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No Brief Candle

No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century
August 2008

The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship

New Report: The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship, by Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 18 July 2008-Subtitled, "Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities," the report consists of an overview and interpretation of perspecives provided at the RLG Programs symposium that was held in Philadelphia at the Chemical Heritage Foundation on 4 June 2008.

Utility, Library Priorities, and Cataloging Policies

This paper seeks to provide a philosophical framework for choices made about library priorities and cataloging policy, the contexts in which they are made, and the consequences they have for users. The authors invoke the notion of utility as a philosophical backdrop for dealing with competing library choices and the fallout from those prioritizations. They then look at how general utilitarian principles can contextualize the layers of wants, needs, and resource allocations in the research library environment. Finally, they examine issues and recent developments at the Cornell University Library as a case study with which to illustrate some of these principles.

RDA: a cataloguing code for the 21st century

Utility, Library Priorities, and Cataloging Policies

"This paper seeks to provide a philosophical framework for choices made about library priorities and cataloging policy, the contexts in which they are made, and the consequences they have for users. The authors invoke the notion of utility as a philosophical backdrop for dealing with competing library choices and the fallout from those prioritizations. They then look at how general utilitarian principles can contextualize the layers of wants, needs, and resource allocations in the research library environment. Finally, they examine issues and recent developments at the Cornell University Library as a case study with which to illustrate some of these principles."

Report to Subject Analysis Committee regarding LCWG

Janet Swan Hill's report to the Subject Analysis Committee regarding the LC response to the LCWG report.

Moving Image Genre/Form Project Report

7/10/08

On July 9th, 2008, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) presented a report on the moving image genre/form project to the Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) management team. The report includes recommendations for expanding the genre/form project beyond the moving image and radio program headings assigned and created by LC's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Divison. ABA management has approved this expansion to include other disciplines and CPSO will be releasing further details on implementation strategies as these are developed.

ITALica: Metadata to Support Next-Generation Library Resource Discovery: Lessons from the eXtensible Catalog, Phase 1 by Jennifer Bowen

RLG Programs releases

RLG Programs releases "Seeking Sustainability," a casual report on RLG's exploration of ways to make access to digitized special collections self-supporting

Outgoing: Linking to WorldCat Identities

Since previous posts about linking to WorldCat Identities are getting out of date, here's a summary of the current API. There are several ways of linking to Identities:

1. Directly to the pages themselves
2. OpenURL
3. NameFinder searches
4. SRU searches

Library of Congress Subject Headings: Pre- vs. Post-Coordination and Related Issues

In 2006, the Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) at the Library of Congress (LC) requested the Cataloging Policy and Support Office to review of the pros and cons of pre- versus post-coordination of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The final report (2/19/08) recommended, and the ABA Management accepted, that LC catalogers continue to apply pre-coordination of LCSH terms.

...

The LC report documents the recommendations approved in June 2007, regarding further automation of the assignment of subject heading strings, the expansion of machine validation of strings, further simplification of practices including the fixed order of subdivisions, exploration into LC's use of the current generation of sophisticated search engines, the enabling of more social tagging additions to the LC records, and encouragement of Web applications that take advantage of LCSH. On this latter point, LC intends to make LCSH freely available on the Web in a SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Schema) format for the world at large.

Response to On The Record

Deanna Marcum's response to the "On The Record" report of the LC working group (June 1, 2008)

Google Books vs. BISON - 6/15/2008 - Library Journal

E-LIS - @toread and Cool : Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging

"This paper examines the use of non subject related tags in social bookmarking tools. Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects or activities. These tags have been analysed to examine their role in the tagging process."

Outgoing: ETD 2008 in Aberdeen

Seeking Sustainability

Seeking Sustainability: "a casual report about RLG's exploration of ways to make access to digitized special collections self-supporting, prepared by RLG Program Officer, Ricky Erway.

The report begins with an overview of RLG Cultural Materials and Trove.net (two services RLG offered prior to the RLG/OCLC combination) and discusses why they were curtailed. The findings regarding sustainability are based on RLG's experiences with subscription access, image licensing, and relevant advertising, as well as attempts at sponsorship and content licensing with other Web portals. The report captures a moment in time, but should be of interest to anyone pondering the question of how to provide access to and sustain library, archive and museum resources.

