Journals in the Time of Google

Journals in the Time of Google by Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6321722.html

The digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0.

The digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0.
This is the archived version of the webcast of Lorcan Dempsey's presentation at Edinburgh University Library on Monday 3 July. You will find the link on this page: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/news/

2.0 Websites Directory

http://2.0websites.com/
2.0 Websites is a web directory for those interested in what’s available and happening in the Web 2.0 arena.

Ariadne (Issue 48, July 2006)

New Issue: Ariadne (Issue 48, July 2006)
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/

Main Articles include:
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

Intute: The New Best of the Web
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

Introducing unAPI
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go From Here
Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.

Accoona: Super-Charged Super Target Searching
Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.

The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years On
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith
Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings.

A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and José Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

Book Reviews:
Blended Learning and Online Tutoring. A good practice guide.
Lyn Parker considers that this book meets its aim of providing practical advice for tutors and staff developers engaged in online activities and blended learning.

Managing Change
Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change within their organisation.

Evaluating the Impact of your Library
David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology.

The Librarians Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition
Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort.

Geek Freedom League

Geek Freedom League
The FREEDOM LEAGUE is designed to bring together the best of the open source world and the massive country-wide community of people driven to introduce as many new people as possible to the use of open source software. Anyone with the passion and ability can sign-up as an open source GEEK and receive all the materials needed to convert as many people and computers as possible. GEEKs will be able to log their installs and track their progress.
The campaign is open to all South Africans and aims to not only increase the number of people using open source, but to also grow and expand the open source community to thousands of people. It is the strength of the community that is what makes open source great, and it is the community that helps to grow and nurture those new to open source.
http://www.go-opensource.org/freedom/

Internet Resources Newsletter July/August 2006

The July/August Issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter is Now Online
News and numerous links to high quality web resources from Roddy and team at the Heriot-Watt University Library in the UK.

See Also: The Herriott Watt Team Also Offers the Cool, TechXtra
Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research, thesis & dissertations and more!

See Also: We First Mentioned TechXtra in this June, 2006 Resource of the Week post

Lombardi's Rules for Digital Survival

Lombardi's Rules for Digital Survival created from 30 years of engagement in the academic computer revolution:
1. The objects are not as important as the content. Collection development becomes access development. Access to content is the primary mantra of all library work. Geography becomes increasingly irrelevant.
2. Helping clients find resources in a digitally chaotic world is the first priority. Digitizing the rare book collection might be the second.
3. If a vendor promises you seamless access and modular compatibility with any future developments, expect expensive upgrades.
4. If others spend money on a similar project, let them finish before you start yours. Being first to invent large scale digital library projects is for those with money to lose, tolerant customers, and tenure. If it will take ten years to deliver value, let someone else invest in it.
5. If someone else has a service you need, buy it, do not invent it. If someone has 80% of the service you need, buy it; do not invent it.
6. Nothing currently defining the Internet will remain recognizable after 5 years.
7. There is safety in numbers; join consortia and urge others to take the lead.
8. Invest in unique products only when you have a comparative advantage and someone else pays for it.
9. For the next ten years, if it works well, is reliable, and you know how to use it, it is obsolete.
John V. Lombardi, July 1, 2000 The Center, University of Florida

SA website opens portal for bibliophiles

Robyn Cohen 18 August 2006 at 06h00
" 'Soon there will be a billion books available online worldwide,' predicts Norman Eaglestone and Justine Nofal.
The husband-and-wife team conceptualised and recently flighted a website, or booksite called aBillionbooks.com.
This is definitely the place to find books of every type: new books, previously owned books, rare books, first editions and audio books"...
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iArticleId=3399677

Tutorial: What’s Inside a JPEG File?

Source: The Society for Imaging Science and Technology
http://www.imaging.org/resources/web_tutorials/inside_jpeg/inside_jpeg.cfm

As common as these files are in everyone’s life, very few users actually know what goes on inside a JPEG file and still fewer understand the many pitfalls associated with using this choice when storing their digital photographs. This essay will describe the inner working of this file format that we so commonly use, highlighting its many merits and its many flaws. Like any tool that is available to us, there are correct ways to use the JPEG file format and there are times when it is a poor choice.
Permalink: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/08/18/tutorial-whats-inside-a-jpeg-file/

CALENDARS OF FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS: CONFERENCES, CELEBRATIONS, SPORT etc

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/07/23/calendars-calendars-calendars-and-some-schedules/

From The Resourceshelf:

