase order is generated and manually filed by purchase order number. This causes accounting information (purchase order number, vendor code, invoice number, actual price, invoice data, account number) to be duplicated in the accounting file.
keywords: data; file; information; library; line; number; order; record
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item: #547 of 778
id: ital-5261
author: Bellomy, Fred L.; Jaccarino, Lies N.
title: Listings of Uncataloged Collections
date: 1970-12-01
words: 3462
flesch: 70
summary: JO IC44 NE 2035 NE 2246 ~E 2097 NE 2188 JO 1299 NE 2090 JO 2002 NE 2083 JO IC54 NE 2045 1<£ 2.l5t H 2257 NE 2228 NE 0609 t::J NE 22•0
keywords: century; collections; listings; painting
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id: ital-5262
author: Bierman, Kenneth John; Blue, Betty Jean
title: A MARC Based SDI Service
date: 1970-12-01
words: 5602
flesch: 61
summary: It was decided, however, that before additional funds and energy should be expended to improve the storage and retrieval of MARC records, the usefulness of the presently available individual records themselves should be demonstrated. For example, the Library School could use a listing of MARC records on each weekly tape dealing with library science.
keywords: classification; department; library; marc; number; sdi
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item: #549 of 778
id: ital-5263
author: Palmer, Foster M.; Hoadley, Irene Braden; Bierman, Kenneth J.; Salton, G.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1970-12-01
words: 1308
flesch: 56
summary: As in the preceding volumes in this series, the purpose is to report actual experience in case history form of applica- tions of data processing technology to areas of library operations. One opens this report wondering whether circulation of reserve books to readers is included in the computer based system, and assuming that such circulation would have to be handled on-line because the short duration of reserve loans, often on the order of one hour, would not seem to fit well with batch processing.
keywords: book; library
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item: #550 of 778
id: ital-5267
author: Yavarkovsky, Jerome
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: The Promise of Immersive Libraries
date: 2013-12-22
words: 1224
flesch: 30
summary: Immersive technologies offer the promise of 3D virtual world libraries where students and their teachers can work together in virtual space with library materials and tools—search engines, online catalogs, media, text, etc. For more than five years, advances in the development of virtual meeting space and workspace have enabled librarians to provide immersive, 3D virtual world services that give a sense of presence that is lacking in conference calls, text chat, and web conferencing.1 As a result, not only is the individual’s physical distance from library materials eliminated, but also the distance is eliminated between individuals who work with each other using library materials.
keywords: immersive; library; virtual
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item: #551 of 778
id: ital-5273
author: Kiscaden, Elizabeth
title: Creating a Current Awareness Service Using Yahoo! Pipes and LibGuides
date: 2014-12-18
words: 1968
flesch: 36
summary: The service, dubbed Info SOS, was designed to overcome two barriers to patron participation in feed services: the chore of subscribing to and curating multiple feeds and the lack of awareness of feeds and feed reader technology. Yahoo! Pipes was chosen for this service primarily because it requires limited coding knowledge,7 yet the software provides a number of advanced functions for sorting and combining large groups of feeds.
keywords: current; feeds
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item: #552 of 778
id: ital-5275
author: Harnish, Thomas D.
title: Video Technologies: Neologism or Library Trend
date: 1981-06-01
words: 1108
flesch: 52
summary: Inev- 76 journal of Library Automation Vol. 14/2 June 1981 itably, this technological trend also will occur in libraries and, in this light, the relatively low level of involvement of computers in providing patron services today is notable. Converging factors are shaping a new environment for libraries, and, as a consequence, the present is full of opportunity.
keywords: libraries; library
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item: #553 of 778
id: ital-5276
author: Uluakar, Tamer; Pierce, Anton R.; Chachra, Vinod
title: Design Principles for a Comprehensive Library System
date: 1981-06-01
words: 4943
flesch: 59
summary: However, system users have come to demand that all rel- evant data be available at a single terminal from a single system. The emergence of powerful and easy-to-use database management systems, the spectacular price reductions in hardware, and the concom- itant, and equally spectacular, improvements in system capabilities have made it clear that it is practical to think ambitiously.
keywords: bibliographic; data; library; records; screens; system; use
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item: #554 of 778
id: ital-5277
author: Rastogi, Kunj B.; Morita, Ichiko T.
title: OCLC Search Key Usage Patterns in a Large Research Library
date: 1981-06-01
words: 4040
flesch: 73
summary: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Among various types of search keys available to the users, the name/ title, LCCN, and title search keys were entered most frequently. Users can choose to enter any type of search key from the various types of search keys permitted by the system.
keywords: key; search; title
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item: #555 of 778
id: ital-5278
author: Lukac, Jenko
title: The Evolution of an Online Acquisitions System
date: 1981-06-01
words: 1211
flesch: 66
summary: The first change made to the PEAS program was to rename it CLAS-the Computerized Library Acquisitions Sys- tem . Some are minor, such as having the com- puter recognize initial articles in titles .
keywords: clas; library
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item: #556 of 778
id: ital-5279
author: Newhard, Robert
title: The Significance of Information in the Ordinary Conduct of Life
date: 1981-06-01
words: 1953
flesch: 63
summary: Information, like knowledge, as observed by Francis Bacon, is power, and distributed information is distributed pow- er. Computer-supported telecommunica- tions systems can be the instrument for accelerating information control by a few (this has been much of the trend , so far , as indicated by corporate, research, and technical use of these systems), or it can be used to build information confidence, use, and desire throughout society.
keywords: information; library; tools
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item: #557 of 778
id: ital-5280
author: Bolton, W. Theodore
title: A Lesson in Interactive Television Programming: The Home Book Club on QUBE
date: 1981-06-01
words: 4056
flesch: 60
summary: The Books-by-Mail program did send out some 760 paperback books as a result of the Horne Book Club (a 79 per- cent overall increase), and twenty-six new library cards (not a prerequisite) were issued to Horne Book Club viewers . Each QUBE console in a viewer's home has thirty channels to choose from and five response buttons to press when answering questions posed to home view- ers on QUBE programs .
keywords: book; club; home; program; qube
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item: #558 of 778
id: ital-5281
author: Covino, Joseph; Intner, Sheila
title: An Informal Survey of the CTI Backup System
date: 1981-06-01
words: 1916
flesch: 64
summary: THE RESPONSES 1. Size of System : CTI systems are available in two sizes , 32K and 48K . Performance: All eleven respondents were enthusiastic about system per- formance.
keywords: catalog; library; system
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item: #559 of 778
id: ital-5282
author: Bierman, Kenneth J.
title: Multimedia Catalog: COM and Online
date: 1981-06-01
words: 1966
flesch: 63
summary: User searches microform catalog by author and/or title. User searches microform catalog.
keywords: catalog; user
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item: #560 of 778
id: ital-5283
author: Hoffman, Herbert H.
title: A Structure Code for Machine Readable Library Catalog Record Formats
date: 1981-06-01
words: 2260
flesch: 67
summary: document title B s B S, with individual . document title S, without indiv.
keywords: document; item; structure
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item: #561 of 778
id: ital-5284
author: Hudson, Judith
title: Revisions to Contributed Cataloging in a Cooperative Cataloging Database
date: 1981-06-01
words: 2942
flesch: 63
summary: In order to test this assumption, a number of cataloging records were ana- lyzed in an effort to replicate the Kent State study. In the long run, however, the responsi- bility for inputting catalog records that meet the standards for cataloging and for- matting rests with the member libraries.
keywords: cataloging; errors; records
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item: #562 of 778
id: ital-5285
author: Aveny, Brian
title: News and Announcements
date: 1981-06-01
words: 1513
flesch: 41
summary: Goals of the organization are to: • identify services and information that are best suited to remote electronic de- livery; • plan , fund, and develop working dem- onstrations of library REDI services ; • communicate the availability of elec- tronic library services to the user com- munity; · • inform the library profession of trends, specific events , and future directions of REDI; • create coalitions with organizations in allied fields ·of interest. Today, as the amount of materials in microform in ARL libraries continues to grow-ARL libraries hold more than 146,660,000 units of micro- form-improving access to these materials has taken on even greater urgency.
keywords: electronic; information; libraries
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item: #563 of 778
id: ital-5286
author: Pratt, Allan D.; Miller, Robert; Knapp, John F.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1981-06-01
words: 3697
flesch: 64
summary: Although the original intention was to develop rules appropriate for the arrange- ment of entries by computer, those at the Library of Congress and the ALA commit- tee working on the problem soon realized that, from the point of view of catalog users, it would be very undesirable to have different sets of filing rules in opera- tion depending on the physical medium of the catalog. The impetus for this work came from recognition that computer tech- nology would soon be enlisted to perform the arrangement of entries for the produc- tion of catalogs, and that filing rules cur- rent at the time would be impossible to implement in their entirety on the com- puter.
keywords: computer; filing; information; library; rules; system
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item: #564 of 778
id: ital-5287
author: Aveny, Brian
title: Highlights of LITA Board Meetings
date: 1981-06-01
words: 6486
flesch: 66
summary: A motion was made by Juergens, seconded by Helen Cyr, and passed: That LITA will not pay honoraria to LITA Board members or LITA mem- bers of program committees for participation in institute programs . The highlights of LITA board meetings are published here to inform division members of the activities of their board .
keywords: ala; board; committee; discussion; lita; members; y y
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item: #565 of 778
id: ital-5288
author: Dwyer, James R.
title: Guest Editorial: Who Rules the Rules?
date: 1981-09-01
words: 1381
flesch: 59
summary: Major questions still to be resolved include not only the compatible- name quandary, but the treatment of serials, microform reproductions, establishment of corporate names and determination of when works ema- nate from corporate bodies, and the romanization of Slavic names. That LC is correctly follow- ing the spirit of the general principle for personal names is little comfort to research libraries with large Slavic collections.
keywords: rules
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item: #566 of 778
id: ital-5289
author: Brindley, Lynne
title: The British Library's Approach to AACR2
date: 1981-09-01
words: 4325
flesch: 59
summary: The first stage of the conversion process for U.K. MARC records (1950-80) involved all records being processed against the Name Conver- sion File to replace AACRl with AACR2 headings and associated refer- ences. This was a vast and sophisticated conversion exercise and will result in U.K. MARC files probably more uniform in structure than they have ever been.
keywords: conversion; library; marc; records; u.k
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item: #567 of 778
id: ital-5290
author: Brown, Georgia L.
title: AACR2: OCLC's Implementation and Database
date: 1981-09-01
words: 5287
flesch: 62
summary: Bibliographic field matches non-AACR2 authority field; AACR2 form present in authority record. Bibliographic field matches non-AACR2 authority field; AACR2 form not present in authority record .
keywords: aacr2; authority; bibliographic; conversion; records
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item: #568 of 778
id: ital-5291
author: Wajenberg, Arnold; Gorman, Michael
title: OCLC's Database Conversion: A User's Perspective
date: 1981-09-01
words: 7966
flesch: 72
summary: (New author's full name, Ann Elizabeth Smith, is available) LC heading: for new author: Smith, Elizabeth (Ann Elizabeth) Use LC forms if found in name authority file. Catalogue Maintenance will correct conflicts created by personal name headings that vary in fullness to the form to which a see reference has been made.
keywords: aacr2; authority; form; headings; oclc; use
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item: #569 of 778
id: ital-5292
author: Martin, James R.
title: Automation and the Service Attitudes of ARL Circulation Managers
date: 1981-09-01
words: 2841
flesch: 56
summary: SATISFACTION WITH CIRCULATION SYSTEM As a group, ARL circulation managers are not satisfied with their systems, as table 1 shows. Nineteen percent of the total were manual McBee systems and 15 percent were LIBS100 online systems.
keywords: circulation; managers; percent
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item: #570 of 778
id: ital-5293
author: McCallum, Sally H.; Godwin, James L.
title: Statistics on Headings in the MARC File
date: 1981-09-01
words: 4058
flesch: 61
summary: NAME HEADINGS Table 2 presents the number of occur- rences of name headings in the MARC bib- liographic files and the number of distinct name headings, both by type of heading and by year. September 1981 ject headings show the same tendency as name headings in that the percentages of headings that appear on new records but which had been previously used rises as the stock of headings increases and then levels off.
keywords: file; headings; percent; records
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item: #571 of 778
id: ital-5294
author: Jones, Douglas
title: RLIN and OCLC as Reference Tools
date: 1981-09-01
words: 1306
flesch: 56
summary: Given that RLIN and OCLC have databases and software geared to known-item searches for catalog card pro- duction, our evaluation attempts to docu- ment their usefulness in reference service. If separate authority records are a system requirement, the occurrence figures might then be useful for defining configurations that employ machine-generated provisional records for single-occurrence headings that do not have reference structures or that simplify in other ways the treatment of these headings.
keywords: reference; rlin
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item: #572 of 778
id: ital-5295
author: Brown, Thomas P.; DeBuse, Raymond
title: Replicating the Washington Library Network Computer System Software
date: 1981-09-01
words: 2675
flesch: 59
summary: WLN libraries should see Illinois records on a regular basis by late summer of 1981. Even though user demands heavily bur- dened the traditional manual systems, the extent of library automation at Clemson had been limited to a batch circulation sys- tem, a simple serials-listing capability, and the use of bibliographic utilities.
keywords: automation; library; system; wln
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item: #573 of 778
id: ital-5296
author: Meyer, Richard W.; Reuland, Beth Ann; Diaz, Francisco M.; Colburn, Frances
title: A General Planning Methodology for Automation
date: 1981-09-01
words: 3138
flesch: 48
summary: By focusing on the problems of serials control, the team evaluated a microcosm of library problems. Even though user demands heavily bur- dened the traditional manual systems, the extent of library automation at Clemson had been limited to a batch circulation sys- tem, a simple serials-listing capability, and the use of bibliographic utilities.
keywords: automation; library; study; system
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item: #574 of 778
id: ital-5297
author: Library of Congress, Network Development Office
title: Inclusion of Nonroman Character Sets
date: 1981-09-01
words: 3549
flesch: 77
summary: Any questions on the description of the inclusion of nonroman character sets in the MARC communications format should be addressed to: Library of Congress, Process- ing Services, Attention: Mrs. Margaret Pat- terson, Washington , DC 20540. The first letter would not appear just before the end of field character and proceed backwards to the beginning of the field.
keywords: character; p p
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item: #575 of 778
id: ital-5298
author: Woods, Lawrence A.
title: Checklist for Cassette Recorders Connected to CRTs
date: 1981-09-01
words: 1610
flesch: 65
summary: OCLC data has been successfully transferred to several local online catalogs, including Eugene Public Library's circulation and online catalog system, ULISYS. RLG!RLIN RLIN anticipates being able to offer pub- lic access to their database. RLIN data has been successfully transferred to several local circulation systems.
keywords: data; local; public
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item: #576 of 778
id: ital-5299
author: University of, Oregon
title: A Comparison of OCLC, RLG/RLIN, and WLN
date: 1981-09-01
words: 9587
flesch: 55
summary: WLN data has been suc- cessfully transferred to local circulation sys- tems and an agreement has been reached with DATAPHASE, a computerized circu- lation system vendor, to discount purchase of their system by WLN member libraries. INTRODUCTION An online bibliographic utility provides computer services to member libraries who, in turn, contribute computer-readable rec- ords to a common database.
keywords: cataloging; database; information; libraries; library; oclc; online; records; system; wln
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item: #577 of 778
id: ital-5300
author: Malinconico, S. Michael
title: LITA Award, 1980: Maurice J. Freedman
date: 1981-09-01
words: 1108
flesch: 55
summary: Mitch, like the philosopher and satirist whose images grace the walls of his office, is an iconoclast who insists on more than the endorsement of reigning authority before he will embrace an idea; and he will work tirelessly to change the prevailing wisdom if he finds that it serves to frustrate rather than aid the delivery of the kind and quality of library service to which he feels the patrons of libraries are entitled. His contribution comes from the depth of sensitivity and understanding he brought to the application of technology to library service.
keywords: library; mitch
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item: #578 of 778
id: ital-5301
author: Crawford, Walt
title: News and Announcements
date: 1981-09-01
words: 1592
flesch: 60
summary: Cataloging records loaded from OCLC MARC records by tape and from a microcomputer interface at the OCLC printer port. Forty-one percent of the CHANNEL 2000 test group felt that their knowledge of library services increased as a result of the CHANNEL 2000 test.
keywords: channel; library; use
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item: #579 of 778
id: ital-5302
author: Aveny, Brian; Hagyard, Alan E.; Lengyel, Suzanna; Watson, Peter; Gray, Carolyn M.; Slade, Rod; Ackerman, Mark S.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1981-09-01
words: 5249
flesch: 64
summary: View- data systems, on the other hand, are quite like online information systems except for their use of a television as a display device, their simplicity, and their broader range of transactions and information. A paper by Simon notes that cable will not only provide large audiences for information services but will also eliminate some of the traditionally defined viewdata functions.
keywords: book; database; information; library; online; search; systems
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item: #580 of 778
id: ital-5303
author: Aveny, Brian
title: Editor's Notes
date: 1981-01-01
words: 372
flesch: 61
summary: The first issue appeared in March 1968, just shortly after this editor had graduated from library school. Under the editorships of Fre- derick G. Kilgour and Susan K. Martin, ]OLA established itself as a major source of information about developments in library automation.
keywords: issue
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item: #581 of 778
id: ital-5304
author: Line, Maurice B.