This report is part of an ongoing series of papers from OCLC Programs and Research to promote evidence-based practices that are likely to have an impact on research institutions and the communities they serve."

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

Libraries Unleashed

4/22/08 the Guardian had a supplement dealing with libraries and technology...about 15 articles in all.

An excerpt from the introduction:

"Academic libraries are changing faster than at any time in their history. Information technology, online databases, and catalogues and digitised archives have put the library back at the heart of teaching, learning and academic research on campus."

Old Maids, Policeman, and Social Rejects

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Recommendation and Ranganathan

Nine questions to guide you in choosing a metadata schema

Marie R. Kennedy

This article is a guide for collection developers at the point of considering a metadata schema for their digital collection. The nine questions asked in this article will assist a developer in clarifying how he wants the collection to be organized, described, and used. This article uses examples to illustrate how these questions guided the development of a digital collection built at the University of Southern California.

Cataloging Compared to Descriptive Bibliography, Abstracting and Indexing Services and Metadata

From Cataloging Futures:

"Martha Yee has a new article available at the UC eScholarship repository, Cataloging, Compared to Descriptive Bibliography, Abstracting and Indexing Services and Metadata."

Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?

Looking to Connect - Technical Challenges that Impede the Growth of Virtual Reference

80/20 individual : how to accomplish more by doing less--the nine essentials of 80/20 success at work / Richard Koch.

Koch, Richard, 1950- . 80/20 individual : how to accomplish more by doing less--the nine essentials of 80/20 success at work / Richard Koch. 1st U.S. ed. 038550957X series New York : Currency/Doubleday, 2003.
Call#: Lippincott Library LIPP HD53 .K625 2003

Providing Access to Uncataloged Special Collections with In - Process Records

Providing Access to Uncataloged Special Collections with In - Process Records, by Lundy, M. W .

His illegal self / Peter Carey.

Carey, Peter, 1943- . His illegal self / Peter Carey. 1st U.S. ed. 9780307263728 (alk. paper) series New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.C36 H57 2008

RLG Partner Copyright Investigation Summary Report

From RLG:

"I am pleased to announce that the RLG Partner Copyright Investigation Summary Report is now available. This report summarizes interviews conducted between August and September 2007 with staff from eight partner institutions. Interviewees shared information about how and why institutions investigate and collect copyright evidence, both for mass digitization projects and for items in special collections. This report is one of the deliverables of the Contribute to the Development of a Registry of Copyright Evidence Project that is part of our Create New Structures and Service Areas work agenda program."

Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person.

Toward element-level interoperability in bibliographic metadata

"..interesting article on automated metadata crosswalking from the new Code4lib issue:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/54

It details a web service that OCLC is providing for metadata conversion ("Crosswalk Web Service"); ... it gives a thorough and well-written look at the technical details of generalizing data conversion."

White paper on interoperability between integrated library system acquisition modules and electronic resource management systems

"The DLF Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) Phase 2 Steering Group has been investigating interoperability between integrated library system acquisition modules and electronic resource management systems for the last 18 months. In January 2007 the ERMI2 subcommittee charged with this work released a draft report for comment.

The subcommittee is now pleased to make available the final report of this investigation, available from . The release will also be announced this week at the 2008 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia."

The Code4Lib Journal

Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging

Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging
Sheila Bair - Technical Services Quarterly, 2005

Cataloging is the foundation of librarianship, and catalogers are professionals with special skills that set them apart from the profession in general and give them unique ethical responsibilities.

Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks, Ariadne Issue 54

"Social tagging, which is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, and social indexing, allows ordinary users to assign keywords, or tags, to items. Typically these items are Web-based resources and the tags become immediately available for others to see and use. Unlike traditional classification, social tagging keywords are typically freely chosen instead of using a controlled vocabulary. Social tagging is of interest to researchers because it is possible that with a sufficiently large number of tags, useful folksonomies will emerge that can either augment or even replace traditional ontologies. As a result, social tagging has created a renewed level of interest in manual indexing [1]. In order for researchers to understand the benefits and limitations of using user-generated tags for indexing and retrieval purposes, it is important to investigate to what extent community influences tagging behaviour, characteristic effects on tag datasets, and whether this influence helps or hinders search and retrieval."

