Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 136 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4475 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 58 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 34 library 21 Library 13 LITA 8 University 8 Information 5 web 5 system 5 student 5 search 5 Libraries 5 Google 4 user 4 technology 4 ITAL 4 ILS 3 work 3 website 3 reference 3 open 3 internet 3 datum 3 collection 3 Primo 3 MARC 3 LIS 3 Data 2 tool 2 subject 2 source 2 software 2 result 2 reader 2 page 2 mobile 2 map 2 link 2 figure 2 digital 2 content 2 computer 2 catalog 2 accessibility 2 United 2 Texas 2 TECHNOLOGY 2 SRU 2 RSS 2 Public 2 Preservation 2 PDF Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4838 library 2860 user 1871 information 1464 % 1462 technology 1395 service 1394 system 1362 search 1321 datum 1173 web 1086 student 1071 resource 988 content 953 time 931 study 900 website 833 tool 820 result 776 access 768 article 766 collection 751 book 745 research 736 percent 722 number 719 use 706 site 704 librarian 696 figure 630 text 627 reference 621 software 612 source 611 page 608 record 607 computer 589 survey 588 format 550 participant 536 process 534 work 532 example 531 file 516 term 508 staff 507 task 503 catalog 501 way 500 case 497 area Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2123 _ 1369 Library 721 | 710 University 568 Libraries 521 Information 475 Google 441 LIBRARIES 403 Journal 394 al 374 INFORMATION 338 . 321 Digital 310 AR 257 New 255 Technology 254 e 253 Research 251 • 243 TECHNOLOGY 243 MARC 240 Services 233 et 232 ILS 222 LITA 203 Discovery 197 Web 194 GIS 193 JUNE 186 College 172 Systems 172 Data 169 Science 169 MNCAT 164 CMS 162 J. 159 Mobile 158 State 156 Public 156 PDF 155 IM 148 Librarian 145 discovery 145 Management 145 LIS 144 SEPTEMBER 142 Academic 141 Search 137 United 133 A Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2585 it 1795 we 1792 they 1110 i 719 you 531 them 219 us 193 she 171 he 111 themselves 104 itself 102 me 82 one 21 her 18 him 13 ourselves 9 ’s 9 oneself 9 herself 8 yourself 8 myself 5 its 4 himself 3 on 2 s 2 http://library.osu.edu/find/collections/theatre-research-institute/ 2 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02640470910966934 1 𝑞′ 1 www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/pub106.pdf 1 themes,6 1 theirs 1 qf 1 pe 1 p 1 ours 1 ng 1 mine 1 information.2 1 ian 1 http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-microsoft-downloads.htm 1 http://www.lib.umich.edu/content/libguides-guerilla-testing 1 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20023980 1 http://www.aiim.org/documents/standards/pdf-a.ppt 1 http://pewinternet.org/~/media//files/reports/2011/pip_smartphones.pdf 1 http://people.hofstra.edu/stefan_waner/realworld/calctopic1/regression.html 1 http://maps.commons.yale.edu/venice/ 1 http://litablog.org/2013/11/call-for-proposals-2014-lita-forum/ 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-­‐1-­‐4666-­‐1821-­‐3.ch004 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00330330934110 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2014.879690 Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 17532 be 3864 have 2968 use 1924 do 1205 provide 1022 make 1013 include 921 find 684 create 659 need 634 access 593 see 586 offer 579 allow 566 base 523 require 456 work 448 give 442 show 436 link 429 describe 420 take 410 search 407 develop 389 help 388 identify 387 support 351 indicate 349 know 345 follow 342 consider 335 ask 325 result 317 become 316 present 311 librarie 309 learn 308 add 303 share 299 look 294 exist 290 contain 286 report 284 increase 278 understand 275 implement 269 build 267 define 263 think 259 relate Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2661 not 1570 more 1299 other 1201 also 1076 such 849 new 833 only 804 many 732 digital 728 most 576 mobile 572 well 536 first 524 different 522 available 518 open 485 library 468 academic 463 public 463 however 446 online 413 same 409 important 397 then 395 so 366 large 363 very 360 current 358 high 349 subject 343 specific 342 up 339 much 336 even 332 full 328 often 327 several 324 as 323 good 321 out 315 social 314 | 294 possible 269 able 260 few 246 next 244 small 244 long 243 relevant 243 e.g. Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 363 most 187 good 106 Most 89 least 53 high 29 great 27 large 20 low 17 big 14 late 8 simple 8 short 8 close 8 bad 7 easy 6 small 6 early 5 strong 5 new 4 long 3 old 3 near 3 manif 3 auto-­‐sugg 2 quick 2 post-­‐t 2 filet 2 fast 2 broad 1 young 1 usert 1 usABilitY 1 talkt 1 t-­‐t 1 slow 1 slight 1 rich 1 rare 1 keen 1 http://gic.delaware.gov/information/ 1 heavy 1 hard 1 furth 1 full 1 formatsugg 1 f 1 e 1 dense 1 dear 1 cheap Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 365 most 36 least 25 well 1 shortest 1 lowest 1 hard Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 304 dx.doi.org 51 www.loc.gov 27 www.ala.org 18 hdl.handle.net 16 www.dlib.org 16 www 15 citeseerx.ist.psu.edu 13 www.educause.edu 12 www.kb.nl 11 www.w3.org 11 www.useit.com 10 www.slideshare.net 10 www.niso.org 10 www.jstor.org 10 net.educause.edu 10 connect.ala.org 9 www.tandfonline.com 9 www.openarchives.org 9 www.census.gov 9 journal.code4lib.org 9 code.google.com 8 www.pewinternet.org 8 www.oclc.org 8 www.gnu.org 8 library.osu.edu 8 en.wikipedia.org 7 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk 7 www.ifla.org 7 www.emeraldinsight.com 7 www.digitalpreservation.gov 7 sourceforge.net 7 portal.acm.org 7 lj.libraryjournal.com 7 domain.com 6 www.nngroup.com 6 www.infotoday.com 6 www.dspace.org 6 journals.tdl.org 6 edoc.hu-berlin.de 6 dl.acm.org 6 dbpedia.org 5 www.techradar.com 5 www.sas.com 5 www.nytimes.com 5 www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov 5 www.lib.umich.edu 5 www.imls.gov 5 www.flickr.com 5 www.exlibrisgroup.com 5 www.datamation.com Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 16 http://www 10 http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/KB_file_format_evaluation_method_27022008.pdf 6 http://www.dspace.org/ 6 http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf 6 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2055 5 http://www.openarchives.org/ore/ 4 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html 4 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/selecting-file-formats.pdf 4 http://www.loc.gov/marc/makrbrkr.html 4 http://www.loc.gov/marc 4 http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/v4n2/kataria/kataria.html 4 http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/Voyager 4 http://tika.apache.org/ 4 http://poi.apache.org/download.html 4 http://openmed.nic.in/1363/01/Long_term_preservation.pdf 4 http://geographicresearch.com/simplymap 4 http://datafountains.ucr.edu/ 4 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.124.7881&rep=rep1&type=pdf 4 http://apsr.anu.edu.au/publications/word_processing_preservation.pdf 3 http://www.scribblemaps.com/ 3 http://www.peoplesheritage.eu/ 3 http://www.openstreetmap.org/ 3 http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/ 3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt 3 http://www.gloriousgeneralist.com/leadership.html 3 http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE%2BQuarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/UniversitiesandLibrariesMoveto/206531 3 http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm 3 http://www.cendi.gov/publications/CENDI_PresFormats_WhitePaper_03092007.pdf 3 http://www.broadbandmap.gov/ 3 http://www.artstor.org/global/g 3 http://www.ala.org/lita/about/board/contact 3 http://www.aiim.org/documents/standards/PDF-A.ppt 3 http://rubiconconsulting.com/downloads/whitepapers/Rubicon-iPhone_User_Survey.pdf 3 http://omeka.org/ 3 http://nhss.cr.usgs.gov/ 3 http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ 3 http://koha-community.org/ 3 http://hmdb.cs.kuleuven.be/amg/ 3 http://connect.ala.org/node/209032 3 http://0-www.ala.org.sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/lita/ital/sites/ala.org.lita.ital/files/content/25/2/wusteman.pdf 2 http://zing/z3950.org/cql/java/ 2 http://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/ 2 http://xml.coverpages.org/ICEv20-WorkingDraft.pdf 2 http://xco-demo.carli.illinois.edu/dtmilestone3 2 http://xapian.org/ 2 http://wwwcache1.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/04/55/46/fedora-report-v1.pdf.3 2 http://www1.aston.ac.uk/library/ 2 http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/08/17/news-about-our-searchmonkey-program/ 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDly9qPpPYQ 2 http://www.xenoclast.org/autobench Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 8 mcyzyk@jhu.edu 6 r.gerrity@uq.edu.au 4 revacek@uh.edu 4 marc.truitt@ualberta.ca 4 colleen.cuddy@med.cornell.edu 4 cindiann@gmail.com 3 pcolegrove@unr.edu 3 mdehmlow@nd.edu 3 jlderidder@ua.edu 3 emanuelj@illinois.edu 3 dowlintp@wfu.edu 3 dh-ward@illinois.edu 2 zimmerm@uwm.edu 2 yangs@rider.edu 2 weessie2@msu.edu 2 varnum@umich.edu 2 vandana@utk.edu 2 turnerb@stjohns.edu 2 tudor.groza@uq.edu.au 2 todmana@stjohns.edu 2 thornbug@oclc.org 2 swilliamson@metrolibrary.org 2 samoh@skku.edu 2 ruth.connell@valpo.edu 2 rmugridge@albany.edu 2 pjaeger@umd.edu 2 pingfu@cwu.edu 2 paolo.manghi@iti.cnr.it 2 oneill@oclc.org 2 msweeney2@albany.edu 2 msiegfried.handschuh@deri.org 2 msandro.labruzzo@isti.cnr 2 moira.fitzgerald@yale.edu 2 mmark.mikulicic@isti.cnr.it 2 michael.dulock@colorado.edu 2 mazovna@ipgg.sbras.ru 2 maura.valentino@oregonstate.edu 2 makastel@ncsu.edu 2 lyannotta@hotmail.com 2 longh@uncw.edu 2 lmestre@illinois.edu 2 laurie.bridges@oregonstate.edu 2 kpendell@pdx.edu 2 klsouthwell@ou.edu 2 kammerer@oclc.org 2 johnsnm@appstate.edu 2 jdslater@ou.edu 2 jbertot@umd.edu 2 james.corbly@gmail.com 2 imhahn@illinois.edu Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 users did not 8 libraries are not 8 users do not 6 students did not 6 website use data 5 collections finding aids 5 libraries do not 5 users are able 4 article search  4 percent are likely 4 search is not 4 technology did not 4 technology is not 3 content was not 3 information is available 3 librarian is responsible 3 libraries are now 3 libraries have not 3 library does not 3 library has access 3 library has also 3 results do not 3 students use e 3 study did not 3 system is not 3 tools do not 3 users were not 3 web search engines 2 _ do n’t 2 article search other 2 book is not 2 data are available 2 information was then 2 librarians were also 2 libraries are actively 2 libraries are often 2 libraries did not 2 libraries have also 2 libraries have fully 2 libraries have long 2 libraries have regardless 2 libraries offer formal 2 libraries offer less 2 library is able 2 library is not 2 library provide support 2 library search interfaces 2 library was not 2 resources were easily 2 services are not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 access is no longer 1 articles are not fully 1 book is no excepton 1 book is not attractive 1 content was not appropriate 1 content was not easily 1 data had no importance 1 information was not clear 1 libraries are no exception 1 libraries are not legally 1 libraries are not merely 1 libraries are not responsible 1 libraries are not well 1 libraries do not definitively 1 libraries has no doubt 1 library does not typically 1 library is not open 1 library was not part 1 numbers were not available 1 percent had no heading 1 result is not surprising 1 results are not completely 1 results do not necessarily 1 search is not always 1 search is not effective 1 search was not clear 1 students did not fully 1 students did not immediately 1 students do not always 1 students were not interested 1 system did not even 1 system has no means 1 system is not expensive 1 system is not ready 1 system is not user 1 system was not fully 1 systems have not necessarily 1 systems were not functional 1 technology are not well 1 technology is not as 1 technology is not perfect 1 time was not fundamentally 1 tools are not capable 1 tools were no longer 1 user does not closely 1 user is not alone 1 users are no longer 1 users are not able 1 users did not immediately 1 users did not spontaneously Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 18873 5745 12670 5638 11735 5600 11209 3670 10231 5770 9777 1769 9151 1868 9047 3471 8659 5607 8627 4635 8595 4633 8470 1867 8463 1770 8430 1946 8320 5141 7952 2165 7945 5831 7844 5889 7777 3005 7415 2268 7260 5629 7038 5485 6950 3044 6763 2166 6749 5702 6712 1913 6642 3811 6631 2241 6553 2163 6411 1871 6281 4636 6233 5650 6181 4632 6165 2284 6071 3041 6046 5900 5985 2311 5950 5495 5941 4520 5858 1941 5792 1848 5760 5664 5756 5341 5735 1930 5714 3093 5683 5869 5644 5631 5594 1919 5569 3042 5457 1768 5455 5625 5451 3423 5442 3388 5348 3040 5293 4661 5230 8650 5216 1880 5181 1764 5161 3043 5071 1771 5048 1926 5044 5377 5028 5699 4988 4658 4961 1844 4905 2309 4604 3420 4555 5105 4445 2892 4330 1917 4255 2867 4254 5888 4238 1914 4118 1870 3940 4657 3896 2384 3803 3003 3766 1869 3702 3007 3682 2167 3671 9098 3657 2164 3657 5174 3614 3421 3576 5480 3566 4660 3431 4656 3429 4659 3081 3008 3036 4454 3008 3006 2991 3123 2793 5893 2704 5378 2195 1766 2190 1864 1968 5273 1899 3038 1874 5857 1768 5666 1730 4662 1670 8919 1640 5912 1514 3793 1503 1863 1368 5106 1364 3001 1302 5576 1283 2161 1277 1765 1224 5267 1119 3004 1063 2230 1051 9151 992 4308 923 1767 908 2526 888 5403 855 1866 833 3039 818 1865 800 5404 799 8804 778 3002 622 5365 621 8967 616 5244 592 5243 534 3037 478 9150 474 8966 459 4303 455 2528 438 8805 381 3012 343 5367 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 76.0 4308 75.0 4656 75.0 5607 74.0 3005 72.0 3038 71.0 1769 71.0 2526 71.0 3003 71.0 3004 71.0 5174 69.0 1766 69.0 4635 69.0 4658 69.0 5404 68.0 1767 68.0 1864 68.0 2165 68.0 2268 67.0 3044 67.0 8967 66.0 1765 66.0 1871 66.0 2161 66.0 2230 65.0 1919 65.0 2311 65.0 3040 65.0 3811 65.0 4659 64.0 1869 64.0 1870 64.0 2164 64.0 3039 64.0 4633 64.0 4636 64.0 5576 63.0 1771 63.0 