title: Libraries and Information Services in a Post-Technological Society
date: 1981-01-01
words: 7939
flesch: 58
summary: If there is a single main message in this paper, it is that a technological vision alone is hopelessly incomplete, that librar- ians and information people must at all costs avoid the planning disasters that narrow-thinking, well-meaning experts have scattered so liberally around us, and that they can take a positive lead not only in developing libraries and information services for the future society but in helping to shape that society. A move from big cities to townships and other smaller communities, and the independence of distance provided by information technology, should lead to much greater local and regional self-sufficiency.
keywords: information; libraries; need; people; society; technology; work
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item: #582 of 778
id: ital-5305
author: Dillon, Martin; Knight, Rebecca C.; Lospinuso, Margaret F.; Ulmschneider, John
title: The Use of Automatic Indexing for Authority Control
date: 1981-01-01
words: 3846
flesch: 64
summary: The stop-word list elim- inates all unwanted words in the list of variant name forms. An interesting possibility is to use such match criteria to discover variant author name forms in creating the authority file, since many variant forms result only from misspellings, title attributions, and so on.
keywords: authority; automatic; control; file; term
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item: #583 of 778
id: ital-5306
author: Freedman, Maurice J.
title: Circulation Systems Past and Present
date: 1981-01-01
words: 3790
flesch: 62
summary: A review of the development of circulation systems shows two areas of change. An examination of the history of circulation systems and their evolution to the present state reveals the change in outlook from a narrow view of the circulation function to a broader view.
keywords: book; circulation; library; system
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item: #584 of 778
id: ital-5307
author: Gapen, D. Kaye
title: MARC Format Simplification
date: 1981-01-01
words: 4517
flesch: 53
summary: The origi- nal paper was commissioned in June 1981, by the ARL Task Force on Bibliographic Control as one facet in exploring the per- ceived high costs of cataloging and adher- ing to MARC formats in ARL libraries. The general thrust of that review is a close examination of the MARC format in an attempt to begin to lay the foundation on which revised MARC formats can firmly stand- particularly in regard to content designa- tion (tags, indicators, and subfield codes used to identify and characterize the data explicitly).
keywords: format; library; marc; marc format; operations
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item: #585 of 778
id: ital-5308
author: Crowley, Terence
title: Comparing Fiche and Film: A Test of Speed
date: 1981-01-01
words: 2281
flesch: 67
summary: Because of the relatively small numbers of subjects and observations •The author, an experienced fiche user, was timed at 11.6 minutes; this was the fastest time recorded by either fiche or film users. Primary disadvantages cited are hardware malfunctions, increased need for patron instruction, user resistance (par-
keywords: fiche; film; library; users
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item: #586 of 778
id: ital-5309
author: Long, James K.
title: Electronic Order Transmission
date: 1981-01-01
words: 2065
flesch: 66
summary: Standard formats need to be accepted and enforced for order transmission. Acquisition orders must be collected from multiple libraries at a central site to generate volume for dispersal to multiple sites.
keywords: book; format; library; order
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item: #587 of 778
id: ital-5310
author: Intner, Sheila
title: Microcomputer Backup to Online Circulation
date: 1981-01-01
words: 2113
flesch: 64
summary: Some of this is attributable to our relatively full storage, requiring us to perform house- keeping routines frequently, but the rest is a result of system failure. This appears to be slower than aver- age and may well be due to the extremely high level of system activity.
keywords: computer; system; terminal
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item: #588 of 778
id: ital-5311
author: Paul, Sandra K.
title: Computer-to-Computer Communication in the Acquisition Process
date: 1981-01-01
words: 3328
flesch: 63
summary: Today more than seventy publishers are equipped to receive computer tape orders and input them di- rectly to their order fulfillment systems; twenty-six publishers can produce com- puter invoices and credits for their cus- tomers; six are capable of sending monthly updating information about titles, prices, publication dates, and books declared out of print. Random House analyzed returns for wrong title or wrong edition one year after they began receiving tape orders from Dalton, Baker & Taylor, and Brodart.
keywords: committee; computer; format; order
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item: #589 of 778
id: ital-5312
author: Satellite Consortium, Public Service
title: Cable Library Survey Results
date: 1981-01-01
words: 5768
flesch: 58
summary: FINAL WORD As a result of this survey, PSSC has pro- filed cable libraries of all technical capabili- ties for input into a database of network resources. To answer these questions, PSSC mailed questionnaires to 101 libraries that had been identified as potential cable libraries.
keywords: cable; libraries; library; network; program; satellite; survey; system
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id: ital-5313
author: Aveny, Brian
title: News and Announcements
date: 1981-01-01
words: 2485
flesch: 48
summary: Colorado Boulder Public Library, Boulder Connecticut Thomaston Public Library, Thomaston Florida Tarpon Springs Public Library, Tarpon Springs Georgia Tri-County Regional Library, Rome Idaho Pocatello Public Library, Pocatello Illinois Pekin Public Library, Pekin Rockford Public Library, Rockford Indiana Fort Wayne Public Library, Fort Wayne Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington Iowa Kirkwood Community College Telecommunications Center, Cedar Rapids Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City Kansas Abilene Public Library, Abilene Newton Public Library, Newton Kentu cky Lexington Public Library, Lexington Louisville Public Library, Louisville Camden-Carroll Library, Morehead State University , Morehead Massachusetts Greenfield Community College Library, Greenfield South Hadley Library System, South Hadley Minn esota Anoka County Library, Fridley Cloquet Public Library, Cloquet Crow River Regional Library, Willmar International Falls Public Library, International Falls Minnesota Valley Regional Library, Mankato Marshall-Lyon County Library System, Marshall Western Plains Library System, Montevideo Rochester Public Library , Rochester St. Cloud Public Library, St. Cloud Missouri St. Charles City County Library, St. Peters New j ersey Burlington County College Library , Pemberton New York Albany Public Library, Albany Amherst Public Library , Willia msville Bethlehem Public Library, Delmar Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, Jamestown Gates Public Library, Rochester Mid-York Library System, Utica Ridge Road Elementary School Library, Horseheads North Carolina Davidson County Community College Library, Lexington Ohio Greene County District Library, Xenia Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County, Columbus News and Announcements 315 University of Toledo Library, Toledo Pennsylvania Altoona Area Public Library, Altoona Lancaster County Library, Lancaster Monroeville Public Library , Monroeville Tennessee Memphis/Shelby County Public Library & Information Center, Memphis Utah Merrill Library and Learning Resources Program , Utah State University, Logan Weber County Library, Ogden Virginia Arlington County Department of Libraries, Arlington Washington Edmonds Community College Library, Lynnwood Lynnwood Public Library, Lynnwood Mountlake Terrace Public Library, Mountlake Terrace Seattle Public Library, Seattle Wisconsin Middleton Public Library, Middleton Nicolet College Learning Resource Center, Rhinelander Who's Who
keywords: electronic; information; libraries; library; public
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id: ital-5314
author: Thompson, Donald; Lau, Frances
title: Book Reviews
date: 1981-01-01
words: 1643
flesch: 58
summary: The main text walks the reader through each element of a contract (e.g., terms of agree- ment, specification of governing law, schedule, acceptance testing, etc.), pro- vides sample contract language and adds comments and recommendations for how to cope with specific problems (e. g., negoti- ation of system reliability standards, p. 3-4). For example, Injosystems was formerly called Management and Business Automation and later changed to Business Automation with the merging of International Business Auto- mation and International Edition Business Automation.
keywords: book; computer; contract
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item: #592 of 778
id: ital-5315
author: Aveny, Brian
title: Highlights of LITA Board Meetings
date: 1981-01-01
words: 2156
flesch: 70
summary: Dis- cussion included the mechanics of keeping the membership informed of proposed standards being considered, the large amount of time required of the representa- Highlights of Meetings 323 tive to monitor, study, and disseminate the proposed standards, and the costs involved for LIT A to support a representative. Marilyn Rehnberg, chairperson of VCCS, reported a request from National Audio-Visual Association asking LIT A to put on a Video Showcase for the seminar part of the NAVA Annual Conference in Anaheim in January.
keywords: board; committee; y y
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item: #593 of 778
id: ital-5341
author: Lamothe, Alain R.
title: The Importance of Identifying and Accommodating E-Resource Usage Data for the Presence of Outliers. The Negative Impacts of Inaccurate E-Journal Usage Data.
date: 2014-06-22
words: 5770
flesch: 53
summary: Suspected usage outliers from an e-journal need to be compared to other usage values of that particular title because each e-journal tends to be used differently. In fact, this practice has been enforced for the past several years and has saved the library a considerable sum of money.24 For this reason, it is extremely important not to assume the accuracy of usage values without carefully examining the data.
keywords: articles; data; journal; outliers; usage; values
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id: ital-5365
author: Trainor, Cindi
title: President's Message
date: 2013-12-22
words: 624
flesch: 60
summary: • Education & Sharing of Expertise: Offer education, publications, and events to inspire and enable members to improve technology integration within their libraries. Our one-hour meeting will be spent asking and answering questions of those who typically submit written reports for Board meetings: the Vice-President, the President, and the Executive Director.
keywords: midwinter
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item: #595 of 778
id: ital-5367
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments
date: 2013-12-22
words: 343
flesch: 31
summary: Microsoft Word - ital_december_gerrity_final.docx Editor’s Comments Bob Gerrity INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER 2013 3 This Month’s Issue We have an eclectic mix of content in this issue of Information Technology and Libraries. The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) would seem to present an ideal framework for the development of immersive library services to support learners who may otherwise lack access to quality library resources and services.
keywords: library
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id: ital-5377
author: Thornburg, Gail
title: A Candid Look at Collected Works: Challenges of Clustering Aggregates in GLIMIR and FRBR
date: 2014-08-25
words: 5046
flesch: 57
summary: AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER 2014 53 ABSTRACT Creating descriptions of collected works in ways consistent with clear and precise retrieval has long challenged information professionals. This paper describes problems of creating record clusters for collected works and distinguishing them from single works: design pitfalls, successes, failures, and future research.
keywords: bibliographic; collected; frbr; glimir; records; work
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id: ital-5378
author: Bennett, Rick; O'Neill, Edward T.; Kammerer, Kerre
title: assignFAST: An Autosuggest based tool for FAST Subject Assignment
date: 2014-03-25
words: 2705
flesch: 50
summary: The version used for this example shows: See Heading USE Authorized Heading when a See heading is returned, or simply the Authorized Heading otherwise. USE Feature films Motion pictures Motorcars (Automobiles) USE Automobiles Motion picture music Background music for motion pictures USE Motion picture music Motion pictures for the hearing impaired USE Films for the hearing impaired Documentaries, Motion picture USE Documentary films Mother of God USE Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint The headings in assignFAST are ranked by how often they are used in WorldCat, so headings that are more common appear at the top.
keywords: assignfast; heading; interface; subject; web
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id: ital-5403
author: Dehmlow, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: A Considerable Technology Asset that Has Little to Do with Technology.
date: 2014-03-25
words: 893
flesch: 44
summary: My primary reasoning for this is that technology is (1) fairly opaque to people outside of technology areas and (2) technology is driving so much of the rapid change we are experiencing in libraries. In many ways, our reputation as a committed service profession will be affected by out tech staffs’ ability to interact well with end users, and ultimately, I believe the proportion of our tech staff that have a high EQ could be one the strongest predictor s of the long-term success for technology teams in libraries.
keywords: people; technology
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item: #599 of 778
id: ital-5404
author: Cyzyk, Mark
title: Review of EPUB 3: Best Practices
date: 2014-03-25
words: 801
flesch: 65
summary: To be fair, code examples of all of this is up on the accompanying Website, and I am using these examples as I learn to code EPUB 3 for my own project. So if different versions of the same spec are so different, with no guarantee that a future reading system will be able to read documents adhering to a previous version, then the prospect of reading EPUB documents into the future is pretty sketchy.
keywords: book
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id: ital-5480
author: Ward, David; Hahn, James; Mestre, Lori
title: Adventure Code Camp: Library Mobile Design in the Backcountry
date: 2014-09-25
words: 3582
flesch: 47
summary: This case study reviews process, outcomes, and next steps in mobile web app coding camps. Coding camps offer a chance for librarians to get direct student feedback on their own software development goals.
keywords: camp; coding; library; mobile; student
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item: #601 of 778
id: ital-5485
author: Williams, Leslie A.; Fox, Lynne M; Roeder, Christophe; Hunter, Lawrence
title: Negotiating a Text Mining License for Faculty Researchers
date: 2014-09-25
words: 7038
flesch: 33
summary: After their experience with developing a framework to license and purchase a large corpora of journal articles in XML format to be text mined, Fox and Williams came to believe that, in addition to providing copyright expertise, librarians should assist in reducing transaction costs by developing model license clauses for text mining and routinely negotiating for these rights when the library purchases journals and other types of content. For these reasons the body of text that is most often used by researchers for text mining is PubMed.”3 The resulting visualization allowed researchers to identify four genes involved in mouse craniofacial development that had not previously been connected to tongue development, with the resulting hypotheses validated by subsequent laboratory experiment.4 The knowledge-‐based analysis tool is open access.
keywords: content; hunter; mining; research; text
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item: #602 of 778
id: ital-5495
author: Fortier, Alexandre; Burkell, Jacquelyn
title: Hidden Online Surveillance: What Librarians Should Know to Protect Their Own Privacy and That of Their Patrons
date: 2015-09-21
words: 5950
flesch: 35
summary: The 2013 US Consumer Data Privacy Study (TRUSTe 2013), for example, reveals that 80 percent of users are aware of online behavioral tracking on their desktop devices, while slightly under 70 percent are aware of tracking on mobile devices (see also Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada 2013). 4 For instance, the new Self-Regulatory Guidelines for Online Behavioral Advertising identify the need to provide notice to users when behavioral data is collected that allows the tracking of users across websites and over time (United States Federal Trade Commission, 2009).
keywords: cookies; information; online; privacy; tracking
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item: #603 of 778
id: ital-5576
author: Cyzyk, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: The Checklist
date: 2014-06-22
words: 1303
flesch: 57
summary: Viewing software packages as types of genres is useful insofar as, when it comes time to assemble requirements for a new project or ser vice, thinking of existing software systems as concrete instantiations of such requirements speeds the accomplishment of this task. These systems individually represent concrete instantiations of clusters of similar requirements.
keywords: management; software; systems
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item: #604 of 778
id: ital-5578
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Maruyama, Lenore S.
title: Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, April-September 1970
date: 1971-03-01
words: 6556
flesch: 55
summary: In comparing production rates in the two systems, time needed to proof format recognition records must be compared against time needed to edit and proof in the current system. This technique should eliminate substantial portions of the manual editing process and, if successful, should represent a con- siderable savings in the cost of creating machine readable records.
keywords: data; format; library; machine; recognition; recon; records
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item: #605 of 778
id: ital-5579
author: Weber, David C.
title: Personnel Aspects of Library Automation
date: 1971-03-01
words: 4700
flesch: 52
summary: A project manager also needs to take great care that research does not become an end in itself, a particular tendency of graduate students doing system development. However, in a system where absolute exactitude is demanded and where costs of system development are high, methodical recording of principles and procedures is obviously necessary.
keywords: automation; design; library; project; stanford; system
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item: #606 of 778
id: ital-5580
author: Miller, Ellen Wasby; Hodges, B. J.
title: Shawnee Mission's On-Line Cataloging System
date: 1971-03-01
words: 5461
flesch: 63
summary: Using IBM's FASTER software framework freed programmers from tedious 1/0 control; instead, they devoted their efforts to writing instructions for adding to, updating, and deleting from library disk files. These transactions are a simple, understandable, and powerful method of maintaining library files.
keywords: cataloging; data; faster; library; line; system; title
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item: #607 of 778
id: ital-5581
author: Kennedy, John P.
title: File Size and the Cost of Processing MARC Records
date: 1971-03-01
words: 4845
flesch: 65
summary: Data Processing Librarian, Georgia Institute of Tech- nology, Atlanta, Georgia Many systems being developed for utilizing MARC records in acquisitions and cataloging operations depend on the selection of records from a cum- ulative tape file. The report on the Yale bibliographic system shows that the introduction of MARC rec- ords into a system that was not designed for processing MARC records may produce substantially higher costs.
keywords: cost; file; marc; records
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item: #608 of 778
id: ital-5582
author: Hammer, Donald P.; Branscomb, Lewis C.; Livingston, Lawrence G.; Palmer, Foster M.; Brown, Sue; Dodson, James T.; Hopkins, Judith; Hogan, Alan D.; Kilgour, Frederick G.; Weitemeyer, Mogens
title: Book Reviews
date: 1971-03-01
words: 4070
flesch: 56
summary: The person wishing to learn all about the use of computers in the public service, especially in library systems, will do well to look beyond this meagre list of citations. It seemed useful to approach this review from the point of view of a designer of automated library systems, to see how well this bibliography covered the use of computers in that sector of the public service.
keywords: automation; book; information; libraries; library; marc; system
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item: #609 of 778
id: ital-5583
author: Grant, Robert S.
title: Predicting the Need for Multiple Copies of Books
date: 1971-06-01
words: 2738
flesch: 70
summary: CONCLUSIONS A close examination of the 570 titles apparently in need of duplication reveals that, with very few exceptions, students are apparently checking out only books that are curriculum oriented in the most narrow sense, i,e., books which they need to use in writing term papers. An article by William L. Leffler ( 1) suggested a system of adapting industrial inventory techniques to the problem of identifying books to be duplicated that would be compatible with the Library's computer based circulation system and also could be expected to be simpler and more thorough than the above method of buying multiple copies.