Why look at open source now? - PLN

"PALINET's Senior Technology Consultant, John Houser, explores the benefits of implementing open source solutions in libraries in his article, "Why Look at Open Source Now?" This article is available to view on the PALINET Leadership Network (PLN). An excerpt:

"The open source development model promises freedom to its participants: the freedom to download, test, modify, and put into production software without paying licensing fees."

In Search of a New Model - 1/15/2008 - netConnect

"Columbia University Libraries' Robert Wolven reflects on what's next for cooperative cataloging"

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Comments on Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)response to the LC Working Group

Facet-Based Search and Navigation With LCSH: Problems and Opportunities

"Facet-based interfaces demonstrate some limitations of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), which were designed to deal with constraints that do not exist in the current computerized environment. This paper discusses some challenges for using LCSH for faceted browsing and navigation in library catalogs. Ideas are provided for improving results through system design, changes to LCSH practice, and LCSH structure."

Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Final report of the WG was released on Jan. 10, 2008

lt12152007.pdf (application/pdf Object)

AALL's official response to the report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

LC WG Report Comments OCLC 20071214.pdf (application/pdf Object)

OCLC's response (written by Karen Calhoun) to the draft report of the LC Working Group on the Future of 
Bibliographic Control

MARCThing: A simple, self-contained MARC and Z39.50 application

Providing Access to Uncataloged Special Collections with In-Process Records

Terminologies Services Meeting - September 12, 2007

"The goal of the terminologies services meeting was to determine which components of a terminologies service the participants (drawn from the RLG Programs partnership and representing a wide range of different communities and roles) find the most compelling. Desired meeting outcomes included a list of the most important features and use-cases in order to help prioritize efforts of RLG Programs and OCLC Research in this area of work."

Approaches to metadata creation: Our survey results!

"We just issued the results of the RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices survey.

We conducted this survey in July and August 2007 among 18 RLG partners in the United States and the United Kingdom, selected because they had "multiple metadata creation centers" on campus that included libraries, archives, and museums and had some interaction among them. (Ten of these partners are also represented on this focus group.) Our objective was to gain a baseline understanding of current descriptive metadata practices and dependencies, the first project in our program to change metadata creation processes."

Libraries Re-shaping

Webcast for November 13, 2007 Meeting in Washington, D.C. - Interim Draft Report and Recommendations (Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Library of Congress)

Web page now has links to both the webcast and PP slides from the event

Libraries Re-shaping

From Peter Brantley's blog

ACRL Invites Comment on Scholarly Communication Research Agenda

"ACRL has issued a new white paper, "Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement," resulting from a one-day invitational meeting to collectively brainstorm the evidence needed to manage and influence the changing system of scholarly communication."

Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for Subject Analysis

From catalogablog:

Smith, Tiffany (2007) Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for Subject Analysis. In Lussky, Joan, Eds. Proceedings 18th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Management Succession in Libraries

Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books

Abstract
The Google Books Project has drawn a great deal of attention, offering the prospect of the library of the future and rendering many other library and digitizing projects apparently superfluous. To grasp the value of Google's endeavor, we need among other things, to assess its quality. On such a vast and undocumented project, the task is challenging. In this essay, I attempt an initial assessment in two steps. First, I argue that most quality assurance on the Web is provided either through innovation or through "inheritance." In the later case, Web sites rely heavily on institutional authority and quality assurance techniques that antedate the Web, assuming that they will carry across unproblematically into the digital world. I suggest that quality assurance in the Google's Book Search and Google Books Library Project primarily comes through inheritance, drawing on the reputation of the libraries, and before them publishers involved. Then I chose one book to sample the Google's Project, Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. This book proved a difficult challenge for Project Gutenberg, but more surprisingly, it evidently challenged Google's approach, suggesting that quality is not automatically inherited. In conclusion, I suggest that a strain of romanticism may limit Google's ability to deal with that very awkward object, the book.

