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Lisa Spiro

Out Front with Stephen Abram: A ... - Google Book Search - 0 views

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    Includes chapter on value of libraries
Lisa Spiro

What is the hybrid library? -- Oppenheim and Smithson 25 (2): 97 -- Journal of Informat... - 0 views

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    Abstract of 1999 study on hybrid library: "The hybrid library is a term that has entered the parlance of the library and information profession in the past three years. It is viewed as a halfway step towards the fully digital library. In this paper, the history of the concept is outlined, together with the important influence the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) has had in funding hybrid library projects. A proposed model of the hybrid library was developed and was shown to the eLib hybrid library projects. Reactions to the model were obtained. In addition, the paper reports the results of in-depth discussions with the project staff regarding how the hybrid library will evolve. It is clear that the development of the hybrid library depends more upon cultural shift than technological development. There are differences in view of what can be achieved in the short term and how to go about achieving the aims. There is a clear consensus that the library in a location will remain. The hybrid library is a useful model for how the library will evolve. Although currently confined to higher education, the principles are likely to spread to other types of library and information service."
Lisa Spiro

The Traditional Future - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

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    As anyone who has worked in optimization recently knows, stripping the randomness out of a computing system is a bad idea. Harnessing randomness is what optimization is all about today. (Even algorithms designed for convergence make extensive use of randomness, and it is clear that library research in particular thrives on it.) But it is evident that much of the technologization of libraries is destroying huge swaths of randomness. First, the reduction of access to a relatively small number of search engines, with fairly simple-minded indexing systems -- most typically concordance indexing (not keywords, which are assigned by humans) -- has meant a vast decrease in the randomness of retrieval. Everybody who asks the same questions of the same sources gets the same answers. The centralization and simplification of access tools thus has major and dangerous consequences. This comes even through reduction of temporal randomness. In major indexes without cumulations - the Readers Guide, for example - substantial randomness was introduced by the fact that researchers in different periods tended to see different references. With complete cumulations, that variation is gone.
Lisa Spiro

ALA | American Libraries - January 2006: Is This the Renaissance or the Dark Ages? - 0 views

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    overview of print to digital transition
Geneva Henry

Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views

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    A lot of headlines and blogs to the contrary, publishing isn't dying. But it is evolving, and so radically that we may hardly recognize it when it's done. Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since--well, since the early 18th century. The novel won't stay the same: it has always been exquisitely sensitive to newness, hence the name. It's about to renew itself again, into something cheaper, wilder, trashier, more democratic and more deliriously fertile than ever.
Geneva Henry

LJ Talks to Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? - 1/22/2009 - Library Journal - 0 views

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    Libraries already act like Google in many ways. Or I should say instead, Google acts like libraries. It is the mission of both to organize the world's information, to make it openly accessible, to find and present the most authoritative (by many definitions) sources, to instill an ethic of information use in the public, to act as a platform for communities of information, to encourage creation. So how could libraries, in turn, think like Google? Some libraries act as platforms for community content creation (one of my first efforts in hyperlocal community journalism, GoSkokie.net, made with the Medill School of Journalism, is now run by the library). In how many ways could a library act as a platform for the community to inform itself by providing tools and training for content creation? How can libraries collect the wisdom of the crowd that is their communities (e.g., creating collaborative town wikis and maps made by the community)? Librarians and their expert patrons could curate the web and create topic pages that would rise in Google search as valuable resources for the world (if your library is in Florida, it could maintain the best collections of sources for information on manatees or sunburns). What I'd really like to do is brainstorm this question with your readers on my blog: How could they be Googlier?
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?
Lisa Spiro

presentations | XXVIII Annual Charleston Conference - 0 views

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    Rich presentations on ebooks and library collections. User studies, preservation, rights, future role of library, etc.
Lisa Spiro

Elsevier Ebooks - 0 views

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    Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced the availability of more than 4,000 eBooks on ScienceDirect. eBooks on ScienceDirect comprise high-quality selected titles published from 1995 to the present. These include scientific and technical books spanning 18 subject areas, as well as books from renowned imprints including Pergamon and Academic Press. The launch is a major expansion to the reference works, handbooks and book series already available on ScienceDirect.
Lisa Spiro

Oxford Scholarship Online: Home - 0 views

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    "Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,557 Oxford books. In addition to Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion, Oxford Scholarship Online now provides access to new Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Physics, and Psychology and Social Work."
Lisa Spiro

Scientific Commons: E-books in practice: the librarian's perspective (2009), 2009-01 [B... - 0 views

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    Report on ebook experiment at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Details needed services: preservation, cataloging, rights, etc
Cynthia Gillespie

The Lessons From the Kindle's Success - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The article is interesting, but I truly question the claim that Amazon will sell $1 Billion dollars worth of Kindle hardware and software by 2010. What is relevant to our study is the reader comments. It's not a scientific random sample, but they are easily accessible opinions of the Kindle.
Lisa Spiro

The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica - 0 views

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    "A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books."
Cynthia Gillespie

Do Libraries Really Need Books, by Scott Carlson in Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    This article describes the planning of new university libraries, and how librarians at Santa Clara, Georgia Tech, Marquette and other decided on the new designs of their libraries.
Lisa Spiro

dawsonera : Home - 0 views

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    You are at the Home Page of a web-based collection of ebooks designed for use in libraries. There are many thousands of ebooks in the dawsonera catalogue, produced by academic publishers around the world. Your institution may purchase a selection of these to create a tailored collection of ebooks for you to read. If ebooks have been purchased, you can find and read them by using the Reader Portal.
Cynthia Gillespie

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

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    This bookmark can be deleted. This article is a broad summary of the issues facing academic libraries.
Cynthia Gillespie

Project MUSE - portal: Libraries and the Academy - If We Build It, Will They Come? Elec... - 0 views

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    This article is only available for purchase. North Texas does not carry this journal.
Geneva Henry

The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "The academic-library market has been slow to embrace electronic monographs, he said, but lately interest has begun to surge. E-book sales at Blackwell's increased 216 percent in the 2007 fiscal year and 164 percent in the first six months of 2008. That's evidence that the e-book trade "has the potential to rebuild the monograph business," Mr. Nauman said."
Cynthia Gillespie

Technology Review: The Infinite Library - 0 views

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    This is a lengthy 2005 article on Google's digital book preservation initiative. Google has undertaken an ambitious project, and the author details how exactly the books digitally preserved, how they are cataloged, and how ancient handwritten books are transformed into searchable text. At the time this article was written, it was still unknown as to what Google planned on doing with all the books it digitized and various options are discussed. Policy issues are touched on very lightly, other than the books added to the digital collection are largely those which are not protected by copyright law.
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