keywords: book; copies; number
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item: #610 of 778
id: ital-5584
author: Newman, William L.; Buchinski, Edwin J.
title: Entry/Title Compression Code Access to Machine Readable Bibliographic Files
date: 1971-06-01
words: 3977
flesch: 68
summary: This problem may be solved through the use of compression codes generated from author /title, or other bibliographic information. Studies Entry/Title Compression Code/NEWMAN and BUCHINSKI 73 of compression codes and their performance have been reported by Rueck- ing ( 1), Kilgour ( 2), and the University of Chicago ( 3).
keywords: code; compression; entry; marc; title; type
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item: #611 of 778
id: ital-5585
author: Rao, Paladugu V.; Szerenyi, B. Joseph
title: Booth Library On-Line Circulation System (BLOC)
date: 1971-06-01
words: 6918
flesch: 62
summary: Creation of book cards (those used in circulation transactions) from the master cards is explained in file updating procedure. 3) When the Booth Library MARC implementation project is completed, most book cards can be generated directly from the MARC tapes.
keywords: book; card; circulation; file; library; number; system
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item: #612 of 778
id: ital-5586
author: Sumarokov, Leonid N.
title: On the Recursive Definition of a Format for Communication
date: 1971-06-01
words: 945
flesch: 47
summary: Thus, the problem of a format for communica- tion reflects the existing tendency toward ensuring compatibility among formats. It has a different purpose, viz., to point out wider perspectives that will unfold by applying the recursive presentation of notations in formats at the expense of an object with any hierarchical depth.
keywords: format; notation
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item: #613 of 778
id: ital-5587
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.; Ryder, Valerie J.; Polacsek, Richard A.; Hopkins, Judith; Furth, Stephen E.; Clapp, Verner W.; Reed, Mary Jane; Kilgour, Eleanor M.; Voos, Henry; Rumics, Elizabeth
title: Book Reviews
date: 1971-06-01
words: 4406
flesch: 57
summary: The chapter on libraries deals primarily with Project INTREX and thus fails to give an overview of developments in library systems which are operational. The most serious drawback of this book in regard to library automation is its obvious slant toward business applications.
keywords: automation; book; interlibrary; libraries; library; loan; manual
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item: #614 of 778
id: ital-5588
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Maruyama, Lenore S.
title: The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, October 1970-May 1971
date: 1971-09-01
words: 4413
flesch: 60
summary: It is recognized that the distribution of cards and MARC records requires the same computer based bibliographic files and has similar hardware and software requirements. Since cards in the LC record set do not necessarily reflect the latest changes made to the cards in the LC Official Catalog, the Official Catalog comparison is necessary to ensure that RECON records are as up-to-date as the cards in the Official Catalog.
keywords: format; language; library; recon; records
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item: #615 of 778
id: ital-5589
author: Chauveinc, Marc
title: MONOCLE
date: 1971-09-01
words: 6377
flesch: 70
summary: This goal led to the consideration of the major problems of filing records and building an internal format to allow easy programming of correct filing , even if this correct filing is rather complicated for the computer. Most centers using MARC II records have designed their own processing formats and file structures from which, if the center is to participate in a network, it must be possible to regenerate records in a communications format.
keywords: field; filing; format; library; marc; monocle; title
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item: #616 of 778
id: ital-5590
author: Koenig, Michael E. D.; Finlay, Alexander C.; Cushman, Joann G.; Detmer, James M.
title: SCOPE: A Cost Analysis of an Automated Serials Record System
date: 1971-09-01
words: 4607
flesch: 60
summary: METHOD The method of cost analysis used was the net present value method. The bulk of material that has been written regarding costs and cost analysis has concentrated upon costs per unit of productivity of a functioning sys- tem, or upon comparison of such costs among various systems ( 4,5,6) .
keywords: analysis; cost; file; library; scope; system
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item: #617 of 778
id: ital-5591
author: Mauerhoff, Georg R.; Smith, Richard G.
title: A MARC II-Based Program for Retrieval and Dissemination
date: 1971-09-01
words: 6299
flesch: 66
summary: Additional projects reporting on the subject approach to MARC tapes in a batch environment are not numerous. In Sweden, Bjorn Tell ( 17) has run a MARC II test tape in his integrated information retrieval system called ABACUS, while in Edmonton, Canada, Doreen Heaps ( 18) reports on author and title searches of MARC tapes in a Chemical Titles format.
keywords: information; library; marc; profile; program; search; seldom; tape
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item: #618 of 778
id: ital-5592
author: Mathis, Robert F.; Hopkins, Judith; Line, Maurice B.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1971-09-01
words: 1406
flesch: 67
summary: One innovation introduced in this format that can only be applauded by MARC users is the adoption of the BNB practice of using the second indicator of title fields (241, 245, 440, 840, but not 740 where the second indicator had previously been assigned a different function) to specify the number of characters at the beginning of the entry which are to be ignored in filing. 4/3 September, 1971 A. J. Wells opened the Conference with a paper introducing U.K. MARC and closed it with a paper stating its relationship to the British National Bibliography.
keywords: book; marc
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item: #619 of 778
id: ital-5593
author: Malley, Patricia Munson
title: Development of a Technical Library to Support Computer Systems Evaluation
date: 1971-12-01
words: 3717
flesch: 54
summary: That is, a manual is listed by computer system, within the manufacturer, within the subject code. The user is aided in his searches by the following three types of listings of holdings: 1) Listing by manufacturer (Figure 1 ): major sort field, manufacturer; intermediate sort field , computer system nomenclature; intermediate sort field, subject code (tab); and minor sort field, publication number.
keywords: computer; ibm; information; library; system
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item: #620 of 778
id: ital-5594
author: Palmer, Foster M.
title: Automatic Processing of Personal Names for Filing
date: 1971-12-01
words: 5632
flesch: 63
summary: Furthermore, very specifically, it deals with prefix names. The other problem is more refractory and is exemplified by titles beginning with prefix names, for example De Gaulle, De Soto, and Van Gogh.
keywords: filing; library; list; names; prefix; processing; system
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item: #621 of 778
id: ital-5595
author: Schieber, William D.; Thomas, George W.
title: An Algorithm for Compaction of Alphanumeric Data
date: 1971-12-01
words: 3512
flesch: 69
summary: Characters that are unallocated may be used to represent longer character strings. One approach to this type of extension is to take a particular type of character string, namely a word, and to encode certain words which appear frequently.
keywords: character; compaction; data; encoding; string
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item: #622 of 778
id: ital-5596
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.
title: Title-Only Entries Retrieved by Use of Truncated Search Keys
date: 1971-12-01
words: 1637
flesch: 67
summary: The keys from name-title entries consistently produce fewer maximum entries per reply. CONCLUSION This experiment has produced evidence that a series of truncated search keys derived from a first order Markov word string in a bibliographic description yields a higher number of maximum entries per reply than does a series derived from a zero order Markov string.
keywords: entries; title
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item: #623 of 778
id: ital-5597
author: Long, Philip L.; Kilgour, Frederick G.
title: Name-Title Entry Retrieval From a MARC File
date: 1971-12-01
words: 548
flesch: 62
summary: Initial articles were deleted in Yale titles, but only English articles in MARC titles because the language of foreign language titles is not identified in MARC. Possible influences that might have led to different results were the existence of errors in the Yale file, a significant proportion of foreign titles in the Yale file as compared to the nearly all-English MARC file, and the inability to mechanically delete the initial articles in the few foreign language MARC titles.
keywords: file
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item: #624 of 778
id: ital-5598
author: Nance, Richard E.; Wickham, W. Kenneth; Duggan, Maryann
title: A Computer System for Effective Management of a Medical Library Network
date: 1971-12-01
words: 2427
flesch: 50
summary: 4) TRIPS is extremely sensitive to system integrity, providing diagnosis of input data, reporting of errors, magnetic tape backup of data files, and a system failsafe tape. Data entry in tum comprises 1) collecting statistics, 2) diagnosis and verifica- tion of input data and 3) backup of original verified input data.
keywords: data; library; talon; trips
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item: #625 of 778
id: ital-5599
author: Yovits, Marshall C.; Saracevic, Tefko; Veaner, Allen B.; Fasana, Paul J.; Miller, Ronald; Eaton, Andrew J.; Chaffe, Alberta L.; Kilgour, Frederick G.; Slamecka, V.; Vaillancourt, Pauline M.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1971-12-01
words: 5409
flesch: 52
summary: In short, it is a collection of a large number of papers mostly from the last few years having to do in some way with information science or more properly, with information systems. Furthermore, the overall scope of the articles is generally quite limited and, although the editor implies it is not so, tends to equate information science to information systems.
keywords: automation; book; entries; information; library; science; services; volume
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item: #626 of 778
id: ital-5600
author: Promann, Marlen; Zhang, Tao
title: Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis Method to Discovery Layer Evaluation
date: 2015-03-30
words: 11735
flesch: 46
summary: While most tasks were accomplished successfully, the study confirmed previous warnings that users do not understand the complexities of search and identified several interface issues: (1) users desire single search, but willingly use multiple options for search, (2) lack of visibility for the option to sort search results, and (3) the difficulty in finding journal articles.[3] Yang and Wagner offer one case where the aim was to evaluate discovery layers against a check-‐ list of 12 features that would define a true ‘next generation catalogue’: (1) Single point of entry to all library information, (2) State-‐of-‐the-‐art web interface (e.g. Google and Amazon), (3) Enriched content (e.g. book cover images, ratings and comments), (4) Faceted navigation for search results, (5) Simple keyword search on every page, (6) More precise relevancy (with circulation statistics a contributing factor), (7) Automatic spell check, (8) Recommendations to related materials (common in commercial sites, e.g. Amazon), (9) Allowing users to add data to records (e.g. reviews), INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2015 81 (10) RSS feeds to allow users to follow top circulating books or topic related updates in the library catalogue, (11) Links to social networking sites to allow users to share their resources, (12) Stable URL’s that can be easily copied, pasted and shared. Microsoft Word - March_ITAL_prommann_original_notes.docx Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis Method to Discovery Layer Evaluation Merlen Prommann and Tao Zhang INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2015 77 ABSTRACT While usability tests have been helpful in evaluating the success or failure of implementing discovery layers in the library context, the focus of usability tests has remained on the search interface rather than the discovery process for users.
keywords: case; discovery; library; results; search; task; users
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author: Stuart, Kenyon; Varnum, Ken; Ahronheim, Judith
title: Measuring Journal Linking Success from a Discovery Service
date: 2015-03-30
words: 8663
flesch: 55
summary: 2. links in the 360 Link menu that were not used for 1-‐Click when 360 Link attempted to link to full text using 1-‐Click 3. links in the 360 Link menu where clicking the link in Summon led directly to the 360 Link menu instead of using 1-‐Click MEASURING JOURNAL LINKING SUCCESS FROM A DISCOVERY SERVICE | STUART, VARNUM, AND AHRONHEIM 69 Sample 1 Nov. 2012 n = 167 Sample 2 Dec. 2012 n = 158 Sample 3 Jan. 2013 n = 184 Sample 4 Jan. 2013 n = 172 Full Text/Page with full-‐text link 81 48.5% 84 53.2% 103 56.0% 87 50.6% Abstract/Citation Only 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 0.5% 0 0.0% Unable to access full text through available full-‐text link 0 0.0% 1 0.6% 0 0.0% 1 0.6% Error but full text available 9 5.4% 14 8.9% 17 9.2% 23 13.4% Error and full text not accessible through full-‐text link on target 1 0.6% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Error and no full-‐text link on target 10 6.0% 1 0.6% 6 3.3% 5 2.9% Failed to find DOI through link in 360 Link menu 3 1.8% 5 3.2% 5 2.7% 8 4.7% Main journal page 22 13.2% 24 15.2% 17 9.2% 15 8.7% Other 2 1.2% 0 0.0% 1 0.5% 2 1.2% 360 Link menu with no full-‐text links 0 0.0% 2 1.3% 3 1.6% 3 1.7% Results list 9 5.4% 4 2.5% 10 5.4% 3 1.7% Search box 6 3.6% 7 4.4% 5 2.7% 8 4.7% Table of Contents 12 7.2% 6 3.8% 10 5.4% 9 5.2% Listing of volumes/issues 9 5.4% 9 5.7% 5 2.7% 6 3.5% Wrong article 3 1.8% 1 0.6% 1 0.5% 2 1.2% Table 6. Results with 360 Link: All Links Produced by 360 Link In addition to recording what happened, we attempted to determine why links failed to reach full text. Since links, platforms, contracts, and subscriptions change frequently, this can be a time-‐consuming process.
keywords: link; linking; text
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author: Young, Scott Woodward Hazard; Rossmann, Doralyn
title: Building Library Community Through Social Media
date: 2015-03-30
words: 5457
flesch: 38
summary: Hofer notes that communities formed online through social media activity can generate a sense of “online bonding social capital. ”53 This paper builds on existing online community research while drawing on the critical theory of “digital dualism” to argue that communities built through social media do not reside in a separate “online” space, but rather are one element of a much more significant and valuable form of holistic connectedness.
keywords: community; library; media; social
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id: ital-5629
author: Nelson, David; Turney, Linda
title: What’s in a word? : Rethinking facet headings in a discovery service
date: 2015-06-15
words: 7260
flesch: 39
summary: The INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 80 challenge that libraries face is the need to make sure that users are aware of their presence on a search interface rather than relying exclusively on keywords alone and solely on the algorithmically based result.24 The value of the faceted/filtered search is the ability to lead the searcher quickly and efficiently to the desired result, a result that will too often elude the user even with a powerful Google search, unless that user gets most of the terms exactly right. At this point, it is difficult, if not impossible, to know whether facets have been used for searches and, if so, which facets have been used.
keywords: discovery; facet; information; library; search
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id: ital-5631
author: Gonzales, Brighid M.
title: Linking Libraries to the Web: Linked Data and the Future of the Bibliographic Record
date: 2014-12-18
words: 5644
flesch: 35
summary: Libraries still consider themselves the province of quality, reliable information, but users don’t necessarily go to libraries when searching and don’t necessarily have the Internet acumen to distinguish between authoritative information and questionable resources. “Libraries no longer own much of the content they provide to users; rather it is subscribed to from a variety of vendors. Not only does that mean that vendors will have to make their data available in linked data formats for improvements to federated search to happen, but a mix of licensed and free content in a linked data environment would be extremely INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | DECEMBER 2014 18 difficult to manage.
keywords: data; libraries; library; web
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id: ital-5638
author: Zak, Elizabeth
title: Do You Believe in Magic? Exploring the Conceptualization of Augmented Reality and its Implications for the User in the Field of Library and Information Science
date: 2014-12-18
words: 12672
flesch: 31
summary: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | DECEMBER 2014 41 Furthermore, by identifying best practices, practitioners can begin to pinpoint what applications of AR are successful within an institution and for users, and why those applications are successful for specific purposes. Exploring the Conceptualization of Augmented Reality and its Implications for the User in the Field of Library and Information Science Elizabeth Zak INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | DECEMBER 2014 23 ABSTRACT Augmented reality (AR) technology has implications for the ways that the field of library and information science (LIS) serves users and organizes information.
keywords: digital; information; lis; new; reality; technology; user
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id: ital-5650
author: Liu, Yan Quan; Briggs, Sarah
title: A Library in the Palm of Your Hand: Mobile Services in Top 100 University Libraries
date: 2015-06-15
words: 6233
flesch: 39
summary: 100% of libraries with mobile sites include library hours on their site, making this the most common feature. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 141 Mobile Services Percentage of libraries offering service (Website Visits) Percentage of libraries offering service (Survey) E-‐books 100% 85.29% Mobile databases 92.90% 70.59% Mobile OPAC 87.80% 88.24% Mobile website 80.80% 82.35% Text messaging 80.80% 73.53% QR codes 61.60% 55.88% Mobile app for site 20.20% 38.24% Augmented reality 7.00% 2.94% Table 2. Data Comparison of Specific Mobile Services between Website Visits & Survey.
keywords: libraries; library; mobile; services
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id: ital-5664
author: Tharani, Karim
title: Linked Data in Libraries: A Case Study of Harvesting and Sharing Bibliographic Metadata with BIBFRAME
date: 2015-03-30
words: 5760
flesch: 40
summary: What if we could set free the bound elements? That is, what if we could let serial titles, subjects, creators, dates, places, and other elements, interact independently with data on the Web to which they are related? What might be the possibilities of a statement-‐based, Linked Data environment? 5 LINKED DATA IN LIBRARIES: A CASE STUDY OF HARVESTING AND SHARING BIBLIOGRAPHIC METADATA WITH BIBFRAME | THARANI 7 Figure 1. In 1994 Tim Berners-‐Lee, the inventor of the web, put forth his vision of the Semantic Web as a “Web of actionable information—information derived from data through a Semantic theory for INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2015 8 interpreting the symbols.
keywords: data; libraries; metadata; web
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id: ital-5666
author: Vacek, Rachel
title: President’s Message: UX Thinking and the LITA Member Experience
date: 2014-09-25
words: 1769
flesch: 52
summary: Luckily, there were multiple times when I felt embraced by LITA members, such as participating in BIGWIG’s Social Media Showcase, teaching pre-conferences, hanging out at the Happy Hours, and attending the Forums. My mind has been occupied lately with user experience (UX) thinking in both the web world and in the physical world around me.
