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Bi-annual LIBRE8N2 JOURNALS ________________________________________________ NEWS FROM OTHER JOURNALS SECTION Contents: NEWS FROM OTHER JOURNALS SECTION CURRENT CITES, vol 9, no 4, April 1998 Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:33:59 +0000 Sender: Solo Librarians Listserv From: Gerry Hurley Subject: Current Cites, Vol. 9, no. 4, April 1998 Here's the latest issue of Current Cites from our friends at PACS-L. --Gerry Date: Tue May 05, 1998 7:28 pm EST From: cites EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: cites@library.berkeley.edu Subject: Current Cites April 1998 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- _Current Cites_ Volume 9, no. 4 April 1998 The Library University of California, Berkeley Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne ISSN: 1060-2356 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.4.html Contributors: Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart, Roy Tennant Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson DIGITAL LIBRARIES "Taking the Initiative for Digital Libraries" The Electronic Library (16) 1 (February 1998): 24-27. [http://info.learned.co.uk/li/publications/tel/contents.htm] -- If you're still just a bit unclear what exactly is meant by "digital library", you may be comforted by Electronic Library's interview with Stephen Griffin of NSF's Digital Library Initiative. Griffin acknowledges that the meaning of digital library continues to evolve as technology advances, and believes that this is a good thing as a more open definition enables a larger set of perspectives to influence the discourse, research and practices. Griffin uses the concepts of electronic access vs. intellectual access to help think about digital libraries. He describes electronic access as access to the raw electronic data, and intellectual access as access to deeper knowledge and meaning contained in digital collections. Griffin believes that by providing intellectual access through intelligent systems, that digital libraries have the potential to give users "what they want, not merely what they ask for." He proposes that digital libraries will lead to a reconsideration of the library as an institution and, in the long term, offer an entirely new model through which people can interact with information, beginning, in the nearer term, with scholarly communication. He also offers some suggestions to library managers for this transitional period. -- LY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Curle, David. "Filtered News Services: Solutions in Search of _Your_ Problem?" Online 22(2) March/April 1998. [http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OLtocs/OLtocmar3.html] -- You may remember Wired's big, blue, pushy hand from the March 1997 [www.wired.com/5.03/] issue, shoving yet another "radical future" at you and announcing the arrival of push media - that is, electronic information that can be delivered to the user without the need to "pull" it by requesting it each time it's wanted. Curle's less prophetic, more practical article deserves a big hand too, with an index finger pointing to a long list of options for news delivery. Making smart choices is not easily done in the growing flow of media which can spew the world's events onto your screen, and Curle emphasizes that information professionals will have to analyze user needs in the context of organizational systems to come up with viable solutions. He suggests several specific questions that are useful for getting far beyond the obvious filtering issues like whether to eliminate sports from the news stream. Traditionally, what's news has been defined by the sender; now the receiver is getting more power to redefine it, but the sources must still be well-understood. When he changes his focus from the consumer to the provider, Curle discusses the merits of various services, and how they (or parts of them) can fit into appropriate profiles for pushed news. He assesses the services by category and by product, from the custom pages offered by many Web guides to the commercial giants like Dow Jones, noting that most users should be able to get their facts for free in today's environment. If our options continue to multiply, let's hope for many more articles like this one, because this kind of advice is what we'll need to help us get a grip. -- JR "To Publish and Perish" Policy Perspectives 7(4) (March 1998) (gain access to the article at http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pp-cat.pl after registering for free). -- This thoughtful essay is on the problem academic libraries have of maintaining access to information when both the volume and cost of this information has increased dramatically over the last several decades. A brief historical review precedes a set of strategies that libraries, faculties, and university administrations can undertake to "regain the initiative" in scholarly publishing. These strategies include: 1) end the preoccupation with numbers (faculty tenure review should stress quality, not quantity), 2) be smart shoppers (research libraries must select wisely), 3) get a handle on property rights (faculty should be encouraged to retain at least some portion of copyright), 4) invest in electronic forms of scholarly communication, and 5) decouple publication and faculty evaluation for the purposes of promotion and tenure. Before allowing skepticism to persuade you of the futility of succeeding with any of these strategies, you should know that this essay is based on a national meeting of presidents, chief academic officers, and librarians of major research universities across North America. They are in at least shooting distance of being able to effect some local change if not systemic change. -- RT Wagner, Karen I. "Intellectual Property: Copyright Implications for Higher Education" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 24 (1) (January 1998): 11-19. -- The university consists of many different constituencies all of which are serving the larger mission of the institution which is to educate and promote research and scholarship. These different constituencies, however, have differing perspectives on intellectual property issues. As producers of intellectual property, university presses and faculty are concerned with preserving copyright protection; as consumers of intellectual property, university libraries (and, again, faculty) are more concerned with issues of "fair use;" there are also those constituencies, such as instructional design groups, who are both producers and consumers. Wagner argues that discussion among all of these groups will help in the development of a national policy on intellectual property rights that will be in the best interests of higher education. The emergence of a digital landscape also poses new challenges and opportunities and university presses, libraries, university bookstores and copy centers can take advantage of new technologies to further enhance the ability of higher education to achieve its