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D-Lib
March 2003
Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library.   |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2010
Fichter & Wisniewski |
Practical Website Improvement Face-Off Tips for improving library websites. |
New Architect
August 2002
Janice Fraser |
The Culture of Usability How to spend less and get more from your usability-testing program. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Holly K. Grossetta Nardini |
Lessons for Librarians Working with Web Designers While working with a graphic design firm was successful and produced more attractive results than we could have achieved ourselves, it also presented challenges. The lessons we learned provide helpful guidance for other organizations that consider outsourcing Web design work... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
D-Lib
August 2006 |
Developing a Digital Libraries Education Program: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offered a full-day workshop aimed at digital library professionals, researchers, and educators to cover prominent issues surrounding digital libraries education. |
D-Lib
October 2008
Markey et al. |
The Effectiveness of a Web-based Board Game for Teaching Undergraduate Students Information Literacy Concepts and Skills To teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills, a research team at the University of Michigan School of Information developed the Defense of Hidgeon, a web-based board game |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002
Sayeed Choudhury |
A Framework for Evaluating Digital Library Services This article provides an overview of evaluation studies for libraries, a brief introduction to the CAPM Project, a description of the theoretical background for the CAPM methodology and, finally, a discussion of the implementation of the methodology for the CAPM Project. |
Searcher
August 2002
Carol Tenopir |
Educating Tomorrow's Information Professionals Today It is a great time to enter the information professions, but one that poses challenges for LIS schools and employers, as a new generation of information professionals comes on the scene and prepares to tackle jobs in a variety of environments. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2005
Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003
Thomas Pack |
Fiddling with the Internet Dials: Understanding Usability Content providers that want to make working with online information easier can follow usability guidelines to design their systems and services, but what exactly does usability mean now that we are a few decades into the digital information revolution? |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Searcher
August 2002
Chris Dobson |
Beyond the Information Audit Checking the health of an organization's information system. |
Searcher
March 2011
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
Searcher
August 2002
Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2008 |
D-Lib -- In Brief News about a digital libraries curriculum, CrossRef, an independent membership association that provides a linking infrastructure for scholarly communication, and other reports on items of interest to librarians. |
D-Lib
March 2002
Loriene Roy |
Oksale An indigenous approach to creating a virtual library of education resources... |
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
George R. Plosker |
Conducting User Surveys: An Ongoing Information Imperative Remaining relevant to users is critical to library survival. What better way both to ascertain what users desire and to inform them of capabilities they are unaware of or don't use? Practical tips and suggestions on how to go about doing such a survey |
D-Lib
December 2003
Connaway & Lawrence |
Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study The research reported in this article is an attempt to identify resource allocations for an all-paper library and the all-digital library that provides ejournals, eBooks, electronic maps, and digital audio, video, and images, based on information gathered from a group of research librarians. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010
Albert Cervera |
Document Management in the Open University of Catalunya Classrooms Through its document management services in Universitat Oberta de Catalunya classrooms, the UOC Library acts as a true learning and teaching facilitator and plays a central role in the university's learning model. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2009
Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Knight et al. |
Automating Library Stock Ordering from Reading Lists This paper discusses taking data from the reading list system, and other library data sources, and using it in an automated system to make book purchasing suggestions to ease this task for library staff. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
Information Today
February 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Five Librarian Bloggers to Follow If you already know about these passionate authorial librarians, read on for some insight into why they started their blogs and what advice they'd give to those thinking about blogging. |
Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
D-Lib
January 2000 |
In Brief Campus Computing, 1999: The Continuing Challenge of Instructional Integration... Openly Informatics Unveils Virtual Linking Service... Applications Are Being Accepted for the MOST International Ph.D. Award (2000-2001)... "One-Stop" Scholarly Searching Unveiled in New Release of the California Digital Library... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000
Linda Cooper |
Online Courses - Tips for Making Them Work |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010 |
In Brief Access to Learning Award... A data management infrastructure for research activities in the life sciences... Examining techniques and implementations for automated metadata extraction... etc. |
Information Today
May 2002
Ana Arias Terry |
Ninth National PLA Conference The Public Library Association, an organization with more than 9,000 members, hosted nearly 7,900 participants and 400 exhibitors at its national conference in Phoenix. I found the programs educational and the general session keynote speech an unexpected treat... |
D-Lib
April 2002 |
In Brief The Middle East Virtual Library... Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library... Testbed Digitale Bewaring: Working to Preserve the Digital Memory... Open Archives Initiative Protocol for harvesting cultural heritage metadata... etc. |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Building and Sustaining Digital Collections... Trust in Cyberspace... Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources... Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository... Feasibility Study for a National Union Catalogue for the UK... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Information Today
October 1, 2015 |
hoopla Opens to University Libraries hoopla signed California State University-San Bernardino as the first library in its pilot program for academic libraries. |
D-Lib
July 2001
Hans Roes |
Digital Libraries and Education: Trends and Opportunities This article attempts to identify strategic issues for libraries wishing to pursue a more active policy with regard to the changes affecting higher education due to the increased use of information and communication technologies... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
D-Lib
November 2001
Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library... |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2001
Stephanie Diane Tolson |
Wireless Laptops and Local Area Networks Wireless connectivity at St. Louis Community College allows students to experience hands-on interactive learning with laptop computers during library bibliographic, paralegal and biotechnology instruction sessions... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014 |
In Brief and In the News The IDEASc Project Seeks Applicants... Unpacking Fedora 4... The Pisa Declaration: An Open Access Roadmap for Grey Literature Resources... |
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. |
D-Lib
April 2006
Paul Miller |
Coming Together Around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms To achieve the vision of Library 2.0, in which libraries become ever more relevant as visible and accessible providers of valuable content and context, many of the models in evidence today will require dramatic change. |
Information Today
January 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Internet Librarian 2001 The three keynoters focused, respectively, on people, planning for usability, and technologies---the key components for an Internet librarian's success... |
Search Engine Watch
June 25, 2008
Tim Ash |
Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 2 Web analytics on your Web site can help you uncover and prioritize potential site problems. Some additional techniques to discover conversion issues on your landing pages include mining onsite search, or conducting usability testing, focus groups, and surveys. |
Searcher
August 2002
Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target. |