keywords: experience; lita
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id: ital-5699
author: Holstein, Ann L
title: Geographic Information and Technologies in Academic Research Libraries: An ARL Survey of Services and Support
date: 2015-03-30
words: 5028
flesch: 31
summary: Location % of Libraries (1997) % of Libraries (2014) Map Department/Services 43 36 Government Documents 39 4 Reference 10 13 Geospatial Data Center, GIS, or Data Services 3 19 Not in any one location -‐ 9 Digital Scholarship Center -‐ 6 Combined Area (i.e., Map Dept. & Gov. Docs.) In 1997, 84% of GIS librarians and specialists at ARL libraries had an MLS degree.13 At that time, the incumbent was most often recruited from within the library to assume this new role, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2015 42 whereas today’s GIS professionals are just as likely to come from nonlibrary backgrounds, bringing their expertise and advanced geographic training to this nontraditional librarian role.
keywords: geographic; gis; libraries; library
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id: ital-5702
author: Owen, Will; Michalak, Sarah C.
title: Engine Of Innovation: Building the High Performance Catalog
date: 2015-06-15
words: 6749
flesch: 36
summary: The use of faceted browsing allowed users to parse the bibliographic record in new ways (and more ways) than had preceding catalogs. We have similarly enhanced services related to the discovery and delivery of items listed in the bibliographic database, including not only common features like the ability to export citations in a variety of formats but also more extensive services such as document delivery, an auto-‐suggest feature that maximizes use of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), and the ability to submit cataloged items to be processed for reserve reading. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 7 Both students and faculty have embraced e-‐books, and in adding more than a million such titles to the UNC-‐Chapel Hill catalog we continue to blend discovery and delivery, but now on a very large scale.
keywords: catalog; information; libraries; library; search
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id: ital-5704
author: Zhou, Yongli
title: Fulfill Your Digital Preservation Goals with a Budget Studio
date: 2016-04-01
words: 5868
flesch: 53
summary: This paper compares images delivered by a high-end overhead scanner and a consumer-level DSLR camera, discusses pros and cons of using each method, demonstrates how to set up a cost-efficient shooting studio, and presents a budget estimate for a studio. In this paper, I will compare images produced by a scanner and a camera side-by-side, list pros and cons of using each method, illustrate how to establish a shooting studio, and present a budget estimate for that studio.
keywords: camera; dslr; figure; image; overhead; scanner; studio
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id: ital-5720
author: Aagaard, James S.
title: An Interactive Computer-Based Circulation System: Design and Development
date: 1972-03-01
words: 4037
flesch: 61
summary: The keyboard on this terminal allows the staff to perform additional functions , such as charging books to users without badges, charging for periods other than the standard loan period, processing renewals, and discharging books which have been returned. This device can accept the same plastic user badge and book card as the 1030 terminal, and transfers the punched information to a two-part form.
keywords: book; circulation; file; system
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id: ital-5721
author: Goldwyn, A. J.
title: Foreward
date: 1972-03-01
words: 271
flesch: 46
summary: The mere availability of equipment, of programs and tested system design, even of skilled and experienced manpower can no longer be considered enough. Increasingly, in the issues of this Journal, we hope that emphasis will be placed on reviews of experience, retro- spective evaluations of operation rather than optimistic projections made in the first bright mornings of system design.
keywords: library
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id: ital-5722
author: Hazelton, Robert S.
title: Cataloging Geometry
date: 1972-03-01
words: 2004
flesch: 61
summary: Both the best and the worst of this view are exhibited as it is pushed to the extreme: The failure of our present systems of book classification in no way condemns the act of classification as a fundamental bibliographic technique. Book classification, as we have used it in the past, has failed for two reasons: one, because it has been based upon the book as a physical entity without taking into consideration the inherent character of the book as a composite intellectual product; two, because of limitations arising from the properties of our hierarchical systems of classification.
keywords: book; classification; library
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id: ital-5723
author: Long, Philip L.; Kilgour, Frederick
title: A Truncated Search Key Title Index
date: 1972-03-01
words: 1280
flesch: 68
summary: A previous paper has shown that truncated three-letter search keys derived from the first two words of a title are less specific than author- title keys ( 1). The maximum number of identical keys was 321 for 3,1,1,1,1 and 3,1,1,1; the key was PRO, b, b, b, b, most of which was d erived from Proceedings.
keywords: key; title
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id: ital-5724
author: Van Dyke, Vern J.; Ayer, L.
title: Multipurpose Cataloging and Indexing System (CAIN) at the National Agricultural Library
date: 1972-03-01
words: 3947
flesch: 60
summary: Elements for which the system supplies authority files are not only verified against the file but also additional transactions are generated from the authority file to assure uniformity in output. This subsystem updates, generates, expands, and maintains three types of authority files.
keywords: cain; data; file; records; system
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id: ital-5725
author: Buckland, Michael K.; Gallivan, Bernard
title: Circulation Control: Off-line, On-line, of Hybrid
date: 1972-03-01
words: 3133
flesch: 63
summary: The duration of the on-line connection might be ten to fifteen minutes owing to line speed limitations. On-line systems are then reviewed and their economic viability queried.
keywords: computer; library; line; system
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id: ital-5726
author: Buhr, Lorne R.
title: Selective Dissemination of MARC: A User Evaluation
date: 1972-03-01
words: 4480
flesch: 64
summary: One of the chief drawbacks for which SDI services are often cited is the absence of evaluative commentary or abstract material to accompany the citations. If current sub- scription costs for SDI services such as those offered by Can/SDI of the National Science Library, Ottawa can be maintained, and early indications are that they can, a cost of $100 per profile per year may be feasible bring- ing the annual expenditure for 100 users to $10,000.
keywords: marc; sdi; seldom; service
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id: ital-5727
author: Roth, Dana L.
title: Scientific Serial Lists
date: 1972-03-01
words: 2360
flesch: 58
summary: The publication of a serials list oriented to the needs of scientists must then provide for: scientific title entries for corporate and society publica- 54 Journal of Library Automation Vol. The use of prepositions and conjunctions as filing elements constrains these scientists to being able to translate these abbreviations only into title entries where the omitted words are obvious, e.g., Journal of the American Chemical Society but often causes problems with titles like Journal of the Less- Common Metals.
keywords: library; list; serials; title
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id: ital-5728
author: Lehnus, Donald J.; Allan, Ann
title: Book Reviews
date: 1972-03-01
words: 1148
flesch: 52
summary: Even though centralized book processing might hold little appeal for the reader, this volume nonetheless is valuable to technical service heads because of its above average sophistication in applying a systems analysis approach to technical services problems. By the time the experiment began most participants had a large portion of their book money encumbered, and the center was forced to accept cata- loging arrearages in addition to book order requests.
keywords: book; cataloging
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id: ital-5730
author: Martin, Susan K.
title: From the Editor
date: 1972-06-01
words: 231
flesch: 59
summary: During the intervening period, I will appreciate greatly the support of ISAD members, JOLA readers, authors, and the ALA staff. I wish to express gratitude to Don S. Culbertson, at that time Executive Secretary of both the Information Science and Automation Division and the American Library Trustees Association, for adding yet another hat while he prepared a substantial portion of this June 1972 issue of JOLA.
keywords: jola
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id: ital-5731
author: Kountz, John C.
title: BIBLIOS Revisited
date: 1972-06-01
words: 7717
flesch: 78
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keywords: bibliographic; biblios; book; catalog; cost; library; number; order; system; title
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id: ital-5733
author: Guthrie, Gerry D.; Slifko, Steven D.
title: Analysis of Search Key Retrieval on a Large Bibliographic File
date: 1972-06-01
words: 1635
flesch: 64
summary: INTRODUCTION Systems planners are hard pressed to accurately predict the access charac- teristics of search keys on large on-line bibliographic files when so little is known about user requests. The search key file is in sequence by search key.
keywords: key; search
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id: ital-5734
author: Veneziano, Velma
title: An Interactive Computer-Based Circulation System for Northwestern University: The Library Puts It to Work
date: 1972-06-01
words: 7241
flesch: 74
summary: Accurately punched book cards, available in all books, can make the difference between success and failure of a circulation system. Since the terminal will not accept badges or book cards unless they are inserted in the proper direction, the user soon gets the idea.
keywords: book; card; circulation; number; system; user
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id: ital-5735
author: Carter, Ruth C.
title: Automation of Acquisitions at Parkland College
date: 1972-06-01
words: 7150
flesch: 61
summary: At this point, as well as previously, the literature was searched for relevant discussions of acquisitions systems and/or mechanization applications in small libraries. In fact, one of the disk drives was reserved strictly for systems programs, and could not be utilized directly by the library.
keywords: acquisitions; automation; computer; data; library; parkland; system; time
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id: ital-5736
author: Hammer, Donald P.
title: HELP: The Automated Binding Records Control System
date: 1972-06-01
words: 2313
flesch: 82
summary: In addition, the system provides an up-to-date pattern record for the libraries' files, and the bindery maintains the resultant data bank of pattern records as the library notifies it of additions, changes, and deletions. The Automated Binding Records Control System An interesting new aspect of library automation has been the appearance of commercial ventures established to provide for an effective use of the new ideas and techniques of automation and related fields.
keywords: binding; library
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id: ital-5737
author: Line, Maurice B.; Harris, Howard S.; Hammer, Donald P.; Washington, Lillian H.; Hopkins, Judith
title: Book Reviews
date: 1972-06-01
words: 4714
flesch: 56
summary: One addressed the need for MARC formats and the user requirements for such formats, keeping in mind the need for bi-lingual content in the perspective of an international MARC as to data for author, title, collation and notes, geographic names, and subject. Initiate a pilot project with other libraries to test the proposed Canadian serials format prior to full implementation.
keywords: automation; canadian; data; format; library; marc; serials
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id: ital-5738
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.; Long, Philip L.; Landgraf, Alan L.; Wyckoff, John A.
title: The Shared Cataloging System of the Ohio College Library Center
date: 1972-09-01
words: 11668
flesch: 63
summary: For each title for which catalog cards were needed, members transcribed Library of Congress ( LC) card numbers onto a request card. Design of catalog cards and format options began four months before off-line activities.
keywords: bibliographic; card; catalog; catalog card; cataloging; file; library; line; number; oclc; record; system
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id: ital-5739
author: McGee, Rob
title: Two Types of Designs for On-Line Circulation Systems
date: 1972-09-01
words: 8523
flesch: 56
summary: Item systems are characterized by three or four major files: 1) a user file; 2) an item file of bibliographic records for all library volumes or titles, or for as many as machine records can feasibly be created and stored; 3) a transaction file that may be used for update of the item file, data collection and analysis, and perhaps notice generation; and optionally 4) an absence file of records for circulating items, if transaction data for them are more efficiently kept here than in the item file. Item systems are in operation at Bell Laboratories library ( 18,19 ), Eastern Illinois University library ( 20), Ohio State University libraries ( 21,22 ), and the Technical Library of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston ( 23).
keywords: absence; circulation; data; file; item; library; line; records; system
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id: ital-5740
author: Saracevic, Tefko; Bierman, Kenneth J.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1972-09-01
words: 927
flesch: 58
summary: I personally like Proceedings that have many papers under category c); such papers make me think ( or laugh ). Let's face it: there is something about any Proceedings that elicits a very personal reaction in many of us: Here are papers that either, a) got their authors a trip to the conference city; b ) tell how we did good at our place; or c) unabashedly present H.B.I.'s- ( half baked ideas ).
keywords: information; papers
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id: ital-5741
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Guiles, Kay D.
title: Content Designators for Machine-Readable Records: A Working Paper
date: 1972-12-01
words: 4506
flesch: 50
summary: Data element identifiers in some cases are tag dependent, i.e., they identify the same data elements consistently when used with a par- ticular tag and data field, regardless of the combination of data elements present in the data field for any particular record. In other cases, the data element identifiers are tag, indicator, and data dependent, i.e. , the meaning of the data element identifiers changes and the data element identifiers are assigned to different data elements, depending upon the combination of data elements occurring in a data field for a particular record.
keywords: bibliographic; content; data; element
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id: ital-5742
author: McGrath, William E.; Simon, Donald
title: Regional Numerical Union Catalog on Computer Output Microfiche
date: 1972-12-01
words: 4248
flesch: 67
summary: The total of A and Z's common holdings that were also held by other libraries is 1,315, or about 10.5 percent of 12,470. The administrators of each library are especially interested to know how many of their own titles are also held by other libraries.
keywords: libraries; library; number
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item: #659 of 778
id: ital-5743
author: Grosch, Audrey N.
title: Computer-Based Subject Authority Files at the University of Minnesota Libraries
date: 1972-12-01
words: 6410
flesch: 80
summary: If tJ~ • • l i, W) 0 1·•··.r:r , cr -.. ~ ... ,(' .. ~ C:H<' t r r l'tfi(Trt ~o~r <; :· '' f ~ ; ~,;~.K1 ~~~~ ~~ i (: t.,t · r r,.
keywords: data; file; subject; system
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id: ital-5744
author: Brodman, Estelle
title: Book Reviews
date: 1972-12-01
words: 740
flesch: 52
summary: The assumptions on which the conference was based were the traditional ones of librarians and information scientists-that access to information should be the right of anyone without regard to geographical or economic position, and that pooling of resources (here by networking operations) is one of the best ways to reach that goal. Since it is deemed desirable to give the widest chance for all individuals to use these networks, it was recommended that fee-for- service prices should be kept low through subventions of the telecommuni- cations costs by libraries and information centers.
keywords: information
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id: ital-5745
author: Deodato, Joseph
title: Evaluating Web-Scale Discovery Services: A Step-by-Step Guide
date: 2015-06-15
words: 18874
flesch: 31
summary: 3 Create an evaluation rubric Create a comprehensive, prioritized list of product requirements rooted in staff and user needs. As products emerge from their initial release and more information about them becomes available, the library community has gained a better understanding of how web-‐scale discovery services work and their particular strengths and weaknesses.
keywords: discovery; evaluation; library; product; search; team; users; web-‐scale
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id: ital-5759
author: Malinconico, S. Michael; Rizzolo, James A.
title: The New York Public Library Automated Book Catalog Subsystem
date: 1973-03-01
words: 15903
flesch: 68
summary: We have found that punctuation of added entries is effected correctly in 98 percent of catalog entries. TE heading records are formatted by a single module invoked by this step and again in P5.
keywords: authority; bibliographic; book; book catalog; catalog; cross; cumulation; data; entry; file; heading; library; new; program; record; reference; system; york
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item: #663 of 778
id: ital-5760
author: Dimsdale, J. J.
title: File Structure for an On-Line Catalog of One Million Titles
date: 1973-03-01
words: 8535
flesch: 72
summary: There would be a separate hashing function, hash table file, dictionary file, and compressed inverted file for use with each different type of key. If there has previously occurred a bit string B(K1), I(K1), Mr(K1) in which B(L) = B(K), I(K1) = I(K), Mr(K1) # M(K) then no change is File Structure for an On-Line Catalog/DIM5DALE 41 B(K), I(K), M(K) HASH TABLE FILE: COUNTER SECTION: COUNTER SECTION NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER OCCUPIED OVERFLOWS FROM OVERFLOWS INTO Fig.
keywords: bucket; catalog; entry; file; hash; index
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id: ital-5761
author: Shoffner, Ralph
title: Information Science and Automation Division Board of Directors
date: 1973-03-01
words: 3219
flesch: 56
summary: Ron- ald Miller~ chairman, enumerated the following points of the committee's meeting: that ( 1) a long range plan for seminar programs be written to cover the period from July 1974 through June 1978; (2) part of the money from the institutes be budgeted to support a professional staff person at ALA Headquarters to handle the burden of the work; ( 3) policy be es- tablished concerning commercial groups using ISAD programs for a market- ing channel, particularly products of use to libraries; ( 4) institutes or semi- nars be regionalized in the U.S. and Canada; and ( 5) liaison efforts be utilized (a) within the network of ALA, (b) through subcontractors, and (c) through continuing education programs of library schools or other institutes of higher education. Also, she ltad attempted for a year and a half to assemble an information packet at ALA Headquarters, but did not know the status of the project.
keywords: chairman; committee; library
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id: ital-5762
author: Martin, Susan K.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1973-03-01
words: 2778
flesch: 54
summary: Other application systems, such as acquisitions and serials already are computer supported and therefore have existing machine-readable data files. The premise of the development is that an integrated acquisi- tions, accounting, in-process control sys- tem for all library materials coupled with an on-line catalog/ circulation control sys- tem can be operationally affordable by a library or system of libraries in the 200,000 volume class using its own com- puter system.
keywords: library; pacific; system; technical; university
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id: ital-5763
author: Bierman, Kenneth J.; Atherton, Pauline; Payne, Charles T.; Crawford, Walt; Martin, David S.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1973-03-01
words: 2052
flesch: 56
summary: For librarians, a major rele- vance of this volume will be the varied approaches to cost-effectiveness analysis of instruction in relation to learning ma- terials, since in this task, librarian and in- structor must work hand in hand. 6/ 1 March 1973 cellent, and this portion is valuable in showing the virtues and defects of various approaches to key word indexing.
keywords: indexing; library; system; word
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item: #667 of 778
id: ital-5764
author: Burgess, Thomas K.
title: A Cost Effectiveness Model for Comparing Various Circulation Systems
date: 1973-06-01
words: 4489
flesch: 65
summary: Library circulation systems, however, may fit this type of model with relative ease. 6/2 June 1973 effectiveness comparison with a similar manual operation can provide infor- mation on effectiveness of automated circulation systems in general as well as on the WSU implementation.