mission. An extensive bibliography accompanies this article. -- MP INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Giese, Mark. "Self Without Body: Textual Self-Representation in an Electronic Community" First Monday 3 (6) (April 6, 1998). [http://www.firstmonday.dk] -- Giese examines textual modes of communication and how they combine with the new technologies of computer-mediated communication (cmc) to produce new opportunities for social interaction and presentation of self. He studies these new modes of meta-communication, and how they interact in ways that promote the liveliness of community in a text-based electronic environment. He examines one Internet newsgroup, alt.cyberpunk, which has developed a cooperative narrative, in which participants make self-presentations that many would consider "fictional". However, in the community of the list, these presentations must be accepted at face value. He concludes that this new form of self-expression is created by the "tightened feedback loop" that cmc technologies bring to a textual mode of communication--in other words, a text-based narrative becomes a "real-time" interaction, with new, and often strange results. -- TH Hilf, Bill. "Media Lullabies: The Reinvention of the World Wide Web" First Monday 3 (6) (April 6, 1998) [http://www.firstmonday.dk] -- Hilf explores the all-too-easy trap that media and cultural critics fall into when they compare the Web and other Net-based delivery systems to the mass media. He argues such comparative studies have led to large-scale misinterpretations of the Internet. Worse yet, in the era of sound-bite journalism, such misinterpretations rapidly become accepted as meaningful descriptions (remember the Internet as a "library", only the "books" haven't been organized yet?). As part of his analysis, he provides a useful history of the new media. -- TH NETWORKS AND NETWORKING Arnold, Judith M. and Elaine Anderson Jayne. "Dangling by a Slender Thread: The Lessons and Implications of Teaching the World Wide Web to Freshmen" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 24 (1) (January 1998): 43-52. -- Based on the authors' own experience of teaching library skills to a freshmen writing class, this well-researched article discusses the challenges, problems and implications of teaching the Web. Their approach to teaching was to focus on resources that are unique to the Web such as sites that offer current or government information that is not available elsewhere. Furthermore, they argue that the Web needs to be taught within an appropriate context of the information seeking process and as just one of many information sources along with books, journals and newspapers. Most importantly, the authors wanted to provide an evaluative framework in their approach to teaching the Web. Trying to teach students how to evaluate sources when doing library research is one of the biggest challenges for instruction librarians. In some ways, the nature of the Web with its largely free-flowing content gives library instructors a unique opportunity to introduce critical thinking skills and evaluative tools. -- MP Payette, Sandra. "Persistent Identifiers on the Digital Terrain" RLG DigiNews 2(2) 1997. [http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews22.html#Identifiers] -- In what has almost become a mythical pursuit similar to the search for the Holy Grail, those involved with developing standards for the Web have long sought a solution to the problem of broken URLs. What is needed is some kind of persistent address that can be resolved to the actual location of the desired information, even as it moves from place to place. This overview piece serves as an excellent introduction to the topic and an overview of current or near-term solutions. The particular schemes profiled include Persistent URLs or PURLs (please, no swine jokes), Handles, and Digital Object Identifiers or DOIs. None of these schemes comes from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which has been pondering this conundrum since the dawn of time (ca. early 1990's on the Web calendar). Payette includes a strategy for implementing persistent identifiers for a given project, a brief discussion of implications, and some pointers (yes, URLs) to further information. -- RT OPTICAL DISC TECHNOLOGY Ma, Wei. "The Near Future Trend: Combining Web Access and Local CD Networks" The Electronic Library 16 (1) (February 1998): 49-54. [http://info.learned.co.uk/publications/tel/contents.htm]. -- Should libraries continue expanding and investing in CD-ROM networks? This article asserts that librarians will continue to see a mix of CD-ROM based and Internet-based resources in the near term. A mix will be optimal because the two media have different strengths. CD-ROM is best for specialized titles that are less used, and for large amounts of static data. Internet versions are better for sources with broader appeal, and for databases that require frequent and timely updates. Drawing from Occidental College's experience, Ma concludes that the optimal mix should consider the entire community environment, not just the individual library. Ma also profiles selected equipment that Occidental used in designing their architecture. -- LY GENERAL Ypsilanti, Dimitri, and Louisa Gosling. _Towards a Global Information Society: Global Information Infrastructure, Global Information Society: Policy Requirements_. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1997. Content of this publication is available in pdf format through the OECD's site for free documents on Information and Communications Policy [http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/prod/online.htm] in the "Information Economy" section. -- The OECD [www.oecd.org] is the 29-nation organization which has grown from a core group of Marshall Plan countries to encompass most of what we consider the industrialized world. For information technology developments, it is worth watching as a policy-recommending body which is wrestling with the big issues: privacy, electronic commerce, media convergence, infrastructure and the gap between the wired and the left behind. Reading their publications is a refreshing change from those which reflect only American views. For example, the membership voted down the Clinton administration's proposed key escrow encryption system two years ago, and has debated several alternatives, revealing a range of attitudes about privacy and law enforcement (see the OECD Information Security and Privacy page [http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/secur/index.htm]). _Towards a Global Information Society_ is recommended as a focal point for the study of global information issues. Don't be put off by the rather inflated, abstract tone of the introduction - after all, these are the real "big picture" people, and the succeeding chapters do get down to specifics about particular problems and trends and the agencies which can influence them. I found the attention paid to media content to be particularly interesting; one aspect was a discussion