1863 63.0 1880 63.0 4632 63.0 5365 63.0 5857 62.0 5631 61.0 1764 61.0 2284 61.0 4661 61.0 5377 60.0 1848 60.0 1865 60.0 1866 60.0 2163 60.0 3007 60.0 5600 60.0 5650 60.0 9150 59.0 1867 59.0 2892 59.0 3471 59.0 4454 59.0 5629 59.0 5831 59.0 5888 59.0 8805 59.0 8966 58.0 2867 58.0 3423 58.0 5105 58.0 5341 58.0 8804 58.0 9098 57.0 1770 57.0 1926 57.0 1930 57.0 5378 56.0 2166 56.0 2309 56.0 3008 56.0 5666 56.0 5745 56.0 5770 55.0 3041 55.0 4303 55.0 4657 55.0 5243 55.0 5664 55.0 5893 55.0 5912 54.0 1844 54.0 1913 54.0 2384 54.0 2528 54.0 3006 54.0 3043 54.0 3421 54.0 5699 54.0 5900 54.0 8650 53.0 1914 53.0 3670 53.0 5273 53.0 5625 52.0 2241 52.0 3001 52.0 4660 52.0 4662 52.0 5480 52.0 5869 51.0 1768 51.0 1917 51.0 3042 51.0 3093 51.0 3420 51.0 5702 50.0 3012 50.0 4520 50.0 5244 50.0 5403 50.0 5485 49.0 1941 49.0 3002 49.0 5638 49.0 5889 49.0 9151 48.0 1946 48.0 3123 48.0 5495 46.0 2167 46.0 3793 44.0 1868 44.0 5106 44.0 5141 44.0 5367 43.0 3037 42.0 3388 40.0 8919 35.0 5267 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1764 perceived error had a greater negative impact than additional problems did, and they described website users as A website editorial workflow is one way to enforce a process and ensure quality. a workflow, users receive roles, like author or editor, and service interaction.2 As users flock to the web to access electronic resources and services, a library''s website becomes identifying information that should appear on the website and writing or soliciting content to answer that need. needed a way to hide content from library users and library staff user can retire content if they recognize it as Workflow Choices for Library Staff Users eDitoriAl AND tecHNoloGicAl WorkFloW tools to proMote WeBsite QuAlitY | MortoN-oWeNs 97 eDitoriAl AND tecHNoloGicAl WorkFloW tools to proMote WeBsite QuAlitY | MortoN-oWeNs 97 eDitoriAl AND tecHNoloGicAl WorkFloW tools to proMote WeBsite QuAlitY | MortoN-oWeNs 97 eDitoriAl AND tecHNoloGicAl WorkFloW tools to proMote WeBsite QuAlitY | MortoN-oWeNs 97 1765 So much of the LITA experience is currently gained from attending meetings in person and making connections—those of you who have attended the LITA Happy members to attend meetings virtually. look at virtual participation in formal and informal LITA addition to my library memberships I am a member of renew my membership I do a quick cost analysis calculating how many times I visited the zoos and what it would planning, and attending various conferences and meetings to prepare me for my role as LITA president. Medical College Library earlier this year and have a busy LITA and other professional library associations has given the coming year by volunteering for committees and taskforces and accepting various appointments and I want to be a LITA member I believe is more personal and doesn''t years ago that I had found my ALA home in LITA. a member of LITA. 1766 and will be, periods of rapid technological change, social termed "life out of balance." In turn, their result, viewed believe that "everything [at least, everything that''s important] is on the web" and that libraries and librarians no design technology-focused creative services and collaborative spaces around them. librarian, Bibliographic and information Technology services, 88 iNForMAtioN tecHNoloGY AND liBrAries | septeMBer 2011 note: Library magic is not something restricted to can do that?" But I firmly believe that library technology There was a certain balance in and about libraries that prevailed before the most recent waves of technological change began washing over libraries a couple of time for balance. Koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance). ■■ Begin thinking about how to design and deliver services that are less reliant on technology. libraries and librarians; we rely on it to the exclusion Technology & Libraries 29, no. 1767 90 iNForMAtioN tecHNoloGY AND liBrAries | septeMBer 2011 use his other hand to place a photo album up against the Those of us working in information technology have a tremendous impact on library staff productivity by virtue of the systems we select or develop and implement. People working in most facets of library operations trust At its best, information technology has the ability to save time and add value to the library by creating efficiencies and empowering people to do better and new work. evaluating new integrated library systems or choosing the The phrase "eating your own dog food" is so common in software development circles that some have Developers engage in "dogfooding" by using new software themselves, internally, the building and spend time in each unit of the library, systems to do their work. I understand—IT staff are working with units of the library and how they work together. 1768 users'' intentions to use university library website resources (ULWR); yet little attention has been given to factors affecting university library website design. This paper investigates factors that affect university library website design and influence successful university library website design and 2. To what extent do website designers and users consider the university library website to be successful? To explore these research questions, this study identifies factors influencing university library website design forces in the design of university library websites; the institutional forces that influence university library website design. In the university library website context, following a utilitarian perspective, researchers measured the FActors AFFectiNG uNiversitY liBrArY WeBsite DesiGN | kiM 107 FActors AFFectiNG uNiversitY liBrArY WeBsite DesiGN | kiM 107 FActors AFFectiNG uNiversitY liBrArY WeBsite DesiGN | kiM 107 FActors AFFectiNG uNiversitY liBrArY WeBsite DesiGN | kiM 107 FActors AFFectiNG uNiversitY liBrArY WeBsite DesiGN | kiM 107 1769 To learn whether e-book readers have become widely popular among college students, this study surveys students e-readers and e-books, the survey limited most of the questions to students with some experience with the format. ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 ADoptioN oF e-Book reADers AMoNG colleGe stuDeNts: A surveY | FoAsBerG 127 1770 encountered finding qualified librarians with the requisite technology skills necessary to take on new roles in experience library administrators have had with librarians in significant technology roles, primarily as it relates We asked librarians to report professional level technology positions they had held in the authors sought to capture data related to actual job availability, search experiences and perspectives by both library number of librarian/professional level technology positions that were posted for hire by these respondents was Education and skill supplementation for librarians with technology roles survey asked administrators "Do you know any librarians with technology roles that have taken IT positions liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | rileY-HuFF AND rHoles 139 liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | rileY-HuFF AND rHoles 139 liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | rileY-HuFF AND rHoles 139 liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | rileY-HuFF AND rHoles 139 1771 users are clicking on a webpage helping libraries to easily identify areas of click data by overlaying that information on the current webpage (see an In-Page Analytics report can segment the data into specific groups of source heat mapping tool that visually displays the clicks on a webpage click data at the link level helps web data into three different click analytic reports: heat map, site overlay, liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | FArNeY 147click ANAlYtics: visuAliziNG WeBsite use DAtA | FArNeY 147 liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | FArNeY 147click ANAlYtics: visuAliziNG WeBsite use DAtA | FArNeY 147 liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | FArNeY 147click ANAlYtics: visuAliziNG WeBsite use DAtA | FArNeY 147 liBrAriANs AND tecHNoloGY skill AcQuisitioN: issues AND perspectives | FArNeY 147click ANAlYtics: visuAliziNG WeBsite use DAtA | FArNeY 147 Libraries can use the click analytics 1844 A cloud environment provides omnipresence and facilitates deployment of file-storage services. not want to use a third-party environment to store their data, private cloud services may offer a The development of a prototype of a file-storage service implemented on a private and hybrid was designed to evaluate the impact of having an elastic service and the behavior of the cloudstorage infrastructure when applying different replication techniques to offer several levels of it is accessing both a private and a public storage cloud (hybrid model). A FILE STORAGE SERVICE ON A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES | A FILE STORAGE SERVICE ON A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES | A FILE STORAGE SERVICE ON A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES | A FILE STORAGE SERVICE ON A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES | A FILE STORAGE SERVICE ON A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES | 1848 As active users of Google Maps/Earth in their roles as academic librarians at their universities, the providing a more complete picture of Google Maps/Earth use in academic libraries. the use of Google mapping products in the academic library setting. literature that documents the impact of Google Maps/Earth in academic libraries. colleagues were able to use Google Earth placemarks to promote his library''s special collections.1 map libraries collect air photos, and many use similar indexes to help locate aerial photography thereby allowing libraries to use Google mapping technology as an avenue for collection air photo collection and made the images available in KML format for Google Earth usage.12 Users Other Uses of Google Maps/Earth in Libraries Survey: What are Academic Library Staff doing with Google Maps/Earth?16 ACADEMIC USES OF GOOGLE EARTH AND GOOGLE MAPS IN A LIBRARY SETTING | DODSWORTH AND ACADEMIC USES OF GOOGLE EARTH AND GOOGLE MAPS IN A LIBRARY SETTING | DODSWORTH AND 1863 150 iNForMAtioN tecHNoloGY AND liBrAries | DeceMBer 2011 knowledge management, data visualization, e-science pace of science and lead to collaboration and collaboration will in turn lead to data discovery and accelerate the data needs to be available 24/7 in a curated state for continuous analysis. available library jobs presents itself, I encourage librarians e-science and data discovery and collaboration initiatives. at the LITA National Forum in St. Louis later this month. year''s LITA National Forum in St. Louis "Rivers of Data: theme, the 2012 LITA National Forum will be "The New libraries doing similar work—at LITA Forum than I have What is your library doing with data? your library address the data needs of the twenty-first century? Information Technology and Libraries, Publication No. 280-800, is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the Free distribution outside the mail (total): average, 118; actual, 117. 1864 That said, in farming out critical library services, we do not at the same time gain Librarian, Bibliographic and Information Technology services, Editor of ITAL. As I think many ITAL authors will attest, they do a the role, Judith has been managing editor for much named editor four years later. the role of an editor and especially about what ITAL and timely content, there would be no ITAL. ITAL is the product of the dedicated labor of many Production Services folk ITAL into the quality product you receive (whether it single out Tim Clifford, ITAL''s production editor, who over the past several years has brought skill, The editorial board is a LITA committee; the members of this committee serve as the changes that will be coming over the next few years. I have served LITA and ITAL for over 13 years and am John Webb, Marc Truitt, the Editorial Board members and 1865 iNcoMiNG eDitor''s coluMN | GerritY 155 many Red Sox fans, I''m hopeful but not optimistic. me to why I''m taking on the role of editor of ITAL. my library''s stacks, perusing three decades of back volumes of ITAL and its predecessor, the Journal of Library informational output on library automation and related taking on the role of editor as ITAL faces significant In his inaugural editorial for ITAL in March number of worthy goals for ITAL, to both broaden and and ITAL has continued in print plus electronic form, There is much about ITAL that will not change even if more topical, current, and informational content to ITAL ITAL in an e-only format also needs to provide easy and I would like to offer my sincere thanks to the outgoing editor of ITAL, Marc Truitt, who has been both helpful passionate about ITAL and its legacy, and I hope he''ll see 1866 year we launched a new interface to our catalog, new one, and second, people were used to the old way PCs anyone?), often times changing from a more complex, but well understood, process is difficult. production launch providing targeted training sessions organized training program and targeted feedback sessions as a replacement for our more generalized call for responsible for trying out new systems, even if those organized and proactive approach to training and acclimating our organizations to change can go a long way to and the tendency for people is to ignore the things that library and its users, it probably means it will require a balance when the change is implemented. Those deploying projects should add a couple of months onto the end of planning cycles to help provide training and gather feedback in a hands on way—e-mail announcements are more that teams and individuals who are implementing new 1867 Whenever librarians use Semantic Web services and standards for representing data, they also generate graphs, In this paper we introduce graph theory and explore its real and potential applications in the context of digital libraries. for representing the relationships between