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Geneva Henry

Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future. What will that future be?
Geneva Henry

untitled - 0 views

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    Pricing and product information for the Kindle at Amazon.com
Geneva Henry

Emerald: Book Chapter Request - 0 views

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    This is a chapter of book from the series "Advances in Library Administration and Organization, Volume 26, pages 71-149. ISSN: 0732-0671. This chapter discusses a study at an academic library in Illinois that looked at how well librarians adapted to changes in formats of information.
Geneva Henry

ScienceDirect - Information Processing & Management : Print vs. electronic resources: A... - 0 views

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    2006 San Jose State University study discussing the preferences of print vs. electronic resources in the university's library. Different disciplines prefer different formats. Access the full article through ScienceDirect.
Lisa Spiro

Information technology and the remaking of the university library [WorldCat.org] - 0 views

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    1996 book about technology in library
Cynthia Gillespie

Future of the Book: Can the Endangered Monograph Survive? | Scholarly Communication Pro... - 0 views

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    Audio. "Panelists Helen Tartar, Editorial Director at Fordham University Press; Sanford Thatcher, Director of Penn State University Press and past President of the Association of American University Presses; and Ree DeDonato, Director of Humanities and History and Acting Director of Union Theological Seminary's Burke Library of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services discuss the economics and process of scholarly publishing and the future of the monograph. Columbia's Deputy University Librarian and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services Patricia Renfro introduces the panel, which is followed by a question-and-answer session."
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    Video: "...discuss the economics and process of scholarly publishing and the future of the monograph. Columbia's Deputy University Librarian and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services Patricia Renfro introduces the panel, which is followed by a question-and-answer session." (quoted from webpage.)
Cynthia Gillespie

The future of the 'research' library in an age of information abundance and lifelong le... - 0 views

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    2005 Australian perspective on role of research library in digital environment
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    can be deleted - this article refers to public libraries
Geneva Henry

Books and reports [OCLC - Publications] - 0 views

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    Note in particular Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann. Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development.
Cynthia Gillespie

Text, Information, Knowledge and the Evolving Record of Humanity - 0 views

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    This article discusses how digitized text should be coded to enable easier searching and retrieval.
Lisa Spiro

Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment - 0 views

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    2002 Amy Friedlander study of users attitudes toward libraries
Geneva Henry

David Mimno - Publications - 0 views

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    BROWSING VIRTUALLY
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    "Organizing the OCA: Learning faceted subjects from a library of digital books. David Mimno and Andrew McCallum. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada. PDF The Open Content Alliance is one of several large-scale digitization projects currently producing huge numbers of digital books. Statistical topic models are a natural choice for organizing and describing such large text corpora, but scalability becomes a problem when we are dealing with multi-billion word corpora. This paper presents a new method for topic modeling, DCM-LDA. In this model, we train an independent topic model for every book, using pages as "documents". We then gather the topics discovered, cluster them, and then fit a Dirichlet prior for each topic cluster. Finally, we retrain the individual book topic models using these new shared topics. " via Dan Cohen working on virtual shelves project, using information within texts (OCA) as organizing principle instead of LCSH; former Perseus programmer
Lisa Spiro

General Information - About the Library (Library of Congress) - 0 views

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    Size of LC collection: 138,313,427 items
Cynthia Gillespie

The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Each year one of the biggest debates in higher education seems to be: Is this the year that electronic textbooks take off? Many of the barriers are falling. E-reader devices are getting better. The inventory of digital content is expanding. Business models are emerging to support the needs of students, faculty members, and publishers. People are getting more comfortable with new modes of information delivery and the pervasiveness of technology in our lives. Discussions of the future of digital course materials are now more often about "when" than "if."
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    This can be deleted, there isn't much data, just speculation about what will ultimately bring about the print-to-digital change in college textbooks.
Lisa Spiro

Dr. Carol Tenopir - School of Information Sciences - University of Tennessee - 0 views

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    Lots of work on scientists' use of ejournals
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