of consolidated ownership vs. the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity (the authors are of the opinion that policies which encourage the development of a variety of multimedia services also encourage the proliferation of sources of local content). References throughout the text are well-documented in an extensive bibliography; one citation in particular deserves mention here, the OECD's own _Information Technology Outlook_ [http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/prod/itblurb.htm] which is the source for many of the tables and graphs. -- JR Current Cites 9(4) (April 1998) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright 1998 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. _All rights reserved._ All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does not necessarily imply endorsement of the product. [URL:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/] To subscribe, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to listserv@library.berkeley.edu, replacing "[your name]" with your name. To unsubscribe, send the message "unsub cites" to the same address. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CURRENT CITES volume 9, no 5, May 1998 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:29:12 +0800 (WST) Reply-To: ajsuther@cygnus.uwa.edu.au Sender: wain@info.curtin.edu.au From: ajsuther@cygnus.uwa.edu.au Subject: Current Cites May 1998 Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:01:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: weber.ucsd.edu: procmail set sender to rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu using -f X-Authentication-Warning: weber.ucsd.edu: Processed from queue /usr/spool/mqueue/rqueue Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 19:53:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Agre Sender: lis-fid-request@mailbase.ac.uk Errors-To: lis-fid-request@mailbase.ac.uk Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:15:35 -0700 From: CITES Moderator Subject: Current Cites June 1998 _Current Cites_ Volume 9, no. 6 June 1998 The Library University of California, Berkeley Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne ISSN: 1060-2356 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.6.html Contributors: Christof Galli, Kirk Hastings, Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips, Richard Rinehart, Roy Tennant Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson DIGITAL LIBRARIES Guthrie, Kevin. "JSTOR and the University of Michigan: An Evolving Collaboration" Library Hi Tech 16 (1) (1998): 9-14. -- This special issue of Library Hi Tech features the dynamic cultural and technological changes affecting the University of Michigan library arena. With the recent attention on scholarly communication and collaboration, it's timely to take a closer look at Michigan's relationship with JSTOR (short for Journal STORage, at http://www.jstor.org/), and their progress in making backfiles of selected journals available in electronic form. Originally a grant project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with ten test journals and six test libraries, JSTOR is now an independent, not-for-profit organization with approximately 250 paying library participants and 70 journals committed to contributing content. Guthrie, JSTOR's President, chronicles the history of this collaboration and notes that it provided the flexibility necessary to meet the administrative structures, organizational processes and physical plant requirements of a fast-growing entrepreneurial enterprise. While Guthrie acknowledges the challenges involved in a distributed organizational model, he believes that the benefits outweigh the costs. He expresses the organization's commitment to maintaining its close relationship with the university community to ensure that JSTOR remains responsive to user needs. Ideally their lessons can be applied not only to other digital library initiatives, but also to other areas ripe for self-sustaining enterprises. -- LY Payette, Sandra D. and Oya Y. Rieger. "Supporting Scholarly Inquiry: Incorporating Users in the Design of the Digital Library" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 24(2) (March 1998):121-129. -- Through a series of questionnaires and interviews with faculty and students, the Mann Library at Cornell University conducted a study to find out how users engage in research using its digital Gateway. The study sought to assess the effectiveness of the existing design, and to develop principles to be used in developing the next generation of the Gateway. Users, it seems, do not engage in scholarly research that is linear, highly structured and logical and therefore digital libraries need to be designed in a way that minimizes hierarchical, linear metaphors and that create features that can be customized to an individual's personal style and technical capabilities. The Gateway was designed with input from earlier focus groups but, interestingly, the more recent user survey showed that users were not, in fact, taking advantage of features developed in response to their expressed requirements! In addition to describing the experiences at Cornell University, the article provides an excellent review of the literature of user studies in the digital library context. -- MP ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Balas, Janet. "Copyright in the Digital Era" Computers in Libraries 18(6) (June 1998) (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun/story2.htm) -- The title doesn't offer a clue that this is a great annotated collection of sources for researching current issues in copyrighted information. You may be burying your head in the sand while chanting the "fair use" mantra (which is pretty hard to do with sand in your mouth), but aren't you curious what the United States Copyright Office, the American Library Association, the Digital Future Coalition, the Creative Incentive Coalition and others have to say about it? URLs are given for the relevant pages from each organization, along with commentary about the role each one plays in shaping copyright policy or depicting the current state of affairs (which might be analogous to a strobe-lit snapshot of a nighttime mob scene). Here's a shortcut to one document which is highly relevant for many of us: "Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ21) which is U.S. Copyright Office Copyright Information Circular 21. Curl up with your favorite TV lawyer (surely preoccupied with other things) and have a good long read. -- JR Kasdorf, Bill. "SGML and PDF: Why We Need Both" Journal of Electronic Publishing 3(4) (June 1998) (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/kasdorf.html). -- Discussions about appropriate digital file formats often degenerate to the level of a debate, in which advocates of one format slug it out with proponents of another. Thus this article is a refreshing perspective, in which the benefits of two very different publication formats are examined for their utility in different situations. The not