ZeroConf Meta OpenSearch: Part One | One Big Library.

from NGC4LIB

"Dan Chudnov has done a lot of thinking on how itunes and zeroconf could fit into libraries, collected here:

http://onebiglibrary.net/taxonomy/term/39

And a good starting point is here:

http://onebiglibrary.net/story/zeroconf-meta-opensearch-part-one

In fact, I think Dan answers the question brilliantly by posing another question: "shouldn't our whole libraries be as easy to connect and share as iTunes?" Sounds like a good candidate for a NGC to me."

if:book: the really modern library

Special Collections in ARL Libraries: Results of the 1998 Survey

Special Collections in ARL Libraries: Results of the 1998 Survey Sponsored by the ARL Research Collections Committee
by Judith M. Panitch, 2001

SPEC Kit 298, Metadata

"Metadata is often called "data about data." It has been used by various communities creating geospatial data, social and scientific data sets, enterprise applications, data warehouses, educational resources, and bibliographic data. In the traditional library world, catalog records are metadata, as they contain information about the library's collection of "data," i.e., the books and journals that make up its collections. Increasingly, libraries have been adopting emerging metadata standards such as Dublin Core, EAD, MODS, and TEI to describe, discover, preserve, manage, and provide access to electronic resources and digital objects.

This SPEC survey investigated how metadata is implemented in ARL member libraries: which staff are creating metadata and for what kinds of digital objects, what schemas and tools they use to create and manage metadata, what skills metadata staff need and how they acquire them, and the organizational changes and challenges that metadata has brought to libraries."

Definition of a FRBR-based Metadata Model for the Indiana University Variations3 Project

"The Indiana University Veriations2 and Variations3 projects use a work-based metadata model for discovery of musical sound recordings, scanned score images, and encoded score notation files. This model has been described as ³FRBR-like² and is mentioned in various discussions of FRBR-based systems, but it is not technically a FRBR implementation.

As the project team investigates long-term sustainability issues for the Variations3 software, we have begun thinking about what a truly FRBR-ized version of the metadata model would look like, and if changing to this type of model would make our system more sustainable and interoperable. As a first step towards answering these questions, members of the Variations3 project team have released a report outlining the potential application of FRBR to a system designed to deliver musical content in a library environment."

Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?

Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?
by Martha M. Yee, with a great deal of help from Michael Gorman

User tagging of library resources

User tagging of library resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation
JONATHAN FURNER (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Presented at IFLA 2007

The Future of Preservation in ARL Libraries

RBM - Vol. 5 No. 2 Fall 2004

Entire issue is devoted to hidden collections - papers from the Sept. 2003 conference

Univ. of Chicago explores Library-Faculty Partnerships in Uncovering Hidden Collections

Discusses "U of Chicago initiatives related to "uncovering hidden collections," leveraging cooperative collection development and faculty partnerships"

PASCAL Consortial Survey Initiative Ratings

"The PACSCL survey includes ratings for physical condition, physical access, quality of housing, intellectual access, and research value. This information will be used to prioritize action for joint projects involving PACSCL backlogs. "

Creating Access to Invisible Special Collections: Using Participatory Management to Reduce a Backlog

Creating Access to Invisible Special Collections: Using Participatory Management to Reduce a Backlog
MW Lundy, DR Hollis - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004 - Elsevier

Special collections cataloging at a crossroads: a survey of ARL libraries

Special Collections Cataloging at a Crossroads: A Survey of ARL Libraries
BM Russell - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004 - Elsevier

How the way we talk can change the way we work : seven languages for transformation / Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey.

Kegan, Robert. . How the way we talk can change the way we work : seven languages for transformation / Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey. [0787955353 (alk. paper) ] San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BF637.C4 K44 2001

Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: implementing METS, MODS, PREMIS and MIX (Library of Congress)

"This session explored how libraries are using emerging standards to manage and provide navigation for digital library objects. A panel of speakers reviewed their digital library implementations involving METS, MODS, PREMIS and MIX, while also providing an introduction with background information on these standards.

The aim of the program was to demonstrate how institutions can provide new methods for display, use and management of digital objects on their websites and in their repositories, using widely available open source XML tools."

June 25, 2007

MODS Guidelines Levels of Adoption

"The Digital Library Federation Aquifer Metadata Working Group is proud to announce the release of the DLF Aquifer MODS Guidelines Levels of Adoption.

