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Cynthia Gillespie

The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the Sys... - 0 views

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    Lots of statistics on the print-to-digital transition, particularly the types of books being digitized (largely English language). This article looks at taking a "system wide view of library collections" to evaluate digital resources for collection development.
Cynthia Gillespie

The Journal of Electronic Publishing: The Indexing of Scholarly Journals: A Tipping Poi... - 0 views

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    Now, most of the attention on changes in scholarly publishing has been focused on e-journals. We wish to expand that circle of light so that it takes in the indexing of serials. The index, as every scholar knows, is critical to the quality of the research. The value of a library's serial collection is only as good as its indexing. What scholar has not wondered about the impact of overlapping, inconsistent, and incomplete indexing services on their work? When the weaknesses of the current indexing services are matched against the potential of open-access systems, we may have a tipping point in convincing scholars that the profession would be far better served by open-access publishing systems. We argue that a primary candidate for scholarly publishing's tipping point is the coherence, integration, and precision that these open-access systems can bring to the scholarly exchange and enhancement of knowledge, especially when compared to the current state of the serial index and the hit-and-miss of full-text Web searches.
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    There is a chart of costs of some electronic indexes, although it may be outdates (2000-01). This article examines the degree of overlap between different academic databases.
Cynthia Gillespie

Facts and statistics [OCLC - WorldCat] - 0 views

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    Statistics
Geneva Henry

INKE: Implementing New Knowledge Environments - 0 views

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    The INKE group is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefront of computing in the humanities, text analysis, information studies, usability and interface design. The network is led by Canadian scholars, but includes members from the USA and the UK. It is comprised of those who are best-poised to understand the nature of the human record as it intersects with the computer. Our work is divided into four key research groupings: textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management.
Geneva Henry

3.12: Reality Check - 0 views

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    The Future of Libraries
Cynthia Gillespie

LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress - 0 views

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    Findings and Recommendations portion of a study of the Library of Congress's role in the digital transition. An outline of links for the entire study is on the right side of the page.
Cynthia Gillespie

PLANETS: Publications - 0 views

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    Link to PLANETS "Report of Usage models for Libraries, Archives, and Data Centres." This report is a .pdf document that discusses the results of a study or user requirements for digital documents. The study discusses the following topics as they relate to digital documents: access, trustworthiness, retrieval, and flexibility.
Cynthia Gillespie

Diffuse Libraries: Emergent Roles for the Research Library in the Digital Age - 0 views

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    This well-researched article discusses several new paradigms for future libraries: collaborative content sharing, library as publisher/distributor, new cataloging schemes, virtual reference services and informationliteracy programs.
Geneva Henry

Symposium Program - Future of Publishing Symposium - 0 views

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    Video of symposium held at Texas A&M in Feb. 2009. Excellent group of speakers!
Lisa Spiro

Wiring The Ivory Tower | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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    1995 article: "WHEN CALIFORNIA State University administrators drew up plans for their newest campus, scheduled to open this fall at the old Fort Ord site in Monterey Bay, one building was conspicuous absent from their blueprints: the library. But as Barry Munitz, chancellor of the 22-campus system, sees it, why bother wasting all that money on bricks and mortar and expensive tomes when it could be better spent on technology for getting information via computer? "You simply don't have to build a traditional library these days," Munitz says." [of course, CSUMB did build a traditional library...]
Lisa Spiro

Buildings & Grounds: New Library Opens on Monterey Bay Campus of California S... - 0 views

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    library for new university. Comment suggests that they initially considered doing an all digital library, but went with LEEDS building "While it now has shelves for 152,000 volumes, its potential capacity is significantly larger-573,000 volumes."
Lisa Spiro

The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press - 0 views

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    John Willinsky: "This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."
Cynthia Gillespie

Congressional Hearings - Law Library of Congress (Library of Congress) - 0 views

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    This page features the results of the collaboration between Google and the LOC to digitize Congressional hearings. I tried the Immigration collection, and found it easy to download and search the .pdf document. This is a great resource for researchers.
Cynthia Gillespie

Fulltext Sources Online - 0 views

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    Fulltext Sources Online is an index published by Information Today, updated weekly online and available twice a year in a print version. FSO "is a directory of over 42,000 full-text newspapers, journals, magazine, newsletters, and transcripts from 30 aggregators and content providers." Subscribers have access to all aspects of the index, while non-subscribers can search for free with only limited access to results.
Lisa Spiro

thedigitalist.net » my tee oh see - 0 views

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    Summary of the 2009 Tools of Change conference
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