unsurprising conclusion is that one format does not prevent publication in the other, and publishing in both is often beneficial. -- RT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Digital Future Coalition (www.dfc.org) -- This is not an article per se, but a web resource and organization. DFC is an umbrella lobbying and information sharing organization concentrating on issues of intellectual property and copyright legislation and policy worldwide. Members include the American Library Association and the Society of American Archivists, etc. Their explicit aim is to lobby for balanced legislation that protects access to information as well as the ability to regulate and produce profit from information. Whether one agrees with their approach or not, the site is a useful place to get the full text of major new legislation and critical responses to everthing from the Conference on Fair Use to (U.S.) National Information Infrastructure (NII) bills to the international WIPO agreement. -- RR Dyson, Esther. "Privacy Protection: Time to Think and Act Locally and Globally" First Monday 3 (6) (1998) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_6/dyson/) -- Noted social and technology critic Esther Dyson surveys the current state of privacy on the Internet, examining the interplay of cyberspace and local jurisdictions. While various, "non-central" groups advocate new types of encryption protocols to help us gain a semblance of privacy, different cultures around the globe--and the laws they promulgate--have little common ground. Therefore privacy on the Net is not only a technology issue, but a key issue for global society. -- TH Williams, Leonard. "Teaching Cyberian Politics" First Monday 3 (6) (1998) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_6/williams/) -- Williams describes his experience in teaching a college course on the "politics of cyberspace"--using Web-based syllabi and other dynamic tools. The close match between the course subject matter and the learning process students employed in using the Web was a powerful combination. Williams argues that the approach he took, with its emphasis on direct experience, boosted students' critical thinking skills about technology and society. -- TH MULTIMEDIA & HYPERMEDIA National Council on Disability. Access to Multimedia Technology by People with Sensory Disabilities. Washington: The Council, 1998. 86 p. (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS764) -- This report focuses on barriers to the use of computerized multimedia technology by people who have visual or hearing impairments. It's a good source for an overview of what types of problems are encountered and what remedies are in place or coming up. As with most government reports by committee, there's a bit of a lag regarding new technology, but it wasn't intended to be a list of what's cutting edge; rather, it's an attempt to enlighten about the uses of broader categories of technology, like under what circumstances audio description elements can be most appropriate. For policy-watchers, the relevant sections of the Rehabilitation Act and Telecommunications Act are discussed, with recommendations for specific areas needing stronger enforcement. -- JR NETWORKS & NETWORKING Boutin, Paul. "Browser Beware" Wired 6.06 (June 1998): 185. (http://www.wired.com/wired/6.06/) -- If you're trying to make the best of a 16-bit Windows computer or are fed up with the memory demands of your current browser, a 7-person engineering team from Norway may offer hope with Opera (in Wired's words, "a 1.2-Mbyte marvel"). Opera puts Microsoft and Netscape in their place when it comes to speed and HTML standards compliance. It is also adept at juggling multiple windows, and only requires a 386 with 6 megs of RAM. So have they built a better mousetrap? Well, there are no non-Windows versions currently available and Opera is weaker on support for Unicode 16-bit international character sets, but it does meet the need for speed. Opera 4.0 (with Java and CSS2 style sheet support) is due out this summer and for $35 (less for education customers) can be found at http://www.operasoftware.com/. -- LY Clark, Kathleen A., Priscilla C. Geahigan, Thomas R. Mirkovich, and Anita D. Haynes. "Internet Resources: Cruising for Travel Information" College & Research Libraries News (http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjun98.html) 59(6) (June 1998): 427-431. -- Just in time for summer, this month's list of Internet resources looks at travel. Included in the list are addresses for sites that can give you information (mostly oriented to travel in the United States) about accommodations, restaurant guides and other mega travel sites (like Yahoo!'s travel page: http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Travel/). Also handy are sites for traveling abroad like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Travel Information (http://www.cdc.gov/) and the Intellicast World Weather guide (http://www.intellicast.com/weather/intl/). -- MP Khare, Rohit, and Rifkin, Adam. "Trust Management on the World Wide Web" First Monday 3 (6) (1998) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_6/khare/) -- The authors describe a new concept for managing sensitive information on the Internet, which encourages open, decentralized systems that span multiple domains. The system, called "trust management," aims to disperse decision-making and analysis about how to protect sensitive data throughout organizations, asking "why" instead of "how." The basic elements of the system are "principles, principals, and policies." Document authoring and distribution is used as a concrete example of how the system would work. -- TH Mace, Scott. "DSL's Devilish Details" BYTE 23(7) (July 1998): 72-80. -- As any Internet user knows, you can never have too much speed. This is certainly true of home connections. Even with a 56K modem, Web pages never seem to come up fast enough. But now that Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), or xDSL, or now simply DSL, is on the horizon, at least some relief may be at hand. But as this article points out, what exactly is "at hand" is still very much an open question. Perhaps the most telling evidence of uncertainty in the marketplace is depicted in the chart " ADSL Trials and Service Deployments," which identifies no fewer than 19 companies worldwide offering or soon to be offering ADSL service to a particular region of the world. Virtually all of them are offering a different mix of upstream and downstream speeds, from 9.6 Kbps upstream (this is progress?) to 5.5 Mbps (Singapore) and 7Mbps (Nova Scotia) downstream. Hmmm...all of a sudden cable modems are looking real good to me. -- RT Sowards, Steven W. "A Typology for Ready Reference Web Sites in Libraries" First Monday 3 (5) (1998) (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_5/sowards/) -- "Librarians and non-librarians alike may overlook important lessons about information management if they misinterpret the lessons of librarianship as being confined to the realm of