The Levels of Adoption document is intended to supplement the Digital Library Federation / Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records, released in November 2006 under the auspices of the DLF Aquifer initiative. The Shareable MODS Guidelines represent a record-centric view of Aquifer's goals, whereas it is often helpful to set priorities for metadata creation with a user- and use-centric view. The newly-released Levels of Adoption document describes five general categories of user functionality that are likely to be supported by following specific recommendations from the Guidelines. It attempts to provide additional guidance to MODS implementers in the planning process by documenting what sorts of functionality is possible when certain elements of the Guidelines are
followed."

Coyle's InFormation: FoBC Meeting 3, Detailed Notes

Blob notes on the 3rd meeting

ALCTS and the Profession: Next Steps: March 2007

The "Next Report" ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control

ALCTS Forum: Basic Values and the Future of Cataloging

Basic Values and the Future of Cataloging
presentations from an ALCTS/CCS Forum, Jan. 21, 2007 from 8 to 10 am at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington

Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalogue

"Louise F. Spiteri writes: "Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogs by enabling clients to store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalog using their own tags. Tags were acquired over a 30-day period from the daily tag logs of three folksonomy sites, Del.icio.us, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against section 6 (choice and form of terms) of the National Information Standards Organization guidelines for the construction of controlled vocabularies."...

ILS Assessment

The University of Windsor has released a background document intended as a first step in evaluating the current environment with respect to Integrated Library Systems.

ALA TechSource | Out of the Secret Garden: The RDA/DC Initiative

Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data teaser

Blog entry on the 2nd mtg.

Bibliographic Control Future - 4/15/2007 - Library Journal

LJ article (Roy Tennant) on the 1st mtg

Coyle's InFormation: Users and Uses - Karen's Summary

Karen Coyle's summary of the 1st mtg.

Hectic Pace: Bibliographic Control Meeting

Andrew Pace's blog on the 1st mtg

LITA Blog B; Blog Archive B; "Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data" (pt.1)

Blog entry about the 2nd meeting

Cataloging Futures: First meeting of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Blog entry with various links about the 1st meeting

LC Working Group - Structures and Standards, part 6 - Public Testimony and Wrap-Up

Blog on the 2nd meeting

Information and the Future: LC's Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Blog on the 2nd meeting

Escape Fire: Lessons for the Future of Health Care

Time For Academic Librarians To Tune In To The Semantic Web

Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections

"In May 2006, the University of Washington Libraries began integrating their digital collections into the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Why? Students often start their research outside of the library's Web site, so it made sense to put links in one of the top Web reference resources to lead students back to resources available to them in the library."

XML.com: What Are Topic Maps

Have You Searched Google Yet?

MARBI Discussion Paper No. 2007-DP05: Data elements needed to ascertain copyright facts (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)

SUMMARY: This paper proposes encoding information that would be needed in a MARC 21 record to be able to ascertain facts concerning copyright status. This would facilitate the user to make a reasonable judgment about what use is allowed of the resource, and is particularly important in the digital world, where resources are accessed outside the context of the originating archive. It suggests using a single field to contain all copyright information, even if repeating other data somewhere else in the record, because of the complications.

Two meanings of 'Identifier'

Two meanings of identifier = Two Functions of ‘Identifiers' => Fulfilled with only one mechanism in traditional anglo-american cataloging.

And the harm this causes.

"Such stuff as dreams are made on": How does FRBR fit performing arts?

Co-authors David Miller and Patrick Le Boeuf have received an award from Cataloging & Classification Quarterly for the best article published in volume 39.

The award panel state, "This captivatingly crafted article brings a panoply of historiography and knowledge organization to bear on the problem of how to define and describe the records of evanescence: that is, performances. The dream metaphor, which is all mixed up with the show-biz metaphor, which reaches back to Shakespeare's Tempest is all too apt for the nature of performances, and especially for their treatment with FRBR. The paper is timely, original, innovative, extremely well-documented, and of enduring
value. It has appeared at a critical juncture for the application of the FRBR model in the bibliographic control of performances. We applaud the authors. Bravo!"

Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums

Serial Wars - 4/15/2007 - Library Journal

Bibliomining: Data Mining for Libraries

Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) - IV. Division of Bibliographic Control

The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records is pleased to announce that a 2nd draft of "Functional Requirements for Authority Data" (previously titled "Functional Requirements for Authority Records") is now available for worldwide review. This draft, updated in response to comments received during the previous review, is on the IFLA web site at http://www.ifla.org/VII/d4/wg-franar.htm .