components of a complex system.3 It uses graphs, The user never sees a graph, but this graphbased approach to exploring a complex system (the web), Graph theory, also known as network science, has evolved In homogeneous graphs, nodes have no significant difference between their number of connections. world and scale-free networks are typical of complex systems that occur in nature or evolve because of emergent of edges connected to any given node in a network: a to apply social network theory to graphs. In an informational network, the nodes with high betweenness centrality Citation graphs more strongly resemble scale-free networks, in which early papers in a given field tend to 1868 Object: Cultural Heritage Resource Description Networks scientific subcultures (theory, experiment, and instrumentbuilding) generated the data creation, management, analysis, and publication requirements that resulted in the which to base a more general approach to cultural heritage resource description: The cultural heritage resource description theory to problems.10 An ethnomathematical perspective on cultural heritage resource description directs one''s attention Relationships between cultural heritage resource descriptions can be represented as conceptually engaging and needs of the cultural heritage community.19 The unnecessary constraint on resource description theory formation The FRBR paper tool elements and the more articulated resource description graphs in figure 8 both depict A FRBR Paper Tool Diagram Element (Left) and the Less Schematic FRBR Resource Description Graph It Depicts (Right) FRBR Paper Tool Diagram Elements and the FRBR Resource Description Graphs They Depict Cultural heritage resource description exemplars have A Moby-Dick Resource Description Diagram, Depicting Relationships between Printings Made between 1851–1976 (Greatly Diagram Elements and the FRBR Resource Description Graphs 1869 Web content management is the discipline of collecting, organizing, categorizing, and structuring information Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites: special issue of Library Hi Tech dedicated to content management, and other articles effectively outlined the need This article describes the selection of a web content management system (CMS) at the Ohio State University Libraries. end, both the content providers and the systems engineers agreed that SilverStripe was the CMS that best met selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | BlAcK 189 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | BlAcK 189 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | BlAcK 189 Web Guides in a Content Management System," Library Hi Tech 4. Holly Yu, "Library Web Content Management: Needs and Challenges," in Content and Workflow Management for Library Web 6. Yu, "Library Web Content Management," 10. 1870 services, so learning Drupal and creating this new website was a part-time selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197FroM stAtic AND stAle to DYNAMic AND collABorAtiVe: tHe DruPAl DiFFereNce | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197FroM stAtic AND stAle to DYNAMic AND collABorAtiVe: tHe DruPAl DiFFereNce | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197FroM stAtic AND stAle to DYNAMic AND collABorAtiVe: tHe DruPAl DiFFereNce | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197FroM stAtic AND stAle to DYNAMic AND collABorAtiVe: tHe DruPAl DiFFereNce | HuBBle, MurPHY, AND PerrY 197 Selected Drupal Modules Used on the UCSC Library Site 1871 Major cloud computing providers are introduced, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), The last section discusses costs and technology analysis comparing cloud computing with Major cloud computing providers include Amazon Web Services running web applications comparing a cloud computing provider Some UAL Web Applications and Cloud Computing Service Providers selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HAN 205clouD coMPutiNG: cAse stuDies AND totAl costs oF owNersHiP | HAN 205 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HAN 205clouD coMPutiNG: cAse stuDies AND totAl costs oF owNersHiP | HAN 205 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HAN 205clouD coMPutiNG: cAse stuDies AND totAl costs oF owNersHiP | HAN 205 selectiNG A weB coNteNt MANAGeMeNt sYsteM For AN AcADeMic liBrArY weBsite | HAN 205clouD coMPutiNG: cAse stuDies AND totAl costs oF owNersHiP | HAN 205 1880 experimental guides showed an increase in use of secondary guide pages after the changes were navigation area (LibGuides "box") with a menu of links to the tabbed pages. usability of a library website with a horizontal navigation bar at the top of the page, a design Could design changes improve independent student use of LibGuides tab navigation? navigation links in the body of the page and improving the tab design. contents box with navigation links was added to the front page of each guide, and in group B, the the secondary pages of the guides, using the same labels as on the navigation tabs. Group A: Change in Secondary Page Usage with Content Menus Added for Winter 2011 Group B: Change in Secondary Page Usage with New Tab Design for Winter 2011 median percentage of guide hits on secondary pages before and after navigation design changes. 1913 environment, usability testing of mobile websites is an important step in the development process. This study is an example of how usability testing may be performed on a library mobile website. question: How user-friendly and effective is the new library mobile website on students'' various Library Websites: Usability Evaluation Methods provide helpful information on designing task The fourth task scenario involved using the library''s chat reference service via the mobile website. Each participant completed a post-test survey that asked them to rate the mobile website''s Usability testing of the library''s mobile website provided the team with valuable information, The "Find a Computer" feature of the mobile website was very popular with test participants. General recommendations for mobile library websites that emerged from our usability test USABILITY STUDY OF A LIBRARY''S MOBILE WEBSITE | PENDELL AND BOWMAN 61 USABILITY STUDY OF A LIBRARY''S MOBILE WEBSITE | PENDELL AND BOWMAN 61 1914 some of the next-generation library systems currently in development that purport to fill the have realized the need to change and have started to develop and implement the secondgeneration library automation system. information needs, and library staff members are generally frustrated by the lack of flexibility of They are comprehensive library resources management; a system based on service-oriented Comprehensive library resources management requires that next-generation ILSs should be able Current ILSs are built around the traditional library practice of print collections and services that these resources may need to be processed differently, library staff generally are used to systems, enabling the library to streamline and efficiently manage resources and staff. • insertion of library services and content into courseware-management systems or The library systems in use today are, in general, aging—most were developed at least ten to fifteen being taken to develop these systems that will manage all library resources. 1917 The use of the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) schema as a mechanism for METS as an Intermediary Schema for a Digital Library of Complex Scientific Multimedia handle the delivery of complex, multifile objects as efficiently as, for example, a library of digitized Sample Parallel Structure for Raw Image Files to be Combined Using a Process Underlying the METS structural map is an assumed ontology of digital objects that encodes a longestablished view of text as an ordered hierarchy of content objects;11 this model accounts for the references a METS file that contains metadata on the digital content represented by this
. templates, similar to a content model, from which the final METS files to be delivered can be When delivering a digital object, it is then necessary to process this template METS file to generate template and a separate METS file defined for each object containing all of its relevant metadata: 1919 Systems librarians at an academic medical library created a management data dashboard. were designed using best practices for data visualization and dashboard layout, and include metrics implementation uses Perl scripts to retrieve data from eight different sources and add it to a MySQL data warehouse, from which PHP/JavaScript webpages use Google Chart Tools to create the The dashboard enables closer scrutiny of trends in library use, ideally resulting in a more agile In designing the dashboard, we tried to use some best practices for data visualization and Many of the dashboard''s charts include a linear regression trend line. to this display would require a new table in the data warehouse and importer script to store The dashboard uses this data to display a chart of how Several dashboard charts were created using the streamlined EZproxy data, a simple count of A table added to the dashboard shows the number of resource uses and 1926 There is very little public data on usage of digitized library collections. Those same tools and studies for measuring use of library-created digital collections are digital media frequently display simple use metrics (image views, for example, or file downloads) a library-managed repository, and Flickr, a commercial image sharing site. "Flickr as a Digital Image Collection Host: A Case Study of the Alcuin LEARNING TO SHARE: MEASURING USE OF A DIGITIZED COLLECTION ON FLICKR AND IN THE IR| LEARNING TO SHARE: MEASURING USE OF A DIGITIZED COLLECTION ON FLICKR AND IN THE IR| LEARNING TO SHARE: MEASURING USE OF A DIGITIZED COLLECTION ON FLICKR AND IN THE IR| LEARNING TO SHARE: MEASURING USE OF A DIGITIZED COLLECTION ON FLICKR AND IN THE IR| LEARNING TO SHARE: MEASURING USE OF A DIGITIZED COLLECTION ON FLICKR AND IN THE IR| LEARNING TO SHARE: MEASURING USE OF A DIGITIZED COLLECTION ON FLICKR AND IN THE IR| 1930 Autocompletion, a searching feature that offers suggestions for search terms as a user types text in This study investigates student use of an autocompletion implementation on the initial search authors analyzed how and when students use autocompletion as part of typical library research, On the usability end, White and Marchionini12 assess best practices for implementation of searchterm-suggestion systems and users'' perceptions of the quality of suggestions and search results the study was that the autocomplete feature would be used as an aid for spelling search queries include using autocomplete to correct spelling on known-item searches (specific titles, authors, Some students did indicate the similarity of search results to Google suggestions, but The above quotes indicate the use of autocomplete as a tool for query formulation and searchterm identification, a function closely related to the Association of College and Research Libraries autocomplete suggestions varied between the types of searches studied. Our autocomplete use findings draw attention to user needs and library support across search 1941 This paper explores the use of a mediator/wrapper approach to enable the search of an existing enable search and retrieval of bibliographic records using the SRU and Z39.50 protocols, but the proposed architecture of the software components is also suitable for inclusion of the existing library In this paper, a software component that integrates services for retrieval bibliographic records the Z39.50 search protocol,5 has been to use existing software architecture that supports the new search and retrieval protocols requires the transformation of the query language supported component that implements both an SRU server and a Z39.50 client, used to access the existing intermediary component receives queries from server-side Z39.50 and SRU services, and that this This implementation of the mediator component could transform two different types of queries defined its own query language,29 so the wrapper component that is integrated into BISIS has to software component provides a single interface to server-side protocols to search and retrieve 1946 We discuss relevant issues from the viewpoint of openstandard file formats for long-term preservation and open access. EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR LONG-TERM PRESERVATION AND OPEN ACCESS | 2161 About fifteen years ago I had two students from Germany working for me, Jens and Andreas. would send them out to fix things around the library, and they would dutifully report back with public stations after all—but staff workstations must be working at all times. It now occurs to me, though, that this notion of "work" is precisely the point of technology, and Mark Cyzyk (mcyzyk@jhu.edu) is Scholarly Communication Architect in The Sheridan Libraries, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2012 4 As such, it has by its very nature practical outcomes in the world: technology works in the world. protocols are all for naught if the final product of our labor, at the end of the day, doesn''t work. "dismal." Significant portions of the library budget are put toward technology each year, and as Making it work is Job One for the technologist in the library. Information Technology and Libraries 30, no. 2163 Data Web exposing reference information, while the number of digital libraries providing search extraction and chunking of references using Conditional Random Fields (CRF). presents three examples of chunked and labeled reference strings. We have performed an extensive evaluation of the proposed reference chunking approach. Each reference entry is segmented into twelve fields: Author, Title, Conference, In this paper we presented a novel approach for extracting and chunking reference information REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 REFERENCE INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING |GROZA, GRIMNES, AND HANDSCHUH 20 2164 performance of these various queuing strategies is compared in terms of the distribution of user wait strategy implemented with one computer removed from the pool to serve as a dedicated fifteenPUBLIC LIBRARY COMPUTER WAITING QUEUES | WILLIAMSON 74 line cuts and the impact on average waiting times for customers in the various priority classes. As user sign-up times are encountered in the data, they are added to the waiting queue. Average User Wait Minutes by Priority Class By contrast, note that the reduced average wait times for the highest priority users in class P-1 the SJF strategy produced an average wait time that was 2.1 minutes longer than the purely FCFS Maximum User Wait Minutes by Priority Class SJF-FB maximum wait times for classes P-2 and P-3 are similar to those under the FCFS strategy. 