We have started (slowly but surely) to update a 2003 ResourceShelf post containing links calendars and schedules of upcoming events. Use this link to have fast access to each ResourceShelf post in this series.
+ Global: BBC Monitoring Week Ahead Calendar (via BBC)
+ Global: Planned Coverage Calendar, Associated Press Television News
+ Global: NewsAhead World News Forecast PreviewPreview listings are free. Complete access to the database is fee-based.
+ Global: Election Calendar (via IFES)Database of elections to 2011.
+ Global: MInd: The Meetings Index“Free access to locate future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia.”
+ Global: Trade Show CalendarSearchable.
+ Global: NASA Space Calendar (via Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
+ Global: International Sports Calendar (via IOC)
+ Global: WhatsOnWhen.comSearchable database containing thousands of events. WOW!!!Make sure to check out the bizarre category (-:.
+ Global: Festivals.com“Festivals.com today is the largest resource on the Internet for information about community festivals, fairs and special events. With more than 40,000 community events worldwide behind the pages of Festivals.com, we are the most popular and widely used web site devoted exclusively to the global festival industry.”
+ U.S.: Washington D.C. Daybook (via Washington Times)
+ U.S.: 2006 Primary Schedule (via Stateline.org)
+ Key Dates and Upcoming Events (via Ascribe)U.S. focus.
+ Observances and Commemerations Calendar (via Ascribe)
+ U.S.: The Note Futures Calendar (via ABCNews.com)Various events, updated regularly, thru 2008.
+ International Events Calendar (U.S. Department of State)See Also: Secretary of State Daily Appointment Schedule
+ U.S.: Upcoming Video ReleasesSort by title, genre, studio, release date. Over 2700 titles currently on the list.
Remember: More Calendars and Schedules to Come in Future Posts. Need Real-Time Info? Check this collection of databases and tools.

Source: The Resourceshelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/07/23/calendars-calendars-calendars-and-some-schedules/

The Myth about the Digital Divide

The Myth about the Digital Divide/ by Brian L. Hawkins and Diana G. OblingerNote: We were glad to read that the authors also include Eszter Hargittai's discussion of the Second-Level Digital Divide, that focuses on various issues including onliner research skills. Important.
Source: July/August Issue of EDUCAUSE Review http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm064.asp

Librarians Without Borders

Librarians Without Borders is an organization that was born in February 2005 by a group of socially-minded librarians who wanted to address the vast information resource inequity existing between different regions of the world. Our vision is to build sustainable libraries and support their custodians and advocates -- librarians.
http://www.lwb-online.org

XVI International AIDS Conference: Free Online Access

XVI International AIDS Conference: Free Online Access to Sessions and Resources, August 13-18, Toronto, Canada
Permalink (Docuticker): http://www.docuticker.com/?p=6599

As the official webcaster for AIDS 2006, Kaiser, through its free online health news and information resource kaisernetwork.org, will make session webcasts, podcasts, and interviews freely available online. A special session on the Media and AIDS will feature Richard Gere and leading media executives from around the world discussing campaigns that Kaiser helped spearhead. In addition, Kaiser has available online the latest data and information about the global epidemic.

The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age

Source: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/files/copyrightandeducation.html

"Many diverse and exciting initiatives demonstrate how rich sources of digital information could enhance the transfer of knowledge. Yet at the same time, the change in education arguably has been less radical, especially in comparison to mundane endeavors such as selling a used bicycle or booking hotel rooms. There are many complex reasons for this slow pace of change, including lack of resources and resistance to new practices. As this white paper explains, however, among the most important obstacles to realizing the potential of digital technology in education are provisions of copyright law concerning the educational use of content, as well as the business and institutional structures shaped by that law."

What's the Big Deal With Social Search?

By Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine WatchAugust 15, 2006 http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sew/~3/12703311/showPage

What is social search?... Simply put, social search tools are internet wayfinding services informed by human judgement...

Yahoo Search Builder

http://builder.search.yahoo.com/m/home

Yahoo! Has launched what it calls a search builder. It lets you build a specialized search engine tailored to your interests, your business, your web site etc.
Source : Pandia report http://www.pandia.com/sew/256-search-builder.html

Web 2.0? Let's get to Web 1.0 first

Marshall Breeeding writes, "It seems that everyone is talking about Web 2.0. This new vision of the Web enables greater interactivity, more user control of information, radical personalization, the development of online communities, and more democratic management of information. Supporting technologies include blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, tagging, XML, and Web services.

While I wholeheartedly agree that we need to be thinking about Web 2.0 concepts, I worry that we haven't yet fully achieved Web 1.0. Basic Web functionality needs to become ubiquitous as we move forward on building Web 2.0 concepts and technologies". More

Library 2.0 theory: Web 2.0 and its implications for libraries

Jack Maness suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0"will have substantial implications for libraries. While these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. Read about Web 2.0 technologies such assynchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups for libraries and their users. More

Posted by Cecila Walter, University of Cape Town Libraries

Search engines: where we were, are now, and ever will be

Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come. More