Comments should be sent by July 15, 2007 to:
Glenn Patton
Email: pattong@oclc.org

Fully Faceted Syntax for Library of Congress Subject Headings

ABSTRACT: Moving to a fully faceted syntax would resolve three problems facing Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): 1. Inconsistent syntax rules; 2. Inability to create headings that are coextensive with the topic of a work; and 3. Lack of effective displays for long lists of subdivisions under a single subject heading in OPACs and similar electronic displays. The authors advocate a fully faceted syntax using the facets of a modern faceted library classification (The Bliss Bibliographic Classification, 2d ed.). They demonstrate how this might be accomplished so as to integrate the new syntax with existing headings.

Framework for a Bibliographic Future

Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums

A Trip to Rochester to Learn About XC

In Google's Broad Wake

"In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library," by Richard K. Johnson, brings together a number of articulations of core library interests in digitization partnerships, identifies six key interests against which potential agreements should be evaluated, and urges libraries and their institutions to "make full use of whatever leverage they have to ensure the global digital library is open and dynamic."

A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025

Title: A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025
Authors: Lewis, David W.

Issue Date: 12-Jan-2007
Abstract: The paper presents a model for academic libraries for the next 20 years. The parts of the model are: 1.) Complete the migration from print to electronic collections; 2.) Retire legacy print collections; 3.) Redevelop the library space; 4.) Reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise, and 5.) Migrate the focus of collections from purchasing materials to curating content. The interactions of the parts of the model and organizational issues for implementation are explored.
Description: Paper presented at "Visions of Change," California State University at Sacramento, January 26, 2007.

futurelib / Bibliography

Bibliography on the Futurelib wiki - this is the wiki of the next gen catalog group

Rights in the PREMIS Data Model

"The Library of Congress, as part of the PREMIS maintenance activity, commissioned Karen Coyle to provide this study to assist the newly established PREMIS Editorial Committee, in consultation with the PREMIS Implementers Group, with its first revision of the data dictionary and schemas. The intention is to improve the specification so that institutions trying to assess their rights to preserve materials in digital formats will be able to provide enough information in their digital repositories to make such assessments about their materials over time. In this study Karen Coyle reviews the landscape of digital rights, analyzes various preservation rights scenarios and the sorts of preservation actions that digital repositories might take, relates copyright law to preservation actions, and provides recommendations for revision where the data dictionary needs expansion."

Link Evaluator [OCLC - Openly Informatics]

Free to download. Friefox extension. Need to read to see if we might use for catalog link-checking

Ontology of Folksonomy

Weaving the Web : the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor / Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti.

Berners-Lee, Tim. . Weaving the Web : the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor / Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti. [0062515861 (cloth) ] [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library TK5105.888 .B46 1999

Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck / Paul Collins.

Collins, Paul, 1969- . Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck / Paul Collins. [0312268866 ] New York : Picador USA, 2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library CT9990 .C64 2001

InfoTangle :: The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging :: December :: 2005

A Columbia Librarian posted a long article about tagging systems and their use in libraries. Interesting reading.

Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library

O'Mara, M.: Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley.

from publisher...

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental market creations but "cities of knowledge"--planned communities of scientific production that were shaped and subsidized by the original venture capitalist, the Cold War defense complex.

At the heart of the story is the American research university, an institution enriched by Cold War spending and actively engaged in economic development. The story of the city of knowledge broadens our understanding of postwar urban history and of the relationship between civil society and the state in late twentieth-century America. It leads us to further redefine the American suburb as being much more than formless "sprawl," and shows how it is in fact the ultimate post-industrial city. Understanding this history and geography is essential to planning for the future of the high-tech economy, and this book is must reading for anyone interested in building the next Silicon Valley.

Margaret Pugh O'Mara teaches history at Stanford University. The dissertation this book is based upon won the Urban History Association's award for Best Dissertation in Urban History completed in 2002.

Teaching Authority Control

From EDUCAT:

Taylor, Arlene G. "Teaching Authority Control." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 38, no. 3/4 (2004): 43-57. Also published in _Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience_. Arlene G. Taylor and Barbara B. Tillett, eds. New York: The Haworth Information Press, 2004), pp. 43-57.