paper," the author argues. He embarks on a tour and analysis of how librarians are organizing their Web-based reference guides, so be prepared to add lots of URLs to your bookmark file when you review this article. He makes several conclusions that will surely influence your own thoughts about what works -- and what doesn't -- on the Web. Moreover, it's refreshing to see someone use blunt language to advocate for the common sense approaches that librarians employ to help people. Here's an example: "After the difficulties we meet in navigating relatively large Web sites remind us why libraries -- which deal with truly large numbers of elements, running into the millions -- rely on redundancy and alternative methods to manage content." -- TH GENERAL Bales, Susan Nall. "Technology and Tradition: The Future's in the Balance" American Libraries 29(6) (June/July 1998): 82-86. -- Following up on their report Buildings, Books, and Bytes: Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age (see the December 1996 issue of Current Cites), the Benton Foundation has conducted and analyzed six focus groups aimed at the issues identified in that report. Their findings will be released in a publication scheduled for release in July 1998 (watch Current Cites for news of its availability). Meanwhile, Bales shares some of their findings in this article. Among them are: "1) Libraries must be portrayed as high touch and high tech, and in that order, 2) Root all discussions of technology in books and reading, 3) Teach the public that the librarian is an information navigator, 4) Emphasize that the library you trust can help you make the transition to technology, and 5) Recognize the powerful connections Americans make between libraries and effective parenting." Libraries are at a critical juncture between the past and the future. How well librarians meld the traditional with the technical and present themselves to the public will dictate the role of libraries in modern society for decades to come. My advice is to get the original Benton report, this article, the new report when it comes out, read them, and pay close attention. -- RT DeJesus, Edmund X. "Year 2000 Survival Guide" BYTE 23(7) (July 1998): 52-62. -- In the thorough and authoritative manner in which BYTE readers have come to expect, DeJesus outlines the good, the bad, and the downright ugly aspects of the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem. The bad news is that even if you start right now, your large legacy systems will probably not be ready for the millennium in time. The good news is that you if apply triage strategies and contingency plans well enough, you may just make it. Out of all the press out there on this problem, this article cuts through the rhetoric with a hot knife and summarizes key information in tables, diagrams, and timelines. And it's the timeline that helps provide comic relief amidst the disaster. Just think, on January 1, 29602 the Microsoft Windows NT file system will fail. Better start planning now, Bill. - RT Smith, K. Wayne, ed. OCLC 1967-1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information New York: Haworth Press, 1998. -- When library historians review the major milestones of the profession over the last thirty years or so, there will be three developments that will stand head-and-shoulders above the rest: the creation of the Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format, the codification of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2), and the rise of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC, since changed to the Online Computer Library Center). OCLC has evolved to become the hub of library cataloging records, interlibrary loan transactions, and many other essential services for thousands of libraries across the United States and beyond. Although anyone not curious about OCLC would probably not be interested in this volume (simultaneously published as the Journal of Library Administration, 25 (2/3 - 4) (1998), it serves as a useful chronicle of a good idea that helped to transform libraries and library services. -- RT _________________________________________________________________ Current Cites 9(6) (June 1998) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright 1998 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. All rights reserved. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1998/cc98.9.6.html Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal to their collections at no cost. This message must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission from the editor All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. 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Editor: Teri Andrews Rinne, trinne@library.berkeley.edu, (510) 642-8173 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:16:31 -0400 Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Cassandra Armstrong Subject: Call for Papers: Special Issue of DSS (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:01:47 -0700 From:LYNCH@BPA.Arizona.EDU To: abishop@uiuc.edu, adwait@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu, aitao@sims.berkeley.edu, akiba@sis.pitt.edu, alan@nlm.nih.gov, alex@cs.cmu.edu, allan@cs.umass.edu, alp4g@cs.virginia.edu, amykir@princeton.edu Cc: LYNCH@BPA.Arizona.EDU Subject: Call for Papers: Special Issue of DSS *** Due Date: October 15, 1998 *** Special Issue of Decision Support Systems "From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management: Enabling Technologies and Best Practices" Dr. Hsinchun Chen, The University of Arizona CALL FOR PAPERS Decision Support Systems will publish a special issue on "From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management: Enabling Technologies and Best Practices" that will report on original research on the development and use of effective information management and knowledge management technologies and practices. Emerging, scaleable systems, techniques, and practices which are at the intersection of information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and management information systems are of particular interest. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Information retrieval systems and techniques * Electronic document management systems * Internet and Intranet search engines * Information and content management * Digital library applications and systems * Groupware and collaboration technologies and case studies * Knowledge discovery and machine learning techniques and case studies * Textual knowledge mining * Advanced, interactive information visualization * Advanced human-computer interactions * Single and multiple-agent based systems and architectures * Information/knowledge management consulting practices * Case studies and implementations in competitive intelligence, intellectual capital, knowledge chain, and corporate memory Send five copies of your manuscript by October 15, 1998 to: Hsinchun Chen Professor, Management Information Systems Department Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab The University of Arizona McClelland Hall 430Z Tucson, AZ 85721 TEL: (520) 621-4153, FAX: (520) 621-2433 email: hchen@bpa.arizona.edu Web site: http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu ********************************************************************************** **** DigiNews volume 2, issue 3 Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: oyr1@cornell.edu Sender: diglibns@sunsite.berkeley.edu From: "Oya Y. Rieger" Subject: [DIGLIBNS:694] New issue of RLG DigiNews now available! **This message is being cross-posted, please excuse any duplication** Volume 2, Issue 3 of RLG DigiNews, the web-based, quarterly newsletter is now available at: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ The June issue contains a feature article by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger of Cornell University's Preservation Department. Their article, "Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators," summarizes the results of a Cornell study that evaluated the use of Kodak Photo CD technology for preserving and making available a range of research material. The study, funded by a grant from the New York State Education Department's Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials, was inspired by the strong interest in the use of Kodak Photo CD technology within the cultural community and was conducted in cooperation with the eleven New York State comprehensive research libraries. The issue also contains two technical feature articles. The first, "The Promise of DVDs for Digital Libraries," is from Steve Gilheany of Archive Builders. In his piece, Gilheany describes the DVD (Digital Video Disk or Digital Versatile Disk) and its promise as a new storage medium. Article specifics include storage capacity, DVD and multimedia, costs, and backward compatibility issues. The second technical piece, "Fractal and Wavelet Compression," is by Steven Puglia of the National Archives and Records Administration (US). In his article, Puglia discusses two new methods of image compression which are generating a great deal of interest from institutions digitizing and providing access to oversized materials such as maps, architectural plans, and engineering drawings. The new compression methods, already in use at several US institutions, offer real advantages for providing access to large, complex images via the Internet. As with earlier issues, rounding out this issue is a current calendar of events, project announcements, highlighted web sites, and a FAQ about the difference between the optical resolution and the interpolated resolution of scanners. Readers can continue to search issues of RLG DigiNews by keyword or browse the hyperlinked tables of content of available issues. For more information about RLG or PRESERV, please contact Robin Dale (bl.rld@rlg.org). _____________________________________________ Oya Y. Rieger Digital Projects Librarian Cornell University Library 701 Olin Library Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: oyr1@cornell.edu Phone: (607) 254-5160 D-LIB, June 1998 ********************************************************************************** **** D-LIB MAGAZINE - JUNE 1998 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:50:26 -0400 Sender: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list From: Terry Kuny Subject: [SERIAL] June 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available The June 1998 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at . The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: , and The Australian National University Sunsite also maintains a mirror at . We apologize in advance if you have inadvertently received a copy of this notice. If you wish to have your e-mail address removed from our list, please send a message to dlib@cnri.reston.va.us. In this issue, we feature research stories about implementation projects in electronic publishing, URN resolution schemes, and distributed searching of metadata, together with two stories about issues in the humanities and cultural heritage programs. Clips features program updates from the NSF, including one on DLI-2; the D-Lib Metrics Working Group; longer discussions of several new resources; and the usual selection of meetings and new or newly-identified materials. CONTENTS Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA): An Image Archive for the Journal Physical Review Timothy Thomas Los Alamos National Laboratory A Distributed Architecture for Resource Discovery Using Metadata Michael Roszkowski and Christopher Lukas University of Wisconsin-Madison Resolving DOI Based URNs Using Squid: An Experimental System at UKOLN Andy Powell UKOLN Pass-Through Proxying as a Solution to the Off-Site Web-Access Problem Richard Goerwitz Brown University Scholarly Technology Group Authenticity of Digital Resources: Towards a Statement of Requirements in the Research Process David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Archives & Museum Informatics Information and Communications Technology in the Cultural Sector: The Need for National Strategies Seamus Ross and Maria Economou HATII, University of Glasgow D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine ********************************************************************************** *** GREYNET vol 7, no 2, 1998 Return-path: Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:37:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Dominic.Farace" To: Kerry Smith Subject: GreyNet Newsletter Volume 7, Number 2, 1998 GREYNET'S NEWSLETTER ------------------------------------------------------ NewsBriefNews, Vol.7, No.2, 1998. - ISSN 0929-0923 (E-mail Version) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS: COLUMN: Thematic Approach to Grey Literature 1 Columbia University Survey on Grey Literature 2 Selected Examples of Scientific Grey Literature 3 Field Placement Program, College of Amsterdam 4 GreyNet's Website Statistics 5 Annotated Bibliography on Grey Literature 6 Publication Order Form 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL ADDRESS: TransAtlantic| Grey Literature Network Service Koninginneweg 201, 1075 CR Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel/Fax: 31-20-671.1818 | Email: GreyNet@inter.nl.net http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet Annual subscription: DFL. 40 | US$ 25 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo GREYNET Vol. 7, No. 3, 1998 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:16:23 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: NRLib-L@library.lib.usu.edu Sender: Maiser@library.lib.usu.edu GREYNET'S NEWSLETTER ------------------------------------------------------ NewsBriefNews, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1998. - ISSN 0929-0923 (E-mail Version) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS: COLUMN: Parallel Publishing, A New Paradigm for Grey Literature 1 Observership on Grey Literature 2 New Publications on the topic of Grey Literature 3 Test GL*SSARY to appear on Website 4 Visitors from Turkey and the USA 5 Data Profiles on