keywords: activities; circulation; hours; time; total
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id: ital-5765
author: Sanderson, M.
title: On-Line and Back at S.F.U.
date: 1973-06-01
words: 5084
flesch: 66
summary: A first question should be: '\Vhat are we really trying to acl1ieve here? rather than: I wonder if we could apply system x in this situation? Present system (Phase I ) converted to Minerva with new file organization, etc. interface to batch system.
keywords: file; library; line; loan; phase; system
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id: ital-5766
author: Landgraf, Alan L.; Kilgour, Frederick G.
title: Catalog Records Retrieved by Personal Author Using Derived Search Keys
date: 1973-06-01
words: 1759
flesch: 71
summary: This program counted the number of distinct keys, built a fre- quency distribution of names per distinct key and cumulative frequency distributions of names per distinct key in percentile groups. This investigation shows that search keys derived from personal author names possess a sufficient degree of distinctness to be employed in an effi~ cient computerized interactive index to a file of MARC II catalog records having 167,7 45 personal author entries.
keywords: key; keys
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id: ital-5767
author: Bookstein, Abraham
title: Statistical Behavior of Search Keys
date: 1973-06-01
words: 3411
flesch: 66
summary: This model similarly assumes that among any sizeable number of requests, the fraction of the time any particular search key value will occur is fixed; thus, for any subset of search key values, it is possible to determine how often members of that subset will occur among a set of requests. For a particular collection, letS denote the set of search key values Statistical Behavior of Search Keysj BOOKSTEIN 111 for which, say, twenty or more items are retrieved.
keywords: search
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id: ital-5768
author: Bosseau, Don L.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1973-06-01
words: 3268
flesch: 50
summary: The U.S. group, D. Burchinal said, was particularly struck by the importance at- tached to information services by the highest levels of scientific and technolog- ical management in the U.S.S.R. and in the constituent republics. State University of New York is the first major multicampus system to intro- duce such a reciprocal program on so wide a scale, although the library system of the State University of Illinois has a similar policy, limited to faculty and grad- uate students.
keywords: information; library; state; system; technical; university
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id: ital-5769
author: Namenwirth, S. Micha; Husbands, Charles W.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1973-06-01
words: 649
flesch: 61
summary: IBM's Data Pro-·' cessing Glossary and the American Na- tional Standard Vocabulary for Information Processing appear to have been important sources of information processing terms. S. Micha Namenwirth University of California, Berkeley DictionanJ of Library Science, Information and Documentation in Six Languages.
keywords: library
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item: #673 of 778
id: ital-5770
author: Ellern, Gillian (Jill) D; Hitch, Robin; Stoffan, Mark A
title: User Authentication in the Public Areas of Academic Libraries in North Carolina
date: 2015-06-15
words: 10231
flesch: 34
summary: Microsoft Word - June_ITAL_Ellern_final.docx User Authentication in the Public Area of Academic Libraries in North Carolina Gillian (Jill) D. Ellern, Robin Hitch, and Mark A. Stoffan INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 103 ABSTRACT The clash of principles between protecting privacy and protecting security can create an impasse between libraries, campus IT departments, and academic administration over authentication issues with the public area PCs in the library. He confirmed that other librarians also have ambivalent feelings about authentication issues but that there was also growing understanding in libraries about the potential vulnerability of networks or misuse of their resources.2 It seemed that the speed at which authenticating computers in the public areas of libraries was happening across the country had not really allowed the literature on the subject to quite catch up. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 105 Those studies that existed such as SPEC Kits seem to address the issue from the perspective of larger research libraries or else did not systematically assess other specific groups of libraries.3,4 There were questions in our minds about whether the current research that was found would describe the trends and unique situations of libraries located in rural areas or in other types of academic libraries.
keywords: access; authentication; libraries; library; public
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id: ital-5772
author: Shoffner, Ralph M.
title: ISAD Ad Hoc Committee Reports
date: 1973-09-01
words: 8074
flesch: 43
summary: the establishment of a journal which would pull together articles on library automation, which at that time were appearing in many different places; 2. provision of a clearinghouse for information on library automation proj- ects; 3. creation of a bank of computer programs and related documentation for use by other libraries planning similar applications; 4. evaluation of library automation equipment and applications; 5. tutorial seminars, preconference meetings and other educational programs. Before this date, there was no mem- bership unit within ALA with the sole responsibility for library automation, so there was no effective way for librarians involved with automation to communi- cate, or to learn from each other's experiences.
keywords: automation; committee; division; information; institute; isad; libraries; library; library automation
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id: ital-5773
author: Board of Directors, ISAD
title: Highlights of Minutes
date: 1973-09-01
words: 5006
flesch: 60
summary: Mrs. Martin said that at the Mon- day ISAD Board meeting she had talked of retaining ]OLA TC as a sep- arate publication, but the final feeling of the Editorial Board was negative. Chairman Stephen Salmon summarized the discussion by the Objectives Committee of the three issues raised at the first session of the ISAD Board meeting regarding the Infor- mation Technology Discussion Group: ( 1) How such a group should fit into the organizational structure of ISAD.
keywords: board; committee; group; isad
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id: ital-5774
author: Landgraf, Alan L.; Rastogi, Kunj B.; Long, Philip L.
title: Corporate Author Entry Records Retrieved by Use of Derived Truncated Search Keys
date: 1973-09-01
words: 2050
flesch: 67
summary: Obviously a Corporate Author Entry RecordsjLANDGRAF, et al. 157 type of search key different from that which proved efficient for retrieving personal authors is required for retrieval of corporate entries. To study a given type of key, the file was sorted on a specified number of initial characters of each segment; these initial characters were then employed as search keys by a program which sequentially compared the characters in the key, counting distinct and identical keys.
keywords: entries; number
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id: ital-5775
author: Roberts, Justine
title: Grant Project Information via a Shared Data Base
date: 1973-09-01
words: 2221
flesch: 71
summary: Previous investigation by the library had revealed the fiscal infeasibility of extracting citations of publications on campus research projects from a commercially available data base. man-weeks of library staff time and less than a week's time of computer center staff.
keywords: campus; index; library; project
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id: ital-5776
author: Grosch, Audrey N.
title: The Minnesota Union List of Serials
date: 1973-09-01
words: 7837
flesch: 68
summary: With this picture of the program scope, the design factors, data conversion, computer system, programs, photocomposition, costs, and problems will be described below. 6/3 September 1973 • publication of regional combination or individual library lists using an IBM 1403 line printer equipped with the ALA graphic print train; • storage of complete and verified information on each serial as known, together with the source of the cataloging data; • extraction of the data via individual libraries to assist those wishing to develop automated serials management systems including check· in, claiming, binding, etc.; • conversion of the file to other storage media such as disk; • fulfillment of the smallest to the largest libraries' needs for biblio· .
keywords: data; format; library; list; marc; minnesota; muls; serials; system; tape
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id: ital-5777
author: Crawford, Walt; Roberts, Justine; Taylor, Desmond; Kilgour, Frederick G.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1973-09-01
words: 2756
flesch: 71
summary: This circu- lation system is the first of its type in the country and permits library users to place telephone calls to learn titles and authors and to charge out books. The only other payment a library makes is 3.4¢ per catalog card.
keywords: key; library; system; university
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item: #680 of 778
id: ital-5778
author: Pulsifer, Josephine S.
title: Comparison of MARC Serials, NSDP, and ISBD-S
date: 1973-12-01
words: 3018
flesch: 57
summary: no To: List of doctoral dissertations in history in progress ... (d) SR makes new record when main entry changes, or when new title merits entry under title main entry. These practices do not necessarily correspond with NSDP's practice, based on ISDS guidelines, in assigning new key titles.
keywords: new; nsdp; serials; title; yes
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item: #681 of 778
id: ital-5779
author: Grosch, Audrey N.
title: A Regional Serials Program Under National Serials Data Program Auspices: Discussion Paper Prepared for Ad Hoc Serials Discussion Group
date: 1973-12-01
words: 2134
flesch: 56
summary: Create and maintain regional center serials data base reflecting holdings of libraries in the region. Notify regional center of new titles, changes, corrections to maintain regional data base.
keywords: data; regional; serials
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item: #682 of 778
id: ital-5782
author: De Gennaro, Richard
title: Providing Bibliographic Services From Machine-Readable Data Bases--The Library's Role
date: 1973-12-01
words: 3541
flesch: 53
summary: While it is clearly outside the scope of this paper to review the state-of- the-art of data base services, reference to a few key works and a brief in- troduction to the subject may be helpful. Interest among librarians in data base services is running high.
keywords: bases; centers; data; library; services
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item: #683 of 778
id: ital-5783
author: Anable, Richard
title: The Ad Hoc Discussion Group on Serials Data Bases: Its History, Current Position, and Future
date: 1973-12-01
words: 3196
flesch: 56
summary: There are no conclusive studies in the area of serials conversions which suggest that the total record conversion approach would be less expensive in the long run tha11 a base record conversion approach. The improvement of communications among institutions engaged in the generation or maintenance of serials data bases.
keywords: conversion; data; library; serials
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item: #684 of 778
id: ital-5784
author: Torkington, Roy B.
title: Cumulating the Supplements to the Seventh Edition of LC Subject Headings
date: 1973-12-01
words: 3942
flesch: 61
summary: (Examples are only representations of MARC records. SUPMRG, as a result, does not require modules for rebuilding and modi- fying MARC records.
keywords: cumulation; headings; library; record; supplement
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item: #685 of 778
id: ital-5785
author: Gibson, Liz
title: BIBCON--A General Purpose Software System for MARC-Based Book Catalog Production
date: 1973-12-01
words: 8057
flesch: 76
summary: Tagged Input Unnecessary: Because of the formatting and tagging abilities of the Automatic Field Recognition program, BIBCON can produce MARC records from input which has not been manually supplied with any of the MARC field tags. AFR-MARC II Records It is important to emphasize that the system produces MARC-like rec- ords rather than full MARC records.
keywords: california; data; field; input; library; marc; output; program; record; system; title
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item: #686 of 778
id: ital-5786
author: Silberstein, Stephen
title: Technical Communications
date: 1973-12-01
words: 7027
flesch: 55
summary: More specifi- cally, the study will: • Characterize typical data base pub- lishing activities in terms of markets, products, sales strategies, methods of data base collection, distribution, etc.; • Identify the current and expected roles of private industry sectors, gov- ernment, and professional associa- tions; • Analyze existing and latent markets for data base publishing ventures and estimate market growth over the next five years; • Describe criteria for analyzing the economics of data base publishing services and pricing them; • Review hardware, software, and de- velopments likely to affect the indus- try in the next five years, including emergence of lower-cost switched data networks; • Describe the probable impacts of Technical Communications 267 public policy and regulatory devel- opments, including copyright legis- lation, patentability of software, and concern over protection of confiden- tiality of personal information, and • Characterize the reasons for past failures of certain data base publish- ing ventures and propose strategies for successful involvement. A file conversion is a messy, difficult and essentially unproductive task, no matter how well done, because it merely transforms existing data into an- other form and in so doing exposes, for all to see, the many ancient errors which we do not want to see.
keywords: automation; data; information; library; national; new; standards; systems; technical
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id: ital-5787
author: Hayes, Robert M.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1973-12-01
words: 680
flesch: 63
summary: On the other hand, the fact remains that these are important papers, ones with which students should be come familiar- and not simply for historical purposes, and that most instructors and classes should Bnd this a useful volume. The defined purpose of this collection is to serve students and instructors in in- troductory courses in information science, by making these key papers readily avail- able as assigned readings.
keywords: papers
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item: #688 of 778
id: ital-5831
author: Turner, Benjamin; Fuchs, Caroline; Todman, Anthony
title: Static vs. Dynamic Tutorials: Applying Usability Principles to Evaluate Online Point-of-Need Instruction.
date: 2015-12-22
words: 7958
flesch: 49
summary: The library literature on online library tutorials might be divided into subcategories: early development of online instructional tutorials, library website usability testing, evaluation of online information-literacy instruction tutorials, best practices for the creation of library tutorials, and the best mediums for the creation of library tutorials. Most useful here is the “Best Practices for Creating and Managing Animated Tutorials” found in the article’s appendix.25 Best Mediums for the Creation of Library Tutorials Other authors have explored the need to accommodate different learning styles in library tutorials rather than relying too heavily on text to convey information.26 At the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, an information literacy tutorial was planned and created to support online distance learners in the geography post- graduate program.
keywords: group; information; library; online; participants; task; tutorials; y y
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id: ital-5857
author: Vacek, Rachel
title: President's Message: Twitter Nodes to Networks: Thoughts on the #litaforum
date: 2014-12-18
words: 1874
flesch: 50
summary: The love of data is not uncommon in libraries, and neither is the analysis of that data. With libraries having more tight budgets, it’s extremely important that we continue to learn virtually.
keywords: forum; image
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id: ital-5869
author: Dulock, Michael; Long, Holley
title: Digital Collections Are a Sprint, Not a Marathon: Adapting Scrum Project Management Techniques to Library Digital Initiatives
date: 2015-12-22
words: 5692
flesch: 46
summary: The team adopted the two-week duration typical of Scrum sprints for the pilot. The team has found the sprints and modified Scrum meetings to be highly useful and relatively easy to incorporate into their workflows.
keywords: collections; digital; project; scrum; sprint; team; work
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id: ital-5888
author: Bauder, Julia; Lange, Emma
title: Exploratory Subject Searching in Library Catalogs: Reclaiming the Vision
date: 2015-06-15
words: 4254
flesch: 37
summary: Results are depicted as a two-‐level treemap, which gives users a visual representation of the disciplinary perspectives (as represented by the main classes of the Library of congress Classification) and topics (as represented by elements of the Library of Congress Subject Headings) included in the results. In the visualized view, results are depicted as a two-‐level treemap, which gives users a visual representation of the disciplinary perspectives (as represented by the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification [LCC]) and topics (as represented by elements of the Library of Congress Subject Headings [LCSH]) included in the results.
keywords: library; results; search
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id: ital-5889
author: Park, Jung-ran; Brenza, Andrew
title: Evaluation of Semi-Automatic Metadata Generation Tools: A Survey of the Current State of the Art
date: 2015-09-21
words: 7844
flesch: 24
summary: Even though there are promising experimental studies that exploit various methods and sources for semi-‐automatic metadata generation,3 a lack of studies assessing and evaluating the range of tools have been developed, implemented, or improved. To address such needs, this study aims to examine the current landscape of semi-‐ automatic metadata generation tools while providing an evaluative analysis of their techniques, features, and functions. Because of the quantity of information resources and the costly and time-‐consuming nature of manual metadata generation,2 it is increasingly apparent that there simply are not enough information professionals available for satisfying the metadata-‐generation needs of the library community. Semi-‐automatic metadata generation, on the other hand, offers the promise of using high levels of computing power to manage large amounts of information resources.
keywords: generation; information; metadata; semi-‐automatic; tools
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id: ital-5893
author: Maceli, Monica
title: What Technology Skills Do Developers Need? A Text Analysis of Job Listings in Library and Information Science (LIS) from Jobs.code4lib.org
date: 2015-09-21
words: 2793
flesch: 31
summary: In pursuit of building our understanding of currently sought technology competencies in developer-‐oriented positions within LIS, this paper reports the results of a text analysis of a large collection of job listings culled from the Code4lib jobs website. The website incorporates jobs posted to the Code4lib discussion list, American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, Australian Library and Information Association, HigherEd Jobs, Digital Koans, Idealist, and ArchivesGig. This broad incoming set of jobs provides a wide look into new technology-‐related postings.
keywords: job; technology; terms
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id: ital-5900
author: Betz, Sonya; Hall, Robyn
title: Self-Archiving with Ease in an Institutional Repository: Microinteractions and the User Experience
date: 2015-09-21
words: 6046
flesch: 34
summary: Meanwhile, Bell and Sarr recommend integrating value-‐added features into IR websites as a way to attract faculty.12 Their successful strategy for reengineering a struggling IR at the University of Rochester included adding tools to allow users to edit metadata and add and remove files, and providing portfolio pages where faculty could list their works in the IR, link to works available elsewhere, detail their research interests, and upload a copy of their CV. We can assume that users would be goal-‐based in their approach to the IR; faculty would be visiting the site with the specific purpose of uploading content and would be actively looking for a trigger to begin an interaction that would allow them to do so.
keywords: faculty; process; testing; user
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id: ital-5912
author: Dehmlow, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: A&I Databases--The Next Frontier to Discover
date: 2015-03-30
words: 1640
flesch: 39
summary: Regardless of the number of searches INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2015 3 (which doesn’t really tell us anything anyway), we need to recognize the value alone of including the A&I content, and instead of trying to determine the value of the resource by the number of times it was searched, focus more on the breadth of exposure that content is getting by inclusion in the discovery system. This would guide users back to the native A&I resource which both libraries and A&I providers want, and it would do that in a more intuitive and meaningful way for the end user.
keywords: discovery
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id: ital-8650
author: Mugridge, Rebecca L.; Sweeney, Michael
title: Data Center Consolidation at the University at Albany
date: 2015-12-22
words: 5231
flesch: 50
summary: Many colleges and universities have data centers or server rooms distributed across one or more campuses, as does the University at Albany (UAlbany). At the same time, server rooms sprouted all over the university, with many of the colleges and other units purchasing servers and maintaining server rooms in less than ideal conditions.
