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Information Technology and Libraries
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ISSN 0730-9295 · American Library Association · 599 articles in the index
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China Academic Library and Information System: An Academic Library Consortium in China
Since its inception in 1998, China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) has become the most important academic library consortium in China. CALIS is centrally funded and organized in a tiered structure. It currently consists of thirteen management or information centers and seventy…
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Engelond: A Model for Faculty-Librarian Collaboration in the Information Age
The question of how best to incorporate information literacy instruction into the academic curriculum has long been a leading concern of academic librarians. In recent years, this issue has grown beyond the boundaries of professional ibrarianship and has become a general concern regularly…
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The Internet, the World Wide Web, Library Web Browsers, and Library Web Servers
This article first examines the difference between two very familiar and sometimes synonymous terms, the Internet and the Web. The article then explains the relationship between the Web's protocol HTTP and other high-level Internet protocols, such as Telnet and FTP, as well as provides a brief…
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Editorial Board Thoughts: Reinvesting in Our Traditional Personnel Through Knowledge Sharing and Training
Editorial Board Thoughts: Reinvesting in Our Traditional Personnel Through Knowledge Sharing and Training
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Electronic Library for Scientific Journals: Consortium Project in Brazil
Making information available for the acquisition and transmission of human knowledge is the focal point of this paper, which describes the creation of a consortium for the university and research institute libraries in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Through sharing and cooperation, the project…
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That's My Bailiwick: A Library-Sponsored Faculty Research Web Server
The University of Iowa Libraries provide a unique, new, scholarly publishing outlet for their faculty and graduate students.
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Mobile Website Use and Advanced Researchers: Understanding Library Users at a University Marine Sciences Branch Campus
This exploratory study examined the use of the Oregon State University Libraries website via mobile devices by advanced researchers at an off-campus branch location. Branch campus–affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students were invited to participate in a survey to determine what their…
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Metadata Provenance and Vulnerability
The preservation of digital objects has become an urgent task in recent years as it has been realised that digital media have a short life span. The pace of technological change makes accessing these media more and more difficult. Digital preservation is accomplished by two main methods, migration…
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The Impact of Web Search Engines on Subject Searching in OPAC
This paper analyzes the results of transaction logs at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and studies the effects of implementing a Web-based OPAC along with interface changes. The authors find that user success in subject searching remains problematic. A major increase in the…
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Site License Initiatives in the United Kingdom: The PSLI and NESLI Experience
This article examines the development of site licensing within the United Kingdom higher education community. In particular, it looks at haw the pressure to make better use of dwindling fiscal resources led to the conclusion that information technology and its exploitation was necessary in order to…
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Up Against the Clock: Migrating to LibGuides v2 on a Tight Timeline
During Fall semester 2015, Librarians at the United States Naval Academy were faced with the challenge of migrating to LibGuides version 2 and integrating LibAnswers with LibChat into their service offerings. Initially, the entire migration process was anticipated to take almost a full academic…
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New Strategies in Library Services Organization: Consortia University Libraries in Spain
New political, economic, and technological developments, as well as the growth of information markets, in Spain have created a foundation for the creation of library consortia. The author describes the process by which different regions in Spain have organized university library consortia.
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Digital Resource Sharing and Library Consortia in Italy
Interlibrary cooperation in Italy is a fairly recent and not very widespread practice. Attention to the topic was aroused in the eighties with the Italian library network project. More recently, under the impetus toward technological innovation, there has been renewed (and more pragmatic) interest…
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Beyond Information Architecture: A Systems Integration Approach to Web-site Design
Users' needs and expectations regarding access to information have fundamentally changed, creating a disconnect between how users expect to use a library Web site and how the site was designed. At the same time, library technical infrastructures include legacy systems that were not designedf or the…
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Bibliographic Classification in the Digital Age: Current Trends & Future Directions
Bibliographic classification is among the core activities of Library & Information Science that brings order and proper management to the holdings of a library. Compared to printed media, digital collections present numerous challenges regarding their preservation, curation, organization and their…
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A Low-Cost Library Database Solution
Two locally created databases are made available to the world via the Web using an inexpensive but highly functional search engine created in-house. The technology consists of a microcomputer running UNIX to serve relational databases. CGI forms created using the programming language Perl offer…
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An Evidence-Based Review of Academic Web Search Engines, 2014-2016: Implications for Librarians’ Practice and Research Agenda
Academic web search engines have become central to scholarly research. While the fitness of Google Scholar for research purposes has been examined repeatedly, Microsoft Academic and Google Books have not received much attention. Recent studies have much to tell us about the coverage and utility of…
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TV Whites Spaces in Public Libraries: A Primer
TV Whitespace (TVWS) represents one new wireless communication technology that has the potential to improve internet access and inclusion. This primer describes TVWS technology as a viable, long-term access solution for the benefit of public libraries and their communities, especially for…