It contains several suggestions from people on this list [EDUCAT] as to ways to teach authority control (and also substantiates the very difficult task that it seems to be for all of us to get the point across).

ALA TechSource | Toward the Next Gen Catalog

University of California Principles - Digital Resources

Main Articles: 'The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts', Ariadne Issue 48

True story : murder, memoir, mea culpa / Michael Finkel.

Finkel, Michael. . True story : murder, memoir, mea culpa / Michael Finkel. [006058047X ] New York : HarperCollins, c2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN4874.F445 A3 2005

Stock Artists Alliance Delivers a "Metadata Manifesto"

"To raise awareness about metadata and encourage its adoption, the Stock Artists Alliance is releasing its Metadata Manifesto. The Manifesto provides guiding principles and practices for anyone who creates, uses, or manages electronic images, as well as those developing digital hardware and software. Highlighting the efforts of international standards bodies and industry groups (such as IPTC and PLUS), the Manifesto stresses the urgency for industry-wide metadata adoption."

Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata

Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America / Linda Lawrence Hunt ; foreword by Sue Armitage.

Hunt, Linda, 1940- . Bold spirit : Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America / Linda Lawrence Hunt ; foreword by Sue Armitage. [0893012629 (pbk.) ] Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library E168 .H94 2003

Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom / John C. Bean ; foreword by Maryellen Weimer.

Bean, John C.. Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom / John C. Bean ; foreword by Maryellen Weimer. [0787902039] San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1996.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PE1404 .B35 1996

More usefully employed : Amelia B. Edwards, writer, traveller and campaigner for ancient Egypt / Brenda Moon ; Foreword by John Tait.

Moon, Brenda. . More usefully employed : Amelia B. Edwards, writer, traveller and campaigner for ancient Egypt / Brenda Moon ; Foreword by John Tait. [0856981699 ] London : Egypt Exploration Society, 2006.
Call#: University Museum Library Egyptian Collection DA565.E39 M66 2006

Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century

by Karen Calhoun

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Metadata switch article

Rethink the role of the library catalog | TechEssence.Info

Unicode and character encodings

Eszter's Blog

Interesting take on technology & communication

Amazon.com: peter morville

Infromation systems architectures for large scale

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Seminal article on american politics and motivations

Celebrating the third place : inspiring stories about the

Celebrating the third place : inspiring stories about the "great good places" at the heart of our communities / edited and with an introduction by Ray Oldenburg. [1569246122] New York : Marlowe & Co., c2001.
Call#: Fine Arts Library HT123 .C443 2001

Girl stories / by Lauren R. Weinstein.

Weinstein, Lauren R. . Girl stories / by Lauren R. Weinstein. [0805078630 (pbk.) ] New York : Henry Holt, 2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN6727.W416 G57 2006

The DaVinci Institute - The Future of Libraries

Interesting essay on trends "that are affecting the development of the next generation library. Rest assured that these are not the only trends, but ones that have been selected to give clear insight into the rapidly changing technologies and equally fast changing mindset of library patrons."

Main Page - WikiNotes

Lessing says

Yochai Benkler’s book, The Weath of Networks, is out. This is — by far — the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. If there is one book you read this year, it should be this. The book has a wiki; it can be downloaded as a pdf for free under a Creative Commons license; or it can be bought at places like Amazon.
Read it. Understand it. You are not serious about these issues — on either side of these debates — unless you have read this book.

Amelia Peabody's Egypt : a compendium / preface by Elizabeth Peters ; edited by Elizabeth Peters & Kristen Whitbread ; designed by Dennis Forbes ; contributions by numerous authors.

Amelia Peabody's Egypt : a compendium / preface by Elizabeth Peters ; edited by Elizabeth Peters & Kristen Whitbread ; designed by Dennis Forbes ; contributions by numerous authors. [0060538112 (acid-free paper) ] New York : Morrow, c2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS3563.E747 Z56 2003

Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century America / Gillian Brown.

Brown, Gillian.. Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century America / Gillian Brown. [0520067851 (cloth)] Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.D57 B7 1990

Google to broker online book sales | CNET News.com

google continues to try and take over the world...this time claiming to be trying to increase publisher's revenues - how selfless?