99% of users were passed over at most four times while waiting in the queue. 2165 noted that a significant number of library users seemed to prefer MNCAT Classic. The group surveyed respondents about types of items they expect to find in their searches, their The Primo Management Group positioned links to the user surveys in several online locations, survey responses and the group analyzed the results to identify categories in which library staff Faculty and staff together totaled only eighty-nine respondents on the MNCAT Plus survey and catalog interface, MNCAT Classic users are a self-selecting group whose members make a The group was interested in knowing how often users search for known items. may be that users in search of known items have learned to go to MNCAT Classic rather than Results for all MNCAT Classic respondents showed a preference for known item searching, but The Primo Management Group noted that more MNCAT Plus respondents chose "Online Journal 2166 begin implementing mobile access to selected library databases and services. what mobile services or vendors'' applications USU students would be likely to use, we In recent years librarians have conducted surveys on mobile technology in libraries. Librarians'' Responses: Does Your Library Provide Mobile Access to the Students were asked if they use their mobile device or phone for academic purposes (e.g., question about how students use their mobile devices, 54 percent of respondents indicated We asked the students, "If library resources were easily accessible on your mobile devices, Survey responses from students indicate that they use mobile devices devices for academic purposes as justification for implementing mobile library access, but we desire to be able to use a mobile device for access to the library catalog, to use services like 6. How long has your library provided access via mobile devices to electronic resources or 2167 This paper examines factors that limit the ability of institutions to digitally preserve the cultural proposes a nested model of constraints to the scope of digital preservation and concludes that costs technology, there are two purely technical issues at the core of digital preservation: data loss and strategy also imposes limitations on the potential scale of digital preservation. The limitations data redundancy imposes on digital preservation are two-fold. The second way technology limits digital preservation is more complex—it concerns error rates of preservation operation: An archival institution must be able to access a digital object to preserve it. If an archival institution cannot access a digital object quickly or frequently enough, the archival institutions will venture to preserve digital objects without legal protection for doing so. mediation of the selective model limits the scale of what can be preserved, as objects can only be conclusion is that costs are digital preservation''s most pervasive limitation. 2230 Dr. Lynch is also the recipient of this year''s LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology, cosponsored by Emerald Internally LITA has been working towards a more open and transparent governance structure. Colleen Cuddy (colleen.cuddy@med.cornell.edu) is LITA President 2011-12 and Director of the they way in which we share and exchange information in open forums such as the LITA blog and This year we sponsored two LITA members who were part of the 2012 ALA Emerging Leaders Both were assigned to a team working on a LITA project implementation plan to the LITA Board and the ALA community at the ALA Annual Conference. I look forward to my new role as past-president, particularly in hosting the 2012 It has been an honor to serve you and I look forward to working with LITA in the years to come! 2241 and its successful use in libraries for chat reference services. implementation, and evaluation of Openfire for use in chat reference and as an internal network In addition, survey results on the library staff use of the internal IM network and IM-based chat reference, a number of libraries also found Questionpoint difficult to use due to its CSUSM Kellogg Library has a robust chat reference service that is used by students on and off Openfire for chat reference by librarians and as an internal network for all library personnel. Openfire could meet our IM chat reference needs because it includes the Fastpath plugin, a Openfire uses a database to store information such as IM network settings, user account and send messages to anyone communicating through the web-based Fastpath chat widgets (more gateway plugin works with Spark to integrate library staff accounts on chat network such as 2268 worked in libraries that migrated to open-source integrated library system (ILS) or are in the process Very little is available about the training process for open-source ILS. identification of customization and development needs, data migration, staff training and user migration process, and providing information about open-source problems. EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 EXPERIENCES OF MIGRATING TO AN OPEN-SOURCE INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM | SINGH 53 2284 the library''s own desktop computers and laptops owned by students. the increased ownership of mobile technology by students, they still clearly preferred to use desktop better understanding of how students use the library''s computers, including types of applications provide enhanced computing support for students studying in the library.2 One of the changes in information commons, most students preferred the computers in the library over the other In both years of the study, 78 percent of students said they preferred to use computers in the The types of computer that students preferred to use in the library were desktop computers The results show that students consistently prefer to use computers in the library, with 78 percent majority of CSUSM students still prefer to use desktop computers in the library. most of our students own laptops, most still prefer to use desktop computers in the library. 2309 To understand the role that libraries play in offering access to new media literacy technologies, a study examining social and cultural factors associated with new media literacy, including out-ofschool contexts. demonstrates both the importance of new media literacy and out-of-school learning, as well as the new media technologies,32 and libraries are a key informal learning environment.33 This map Figure 2 includes maps showing library locations in St. Louis City and County in terms of poverty Median household income, ACT score, and library location, St. Louis City and County. SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF NEW MEDIA LITERACIES: MAPPING LIBRARIES| THORNE-WALLINGTON 65 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF NEW MEDIA LITERACIES: MAPPING LIBRARIES| THORNE-WALLINGTON 65 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF NEW MEDIA LITERACIES: MAPPING LIBRARIES| THORNE-WALLINGTON 65 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF NEW MEDIA LITERACIES: MAPPING LIBRARIES| THORNE-WALLINGTON 65 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF NEW MEDIA LITERACIES: MAPPING LIBRARIES| THORNE-WALLINGTON 65 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF NEW MEDIA LITERACIES: MAPPING LIBRARIES| THORNE-WALLINGTON 65 2311 This paper will review the literature on iterative usability testing, user-centered design, and thinkaloud protocol and the implications moving forward. website, (2) discover how iterative usability testing resulting in a complete redesign impacts how A formal usability test was conducted both on the existing Hunter College Libraries website redesign process progressed, to incorporate the users'' feedback into the new website''s design to library website terminology, features, and organization, we can create sites that allow students to of user-centered design for a library website, iterative testing is when a product is tested several Other Changes Made to the Libraries'' Website because of Usability Testing George, "Usability Testing and Design of a Library Website: An Iterative Approach," Susan McMullen, "Usability Testing in a Library Web Site Redesign Project," Reference Services Battleson, Booth, and Weintrop, "Usability Testing of an Academic Library Web Site," 192. Battleson, Booth, and Weintrop, "Usability Testing of an Academic Library Web Site," 192. 2384 Eclipse Editor for MARC Records Bojana Dimić Surla discuss existing approaches in developing user interfaces for editing MARC records. Eclipse editor, which fully supports editing of MARC records. The subject of this paper is user interfaces for editing MARC records. present the Eclipse editor for MARC records, developed at the University of Novi Sad, as a part of Existing Approaches in Developing User Interfaces for Editing MARC Records Existing Approaches in Developing User Interfaces for Editing MARC Records The editor for MARC records was developed as a plug-in for Eclipse; therefore it is similar to Eclipse Editor for MARC Records We then presented the Eclipse MARC editor, which is part of the BISIS library software ECLIPSE EDITOR FOR MARC RECORDS |SURLA 74 ECLIPSE EDITOR FOR MARC RECORDS |SURLA 74 ECLIPSE EDITOR FOR MARC RECORDS |SURLA 74 ECLIPSE EDITOR FOR MARC RECORDS |SURLA 74 ECLIPSE EDITOR FOR MARC RECORDS |SURLA 74 2526 The future looks exciting for ITAL, with our new open access and online only journal. I would like to thank Judith Carter for her work on ITAL for over 13 years. As an undergraduate student, I worked on dedicated OCLC terminals in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) I thought our ILL service was a big help for our students. with card catalogs and I liked being able to browse through the subject listings. In 1991 I worked at an academic library where we were still converting catalog cards. distance students who rely on their Internet connections to use our online library. am very happy to see that discovery tools use this classic library practice. Classification, facets, and browsing are old ideas that are still helping us He helped me remember library technology. remembering the past, I am very happy to utilize modern technology in my library. Thank you library technology 2528 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER 2012 1 G''day, mates, and welcome to our third open-access issue. international dimension with this issue, as your faithful editor has taken up residence Down The recent ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim marked some changes to the ITAL Editorial Board that Cynthia Porter and Judith Carter are ending their tenure with ITAL after many perspective on library technology past and present. Judith Carter ends a long run with ITAL as Managing Editor, and I thank her for her years of dedicated service. Library at Curry College, is the incoming Managing Editor. Jerome currently co-chairs the Library State University San Marcos, in supporting of the integration of chat reference and internal library In addition to the compelling new content in this issue of ITAL, we have compelling old content from the print archive of ITAL and its predecessor, Journal of Library Automation (JOLA), that will 2867 The aim of this article is to describe several data-rich GIS Lite tools available in the library market geospatial data and create map outputs without programming skills or training in full GIS software. While many GeoWeb applications allow only low-level output options, GIS Lite will provide an In libraries, GIS Lite is closely allied with data and statistics resources. resources, however, need not remain specialized tools of map and GIS librarians. following data tools contain enough GIS Lite functionality to aid patrons in visualizing and An upper level statistics course at The Ohio State University requires students to create maps package with creating maps, this course uses it along with SAS/GRAPH to combine statistical data Maps that display historical census data help http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/ Free Spatial data as Shapefile, KMZ; Image as PDF National Broadband Map http://www.broadbandmap.gov/ Free Image as PNG Scribble Maps http://www.scribblemaps.com/ Free Spatial data as KML, GPX; Image as JPG 2892 helping users to locate books and subjects, the subject maps also reveal the knowledge organization To locate a book by call number, a user may consult library floor plans, which are typically limited To help users locate books by call number and browse the collection by subject, animated subject of library floors, users mouse over stacks to reveal the LC sub-classes located within. While the initial aim is a practical one, helping users to locate books and subjects, the subject map also reveals the knowledge organization of the physical library, which it displays in a Searching the web for "subject map" and relative terminology such as stack, shelf, book, and LC ANIMATED SUBJECT MAPS FOR BOOK COLLECTIONS | DONAHUE 16 ANIMATED SUBJECT MAPS FOR BOOK COLLECTIONS | DONAHUE 16 ANIMATED SUBJECT MAPS FOR BOOK COLLECTIONS | DONAHUE 16 ANIMATED SUBJECT MAPS FOR BOOK COLLECTIONS | DONAHUE 