keywords: data center; libraries; new; new data; servers; university
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id: ital-8652
author: Potnis, Devendra Dilip; Regenstreif-Harms, Reynard; Cortez, Edwin
title: Identifying Key Steps for Developing Mobile Applications & Mobile Websites for Libraries
date: 2016-09-30
words: 7006
flesch: 38
summary: The ability to prioritize tasks and identify mission-critical features of mobile MAMW are some of the most common activities undertaken by libraries to manage this scope.32 For instance, it is not practical to make entire library websites mobile because libraries would end up serving only those patrons who access their sites over mobile alone. Open Source Design mobile websites that allow users to leverage the same open source technology as the main websites77 Design mobile websites linking to other existing services like library h3lp and library catalogs with mobile interfaces such as MobileCat78 4 Networking Design a mobile website capable of exploiting advancements in technology such as faster mobile data networks79 Identify and address technology issues (e.g., connectivity, security, speed, signal strength, etc.) faced by patrons when using MAMW80 5 Input/Output Devices Use a mobile robot to determine the location of fixed RFID tags in space81 Design MAMW capable of processing data communicated using radio frequency identification devices, near-field communication technology, and Bluetooth- based technology like iBeacons82 Offer innovative services using augmented- reality tools83 IDENTIFYING KEY STEPS FOR DEVELOPING MOBILE APPLICATIONS & MOBILE WEBSITES FOR LIBRARIES | POTNIS, REGENSTREIF-HARMS, AND CORTEZ |doi:10.6017/ital.v35i2.8652 52 6 Databases Integrate a back-end database of metadata with front-end mobile technologies84 Integrate front-end of mobile MAMW with back-end of standard databases and services85 7 Social Media and Analytics Integrate social media sites (e.g., Foursquare, Facebook Place, Gowalla, etc.) with existing checkout services for accurate and information rich entries86 Implement Google Voice or a free text- messaging service87 Use Google Analytics for mobile optimized website by copying the free JavaScript code generated from Google Analytics and paste it into library webpages to gain insight into what resources are used and who used them88 Integrate a geo-location feature with mobile services89 Table 1.
keywords: development; information; libraries; library; mamw; mobile; services; technology; websites
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id: ital-8749
author: Peponakis, Manolis
title: In the Name of the Name: RDF literals, ER attributes and the potential to rethink the structures and visualizations of catalogs
date: 2016-06-30
words: 8265
flesch: 49
summary: In this study, a method is proposed to connect the names with the entities they represent and, in this way, to document the provenance of these names by connecting specific resources with specific names. We proposed a method for connecting the names to the entities they represent and, at the same time, we documented the provenance of these names by connecting specific resources with specific names.
keywords: bibliographic; data; entities; information; model; names; rda; rdf
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id: ital-8804
author: Vacek, Rachel
title: President's Column: Making an Impact in the Time That is Given to Us
date: 2015-06-15
words: 799
flesch: 49
summary: As LITA President, I have put many changes in motion and am happy with what I have accomplished, and proud of our Board and the members who volunteer to lead and effect change. In today’s library technology landscape, one of the many skills leaders need to possess is the ability to effect change.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-8805
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments
date: 2015-06-15
words: 438
flesch: 48
summary: Microsoft Word - June_ital_gerrity.docx Editor’s Comments Bob Gerrity INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 1 Library Discovery Circa 1974 Our ongoing project to digitize back issues of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) and its predecessor, Journal of Library Automation (JOLA), provides frequent reminders of what’s changed (and what hasn’t) in library technology in the past several decades. Joseph Deodato provides a useful step-‐by-‐ step guide to evaluating web-‐scale discovery services for libraries.
keywords: library
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id: ital-8919
author: Colegrove, Patrick Tod
title: Editorial Thoughts: Rise of the Innovation Commons
date: 2015-09-21
words: 1670
flesch: 8
summary: Indeed, the rapid and widespread adoption of the Internet has enabled entire topologies of information to change – morphing from ponderous print tomes into digital databases, effectively escaping the walls of libraries and archives altogether.1 In reflection of end-‐users’ growing preference for easily accessible digital materials, libraries have responded with the creation of new spaces and services. 2 That the practice of libraries and librarianship is changing is an understatement.
keywords: commons; library
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id: ital-8923
author: Kuglitsch, Rebecca Zuege; Tingle, Natalia; Watkins, Alexander
title: Facilitating Research Consultations Using Cloud Services: Experiences, Preferences, and Best Practices
date: 2017-03-31
words: 2859
flesch: 44
summary: Students using the calendar indicated that it was not more intimidating than emailing a librarian, and by removing the waiting period for a response, a calendar can prevent student distraction or students persuading themselves that they actually do not need help in the interim. It seems more useful and immediate.” We kept track of how many students who made calendar appointments over two semesters kept them, and sent a short, informal survey to students who made appointments.
keywords: appointment; calendar; students
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id: ital-8924
author: Tighe, Ruth L.
title: Guest Editorial: Hoist by Their Own Petard
date: 1974-03-01
words: 451
flesch: 55
summary: Whether one interprets information to be the book, and discusses its transfer in terms of acquisitions, circulation, and interlibrary loan, or one interprets information to be datum, and discusses transfer in terms of access, retrieval, and transfer, the fact remains that information transfer is the area of concern of the information profession. Librarians-information scientists-have always been concerned with the transfer of information.
keywords: information
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id: ital-8925
author: Veaner, Allen B.
title: Institutional Political and Fiscal Factors In the Development of Library Automation, 1967-71.
date: 1974-03-01
words: 9629
flesch: 45
summary: During the boom years when computer facilities were expanding fast- er than the supply of competent staff, elitism seemed fairly common in the computer center. The computer, on the other hand, is a relentless accounting engine; computer facilities can produce endless statistics on the number of jobs run, lines printed, ter- minal hours provided to users, turnaround time, cards punched, etc.
keywords: academic; administrative; automation; computer; computing; development; facility; libraries; library; services; systems; university
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item: #705 of 778
id: ital-8926
author: Butler, Brett
title: Automatic Format Recognition of MARC Bibliographic Elements: A Review and Projection
date: 1974-03-01
words: 5907
flesch: 71
summary: Languages R R Title of Book R I 4ll+v Volume R I 440 Series, Title R R
keywords: field; format; input; subject; title
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item: #706 of 778
id: ital-8927
author: Board of Directors, ISAD
title: Highlights of ISAD Board Meeting
date: 1974-03-01
words: 5783
flesch: 63
summary: Hammer presented a proposal for establishing on a subscription basis a Selective Dissemination of Information system for ALA members (see Exhibit 1). BASIS A SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR ALA MEMBERS The original proposal for an SDI system was intended for ISAD members only, but interest has grown at ALA Headqua1ters to the extent that it is being considered as a service to be provided for all ALA members.
keywords: ala; board; committee; isad; marbi; members
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id: ital-8928
author: Martin, Susan K.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1974-03-01
words: 5865
flesch: 60
summary: Any errors detected in LC MARC records are to be reported to LC for correction. CLR is prepared to commit one staff member full time to the project who is well versed in the machine handling of MARC serials records.
keywords: data; library; marc; national; serials
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item: #708 of 778
id: ital-8929
author: Bewley, Lois M.; Simmons, Peter
title: Book Reviews
date: 1974-03-01
words: 1078
flesch: 58
summary: The experienced li- brarian, on the other hand, will not be pleased to learn that many libraries with computer systems have given up the Li- brary of Congress [filing] system for Mel Mac and have placed Mac in order between Mab and Mad, and Me between Mb and Md. Nor will anyone associated with libraries be pleased to discover that computer centers not only can, but fre- quently do, lose information. The librarian who is already involved in automated systems will not need this book; the librarian who wishes to learn about automation and the systems analyst who needs to understand library systems will do well to read other sources in addi- tion to this one.
keywords: book; library
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item: #709 of 778
id: ital-8930
author: Ullah, Asim; Khusro, Shah; Ullah, Irfan
title: Bibliographic Classification in the Digital Age: Current Trends & Future Directions
date: 2017-09-17
words: 11954
flesch: 39
summary: Ranganathan's layers of classification theory and the FASDA model of classification. Thelwall, M. (2009). Today several classification schemes are in use ranging from conventional classification schemes including Library of Congress Classification (LCC), Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Colon Classification (CC), and Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) to classification for digital environments including Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library1, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) digital library2, and Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) cooperative catalogue3.
keywords: bibliographic; bibliographic classification; classification; ddc; digital; faceted; lcc; library; search; udc
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item: #710 of 778
id: ital-8931
author: Martin, Susan K.
title: Who Will Steer the Ship?
date: 1974-06-01
words: 771
flesch: 55
summary: Third, it seems important when determining issues (ad hoc standards for local input of MARC-like monograph and serials records) which are of long- range concern to many libraries, that it is particularly important not to bias a development effort toward the needs of one type of library. Informal communication had it that this group of library automation ex- perts originally was to devise a standardized subset of the MARC mono- graph format; however, a full year passed without public announcement of this work.
keywords: library
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item: #711 of 778
id: ital-8932
author: Arms, W. Y.; Walter, T. P.
title: A Simulation Model for Purchasing Duplicate Copies in a Library
date: 1974-06-01
words: 4060
flesch: 64
summary: At Sussex some books are designated short term loan and can be borrowed for up to four days only; the remainder are long term loan books and can be borrowed for up to six weeks. At Sussex some books are designated short term loan and can be borrowed for up to four days only; the remainder are long term loan books and can be borrowed for up to six weeks.
keywords: book; demand; number
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item: #712 of 778
id: ital-8933
author: Harp, Vivian; Heard, Gertrude
title: Automated Periodicals System at a Community College Library
date: 1974-06-01
words: 4740
flesch: 71
summary: For each subscription, bibliographic and order information and MVCC holdings were entered on a three-by-five-inch history card; on the verso were records for each renewal of purchase order number, subscription length, cost, and subscription dates. The cost, purchase order number, and problem explanation were available by merely flipping the printout pages to the title in question on the master list.
keywords: library; order; purchase; renewal; subscription; system
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item: #713 of 778
id: ital-8934
author: Bookstein, Abraham
title: A Hybrid Access Method for Bibliographic Records
date: 1974-06-01
words: 3463
flesch: 66
summary: We shall concentrate on two approaches that have received much attention-the use 98 I ottrnal of Library Automation Vol. 7/2 June 197 4 of a truncated search key, referred to simply as search key, and the use of Boolean expressions of key words from the title. CONCLUSION In conclusion, we propose a technique for entering a bibliographic data base that retains the simplicity of search keys while also including some of the flexibility that Boolean expressions of key words have for uniquely defining an item.
keywords: file; key; search; words
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item: #714 of 778
id: ital-8935
author: Fokker, Dirk W.; Lynch, Michael F.
title: Application of the Variety-Generator Approach to Searches of Personal Names in Bibliographic Data Bases--Part 1. Microstructure of Personal Authors' Names
date: 1974-06-01
words: 4971
flesch: 64
summary: The problem of variations in name length, as well as the very dif- ferent distributions of the characters at these positions, were not encourag- ing, and instead the production of key-sets from the last letter of the sur- 1 .99 .98 .97 .96 .95 .94 .93 Hr .92 .91 .90 .89 .88 .87 .86 0 20 40 60 80 100 Total number of keys for the front of surnames Fig. 3. Increase in relative entropy with increase in key-set size; keys generated from 50,000 surnames 114 J oumal of Library Automation Vol. 7/2 June 1974 name was investigated, and proved much more ath·active, since it is largely independent of surname length.
keywords: .004; key; keys; names; set
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item: #715 of 778
id: ital-8936
author: Avram, Henriette D.
title: The Library of Congress View on Its Relation to the ALA MARC Advisory Committee
date: 1974-06-01
words: 2598
flesch: 62
summary: Prior to a discussion of MARC changes, it appears appropriate to make certain basic statements regarding MARC changes and the difficulties ex- perienced by the MARC Development Office in evaluating the significance of a change for the MARC subscriber. Changes made to MARC records may be divided into the following cate- gories: Category 1: Changes resulting from a change in cataloging rules or sys- tems.
keywords: change; marc
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item: #716 of 778
id: ital-8937
author: on Technical Standards for Library Automation, Committee
title: Standards for Library Automation and ISAD's Committee on Technical Standards for Library Automation (TESLA)
date: 1974-06-01
words: 3908
flesch: 49
summary: Therefore, in the following are very brief recapitulations of the more relevant or- ganizations impacting library automation standards. Please note that the outline is designed to enable standards proposals to be written following a generalized format which will facilitate their review.
keywords: ansi; automation; data; library; national; standards; tesla
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item: #717 of 778
id: ital-8945
author: Martin, Susan K.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1974-06-01
words: 5597
flesch: 51
summary: As coverage is extended to catalog records for foreign-language monographs and for other forms of material, libraries will be able to obtain machine records for a large number of their current titles. 2. Development of format recognition, a computer program which can pro- cess unedited catalog records and supply all the necessary content des- ignators required for the full MARC record.
keywords: catalog; computer; data; information; libraries; library; project; records; system
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item: #718 of 778
id: ital-8946
author: Shank, Russell; Lancaster, F. W.; Simmons, Peter; Overmyer, LaVahn
title: Book Reviews
date: 1974-06-01
words: 2216
flesch: 54
summary: For example, there are seven behavioral objectives in the unit on Computer Technology, of which the first four are: 1) the student will be able to discuss the two-fold requirement to repre- sent data by codes and data structures for purposes of machine manipulation, 2) the student will be able to identify the basic components of computer systems and de- scribe their purposes, 3) the student will be able to differentiate hardware and soft- ware and describe briefly the part that programming plays in the overall com- puter processing operation, 4) the student will be able to define the various modes of computer operation and indicate the utility of each in library operations. Elsewhere the author indicates that his emphasis is on software technology of information systems and that the book is intended to bridge the communications gap among information users, librarians and data processors.
keywords: information; library; systems
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item: #719 of 778
id: ital-8947
author: Malinconico, S. Michael
title: The LC/MARC Record As a National Standard
date: 1974-09-01
words: 628
flesch: 51
summary: The LC/MARC Record As a National Standard 159 The desire to promote exchange of bibliographic data has given rise to a rather cacophonous debate concerning MARC as a standard, and the definition of a MARC compatible record. It might safely be said that in the most common use of a MARC record-card production-scarcely more than the paragraph distinctions on an LC card are really necessary.
keywords: record
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item: #720 of 778
id: ital-8948
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Rather, Lucia J.
title: Principles of Format Design
date: 1974-09-01
words: 2748
flesch: 55
summary: There may be more than one indicator per data field. The content of the fixed field can actually be data content, or a code representing data content, or a code representing information about the record.
keywords: content; data; format
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item: #721 of 778
id: ital-8949
author: Goossens, Paula
title: Techniques for Special Processing of Data within Bibliographic Text
date: 1974-09-01
words: 6102
flesch: 61
summary: To reduce the remaining limitations, some approaches similar to those elabo- rated in field level systems are supplied. Because in most subfield level systems the number of different fields is much higher than in field level systems, the duplication method becomes more intricate.
keywords: bibliographic; field; filing; marc; special; systems
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item: #722 of 778
id: ital-8950
author: Bowden, Virginia M.; Miller, Ruby B.
title: MARCIVE: A Cooperative Automated Library System
date: 1974-09-01
words: 7529
flesch: 71
summary: 3. Full-Edit listing from the EDIT program showing the input, keypunched data, data in MARCIVE file format, data in catalog card format, and tracings. lists every title processed in the following forms: the input data, the data as retained in the MARCIVE file, the data in catalog card format, and the tracings (Figure 3) .
keywords: catalog; data; library; marcive; program; system; title
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item: #723 of 778
id: ital-8951
author: Fokker, Dirk W.; Lynch, Michael F.
title: Application of the Variety-Generator Approach to Searches of Personal Names in Bibliographic Data Bases--Part 2. Optimization of Key-Sets, and Evaluation of Their Retrieval Efficiency
date: 1974-09-01
words: 5461
flesch: 66
summary: Keys consisting of variable-length chamcter strings from the front and rear of surnames, derived by analysis of author names in a particular data base, am used to provide approximate representations of author names. When combined in appropriate mtios, and used together with keys for each of the first two initials of personal names, they provide a high degme of discrimination in search.
keywords: file; key; keys; names; set; sets
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item: #724 of 778
id: ital-8952
author: Hammer, Donald P.
title: Highlights of ISAD Board Meeting
date: 1974-09-01
words: 5100
flesch: 62
summary: Mr. Hammer informed the Board that Peter Watson had talked with him about ASIDIC liaison, and they had concluded that ASIDIC is primarily interested in having an observer at ISAD Board meetings. ISAD Board members indicated an interest in and a need for a service of this nature, but reflected a hesitancy regarding the sensitivity of the issue.
keywords: ala; board; committee; isad; kilgour
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item: #725 of 778
id: ital-8953
author: Bosseau, Don L.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1974-09-01
words: 8086
flesch: 56
summary: ANNOUNCEMENTS Resolution WHEREAS, the American Library As- sociation is the chief advocate for librari- ans and laymen seeking to provide citizens of the United States with the highest quality library and information service, and WHEREAS, a major effort will be re- quired of this Association and of all sup- porters of libraries in the next few years as the country's leaders determine long- range national positions in such matters as copyright, intellectual freedom, federal support of libraries, and a national plan for libraries and information services, and WHEREAS, the effectiveness of this effort will depend on the concerted effort of all those concerned with library service, including library users, citizens groups, government officials and librarians them- selves from all aspects and ranks of the profession; THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED that all the committees, chapters and di- visions of the American Library Associa- tion take definite steps to increase mutual efforts within the Association and with other associations seeking ways to strength- en the common effort toward the provision of quality library service to all people. SAL/NET-Satellite Libmry Information Network This project is designed to experiment in the extension of library services to sparsely populated regions of the Rocky Mountain and northern plains states.
