[Editor], 'NewsFrom Other Journals', LIBRES v5n03-4 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/libres/libres-v5n03-4-[editor]-newsfrom LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal ISSN 1058-6768 1995 Volume 5 Issue 3-4; December 31. Quarterly LIBRE5N3 JOURNALS ________________________________________________ NEWS FROM OTHER JOURNALS JOURNAL 1) THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY _CALL FOR PAPERS_ THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, (EJS), a new electronic journal, invites the submission of papers. We publish papers in two forms: A HYPERTEXT version accessible via WWW browsers such as Mosaic or Netscape, and an ASCII version which can be retrieved and read using almost any text processor. We are particularly interested in papers which deal with either the INTERNET, electronic communication and electronic communities or which combine images, sounds and text. Style requirements and other pertinent information about the EJS can be found on our home page at http://gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca:8010 Submissions can be sent to Mike Sosteric at msosteri@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca or to the journal account at socjourn@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca. Also, the EJS continues to seek qualified professionals to conduct peer review of submissions. If you would like to contribute in this manner, please contact Mike Sosteric at the above address. Sincerly, Mike Sosteric *************************************************************************** JOURNAL 2) THE OCLC INTERNET CATALOGING PROJECT CALL FOR TOPICS "Issues in Cataloging Internet Resources" The OCLC Internet Cataloging project invites your contribution to an interactive, electronic list of topics, issues or discussion points related to any aspect of cataloging Internet resources. You can contribute to or view the list from the Internet Cataloging project home page (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/catproj/catcall.htm). Topics are added to the list anonymously; optionally provided names and contact information are for use by project staff only. What are the most important issues to you, your library, or your users? Topics may include, but are not limited to: 1. Use of the MARC format, AACR2 cataloging rules, or other cataloging technicalities related to Internet resources 2. Selecting Internet resources for cataloging; criteria and policies 3. Cataloging workflow implications 4. Required staff skills 5. New training needs and tools 6. Determining and encoding electronic location and access information (field 856) 7. Database and catalog maintenance 8. "Holdings" 9. Intra- and interinstitutional cooperative relationships 10. Preservation and long-term access What have we learned? What do we need to know? What works? What doesn't? The list of topics will help set the agenda for the upcoming Internet Cataloging Project Colloquium and will also be available to help facilitate discussions in other forums. Please add your voice, experience, and insight to the discussion by helping to build a list of the most important issues related to the cataloging of Internet resources. --Erik Erik Jul Project Manager TOPICS: Submissions of articles are invited that focus on any aspect of computer programming for the humanities -- including articles on topics such as the following: Programming methodologies and software design principles used to create computer programs in the humanities; In particular, description of facets of humanities programming which distinguish it from other kinds of programming; An overview (or projection of the future) of programming for the humanities using C and C++ Icon Pascal Perl SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL other computer languages Descriptions of actual programming experiences (recently finished or in progress) which raise significant questions and problems. Description of a specific programming application (or a type of application) for the humanities -- including the visual arts, drama, history, and music as well as literature and linguistics. In addition to technical papers, general discussion or opinion papers are invited on topics that grapple with questions such as the following: Do humanists who create computer programs do so in ways different from computer scientists? Do they more (or less) readily grasp an overview of a computing problem and see the general framework of a solution? Do they write computer code differently? Do they prefer particular computer languages? Occasionally those with humanities educations and solid academic positions in the humanities assume positions normally held only by those with degrees in computer science. How is that possible? Do those with educations in computer science ever assume positions in the humanities? LENGTH: Articles of any length will be considered. It is expected that articles will range from 2,500 to 12,000 words -- except for opinion articles or overview articles which might be shorter. FORMAT: Submissions should be in the same form as regular submissions to Computers and the Humanities: they should begin with the following information: Title of paper Name of author(s) Affiliation of author(s) including email address List of up to 10 key words Abstract of article followed by the text of the paper with a blank line between paragraphs. All notes should be collected at the end of the paper under the heading of "Notes." A section titled "References" or "Works Cited" (if needed) is the last part of the paper. SUBMISSION: All submissions should be via electronic media -- email and FTP are strongly encouraged. Articles that can be saved as ASCII files (with line breaks and lines no longer than 80 characters) should be sent via email to the guest editor, Eric Johnson, at The guest editor should be contacted via email at the above address about arrangements to transmit articles containing special characters or graphics that cannot be saved as ASCII files. DEADLINE: March 15, 1996 Writers are encouraged to contact the guest editor to ask questions or to express interest in contributing to the special issue prior to emailing submissions. *************************************************************************** JOURNAL 10) LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESEARCH NEWS Table of Contents Library and Information Research News Volume 19 Number 64 Winter 1995 Contents page Editorial 1 LIRG: Twenty Years On 3 LIRG: A Discussion Paper on Future Strategy 4 LETTER 7 NEWS 8 RESEARCH REPORTS Current research at the School of Information and Media, the Robert Gordon University (Marcella, Williams and Anderson) 13 UNDERPIN at St GeorgeÕs Hospital, Morpeth: a case study of library service, provision and user needs in a climate of change (Banwell) 16 Information needs in drug prevention initiatives: establishing and evaluating a service (Flatten and Speake) 19 Developing the flexible library and information work force (Goulding and Kerslake) 24 REVIEWS Feeney, Mary and Grieves, Maureen (eds.) Changing information technologies: research challenges in the economics of information (Layzell-Ward) 27 Weingand, Darlene E. (ed.) Marketing of library and information services (Kinnell Evans) 29 East, Harry, Sheppard, Elaine and Jeal, Yvette A huge leap forward: A quantitative and qualitative examination of the development of access to database services by British universities, 1988Ð1994 (Arfield) 30 Hanson, Terry (ed.) Bibliographic software and the electronic library 31 Sutton, Brent (ed.) Literary texts in an electronic age: scholarly implications and library services: papers presented at the 1994 Clinic in Library Applications of Data Processing (Feather) 33 Cotton, Bob and Oliver, Richard The Cyberspace lexicon: an illustrated dictionary of terms from multimedia to virtual reality (Davies) 33 ________________________________________ This document may be circulated freely with the following statement included in its entirety: Copyright Library and Information Research News, 1995. This article was originally published in _LIBRES: Library and Information Science Electronic Journal_ (ISSN 1058-6768) December 31, 1995 Volume 5 Issue 3-4. 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