16 ANIMATED SUBJECT MAPS FOR BOOK COLLECTIONS | DONAHUE 16 3001 planning, and the never-ending need for technology integration, both within the library and the What is perhaps less unique is how these issues of library technology intersect with some very us to keep working at this integration of the library into the learning and teaching process and to library web site: this issue is neither new nor unique, but is still is a misunderstandings, as the need to market the library via the campus web site is obvious and the one considers library web sites are rarely used a place to begin research by students and faculty. needs and offer visitors a sense of the quality services and collections the library provides. funding targeted library content for alumni as part of the college''s broader strategic activities to There is neither time nor space to address an even broader library technology issue on the near 3002 54 inFormAtion tecHnoloGY AnD liBrAries | June 2011 ■■ access to electronic encyclopedias, local libraries'' catalogs, full-text articles online, and document delivery."2 ensured that the public had access to information-related services at their local library. The information the public sustainablity of local, regional, and national information LITA has a viable role in the development of the twentyfirst-century skills that will firmly put the information (OITP) and serves on the LITA Technology and Access "Building the Future: Addressing Library Broadband Connectivity Issues in the 21st Century" at the LITA National Broadband Plan: Chapter 2: Goals for a High Performance America, http://www.broadband.gov/plan/2 2. Karen Starr, "The American Public, the Public Library, and Services (IMLS) convened a task force to define twentyfirst-century skills for museums and libraries, which In 1994, the Idaho State Library''s Development interest groups, housing information, public meetings, transportation schedules, and local employment 3003 in an always-connected world of screens, Sherry Turkle''s ''They could have used a robot.''" When Turkle queried Levy''s book, Love and Sex with Robots, in which Levy predicted that by the middle of this century, when the reporter, equating the possibility of relationships between humans and robots with gay and lesbian This does not mean that companionate robots are common among us; it refers to our state of emotional—and Librarian, Bibliographic and information technology Services, Turkle''s and Aboujaoude''s studies is that of the reinvention and transformation of the self, in the form of online The first half of Turkle''s book is the history of "sociable robots" and our interactions with them. begin a conversation about how connective technologies have influenced behavioral changes in people, and of "game-changing" or "transformational" technologies. Turkle and Aboujaoud both point to many examples Technology and Less from Each Other (New York: Basic Books, 3004 are all polite people, I can''t really use the term I buy a new workstation these days that''s not incredibly powerful, and incredibly inexpensive?), so my need for .org/) to create virtual machines (VMs), lopped-off hunks a virtual hard disk, boot order, access to host CD drives, install an OS onto it, the "guest" OS, in the usual way. can create a new VM in mere seconds; then it''s all a matter of how difficult the OS is to install, and the Linux uses of VMs because, again, this is a family program OS promiscuity, how are VMs useful in an actual work install and test something that is *NIX-only, I don''t need Using a virtual machine facilitates the easy exploration of new operating systems and new applications, and development and test server on VMs physically sitting on though because when I needed access to my own server, 3005 the host institution, the authors administered a comprehensive survey to current Innovative Interfaces libraries. some of their current existing partners, while 9 (17.3 percent) indicated they as the main institution originally and operating budget of the group, and a majority of new software requests have come internally from UNLV Libraries start-up costs associated with the UNLV Law Library joining the system in 1998 and the addition of Nevada State One respondent indicated that the partner libraries discuss the potential item, and collectively they may serve as the central administrator and site coordinator of the UNLV Libraries'' shared ILS. mAnAGement AnD support oF sHAreD inteGrAteD liBrArY sYstems | VAuGHAn AnD costello 69 mAnAGement AnD support oF sHAreD inteGrAteD liBrArY sYstems | VAuGHAn AnD costello 69 mAnAGement AnD support oF sHAreD inteGrAteD liBrArY sYstems | VAuGHAn AnD costello 69 mAnAGement AnD support oF sHAreD inteGrAteD liBrArY sYstems | VAuGHAn AnD costello 69 3006 communicAtions | mAceli, WieDenBecK, AnD ABels 71BeniGn neGlect: DeVelopinG liFe rAFts For DiGitAl content | DeriDDer 71 management, administration, preservation planning, archival storage, that benign neglect of digital content "is almost a guarantee that it system needed for access to the digitized content, and locating archival Current long-term preservation archives operating within the neglect model for digital preservation, one in which as much content files, directory structures, and metadata that impede digital preservation readiness.19 If the archival digital files information necessary to access current common types of digital files communicAtions | DeriDDer 73BeniGn neGlect: DeVelopinG liFe rAFts For DiGitAl content | DeriDDer 73 be applied to all valuable digital content. Activity), http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/ (accessed Mar. 29, 2011); storage (via LOCKSS) and accessibility of content fulfills the two most University of Alabama Libraries Digital File on Open Access and Digital Preservation, "Requirements for Digital Preservation Alabama Digital Preservation is Digital Preservation? 3007 make use of tag frequency information in the search interfaces. absence of weights for subject terms the Library of Congress practice, suggested in the Subject Headings Manual, subject terms brought into information systems via social tagging, manual cataloging, or automated indexing, weighting of subject terms is more indexing of images enables the effective satisfaction of search needs, such However, without weights to differentiate subject keywords, users The negative effect of current subject indexing without weighting on controlled subject metadata, searching based on automatic indexing, Example Images with "tree" as a Subject Item of subject indexing and cataloging, that the subject indexing mechanism A system using weighted indexing and searching and still running After the mechanism of incorporating weights into subject indexing/ Adding weights to subject indexing/ that exploit the weighting information in subject metadata elements. will do the subject indexing or tagging, either professional librarians or on weighting of index terms and 3008 webpages or use a digital asset management platform that would provide digital repository for the law school There were very few digital projects done at the law library. digital collection was of faculty scholarship. the few law school repositories in the open source platform.1 The repository is the law school''s first institutional repository in history. and promote the law school''s digital materials, including research and including hardware and software, customization, collection development, New Zealand for building and distributing digital library collections. : | WAnG 83BuilDinG An open source institutionAl repositorY At A smAll lAW scHool liBrArY | WAnG 83 : | WAnG 83BuilDinG An open source institutionAl repositorY At A smAll lAW scHool liBrArY | WAnG 83 the newly established digital repository and presented it at the Texas collections to the law school using the digital repository through the law the digital repository through the law repository collection development 3012 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | DECEMBER 2012 1 Past and present converge with the December 2012 issue of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), as we also publish online the first volume of ITAL''s predecessor, the Journal of Library The first volume of JOLA offers a fascinating glimpse into early days of library automation, when meaningful dialogue between the librarian and systems and computer personnel." Plus ça change, developing an automation program in a large research library, Frederick Kilgour, from the Ohio Editor''s Comments Bob Gerrity Editor''s Comments Bob Gerrity College Library Center (now OCLC), analyzes catalog-card production costs at Columbia, Harvard, Library of Congress describes the successful use of the COBOL programming language to The December 2012 issue marks the completion of ITAL''s first year as an e-only, open-access While we don''t have readership statistics for the previous print journal to compare Based on the download statistics, the topics of most interest to today''s ITAL 3037 Membership Development Committee is addressing the leadership, including the Membership Development Education Committee, LITA Emerging Leaders, and Leadership Institute and the LITA Mentorship Program Follow-up by LITA to implement the recommendations of emerging leader projects is important to the vitality of projects have been developed by Emerging Leaders. http://www.facebook.com/pages/ALA-Emerging ■■ The Emerging Leaders blog: http://connect.ala.org/2011emergingleaders http://connect.ala.org/2011emergingleaders ■■ The Emerging Leaders Wiki: http://emergingleaders.ala.org/wiki/index.php initiatives, including an Emerging Leaders program LITA is sponsoring 2011 emerging leaders Bohyun Kim and Andreas accepted into the 2011 ALA Emerging Leaders Program LITA provides an ideal environment for its members In 2009, Emerging Leaders Team T developed a project "Making it Personal: Leadership Team members included Amanda Hornby (University "an online continuing education program to develop the leadership and project management skills necessary LITA''s professional membership to the greater librarian project-management and team-building skills within a of technology in libraries. starr (kstarr@nevadaculture.org) is lita President Leadership, Emerging Leaders, and LITA 3038 librarians, I think both deserve to be read and discussed and discussed in this space soon after.1 Carr''s arguments Internet and the web—is leading to a remapping of cognitive reading and thinking skills, and a "shallowing" of remapped, when combined with the "ecosystem of interruption technologies" of the Internet and the Web (e.g., of people''s information intake," is to Carr "in the business of distraction" (156–57). Perhaps less familiar than Carr''s work is William Powers'' describes the influence of digital technology (or "screens," 4 iNFOrMAtiON tecHNOlOGY AND liBrAries | MArcH 2011 We''ve also created bookfree spaces (to say nothing of book-free "libraries"), and Powers'' books might mean for libraries, here''s a So, what do Carr''s and Powers'' theses mean for libraries, provide technology solutions for libraries? 3. Powers uses the term "screens" to describe "the connective digital devices that have been widely adopted in the last two 3039 n the new LITA strategic plan, members have suggested an objective for open access (OA) in scholarly Open Access is the immediate (upon or before publication), online, free availability of research outputs without any of the restrictions on use commonly imposed We could only access online articles if a student can''t access the first article they want, they rather than what their students most need to know, the that those who need access to scientific literature already publishers as the solution to the access problem, but have access to all of the most current medical research. offer the service of providing JAMA articles to students, but students who can''t access the full text online. PLoSOne (http://www.plosone.org/home.action), a peerreviewed, open-access, online publication that features can access the online journals they want from off campus Open Access," http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6157/ -impact-factor-blessing-or-a-curse/ (accessed Jan. 18, 2011). academic/impact_factor/ (accessed Jan. 18, 2011). Is Open Access the Answer? 