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Searcher June 2001 Barbara Quint |
Don't Burn Books! Burn Librarians!! A Review of Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today April 2002 Barbara Quint |
Tasini Damage-Reporting Decisions Buyers of full-text services are now struggling with the aftermath of Tasini, and many vendors are not being forthright about what's been lost... |
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
Information Today October 22, 2001 Barbara Quint |
A Second Tasini? National Geographic Loses to Freelance Photographers On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the National Geographic Society to overturn an appellate court decision over digitized photographs that had posed another test of the intellectual property rights of freelancers... |
Salon.com April 27, 2001 Stephanie Zacharek |
"Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker A crusading novelist indicts America's libraries for destroying precious archives of newspapers and books -- and puts his own savings on the line to rescue them... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal While much of the best of the full-text world on the Web is available only via subscription or other fee-based access, there are also free, searchable full-text collections of articles. Two of the most interesting of these are MagPortal and FindArticles. |
Information Today June 28, 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Tasini Case Final Decision: Authors Win The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of freelance writers' rights to separate compensation for electronic copies of their work... |
Information Today March 11, 2013 Marydee Ojala |
Bringing the Smithsonian to a Library Near You, Thanks to Cengage Learning A licensing agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will see Gale digitizing some Smithsonian archives and creating searchable databases, available by subscription for libraries of all types. |
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
Searcher August 2001 |
Searcher Correspondence Multiple reactions to the denunciation of Double-Fold... more free magazines online at MagPortal... linking to SLA and Carol Tenopir... |
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
Information Today October 15, 2001 Gail Dykstra |
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors For anyone interested in copyright, electronic databases, and freelance writers, there's a new Canadian decision you should know about that promises to be a landmark case... |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Lavoie & Dempsey |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments. |
D-Lib March 2003 Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations. |
Information Today January 21, 2002 |
News Digest NewsEdge Adds Full-Text New York Times Content... Factiva.com to Launch in Academic and Library Market... OCLC Introduces Digitization Services... LexisNexis Launches LexisNexis Environmental Universe |
Information Today October 31, 2011 |
European Commission Recommends Member States Boost Digitization Efforts The European Commission adopted a Recommendation on Digitization and Digital Preservation, asking member states to step up their efforts, pool their resources, and involve private actors in digitizing cultural material and making it available through Europeana. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Donnie Summerlin |
Selecting Newspaper Titles for Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia This case study examines the Digital Library of Georgia's newspaper digitization selection process and how it incorporates national standards with its own project-specific criteria. |
Information Today January 9, 2014 |
ProQuest Flow Now Free for Individuals Individual researchers may access Flow for free to manage their research and share citation data, regardless of whether their institutions subscribe to Flow. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Jacobs & Jacobs |
The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard The word "digitization" hides more than it reveals. To know that a book has been digitized does not begin to tell librarians or users what they need to know. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2005 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Disappearances and Discoveries The disappearance of information is an ongoing worry for information professionals. Information loss can be due to technology, policy decisions, or vanity. Digitization does not necessarily ensure a longer life span for a document. |
Searcher April 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Success and Failure We librarians, we intermediary searchers, kept on amazing clients, one search at a time. We librarians kept pushing vendors to give us databases, not just print tools. |
Information Today August 21, 2014 |
Portico and CHORUS Team Up to Preserve Federally Funded Research Portico agreed to provide CHORUS with the preservation status of articles reporting on federally funded research from publishers that belong to both organizations. |
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Information Today January 15, 2001 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Bell & Howell Announces ProQuest Historical Newspapers Project and The New York Times as the First Available Digital Backfile... |
D-Lib September 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Preserving Information, Not Formats Dealing with materials that have existed solely in digital format is easier than contemplating what to do with print materials for which there is no longer space or budget available for maintenance. |
D-Lib January 2006 Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Marydee Ojala |
What's in a Name? The vote was to remain as Special Libraries Association. For some, this was nothing less than an identity crisis. Was this an association for librarians or not? |
Information Today August 14, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
National Writers Union Reaches Agreement with Contentville; Freelance Writers Make Significant Progress in Royalty Compensation NWU reaches agreement with Contentville site on compensation of freelance writers for use of copyrighted works. |
Information Today October 2001 George H. Pike |
Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim? |
Information Today October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
ACS Completes Digitization Project The publications division of the American Chemical Society announced the completed digitization of supporting information for its ACS Legacy Archives journals. |
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
Information Today November 17, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Indian Texts The British Library announced Two Centuries of Indian Print, a pilot project for the major digitization program of its Indian books dating from 1714 to 1914. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 George V. Landon |
Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and image recognition and segmentation; and layout analysis and databases. |
Searcher September 2000 Amy M. Kautzman |
Virtual Academy: Full Text in the Humanities and Social Sciences A discussion about the commercialization of full-text databases and how well they server the library and research community. Includes a list of free full-text humanities databases on the web. |
D-Lib February 2008 Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries. |
Information Today September 15, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
D-Lib September 2003 Pinfield & James |
The Digital Preservation of e-Prints This article addresses the question of whether or not e-prints -- electronic versions of research papers -- should be preserved and then goes on to make some comments about the practical issues that arise from the suggested answer. |
Information Today September 2000 Barbara Quint |
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it. |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified. |
Searcher May 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. |
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 Nov/Dec 2012 Joan E. Beaudoin |
Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Cynthia Tobar |
Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives The Philharmonic plans to digitize its entire collection of 8 million pages of documents and 7,000 hours of audio visual material, reflecting the Philharmonic's commitment to providing the broadest possible access to its collections. |
Information Today March 9, 2009 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Supreme Court to Review Jurisdiction in Freelance Writers Case `Settlement' Freelancers take publishers to court to get compensation for their articles being downloaded from archives. |
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort. |
ONLINE November 2000 Bob Ainsbury & Michelle Futornick |
The Revenge of the Library Scientist Business professionals would be surprised at just how suited librarians are to the dot com world... |