keywords: computer; data; information; library; light; new; program; service; standards; system; technical; university
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item: #726 of 778
id: ital-8954
author: Simmons, Peter; Roberts, Justine; Piternick, George; Snowball, George J.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1974-09-01
words: 2003
flesch: 57
summary: The twenty-nine papers published here are presented under six headings, each representing an area of librarianship in which Dr. Shera has been a major in- fluence: philosophy of librarianship, li- brary history, reference work in the li- brary, documentation, the academic li- brary, and library education. An appendix devoted to an in-depth study of education for library manage- ment concludes that: in Britain and, to a lesser extent, the United States this aspect of library education needs considerable strengthening; games such as that de- scribed are most suited to specialized courses for experienced librarians but there is a place for similar ones in first- level courses; and a larger proportion of the profession needs to comprehend the concepts put forward in this and other studies before better management tech- niques will be applied to libraries.
keywords: information; library; system
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id: ital-8955
author: Martin, Susan K.
title: Buyer Be Wary!
date: 1974-12-01
words: 746
flesch: 53
summary: There are several reliable paths: ( 1) be aware of and alert to the possibilities of misleading claims and misrepresentation; ( 2) follow up a sales pitch with a few phone calls to those institutions that are described to be using the product or about to sign the contract; ( 3) maintain a reasonable amount of resistance to the sales talk; ( 4) use the library profession's invisible col- lege to determine the validity of the claims and the experiences that oth- ers have had with the firm; and ( 5) support the attempts of our profes- sional societies, such as ALA and ASIS, to require organizations to main- tain certain advertising standards. Most approaches fall into one of the following categories: ( 1) misleading advertising, with unclear statements and imprecise use of vocabulary; ( 2) claims that one, or several, or many other libraries are using the product with satisfac- tion (when this indeed is not the case); ( 3) specific statements that a large and prestigious library is about to sign a contract for servic~s or products (although investigation will reveal no such intention); ( 4) lists of experts in the field who are presumed to be associated with the company in an ad- visory or consultant role (but who are unaware of this use of their names); and ( 5) approaches to federal, state, or local agencies to appeal 248 Journal of Library Automation Vol.
keywords: advertising
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id: ital-8957
author: Saffady, William
title: A Computer Output Microfilm Serials List for Patron Use
date: 1974-12-01
words: 1506
flesch: 49
summary: As Ballou notes, discussions of COM have tended to concentrate more on the computer than on micrographics, but for a patron-use COM appli- cation the selection of an appropriate microformat is of the greatest im- portance.5 However, there has been an unfortunate emphasis placed, both in the literature of micrographics and by vendors, on microfiche, the for- mat now dominating the industry, especially in COM applications. 263 Library literature generally assumes that COM is bette1· suited to staff rath- er than patron use applications.
keywords: com; library; use
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id: ital-8958
author: Clark, Alice S.
title: Subject Access to a Data Base of Library Holdings
date: 1974-12-01
words: 3114
flesch: 62
summary: When the user types in PG2 or PG3, more titles will come up, and if more than thirty titles are desired, the original command can be reentered with a /SKIP 30 option to display others including all 757 titles if necessary. The circu- lation clerk at any location either in the main library or in any department library could search the author and title and find: ( 1) if the OSU Li- braries had the book; ( 2) where it was regularly housed; and ( 3) its status (charged out, missing, lost, or available for circulation).
keywords: evolution; library; number; subject; titles
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id: ital-8959
author: Herling, J. P.; Beeler, M. G. Fancher; Reisman, A.; Dean, B. V.
title: Improved Delivery of Library Materials: The Cleveland Experience
date: 1974-12-01
words: 3962
flesch: 62
summary: CONCLUSION Despite its imperfections, the project discussed here has convinced us that the approach and methodology are of value to the library community, not only in application to library delivery systems but also in application to a multitude of library service problems, particularly those involving sev- eral libraries or library systems, albeit because of changes in top adminis- trative positions within the key library systems the results of this study are still awaiting implementation. It has a formal (contractual, political, administrative, etc.) or an in- formal agreement with other nodes and/or library systems.
keywords: delivery; libraries; library; system
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id: ital-8960
author: Zimmerman, R. G. J.
title: A Computer-Accessed Microfiche Library
date: 1974-12-01
words: 6775
flesch: 66
summary: 2. Picture File Organization, Picture records consist of a fixed- and a variable-length portion. To do this the upper and lower limits of the specified values of each such parameter are found (from the values table), and from this the expected number of picture records to be compared is computed.
keywords: file; information; parameter; picture; search; user
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id: ital-8961
author: King, Donald R.
title: The Binary Vector as the Basis of an Inverted Index File
date: 1974-12-01
words: 3484
flesch: 66
summary: Msr = D · I · K where: ( binary vector file) (standard inverted file) M = Storage requirements in bytes D = Number of documents in the system As an example, assume the following document descriptions are presented to a system using binary vectors: Document Number 1 2 3 Subject Headings A,B,D C,E A,
keywords: binary; file; vector
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id: ital-8962
author: Bosseau, Don L.
title: Technical Communications
date: 1974-12-01
words: 4893
flesch: 53
summary: A direct out- growth of the Cooperative Bibliographic Center for Indiana Libraries ( CoBiCIL) Feasibility Study Project sponsored by the Indiana State Library and directed by Mrs. Barbara Evans Markuson, InCoLSA has been organized as an independent not-for-profit organization to encourage the development and improvement of all types of library service. The ISAD Committee on Technical Stan- dards for Library Automation Invites Your Participation in the Standards Game Editor's Note: The TESLA Reactor Bal- lot will be provided in f01'thcoming is- sues.
keywords: data; information; library; marbi; national; proposal; standards; system
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id: ital-8963
author: Bottle, R. T.; Rothstein, Samuel; Kershner, Lois M.; Brown, Jack E.; Atherton, Pauline A.; Parker, Patricia E.
title: Book Reviews
date: 1974-12-01
words: 3444
flesch: 58
summary: For each country there is a de- tailed account of the national information system now existing, with a brief outline of its antecedents, a directory of informa- tion or documentation centers, a list of serials published by these centers, and a bibliography of recent papers dealing with the development of information systems in that country. The authors point out that the six coun- tries being examined have experimented intensely with organizational variants of national science information systems.
keywords: australian; book; data; information; library
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id: ital-8965
author: Brett, Kelsey Renee; Lierman, Ashley; Turner, Cherie
title: Lessons Learned: A Primo Usability Study
date: 2016-04-01
words: 6191
flesch: 52
summary: Facets in Live Site and Development Sandbox at Time of Testing Both groups were happy with the changes to the Primo development sandbox but wanted to test the effect of the changes on user search behavior before updating the live site. In other cases, users had difficulty interpreting locations and holdings information for physical items.19 Among the needs and desires expressed by and for Primo users in the literature, two in particular stand out.
keywords: discovery; primo; search; task; usability; users
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id: ital-8966
author: Dowling, Thomas
title: President's Message
date: 2015-09-21
words: 474
flesch: 50
summary: I hope to meet as many LITA members as possible this year, at one of the upcoming in-‐person meetings or online, or just drop me a line on Connect. It’s going to be a great year for LITA. Thomas Dowling (dowlintp@wfu.edu) is LITA President 2015-‐16 and Director of Technologies, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-‐Salem, North Carolina.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-8967
author: Cyzyk, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Information Technology and Libraries: Anxiety and Exhilaration
date: 2015-09-21
words: 621
flesch: 48
summary: While these surprise events were happening, we also switched source code management systems, so a migration was in order there, my longingly-‐awaited new workstation came in (and I'm sure you all know how painstaking it is to migrate all idiosyncratic data/apps/settings to a new workstation and ensure it's all present, functioning, and secure before DBAN-‐nuking your old drives), we decommissioned a central service that had been in Mark Cyzyk (mcyzyk@jhu.edu) a member of the ITAL Editorial Board, happily works and ages in The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN LIBRARIES: ANXIETY AND EXHILARATION | CYZYK doi: 10.6017/ital.v34i3.8967 7 production since 2006, we fully upgraded our Wordpress Multisite including all plugins and themes, fixing what broke in the upgrade, and I got into the groove of working on any and all trouble tickets/change requests that spontaneously appeared, popping up like mushrooms in the verdant vale of my worklife. Microsoft Word - September_ITAL_Cyzyk_final.docx Editorial Board Thoughts: Information Technology in Libraries: Anxiety and Exhilaration Mark Cyzyk INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER 2015 6 A few weeks ago a valued colleague left our library to move his young family back home to Pittsburgh. Insofar as we were a two-‐man department, I spent the weeks following the announcement of his imminent departure picking his brain about various projects, their codebases, potential rough spots, existing trouble tickets, etc.
keywords: code
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id: ital-9098
author: Terrell, Heather B.
title: Reference is Dead, Long Live Reference: Electronic Collections in the Digital Age
date: 2015-12-22
words: 3673
flesch: 49
summary: The expectation for print reference collections is that they are comprised of high-use materials—the very reason for their designation as noncirculating items is ostensibly so that materials are available for on-demand access by both patrons and staff, who use them frequently. Certain objections to removing print reference collections to closed stacks and using the newly freed public space to build a cooperative learning commons, for instance, tend to devolve into hysterics about the potentiality of libraries becoming “no better than a Starbucks.”
keywords: collections; information; library; print; reference
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id: ital-9150
author: Dowling, Thomas
title: President's Message
date: 2015-12-22
words: 478
flesch: 57
summary: But we know many members cannot regularly travel to national meetings, and even the best online experience can lack the serendipitous benefits that so often come from face-to-face meetings. The new LITA Local Task Force will be responsible for creating a toolkit to facilitate local groups’ ability to host events, including information on event planning, accessibility, and ensuring an inclusive culture at meetings.
keywords: lita
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id: ital-9151
author: Varnum, Kenneth J.
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Library Analytics and Patron Privacy
date: 2015-12-22
words: 1051
flesch: 41
summary: We are at a point in time when we have the potential to leverage wide swathes of user data. It is hard to argue that improving services, focusing on actual needs, and maintaining funding are in any way improper goals.
keywords: library; services
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id: ital-9152
author: Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Vacek, Rachel; Watkins, Sean; Weidner, Andy
title: Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at the University of Houston Libraries
date: 2016-06-30
words: 4801
flesch: 36
summary: This article focuses on the task force’s DAMS selection activities: needs assessment, systems evaluation, and systems testing. The long-term return on investment for this path will be a highly skilled technical staff with the ability to maintain and customize an open-source, standards-based repository architecture that can be expanded to support other UH Libraries content such as geospatial data, research data, and institutional repository materials.
keywords: dams; digital; evaluation; libraries; system; testing
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id: ital-9182
author: Hardesty, Juliet L.
title: Transitioning from XML to RDF: Considerations for an effective move towards Linked Data and the Semantic Web
date: 2016-04-01
words: 6279
flesch: 46
summary: Since there are three parts to RDF statements, they are referred to as triples. What that reformatting also encompasses, however, is a review of the information expressed in XML and a set of decisions as to how to express that information as RDF statements.
keywords: digital; fedora; metadata; ontology; rdf; statements; xml
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id: ital-9190
author: Trapido, Irina
title: Library Discovery Products: Discovering User Expectations through Failure Analysis
date: 2016-09-30
words: 7636
flesch: 41
summary: These features, many of which have become deeply embedded into user search processes elsewhere on the web, could prevent or alleviate a substantial number of issues related to problematic user queries (misspellings, typographical errors, imprecise queries, etc.), enable more efficient recovery from errors by guiding users to improved results, and facilitate discovery of foreign-language materials. They rely on relevance ranking and are often reluctant to examine search results in any depth: if the desired item does not appear within the first few hits, users tend to rework their initial search statement (often with only a minimal change to the search terms) rather than scrolling down to the bottom of the results screen or looking beyond the first page of results.
keywords: analysis; author; discovery; information; library; queries; search; searches; searching; user
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id: ital-9255
author: Yeh, Shea-Tinn; Walter, Zhiping
title: Critical Success Factors for Integrated Library System Implementation in Academic Libraries: A Qualitative Study
date: 2016-09-30
words: 6845
flesch: 46
summary: LSPs, the current generation of library management systems, are designed to manage both physical and digital collections. A literature review of CSFs for ERP system implementation success revealed more than ninety CSF factors.11, 12 The contribution of our research is in identifying, through qualitative research method, the most salient CSFs that contribute to the success of a library system migration project from one generation of ILS to another.
keywords: case; implementation; libraries; library; management; project; staff; success; system
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id: ital-9268
author: Dehmlow, Mark
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: The Importance of Staff Change Management in the Face of the Growing “Cloud”
date: 2016-04-01
words: 1850
flesch: 52
summary: Our approach to staff change is layered as well as long term. Envisioning the Future: Improvements and Roles — One of the initial benefits we will be getting from recouping staff time is around shoring up our processes.
keywords: change; staff
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id: ital-9343
author: Johnson, Tanya M.
title: Let's Get Virtual: An Examination of Best Practices to Provide Public Access to Digital Versions of Three-Dimensional Objects
date: 2016-06-30
words: 7309
flesch: 39
summary: Digital technologies work best when they enable people who feel connected to museum objects to have the freedom to deepen these Tanya M. Johnson (tmjohnso@gmail.com), a recent MLIS degree graduate from the School of Communication & Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is winner of the 2016 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award. However, it is only recently, with the advent of newer technological mechanisms, that such objects could be shared with the public on a larger scale.
keywords: access; digital; dimensional; dimensional objects; information; museum; objects; public; website
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id: ital-9446
author: Biswas, Paromita; Marchesoni, Joel
title: Analyzing Digital Collections Entrances: What Gets Used and Why It Matters
date: 2016-12-30
words: 5457
flesch: 37
summary: The authors argue that such data evaluation is important because it can better inform decisions taken to build collections that will attract users and serve their needs. As Herold, who traced the second largest group of users of the Orang Asli digital image archive to Malaysia notes, the geographic base of a collection’s users can be indicative of the popularity of a subject area.22 Likewise, Matusiak asserts that users’ comments can be indicative of the relevance of collections to users’ needs and provide direction for the future development of digital collections.23 As neither the Craft Revival, Cherokee Traditions, nor Horace Kephart collection includes items that relate specifically to the university’s history—unlike other institution-specific collections mentioned earlier—it is possible collection users may be more representative of the larger public than the university.
keywords: cherokee; collections; data; digital; library; referrals
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id: ital-9462
author: Gerrity, Robert
title: Editor's Comments: Odds and Ends
date: 2016-06-30
words: 1445
flesch: 34
summary: From the point of view of a university librarian, focused on keeping journal subscription costs in line (unsuccessfully I might add), I think there is real danger in not considering what a flip to a gold model might look like. Underpinning the proposal was a 2015 paper from the Max Planck Digital Library that suggested that the amount of money currently being spent (largely by libraries) on journal subscriptions should be sufficient to fund research publication costs if applied to a “flipped” journal publishing business model, from subscription-based to gold open access.1 In the Netherlands, the university sector has adopted a national approach in negotiating deals with several major publishers (Springer, SAGE, Elsevier, and Wiley) that allow Dutch authors to publish their papers as gold OA, without additional charges (but, depending on the publisher, with limits on total numbers and/or which journals are available within the deals).2 The so-called “Dutch Deal” by the VSNU (Association of universities in the Netherlands) and UKB (Dutch Consortium of University Libraries and Royal Library) takes a national approach to flipping the model, attempting to bundle access rights for Dutch readers with APC credits for Dutch authors.
keywords: access; open
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id: ital-9469
author: Oud, Joanne
title: Accessibility of Vendor-Created Database Tutorials for People with Disabilities
date: 2016-12-30
words: 4668
flesch: 43
summary: Findings on accessibility were mixed. Positive accessibility features and common accessibility problems are described, with recommendations on how to maximize accessibility.
keywords: accessibility; disabilities; people; tutorials; vendors
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id: ital-9474
author: Rubel, Dejah Thoris
title: Picture Perfect: Using Photographic Previews to Enhance Realia Collections for Library Patrons and Staff
date: 2017-06-28
words: 3745
flesch: 49
summary: Innovative's Media Management module is still unique among ILS/LMS software in that most vendors either provide a separate digital repository for special collections digital surrogates or they incorporate images into the catalog using third party software like Syndetic SolutionsTM. ”15 As Moeller describes, Innovative’s Media Management module links images and many other file types directly to bibliographic records without requiring users to click an additional link unless they want to view a larger image of a thumbnail.16 Similar to Butler and Kvenild’s project, all of our photos were 900 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall, which is slightly smaller than their default width of 1000 pixels.17 One advantage of using the Media Management module is its ability to automatically create thumbnails 185 pixels wide by 85 pixels tall.