3040 .org SIP"), would Wikipedia''s page titles tell me something useful about the subject(s) of the book? Carmel, Roitman, and Zwerdling used page categories and titles to enhance labeling of document clusters. document predicted various Wikipedia categories. improve Wikipedia itself by suggesting appropriate categories for articles.13 ■■ Recall (R): of the book''s LCSHs, how many had synonyms or near-synonyms among the top categories? This algorithm did not filter out Wikipedia administrative categories, as creating a list of them would have many times the top category for each book occurred in my Wikipedia''s category structure and its articles linking A siMPle scHeMe FOr BOOK clAssiFicAtiON usiNG WiKiPeDiA | YeltON 15 A siMPle scHeMe FOr BOOK clAssiFicAtiON usiNG WiKiPeDiA | YeltON 15 A siMPle scHeMe FOr BOOK clAssiFicAtiON usiNG WiKiPeDiA | YeltON 15 A siMPle scHeMe FOr BOOK clAssiFicAtiON usiNG WiKiPeDiA | YeltON 15 A siMPle scHeMe FOr BOOK clAssiFicAtiON usiNG WiKiPeDiA | YeltON 15 3041 The Internet Public Library (IPL): resources, have begun to explore user perceptions of libraries in the complex Internet environment.3 These studies ■■ What services and materials should an Internet public library offer? based on qualitative analysis of interviews with ten college student participants: some current users and others he Internet Public Library (IPL), now known as funding, digital reference and the IPL''s question-andanswer service, and its resources and collections.9 Also, in D''Elia et al.18 The study sought to systematically investigate patrons'' use of the Internet and of public libraries. studied perceptions of Internet public libraries. Participants that were not current public library users tHe iNterNet PuBlic liBrArY (iPl) | MAceli, WieDeNBecK, AND ABels 23 tHe iNterNet PuBlic liBrArY (iPl) | MAceli, WieDeNBecK, AND ABels 23 tHe iNterNet PuBlic liBrArY (iPl) | MAceli, WieDeNBecK, AND ABels 23 tHe iNterNet PuBlic liBrArY (iPl) | MAceli, WieDeNBecK, AND ABels 23 3042 to the publishing process (e.g., repudiation, impersonation, and privacy of paper contents) and defects related a paper to a conference, workshop, or journal, the corresponding author will digitally sign a metadata graph To allow anybody (authors, publishers, citation-analysis systems, or others) to verify a publishing process digitally, and citation-analysis systems should harvest the digitally signed metadata. Semantic Web technologies and public-key cryptography to achieve reliable citation analysis in scholarly seMANtic WeB FOr reliABle citAtiON ANAlYsis iN scHOlArlY PuBlisHiNG | tOus, GuerrerO, AND DelGADO 33 seMANtic WeB FOr reliABle citAtiON ANAlYsis iN scHOlArlY PuBlisHiNG | tOus, GuerrerO, AND DelGADO 33 seMANtic WeB FOr reliABle citAtiON ANAlYsis iN scHOlArlY PuBlisHiNG | tOus, GuerrerO, AND DelGADO 33 seMANtic WeB FOr reliABle citAtiON ANAlYsis iN scHOlArlY PuBlisHiNG | tOus, GuerrerO, AND DelGADO 33 seMANtic WeB FOr reliABle citAtiON ANAlYsis iN scHOlArlY PuBlisHiNG | tOus, GuerrerO, AND DelGADO 33 that authors, publishers, repositories, and citation-analysis systems could have access to independent reliable 3043 states have statutes that mirror federal web accessibility state web accessibility statutes. web accessibility statutes as they relate to libraries. article on accessibility within institutions of higher learning as starting points, I searched each state government''s "Although the federal government has no web accessibility laws in place for the general public, most ensuring web accessibility for their state websites.16 Four Thirtyone states without web accessibility statutes posted some with web accessibility statutes reference Section 508 or comply with state web accessibility statutes." Kentucky, and Montana) require all libraries receiving state funds to maintain an accessible website.20 An Library Website Accessibility Requirements, by State n/a n/a n/a http://www.access.state.ct.us/ N.J. n/a n/a n/a http://www.state.nj.us/nj/accessibility.html WeB AccessiBilitY, liBrAries, AND tHe lAW | FultON 43 WeB AccessiBilitY, liBrAries, AND tHe lAW | FultON 43 WeB AccessiBilitY, liBrAries, AND tHe lAW | FultON 43 WeB AccessiBilitY, liBrAries, AND tHe lAW | FultON 43 WeB AccessiBilitY, liBrAries, AND tHe lAW | FultON 43 3044 Librarians at both UIUC and CARLI were interested in what users thought about VuFind, especially and how library users use such a catalog compared to a searching the library''s online catalog and were eager to sample searches in a possible new library catalog interface. facets, as they were asked to use the climate change search to them as facets, allowing users to both limit after searching and letting them browse through a large number of participants said it would be useful to have search options VuFind over the current library catalog (WebVoyage), all VuFind more useful to our users that came out of usability testing. 4) If you want to view items from other libraries in your search results, can you find the option? Library Catalog _____ VuFind _____ Amazon _____ Comments: Library Catalog _____ VuFind _____ Amazon _____ Comments: If VuFind and your home library catalog were available side-by-side, which would you use first? 3093 Social networking sites made possible through Web 2.0 allow for unique user-generated tags called display of searchable signatures in digital library environments are also explored. A comparison of a metadata schema used in Yale University''s Digital Images Database with usergenerated tags accompanying shared photographs on the social networking platform Instagram A useful site for exploring user-generated tags associated with images is Instagram, a social Photo shared on Instagram assigning both descriptive tags and the searchable signature Searchable signatures associated with born digital images on social networking sites contain understand the searchable signature for reborn digital objects can be shifted to the social act of Searchable signatures demonstrate the power of the online self, as they allow users to struggle to challenge for those engaged in traditional indexing, Web 2.0 allows for this unique type of usergenerated tag and thus provides better understanding of the context surrounding digital images. 3123 important for preservation were born-digital special collections materials (65 percent, 117 as extremely important: "born-digital moving image preservation" (an ASERL respondent), "best One ASERL respondent indicated that she did not rate "born digital" institutional and special Results for all survey respondents indicating sources of digital content of importance for born-digital special collections materials far more important (73 percent, 27 respondents) than respondents) whereas born-digital institutional records held second place for non-ASERL Non-ASERL respondents considered digitized collections the third most important source of digital content for preservation (59.7 percent, 83 respondents), and this group of Results for ASERL survey respondents indicating sources of digital content of Results for non-ASERL survey respondents indicating sources of digital content of Perhaps most surprising was that 20 non-ASERL respondents (14.8 percent) rated digital research supported by the 12.7 percent (17) non-ASERL respondents who rated digital scholarly content as 3388 This analysis compares how the traditional integrated library system (ILS) and the next-generation ILS may impact system and technical services staffing models at academic libraries. The results of the analysis suggest that the nextgeneration ILS could have substantial implications for library systems and technical staffing models on library systems and technical services staffing models in general. The Alliance is implementing a new library management service to be shared by users with one-stop access to their library resources, including print materials, electronic a next-generation ILS, the responsibilities and roles of systems staff within the institution would Therefore library systems staff could use their time to focus on local applications development The next-generation ILS provides unified data services and workflows, The integration and enhancement of the functionality of the nextgeneration ILS will help libraries streamline and automate workflows and processes for managing percent of library systems staff time from managing servers, software upgrades, client application 3420 web-based technologies to library services and collections.5 Examples include professional ethics, most libraries protect patron privacy by engaging in limited tracking of user result in the library gaining unwanted access to personal information of patrons, including the decisions to implement Library 2.0 to adequately protect patron privacy, we must first web-based services, retrieved through the Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts In total, there were 677 articles identified discussing Library 2.0 and related web-based library web-based services, there were a total of 203 mentions of privacy or related concepts in 71 mention of patron privacy as it relates to Library 2.0, amounting to only 5.8 percent of all articles patron privacy with new Web 2.0 tools and services. respect patron privacy," 19 and suggests any Library 2.0 tools that rely on user data should only be Appendix A: Articles with relevant mention of patron privacy as it relates to Library 2.0 3421 analyzed groups of journals that published articles from these two institutes and compared the Many journals publish articles covering the fields associated with the two institutes (biology and We analyzed articles published in journals or books by researchers at SRC VB "Vector" For journals that published the original Russian article and an English translation, we analyzed the Citations from the published articles were analyzed to identify the most frequently cited For this study, we first retrieved the journal name and the year the cited article was published. The authors of articles in the geosciences field cited 1000 journals, including 750 in Western 6% (16/250) of Russian journals published 80% of the cited articles. that the geoscience researchers tended to cite more Russian journals, whereas biomedical articles in top cited international journals, whereas biomedical researchers rarely published their The journals that published the researchers'' articles were partially correlated with the cited 3423 accessibility of online special collections finding aids at 68 public US colleges and universities in the aids available on public US college and university library websites are accessible to patrons using use screen readers could navigate the finding aid by using its headings or internal links. Because screen reader users often use a webpage''s headings and links for navigating by keyboard AN EVALUATION OF FINDING AID ACCESSIBILITY FOR SCREEN READERS | SOUTHWELL AND SLATER 45 AN EVALUATION OF FINDING AID ACCESSIBILITY FOR SCREEN READERS | SOUTHWELL AND SLATER 45 AN EVALUATION OF FINDING AID ACCESSIBILITY FOR SCREEN READERS | SOUTHWELL AND SLATER 45 AN EVALUATION OF FINDING AID ACCESSIBILITY FOR SCREEN READERS | SOUTHWELL AND SLATER 45 AN EVALUATION OF FINDING AID ACCESSIBILITY FOR SCREEN READERS | SOUTHWELL AND SLATER 45 AN EVALUATION OF FINDING AID ACCESSIBILITY FOR SCREEN READERS | SOUTHWELL AND SLATER 45 3471 Selection and implementation of a web-scale discovery tool by the Rider University Libraries (RUL) in investigate link resolvers and discovery tools for federated searching and OPAC by summer 2011. reveals the presence of a discovery tool (http://library.nevada.edu/). AquaBrowser Library, Axiell Arena, BiblioCommons (BiblioCore), Blacklight, EBSCO Discovery Discovery tools should include book cover images, reviews, and user Discovery tools should allow users to narrow down the search discovery tool should start with a simple keyword search box that looks like that of searches of databases, the other discovery tools build a single unified index. stop searching is still a work in progress because discovery tools provide students with a quick Most of the discovery tools on the list provide this feature except Blacklight and eXtensible Catalog. EBSCO Discovery Service, Encore, Endeca, eXtensible Catalog, Primo, Summon, WorldCat Local, Only four discovery tools, AquaBrowser, Encore, Primo, and WorldCat Local, provide both tag 3670 results of the algorithm consist of metadata, raster images of a figure, but also vector graphics, several methods of automatically extracting and processing graphics appearing in PDF documents. present a page box-cutting algorithm for the extraction of tables from PDF documents.12 single operator does not trigger rendering of elements from different detected entities (figures, Graphical areas detected by a simple clustering usually do not directly correspond to figures. number of graphical and textual operations in the content stream of a figure candidate. 2 shows a fragment of a publication page with indicated text areas and final figure candidates A fragment of the PDF page with boxes around every detected text area and each figure During the first step of the caption detection, all text clusters from the publication page are tested Matching between figure candidates and captions happens at every document page separately. 3793 Recently there has been tremendous interest in "makerspace" and its potential in libraries: from A number of libraries across the country have been actively expanding makerspace build your Makerspace users'' literacy in design, science, technology, engineering, art, and A familiar example of maker activity in libraries might include digital media: still/video example is found in the support of users with first-time learning or refreshing of computer With the migration of the supporting print collections online, the library can contemplate further encompass more of the interests supported by the library is the essence of the maker movement Makerspace encompasses a continuum of activity that includes "co-working," subtypes and be part hackerspace, fab lab, and co-working space. community of support, the library may also be well-served by forming collaborative ties with In addition to supporting the work of the solitary reader, "today''s libraries are incubators, EDITORIAL BOARD THOUGHTS: LIBRARIES AS MAKERSPACE? EDITORIAL BOARD THOUGHTS: LIBRARIES AS MAKERSPACE? 3811 attitudes toward technology among a group of young librarians and library school students. Within libraries, technology skills related to new librarians have been studied by Del Bosque and To understand, in part, the technology skills of Millennial academic librarians and their attitudes and individual interviews with Millennial librarians and library school students. results indicate that Millennial librarians desire to learn more of the higher-level technology skills, Most people believed they are digital natives because they have been working with technology for DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIGITAL NATIVE ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH 4303 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2013 1 With this issue, Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) begins its second year as an open-­‐ of back issues of ITAL previously only available in print: the publication system we''re using (Open Journal System) treats the back issues as new content and automatically sends notifications to correct that glitch, but hope that the benefit of having the full ITAL archive online will outweigh Board, and the LITA Publications Committee for supporting the move to the new model for ITAL. In this month''s issue, ITAL Editorial Board member Patrick "Tod" Colegrove reflects on the Beginning with the June issue of ITAL, articles will be published individually as soon as they are ITAL issues will still close on a quarterly basis, in March, June, September, and December. By publishing articles individually as they are ready, we hope to make ITAL content more timely 4308 I want to use as my example, as my straw man, not a technical question, but a more generic I think might be answers, in form and substance, from the technical forums had it been asked You are an idiot for wanting to go to India. EDITORIAL BOARD THOUGHTS: INDIA DOES NOT EXIST | CYZYK 5 sincere: He truly does want to go to India. about this is that the query is a hypothetical: If he were to want to go to India, how best to do it? you were to want to go to India, how best to do it? part of the one answering the question, a level of empathy of which the technical forums are all but least expensive." Stating these assumptions, then stating your answer to the question, is initial question was, "I want to go to India -how best to get there?"? 4454 unreadable marginalia readable increases the value of a digital object to researchers. The University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections holds many rare books and The History of Science Collections'' copy of this manuscript contains notes added to the margins. The book had previously been digitized, and while some of the margin notes were readable, many decided that once the margin notes were enhanced, two digital representations of each page that readable through digital enhancement would provide the collection''s users with the most useful as digital enhancement of the margin notes. projects have used various technologies to enhanced images to give added meaning to a digital Each digital page (TIFF image) was carefully examined for marginalia. ADDING VALUE TO COLLECTIONS THROUGH DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT | VALENTINO 32 ADDING VALUE TO COLLECTIONS THROUGH DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT | VALENTINO 32 ADDING VALUE TO COLLECTIONS THROUGH DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT | VALENTINO 32 4520 open-source search software and linking and syndication protocols. licensed open standards in web and digital library applications is now a genuine alternative to Open search technology enables you to harvest resources and combine searchers in innovative technology.3 Many search systems unfortunately use their own formats and protocols for indexing, include publishing standards for archiving and syndicating content, the search engines and web transport technologies include XML, JSON, RSS/Atom, and heavyweight web service-based OpenSearch is a protocol that defines simple formats to help search engines and content providers formats for describing a search service, query results, and operation control. open-source search engines and content management systems support OpenSearch, including OpenSearch consists of a description file for search source and a response format for query results. Open-source meta-search engines can combine the results of OpenSearch enabled search OpenSearch can be employed to specify the search sources and as a common format when results 4632 CMS satisfaction levels vary by tool and that many libraries do not have input into the selection of Although this study largely focuses on CMS adoption and related issues, the library web designers The published studies including CMS usage within academic libraries do not definitively answer (or 38 percent) reported use of "CMS technology to run parts of their web site." 1 A 2006 study of web managers from wide range of institutions (Associates to Research) indicated a 26 percent The responses to this survey show that most academic libraries are using a CMS to manage their Use a CMS to manage library website Respondents were asked whether their library uses the same CMS as their parent institution. Users Whose Libraries and Parent Institutions Use the Same CMS: Users Whose Libraries and Parent Institutions Use the Same CMS: This study indicates that for libraries that transitioned to a CMS with their parent institution, the 4633 In this work, we focus on the problem of annotation tagging over information spaces of objects stored to bulk tag or untag large sets of objects in temporary work sessions where they can virtually and in devised TagTick, a tool that offers to data curators a fully functional annotation tagging consists of two main modules: the TagTick Virtualizer, which implements functionalities for realtime bulk (un)tagging in the context of work sessions for Solr, and the TagTick User Interface, downloaded from http://nemis.isti.cnr.it/product/tagtick-authoritative-tagging-apache-solr. http://nemis.isti.cnr.it/product/tagtick-authoritative-tagging-apache-solr Information Space: Objects, Classes, Tags, and Queries Typically, given an Information Space, data curators set up the annotation tagging arbitrarily large sets of objects returned by queries q over the information space. Solr Information Spaces: Objects, Classes, Tags, and Queries object in the index contains field-value pairs relative to the properties and tag interpretations of (un)tagging actions, and eventually commit the session into the current Solr information space. 4635 friendly, according to a SUS (Standard Usability Scale) score, than the library''s tabbed search layout, Appalachian State University Belk Library website tabbed layout search, December 2012. Appalachian State University Belk Library website Encore Search, January 2013. This article reports on a task-based study, in which the last question asks the participant to This was a task-based study, where users were asked to find a known book item and follow two the library''s current search box layout was 62, and for UNL''s implementation of Encore, it was 49. library could choose to implement Encore with tabs (one for access to articles, one for the catalog, All thirteen users believed APPsearch (Encore) was searching "everything the library owned." The All users in this study recommended that the library move to Encore''s "one box" discovery service Because of this study, Innovative Interfaces made a wording change in search results for article to 4636 to examine what tasks users actually carry out on a library mobile site. how our mobile library site is used, and why we ended up deciding to use responsive design as the point; approximately 10 percent of daily users accessing our library''s mobile site came from Research on library mobile site use or usability primarily has focused on users'' speculations about shift in the design of library''s mobile sites should include an investigation into what types of tasks visiting the library''s mobile site; as a result, the data is presented as the percent of total responses. Respondents'' reasons for visiting the library''s mobile site by percent of responses. the library''s mobile site to look for research on a topic, as well as to look for study room What Are You Searching For During This Visit to the Library Mobile Site? Percentage of respondents'' reasons for visiting the library''s mobile site by user group for 4656 An IBM 360/50 computer and magnetic tape are used in a new university library to produce a map catalogue by area and up to six subiects Machine searches by area, subjects, author, publisher, scale, pro-;ection, date In the Simon Fraser map catalogue the Library of Congress classification "G" schedule ( 8) is adopted for comruter use. As commonly in map libraries, the main entry is area rather than author, which is of secondary importance. Information from the maps is entered on a coding sheet (Figure 1) The area master contains all maps and is used to produce the classified list and the alphabetical list. maps which have been assigned an L.C. subject code. changed or deleted by comparing the call number on the area master .''3: Layout for Area and Subject Masters and Update Tapes. number or area, maps are by subject code. Maps are arranged by L.C. subject code rather than alphabetically, which gives the 4657 R. Maidment, Britain''s pioneer in library computerization, had introduced his bookform catalog at the London Borough at the University Library, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, had introduced an automated acquisitions system just a year later ( 2). The most striking development in the United Kingdom is computerization in public libraries, whose to be the major source of published information about library computerization in the United Kingdom. It is, therefore, of much interest that the first routine British computerization was of the catalog at the Camden Borough Library ( 1). records in its process for production of cards for sale to British libraries. The West Sussex County Library in Chichester and the University Library at Newcastle-on-Tyne have already converted their catalogs to machine readable form, the former having done somewhat less, and the latter The City University Library has computerized its book fund accounting at the City University Library," Program, 2 (April 1968), 15-29. 4658 special tape indexes, also may require sequencing by sort keys that differ from the actual character strings in the records. The first requirement for a program for library sorting is a set of generalized computer techniques for creating sort keys from MARC records to be included in the sort key, the basic program was to be highly generalized, allowing any combination of fixed and variable field data to be The MARC sort program was written to handle records in the processing format used by the Library of Congress. specify what variable field data are to be included in the sort key, how Using this information, SKED reads each record, builds as many sort keys as are required to satisfy the parameters, The subfield codes for a variable field may be specified not only to control the data to be included in the sort key but also to determine the 4659 United States and United Nations publications were not efficiently processed nor readily available to the reader at Brandeis University Library. Two years later a Government Documents Department was created to handle all United States publications, as well as those of the where Superintendent of Documents and United Nations numbers were The KWIC index included all United States and United Nations publications located in the Documents Department. The Documents list consisted of two parts: one, an accession number publications were numbered and IBM cards were punched according to identify United Nations documents so that they were listed after the the Documents and Reference Departments and in the Science Library. Most often used in the case of United States publications were the Superintendent of Documents Monthly Catalog (9) and This evaluation of the KWIC index excluded considerations of the separation of the Documents and Reference Departments. 1968 to include all United States and United Nations publications acquired by the library. 4660 in inter-library communications, including their capacities, types of signaL<; library network programs to facilitate interinstitutional services, a concommitant requirement emerges to understand and apply communications Of all the different kinds of equipment used by libraries for interlibrary communications, the one which has received widest acceptance for Teletype communications between and among libraries are beginning to emerge in both informal and formal network configurations. other libraries, to serve as a channel for querying union catalogs, to accommodate reference questions and services, and to handle internal communications. New channels of communication are being opened that do provide capacity for broad band-width exchange. There are three principal types of signals that telecommunications systems are designed to carry: 1) Audio-originating as human speech or video signals may be carried to their destination and returned: by telephone line, by radio, by coaxial cable, by microwave relays, and by communications satellite. The technology of Community Antenna Television (CATV) incorporates extensive use o.f coaxial cables. 4661 LIBRARY NETWORK ANALYSIS AND PLANNING (LIB-NAT) network transactions of eighteen Dallas area libraries analyzed using a Networks, and the inter-library cooperation they require, offer an opportunity to combine materials, services and expertise in order to achieve With the new tool of library networks, it is possible to provide responsive, personalized, in-depth reference service, and to provide it so rapidly is referred to as Lib-NAT, for Library Network Analysis Theory. among eighteen libraries of all types in the Dallas area to see how current practices compared with the ideal conceptual model The essential to supply a known item on request; and on-going inter-library loan transactions are a valid indicator of emerging network patterns in the current libraries of different types has provided a wealth of insight into network Symbolic Model of Inter-Library Networks. It is obvious that types of libraries, geographic level, types of transactions, various network configurations, alternate communication links and 3. Texas State Library: Ma;or Resources Center Communication Network Study. 