keywords: catalog; collection; images; photographic; previews
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id: ital-9526
author: Fifarek, Aimee
title: President's Column: Reflections on LITA's Past and Future
date: 2016-09-30
words: 1085
flesch: 54
summary: By the time of LITA’s founding at the 1966 Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, library automation had been in development for over a decade.3 MARC was just being invented, with the first tapes from the Library of Congress scheduled to go to the sixteen pilot libraries later that year. I am proud to be at the head of LITA as it begins to celebrate its 50th Anniversary year.
keywords: lita; technology
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id: ital-9527
author: Morton-Owens, Emily
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Requiring and Demonstrating Technical Skills for Library Employment
date: 2016-09-30
words: 1205
flesch: 42
summary: Halperin problematized the expense of the MLS credential in comparison to the qualifications actually required by library technology jobs and the salaries offered for technical versus nontechnical work. While it may be helpful to express requirements better to encourage applicants to see more clearly whether they should respond to a posting, this is a small part of the question of preparing new MLS grads for library technology jobs.
keywords: experience; library
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id: ital-9540
author: Maceli, Monica; Burke, John J
title: Technology Skills in the Workplace: Information Professionals’ Current Use and Future Aspirations
date: 2016-12-30
words: 7504
flesch: 36
summary: This paper presents the results of a survey of the technologies used by library and information science practitioners, with attention to the combinations of technologies employed and the technology skills that practitioners wish to learn. INTRODUCTION Over the past several decades, technology has rapidly moved from a specialized set of tools to an indispensable element of the library and information science (LIS) workplace, and today it is woven throughout all aspects of librarianship and the information professions.
keywords: information; library; respondents; skills; technologies; technology; use
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id: ital-9585
author: Buljung, Brianna B.; Johnson, Catherine R.
title: Up Against the Clock: Migrating to LibGuides v2 on a Tight Timeline
date: 2017-06-28
words: 7162
flesch: 55
summary: Required before migration: Due Date Task Check when Complete 26 October 2015 Review attached report of guides that have not been updated in the last year. The LibGuides tab was also updated to provide a drop down list of all the guides and a link to browse by guide owner, subject or type of guide.
keywords: libanswers; libguides; library; list; migration; team; timeline
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id: ital-9595
author: Chu, Kuo-Chung; Lu, Hsin-Ke; Liu, Wen-I
title: Identifying Emerging Relationship in Healthcare Domain Journals via Citation Network Analysis
date: 2018-03-19
words: 4250
flesch: 52
summary: Many other methods originate from citation analysis, including document co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling,5 author co- citation analysis,6 and co-word analysis.7 There are levels of co-citation analysis: document, author, and journal. Intensive Care Med, BMJ 2 21 24 BMJ, N Engl J Med, JAMA 3 20 25 N Engl J Med, JAMA, Lancet 3 20 26 JAMA, Med Care, Lancet 3 14 27 JAMA, Med Care, N Engl J Med 3 14 28 BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, N Engl J Med 4 14 The link of co-citation journals in three periods from 1852 to 2009 can be summarized as follows: (1) three journals were highly cited but were not in a co-citation relationship in 1852–1907 (see figure 7); (2) five clusters of the healthcare journals in co-citation relationships were found for the years 1908–61 (see figure 8); and (3) 1962–2009 had a distinct cluster of four journals within the healthcare domain (see figure 9).
keywords: analysis; citation; domain; healthcare; journals
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id: ital-9598
author: Massicotte, Mia; Botter, Kathleen
title: Reference Rot in the Repository: A Case Study of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) in an Academic Library
date: 2017-03-31
words: 6460
flesch: 40
summary: Due to the specialized nature of graduate-level research, ETDs frequently include links to resources on the open web, for example, personal blogs, project websites, and commercial entities. 76% (504 of 664) of ETDs contained one or more links, the highest number of links (5,946) falling into the Arts group.
keywords: content; dissertations; drift; etds; links; study; theses; web
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id: ital-9601
author: Farnel, Sharon
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Metadata Training in Canadian Library Technician Programs
date: 2016-12-30
words: 1416
flesch: 33
summary: Microsoft Word - December_ITAL_farnell_final.docx Editorial Board Thoughts: Metadata Training in Canadian Library Technician Programs Sharon Farnel INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBRARIES | DECEMBER 2016 3 The core metadata team at my institution is small but effective. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBRARIES | DECEMBER 2016 5 Quebec ● John Abbott College (http://www.johnabbott.qc.ca/academics/career- programs/information-library-technologies/)
keywords: college; metadata
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id: ital-9602
author: Fifarek, Aimee
title: President's Message: Focus on Information Ethics
date: 2016-12-30
words: 737
flesch: 42
summary: Have you stopped to think what impact collecting, posting, sharing that information is going to have on the world around you? PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE | FIFAREK https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v35i4.9602 2 Changes brought about by the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) not only open tremendous opportunities to humankind but also pose unprecedented ethical challenges.
keywords: information
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id: ital-9655
author: Jiao, Qun G.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.
title: The Impact of Information Technology on Library Anxiety: The Role of Computer Attitudes
date: 2017-09-17
words: 5377
flesch: 47
summary: Similarly, Jerabek, Meyer, and Kordinak found levels of computer anxiety to be related to levels of library anxiety for both men and women. Thus, the inclusion of computer anxiety and computer confidence in the canonical correlation model strengthened the multivariate relationship between library anxiety and computer attitudes.
keywords: anxiety; attitudes; computer; information; library; library anxiety; students
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author: Maloney, Krisellen; Bracke, Paul J.
title: Beyond Information Architecture: A Systems Integration Approach to Web-site Design
date: 2017-09-17
words: 6597
flesch: 48
summary: It is clear that library Web sites must undergo a fun- damental change in order to be responsive to the needs of the user. Because library Web sites appear to be similar to conventional Web sites, it is tempting to adopt a general approach to IA to address users' needs.
keywords: content; library; site; systems; user; web; web site
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author: Vaughan, Jason
title: Policies Governing Use of Computing Technology in Academic Libraries
date: 2017-09-17
words: 8226
flesch: 48
summary: In some cases, library policies were not consolidated under a central page titled Policies and Procedures, or Guidelines, and, where they did appear, the context did not imply or state authoritatively that this was an official policy. Library policies can help address items unique, special, or otherwise worthy of elaboration, such as specific systems in place or situa- tions that may arise.
keywords: computer; information; libraries; library; policies; policy; unlv; use
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author: Yu, Holly; Young, Margo
title: The Impact of Web Search Engines on Subject Searching in OPAC
date: 2017-09-17
words: 6099
flesch: 70
summary: Van Pulis and Ludy reported that user searches were typically single words. Ironically, many of these techniques are now found in Web search engines.
keywords: opac; percent; permission; search; searches; searching; subject; user; web
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id: ital-9662
author: Cornish, Alan
title: Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval
date: 2017-09-17
words: 4020
flesch: 65
summary: This paper provides some information on the EAD standard and on search and retrieval issues for EAD XML documents. Strengths and Weaknesses of the TextML Approach Each p roject has it s ow n specific n eed s; thu s, th ere is no correct approach to establishing searc h and retrieval for EAD XML documents.
keywords: ead; finding; native; retrieval; search; xml
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author: Xia, Jingfeng
title: Using GIS to Measure In-Library Book-Use Behavior
date: 2017-09-17
words: 7227
flesch: 71
summary: One of the reasons for this seeming neglect comes from the belief that the records of library book s in circulation provide similar info rma tion as those of books used within libraries. cs of library books .
keywords: books; bookshelf; data; gis; height; layers; libraries; library; tool; use
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id: ital-9664
author: Northrup, Lori; Cherry, Ed; Darby, Della
title: Using Server-Side Include Commands for Subject Web-Page Management: An Alternative to Database-Driven Technologies for the Smaller Academic Library
date: 2017-09-17
words: 5660
flesch: 67
summary: For librar- ians, time spent in updating Web pages is greatly reduced; changes to text files on the server result in simultaneous changes to the edited resources across the library's Web site. The migration of print ed subject guides and p athfinders to Web pages began almost concurrently with th e creation of library Web sites.
keywords: database; include; library; pages; server; ssi; subject; web
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id: ital-9665
author: Coyle, Karen
title: Book Review: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
date: 2017-09-17
words: 2210
flesch: 70
summary: Throughout the book, Lessig points out the difference between copyright law and the actual market for works. If there were sufficient proof that free online copies of works increased sales of hard copies, this would quickly become the norm, regardless of the state of copyright law.
keywords: copyright; law; lessig
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id: ital-9718
author: Fagan, Jody Condit
title: An Evidence-Based Review of Academic Web Search Engines, 2014-2016: Implications for Librarians’ Practice and Research Agenda
date: 2017-06-28
words: 18198
flesch: 49
summary: • Using proper accent marks in the title when searching for non-English language items appears to be important. 18 Google Scholar’s blog notes that in January 2016, a change was made so “Scholar now automatically identifies queries that are likely to be looking for a specific paper” Technically speaking, “it tries hard to find the intended paper and a version that that particular user is able to read” https://scholar.googleblog.com/. AN EVIDENCE-BASED REVIEW OF ACADEMIC WEB SEARCH ENGINES, 2014-2016| FAGAN | https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v36i2.9718 32 • Finding full text for non-English journal articles may require searching Google Scholar in the original language. Even when 19 For example Ştirbu found that Google Scholar overlapped GeoRef by 57% and 62% (Ştirbu et al. 2015, 328), compared with a finding by Neuhaus in 2006 where Scholar overlapped with GeoRef by 26% (2006, 133).
keywords: academic; academic web; articles; citations; coverage; engines; google books; google scholar; information; microsoft; research; review; science; search; web
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id: ital-9720
author: Rebmann, Kristen Radsliff; Te, Emmanuel Edward; Means, Donald
title: TV Whites Spaces in Public Libraries: A Primer
date: 2017-03-31
words: 5108
flesch: 31
summary: TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2017 40 effective spectrum use by multiple parties with changing spectrum needs can alleviate pressure on these resources.39 TVWS for Public Libraries TVWS is a viable medium for applications from internet access, content distribution within a given location, tracking (people, animals, and assets), task automation, and public safety and security,40 as well as remote patient monitoring and other telemedicine applications.41 TVWS complements existing networks that use other parts of the spectrum for access points, mobile communications, and home media devices.42 Analyses of a recent digital inclusion survey suggest that technology upgrades can have significant impact on the ability of libraries to expand programs and services.43 As community anchor institutions (CAIs), public libraries can use TVWS systems to expand and improve access to their services for their users, especially for underserved populations. Next, a basic description of TVWS and its features is provided, focusing on key aspects of the technology relevant to libraries as community anchor institutions.
keywords: access; digital; internet; libraries; public; public libraries; tvws; white
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id: ital-9733
author: Colegrove, Patrick Tod
title: Editorial Board Thoughts: Arts into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – STEAM, Creative Abrasion, and the Opportunity in Libraries Today
date: 2017-03-31
words: 2826
flesch: 39
summary: Microsoft Word - 9733-16966-4-CE.docx Editorial Board Thoughts: Arts into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – STEAM, Creative Abrasion, and the Opportunity in Libraries Today Tod Colegrove INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2017 4 Over the millennia, man’s attempt to understand the universe has been an evolution from the broad to the sharply focused. Libraries have long been about the organization of, and access to, information resources.
keywords: creative; innovation; libraries; library; science
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id: ital-9750
author: Abunadi, Ibrahim
title: A Technology-Dependent Information Literacy Model within the Confines of a Limited Resources Environment
date: 2018-12-17
words: 7182
flesch: 37
summary: This has caused lack of student information literacy education, which is evident in the submission of student assignments. The purpose of this paper is to investigate information literacy as an increasingly evolving trend in computer education.
keywords: face; information; information literacy; learning; literacy; model; online; students; study
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id: ital-9808
author: Fifarek, Aimee
title: President's Message: For The Record
date: 2017-03-31
words: 1070
flesch: 50
summary: Although being LITA President bears absolutely no resemblance to being President of the United States, I have been thinking about this little imagining of mine a lot lately. Future LITA leaders are going to need to continue to be engaged at the larger organizational level if we are to be able to use LITA’s technological knowledge and expertise to support ALA’s efforts to maximize efficiency while minimizing costs.
keywords: lita; president
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id: ital-9817
author: Pekala, Shayna
title: Privacy and User Experience in 21st Century Library Discovery
date: 2017-06-28
words: 4596
flesch: 32
summary: JUNE 2017 48 ABSTRACT Over the last decade, libraries have taken advantage of emerging technologies to provide new discovery tools to help users find information and resources more efficiently. While users once relied on shelf-browsing and card catalogs to find library resources, libraries now provide access to a suite of online tools and interfaces that facilitate cross-collection searching and access to a wide range of materials.
keywords: data; discovery; libraries; library; privacy; user
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id: ital-9825
author: Davis, Ann Marie Lynn
title: Current Trends and Goals in the Development of Makerspaces at New England College and Research Libraries
date: 2018-06-18
words: 8360
flesch: 52
summary: The body of literature on library makerspaces is brief, descriptive, and often didactic. Born of a global community movement, makerspaces bring the do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to communities of tinkerers using technologies including 3D printers, robotics, metal- and woodworking, and arts and crafts.1 Building on this philosophy of shared discovery, public libraries have been creating free programs and open makerspaces since 2011.2 Given their potential for community engagement, college and research libraries (CRLs) have also been joining the movement in growing numbers.3 In recent years, makerspaces in CRLs have generated positive press in popular and academic journals.
keywords: community; crls; lab; libraries; library; makerspace; respondents; survey
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id: ital-9878
author: Han, Yan; Wan, Xueheng
title: Digitization of Text Documents Using PDF/A
date: 2018-03-19
words: 4345
flesch: 34
summary: AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2018 64 REFERENCES 1 PDF-Tools.com and PDF Association, “PDF/A—The Standard for Long-Term Archiving,” version 2.4, white paper, May 20, 2009, http://www.pdf- tools.com/public/downloads/whitepapers/whitepaper-pdfa.pdf; Duff Johnson, “White Paper: How to Implement PDF/A,” Talking PDF, PDF/A was designed to address concerns about long-term preservation of PDF files, but there has been little research and few implementations of this file format.
keywords: file; header; metadata; pdf; tiff
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id: ital-9953
author: Markland, Mary J.; Rempel, Hannah Gascho; Bridges, Laurie
title: Mobile Website Use and Advanced Researchers: Understanding Library Users at a University Marine Sciences Branch Campus
date: 2017-12-22
words: 7233
flesch: 44
summary: The conversation about how best to design mobile library websites has shifted over the past decade. Branch campus–affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students were invited to participate in a survey to determine what their research behaviors are via mobile devices, including frequency of their mobile library website use and the tasks they were attempting to complete.
keywords: devices; library; mobile; percent; researchers; students; use; website
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id: ital-9959
author: Azadbakht, Elena; Blair, John; Jones, Lisa
title: Everyone’s Invited: A Website Usability Study Involving Multiple Library Stakeholders
date: 2017-12-22
words: 4292
flesch: 55
summary: Students approach library search interfaces as if they were Google and generally conduct very simple searches. Research on the search behaviors of students versus more experienced researchers or subject experts also has implications for library website design.
keywords: library; participants; search; website
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id: ital-9966
author: Guay, Beth
title: A Case Study on the Path to Resource Discovery
date: 2017-09-17
words: 6417
flesch: 42
summary: Background: EEBO, Related Resources and Bibliographic Records Much has been written on EEBO’s inception and continuing development as a collection of digital reproductions of microfilm reproductions of pre-1700 print resources, and on its scholarly value (Kitchuk, 2007; Martin, 2007; Gadd, 2009; Mak, 2013; Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015).12 Alfred Pollard and Gilbert Redgrave’s A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (“STC”), and the “companion” volume, Donald Wing's Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (“Wing”), respectively, were used in selecting the print resources for filming.13 Gadd (2009, 683) pinpointed the STC as “a catalogue of editions (or more accurately, editions and issues) not copies although, of course, the A CASE STUDY ON THE PATH TO RESOURCE DISCOVERY | GUAY | doi:10.6017/ital.v36i3.9966 25 information about any edition is derived primarily from the surviving copies … Each entry gives the location of known copies …” 14 The “successor” to STC and Wing, the English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), “includes records for every item listed in STC, every item in Wing, every item in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue … and newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801” and is freely available online from the British Library.15 16 Gadd (2009, 685-686) offered this critique concerning EEBO’s bibliographic data and relationship to the ESTC: EEBO’s relationship with the original STC and Wing is straightforward and clear; EEBO’s relationship with electronic ESTC, on the other hand, is less well-known. This resulted in a project to identify OCLC record numbers (OCN) for addition to OCLC’s Chadwyck-Healey Early English Books Online (EEBO) KBART file.1 Initially, the project was an attempt to adapt cataloging workflows to a new environment in which the copy cataloging of e-resources takes place within discovery system tools rather than traditional cataloging utilities and MARC record set or individual record downloads into online catalogs.
keywords: eebo; libraries; microfilm; oclc; record; resource
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id: ital-9987
author: Zvyagintseva, Lydia
title: It is Our Flagship: Surveying the Landscape of Digital Interactive Displays in Learning Environments
date: 2018-06-18
words: 10068
flesch: 40
summary: Wherever the service of running, managing, or using this technology is discussed, it is framed as “digital display service” and concerns both technical and organizational aspects of using this technology in a learning institution. Data gathered shows that the average full-time equivalent (FTE) needed to support digital display services in organizations interviewed was 2.97—around three full time staff members.
keywords: content; digital; digital displays; displays; exhibits; organizations; public; service; study; technology; university; users
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