4662 Information Retrieval Systems; Characteristics, Testing, and Evaluation, Despite the fact that users retrieve the majority of information that discussions of information retrieval This book is no excepton. of information retrieval systems and half of testing and evaluating such This book will not supplant other general introductions to information retrieval systems, but its discussion of testing and evaluation is a useful The purpose of this volume is to help such individuals evaluate their particular needs and design a method of managing information chapters deal with proper use of available sources of information, such Computer Based Information Retrieval Systems, edited by Bernard Houghton. introduction to large information retrieval systems. The book is a successful primer that provides a useful introduction to computer based systems for retrieval of journal citations from large files. Somerfield''s last chapter, "State of the Art of Computer Based Information Retrieval Systems," is more than its title implies, for the last 5105 This paper will introduce the reader to the world of freeware and open-source software. discussion of licensing issues unique to freeware and open-source software, which leads directly to software packages on the Web. The author then addresses questions regarding the use of freeware Although many users may be unfamiliar with the concepts of freeware and open-source software, popular freeware products available,4 while Firefox users rely on an open source package.5 Many libraries) may ordinarily employ freeware and open-source software under the same precincts as The list of results will include freeware, open-source software, and Library-Specific Freeware and Open-source Software Questions Regarding the Use of Freeware and Open-source Software Downloading freeware and open-source software presents its own quandaries. Secondly, freeware and open-source software enable librarians to make increased use of computer Freeware and open-source software are good for librarians, good for the library, and good "Open-source software Directory," http://www.opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/. 5106 important features and functionality that are important to making discovery systems valuable, relevant results, and being more aware of the full user context not merely their search query. comprehensiveness of their research need, (3) type of scholarly materials the user primarily beyond just articles, library print collections and delivery services have continued to be neglected primarily because implementing those services in an intuitively integrated way, beyond the "link electronic access limits the ability of our users to perform comprehensive research and reduces access to significant resources and services that libraries provide. EDITORIAL BOARD THOUGHTS: SERVICES AND USER CONTEXT IN THE ERA OF WEBSCALE DISCOVERY | Some of the discovery systems have integrated the DLF recommended interoperability standards bibliographic data in these systems could allow for providers to build more intuitive connections through using their bX recommender service (a "users who downloaded this article also down http://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/features-functionality/search (accessed https://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/download/attachments/5963787/DLF_ILS_Discovery-April08_draft.pdf https://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/download/attachments/5963787/DLF_ILS_Discovery-April08_draft.pdf http://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/features-functionality/search 5141 Technology Access Survey (PLFTAS), the authors found that rural libraries, on average, have With public libraries being many patrons'' only source of broadband access in many rural PLFTAS data2 about technology access in rural public libraries in conjunction with other studies of Libraries and the Internet and Public Library Funding and Technology Access studies, additional Therefore, while most public libraries help patrons access government services, rural libraries lag Many rural public libraries are the only providers of free broadband Internet service and Bertot et al., 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, 14. Bertot et al., 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, 14. Bertot et al., 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, 14. Bertot et al., 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, 14. Bertot et al., 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, 14. Bertot et al., 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, 14. 5174 Eight students were asked to complete a series of tasks using OneSearch, the TTU Libraries'' tasks that participants completed using OneSearch while the team observed. The first task was a simple book search, allowing participants to familiarize The team timed participants'' performances with each task and noted each error or problem prior to completing the tasks, the team identified three expert users, three intermediate users, and interface, the team looked at three factors of the participants'' performances on the tasks. The error rate proved to be the most accurate indicator of usability problems with each task. Solution 1: If possible, make "Find Databases" a search scope in the dropdown menu. a few students went to the "Articles by Subject" tab and searched for an image (task 7). Solution 1: On the "Texas Tech Libraries" tab, remove "articles" from the dropdown limiter. Solution 2: On the "Texas Tech Libraries" tab, remove "databases" from the dropdown limiter 5243 It''s fall already, and for LITA that means some exciting things! Andrew Pace; they presented preliminary findings at the Board meeting in Chicago in July. If you''re interested in LITA governance, check out the Board''s space on ALA Connect. (http://www.ala.org/lita/about/board/contact) to reach out to the Board anytime. September 30; the Forum Steering Committee will meet after Forum 2013; the Budget Review Finally, for those of you interested in leadership but not necessarily ready to run for Board, I want Our team of three ALA Emerging Leaders, Margaret Heller, Zach Coble, and Katie HeidgerkenGreene, surveyed LITA leaders, worked with Committee Chairs Coordinator Michelle Frisque and the Leadership Guide for New Chairs of Committees and Interest Groups Cindi Trainor (cindiann@gmail.com) is LITA President 2013-14 and Community Specialist & http://www.ala.org/lita/about/board/contact http://www.ala.org/lita/about/board/contact will inform future orientation activities for Committee and IG chairs and will then be handed over http://connect.ala.org/node/209032 http://connect.ala.org/node/209032 http://connect.ala.org/node/209032 http://connect.ala.org/node/209032 http://connect.ala.org/node/209032 http://www.gloriousgeneralist.com/leadership.html http://www.gloriousgeneralist.com/leadership.html 5244 In this month''s issue, we welcome back the President''s Message column, with incoming LITA compelling piece describing the background, use, and potential library application of searchable University look at the potential effects of cloud-based next-generation library services platforms library services, Megan Johnson from Appalachian State University reports on usability testing of delivering web-based library services that will actually be of value to our users, delivered with To the user I was observing, the complexity undergraduate art history major, she was primarily interested in library resources and services resources using the library homepage as a starting point, rather than the LMS, she quickly became simple, direct "Resolve my library fees" link, with clear instructions on how to fix their problem, as we should be focussing on designing and delivering services that can be embedded in the context of the user''s natural workflows, not the library''s. If you have a passion for library technology, a willingness to 5267 The library as a place for students and researchers to work individually with their literature has become a collaborative workspace where students work together on research have enabled librarians to provide immersive, 3D virtual world services that give a sense of Immersive technologies offer the promise of 3D virtual world libraries where students and their teachers can work together in virtual space with library materials and tools—search engines, These students would be able to use library resources as well as to communicate and space, physical research objects can be part of the study environment and be brought into an For example, if you were studying 3D models of Mayan pottery in a virtual library workspace, you literacy programs, immersive research and course consultations, virtual interlibrary document library space with the librarian and all the tools needed for help with dissertation research. Trueman, eds., Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries: Librarians and Educators 5273 Migration from print to electronic journals brought an end to traditional current awareness services, technologies, a service utilizing aggregate feeds to the library''s electronic journal content was created existing technologies to increase awareness and usage of library-­‐provided electronic journal content. As libraries adopted electronic journals, many paper-­‐based current awareness services transitioned to an electronic table of contents service utilizing email alerts or referred users to RSS feeds made tools are available to create their own service.4 Formerly, journals may have arrived on a user''s desk awareness services and build information management tools using aggregate feeds. Hanson Library created a current awareness service utilizing RSS Sort operator, the content is connected to the Pipe Output, from which a single RSS feed is generated. Pipes lies in the advanced tools available for manipulating feed content. CREATING A CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE USING YAHOO! CREATING A CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE USING YAHOO! CREATING A CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE USING YAHOO! 5341 libraries having e-resource subscription pricing based on usage statistics, the presence of outliers four-year period of stable annual usage levels.8 Between 2006 and 2010, the total number of fulltext articles downloaded from the library''s e-journal collection ranged between 640,000 and The first step is to identify suspected outliers by visually examining an entire usage dataset. Table 2 provides the number of articles downloaded for the title Polymer over a four-year period. When visually comparing the suspected outlier of 15,123 downloads to the rest of the values number of outliers in a dataset.29 The Q value is calculated by measuring the difference in the gap Table 3 represents the number of full-text articles downloaded for Polymer after the outlier had accepted value for the number of articles downloaded from Polymer in October 2010. 2. For each suspected outlier identified, take the usage values for the affected e-journal title 5365 the LITA blog (http://litablog.org/2013/11/call-for-proposals-2014-lita-forum/) for the call for At the Board meeting in the fall, we took a stab at updating LITA''s major goal areas. In other governance news, the Board will have an online meeting in January 2014, prior to Cindi Trainor (cindiann@gmail.com) is LITA President 2013-14 and Community Specialist & http://litablog.org/2013/11/call-for-proposals-2014-lita-forum/ Midwinter conference. Our Midwinter meeting schedule is: • the week of January 13 Online meeting, time and date TBA As always, Midwinter will also hold a LITA Happy Hour (Sunday, 6-8 pm, location TBA), the Top Tech Trends panel (Sunday, 10:30 a.m., PCC 204A), and our Annual membership meeting, the LITA Town Meeting (Monday 8:30 a.m., PCC 120C). Make sure to check the Midwinter Scheduler (http://alamw14.ala.org/scheduler) for all I would be remiss if I did not mention LITA''s committees and IGs and their Midwinter Some of the IGs meet virtually before Midwinter; some 5367 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER 2013 3 We have an eclectic mix of content in this issue of Information Technology and Libraries. planned LITA events for the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, including the LITA (MOOCs) would seem to present an ideal framework for the development of immersive library services to support learners who may otherwise lack access to quality library resources and how this has informed Oregon State University Libraries'' adoption of a responsive design extracting and processing graphical content from scholarly articles in PDF format in the field of The method offers potential for enhancing access and search services and bridging the semantic gap between textual and graphical content. Elizabeth Thorne Wallington describes the use of mapping and graphical information systems about how libraries are geographically distributed and whether they truly provide universal and Editor''s Comments Bob Gerrity Editor''s Comments Bob Gerrity EDITOR''S COMMENTS | GERRITY 4 5377 In the Global Library Manifestation Identifier (GLIMIR) project, automatic clustering of the records approach to cluster FRBR works and some GLIMIR content while the full GLIMIR algorithms use a GLIMIR clustering if collected works are not identified and handled in some way. right degree to cluster records for the same work are difficult to devise and apply. The GLIMIR and FRBR teams consulted several times to discuss clustering strategies for works, In many cases bibliographic records are allowed to cluster based on a uniform title. Moreover, musical sound recordings are largely collected works due to the nature of publication. Review of scores and recordings GLIMIR clusters showed a case where Haydn''s symphonies A and With experience, the team realized there can be no effective automatic GLIMIR clustering if collected works are not identified ... Clusters containing some member records that are collected works can suddenly mushroom out of control. 5378 A cataloger with a reasonable knowledge of Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST)1,2 or http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast.html text selection features of autosuggest technology to create an in -interface subject assignment tool. Much of a full featured search interface for the FAST authorities, such as searchFAST ,12 can be Cinema as a subject heading, they would be directed to use the established heading Motion for "cinema" in an authority file interface, find that the established heading was Motion Pictures, and return to the cataloging interface to enter the established heading. As a web service, assignFAST headings can be manipulated by the cataloging interface software given here to add assignFAST functionality to a web browser interface using JavaScript and jQuery