GreyNet 6 Pre-Call for Papers GL'99 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL ADDRESS: TransAtlantic|GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service Koninginneweg 201, 1075 CR Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel/Fax: 31-20-671.1818 | Email: GreyNet@inter.nl.net http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet Annual subscription: DFL. 40 | US$ 25 ========================================================================= == [1]. P A R A L L E L P U B L I S H I N G, A NEW PARADIGM FOR GL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parallel publishing is a term used to denote the relationship that has developed between the authors and producers of grey and commercial literature. A development that has been intensified by the advance of electronic publishing and the Internet. Until recent, commercial publishers had built a wall around their publications to ward off the influx of grey literature. Publications which to them were inferior, without peer-review, that which was part of the obscure realm. Nevertheless, at times, commercial publishers would venture out into this grey realm in order to explore, identify, and capture material, which they would transform into white or commercial literature. With the rise of electronic publishing and the internet, commercial publishers have had to rethink a new paradigm in which to better understand and deal with grey literature. No wall can be built high enough to ward-off the expanding production of electronic grey literature. What we are now witnessing is the recognition on the part of commercial publishers that grey literature is also of value, that most of the grey literature will remain in the grey circuit and will not obscure their commercial endeavors. This new perspective on grey literature has caused commercial publishers to go beyond their periodic ventures into the grey realm, by actively linking their peer reviewed and commercially published literature to other sources responsible for their very creation and authorship. As intermediary, GreyNet seeks to encourage and facilitate both commercial publishers and corporate authors to identify and link peripheral data and information -- such as preprints, research and technical notes, as well as a host of other electronic, digital, and multimedia grey literature -- to mainstream core publications. Such endeavors would be widely applauded by the producers and users of grey literature. Not to mention libraries and information centers, who would readily tap such new and innovative resources. From the Editor Dominic J. Farace ********************************************************************************** **** INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT - Call for papers Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:30:41 -0400Reply-To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: Gretchen Whitney Subject: Info Proc & Mgt Call for papers To: Multiple recipients of list JESSE Original garbled in transmission. --gw CALL FOR PAPERS Special topic issue of the journal Information Processing and Management Web Research and Information Retrieval A special topic issue of Information Processing and Management is scheduled to appear in 1999 on the topic of Web Research and Information Retrieval. Dr. Amanda Spink of the University of North Texas and Dr. Jian Qin of the University of Southern Mississippi will be the guest editors. This special topic issue provides a forum for original research that is targeted to theories and applications in information organization and retrieval in the Web environment. Papers in this area are being solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limted to, the following: 1. Content acquisition and processing in Web-based digital libraries 2. Information retrieval research and its implications on methods and tools for informatio organization and retrieval on the Web, including search engines 3. Information retrieval and knowledge discovery in the transition from conventional systems such as DIALOG and Lexis/Nexis to Web-based systems 4. Interaction between users and Web-based information and search engines, and design of interfaces 5. Evaluative and comparative study of conventional and Web-based information organization and retrieval systems Information about IP&M as well as Instructions to Contributors is available on the WWW server http://www/elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman/ All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees. Interested authors should submit four copies (hard-copy only) of their article by 1 November 1998 to: Dr. Amanda Spink School of Library and Information Sciences University of North Texas P.O. Box 311068 Denton Texas 76203 Phone: 940-565-2187 Fax: 940-565-3101 E-mail: spink@lis.admin.unt.edu Dr. Jian Qin School of Library and Information Science University of Southern Mississippi Box 5146 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5146 Phone: 601-266-4232 Fax: 601-266-5774 E-mail: jqin@ocean.otr.usm.edu ********************************************************************************** **** INFORMATION RESEARCH - ìnewî issue Approved-By: TOM WILSON Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:51:09 +0100 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: TOM WILSON Subject: Information Research: an electronic journal A new "issue" of Information Research is available at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html The following is - Editorial This issue of Information Research marks a change in policy for the journal: a move towards a fully peer-refereed scholarly journal. The next issue will be composed almost entirely of refereed papers, but we shall continue to publish unrefereed papers, if they are of interest to our audience. In fact, it seems that the quality of the papers in Information Research has been such that the lack of a refereeing process has not bothered those who cite them and refer their students to them. Does this suggest that quality of Editorial control is perhaps as important (or, possibly, more important) than peer reviewing? Our first refereed paper - from Dr. Elena MaceviciutÈ of the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania (with apologies for the missing diacritic in her name - my HTML editor lacks the appropriate special symbol). Dr. MaceviciutÈ deals with a topic of great interest everywhere - the growth of the market for information professionals - but the topic is especially pressing in the Baltic states, where educational programmes are being quickly revised as a consequence of a newly-gained independence at the height of a technological revolution. The second paper, also refereed, is on computer assistance to human abstractors, by Tim Craven of Western Ontario. Tim describes the use of software, developed by himself, for speeding up the process of creating an abstract and reports upon an evaluation of the software under a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant. The third paper is on The public reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996 by Dr. Julian Warner of the School of Management, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Dr. Warner has accomplished the very interesting task of mapping the response in the various daily and weekly newspapers to the results of the 1996 RAE in the UK and his findings suggest that, while the response may be limited to the "quality" newspapers, the RAE has made an impact on the public image of research in UK universities. Finally, we have a paper from the Editor and a couple of Master's students, who carried out research under his direction in 1996 and 1997 into Business use of the World Wide Web continuing the work that was reported in an earlier issue. Prof. Tom Wilson, Editor/Webmaster *************************************************** Professor Tom Wilson, Ph.D. Research Professor in Information Management Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K. Tel. +44-114-222-2631 Fax. +44-114-278-0300 Email: T.D.Wilson@Sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/I-M/is/lecturer/tom1.html ********************************************************************************** **** The INFORMATION SOCIETY - Issue 13, No 4 1997 Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:54:13 -0500 From: Rob Kling Subject: The Information Society - 13(4) Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" X-Sender: kling@othello.ucs.indiana.edu The Information Society Letter from Rob Kling Editor-in-Chief For TIS Issue 13(4) (1997) Special Issue: "The Construction of Personal Identity on the Internet." This issue of The Information Society, 13(4), focusses upon "The Construction of Personal Identity on the Internet." In the opening article, "Hyperbole over Cyberspace," Eleanor Wynn and James Katz critique the recent stream of postmodern studies that portray Internet technologies as novel liberating media which liberate people from their everyday social worlds and physical bodies -- a position that was most famously represented in the mainstream U.S. media by the New Yorker magazine cartoon in which a dog at a computer terminal says, "On the Internet, nobody knows that you're a dog." Some of the postmodern studies also emphasize the way that the Internet is organized so that people can develop and explore multiple selves. Wynn and Katz focus on recent books by Sherry Turkle and A.R. ("Sandy") Stone about the ways that people construct numerous playful on-line identities. They develop several lines of analysis to argue that the "Internet does not (primarily) radically alter the social bases of identity or conventional constraints on social interaction" although it provides some important opportunities for new interactional styles or variations of older interactional styles. One line of analysis is philosophical -- and is anchored in Heidigger's phenomenology of self. Wynn and Katz argue that people's on-line identities don't have sufficient autonomy to be conceptualized as "selves" -- they are artifacts that are akin to puppets rather than to significant personas. A second line of argument examines how interacting on computer networks can entail boundary shifts that do alter the practices and perceptions of interaction: boundaries between the social and the technical, the real and the virtual, and what is public and private. In their last section, Wynn and Katz examine a number of studies of social interaction and work on-line -- as well as particular episodes in LISTSERV discussions and from personal home pages. They argue that it is common for people to link their on-line identities to their identities in the workplaces, family life, and so on. This is a complex theoretical and empirical paper with which to open this issue -- but one which provides some compelling critiques of the increasingly popular postmodern interpretations of life on-line. (A copy has been made available on TIS's WWW site http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/ under "Editorial Letters & Selected Articles.") The second article, "Social Dynamics of an On-Line Scholarly Debate," by Philippe Hert illustrates some of Wynn and Katz's arguments. Hert examines a vociferous debate that was held on a science-studies LISTSERV (sci-tech-society) in the Fall of 1994. The debate was stimulated, in part, by an article that was published in the September 9, 1994 issue of Science -- an extremely influential scientific magazine. The participants included Paul Gross, who has been nationally visible for his talks and writings that critique social studies of science, as well as prominent scholars who conduct such research, including Steve Fuller and Sharon Traweek. Steve Fuller organized a conference at Durham University in December 1994 to resolve the debates. Both the conference and the on-line debates were reported in The (London) Times Higher Education Supplement and some science studies newsletters. These debates have real stakes in the academic world and beyond; and the participants were not interested in constructing novel on-line identities. Hert's main analytical interests differ from those of Wynn and Katz. He carefully examines the social dynamics of the debates, and participants' interactional strategies and tactics to gain relative advantage. In particular, some participants managed their interactions to create a sense of authority and take on leadership roles while others positioned themselves as notable critics. Hert's analysis of the staging of the on-line debates and the participants multiply layered rhetorics defies a simple summary, and is an important article for TIS readers who are interested in the social dynamics of on-line social interactions. Debora Halbert's article, "Discourses of Danger and the Computer Hacker" examines how narratives of hackers are developed by various groups to support specific notions of private property and government secrecy. Halbert traces the shifting narratives of hackers' identities -- from those where hackers seen as harmless young adventurous computer nerds through those in which hackers are seen as terrorists and thieves. She links the timing of narrative transitions to larger social events -- the popularization of the World Wide Web and the commercialization of the Internet. In short, hackers don't simply construct their identities through interaction on-line; their identities are also constructed for them and for us by the staff of policing agencies and commercial firms as a way of advancing their own institutional interests. In "Cyberself: The Emergence of Self in On-line Chat," Dennis Waskul and Mark Douglass examine the construction of personal identity in those on-line spaces that are voluntaristic and playful. Wynn and Katz are keenly aware that many kinds of professionals work together on-line, and are concerned that the playful identity behavior of on-line chat is being wildly overgeneralized by many post-modern analysts. Waskul and Douglass carefully focus upon these spaces, which are often used for recreational and pseudononymous chats. They ask how people who rely upon handles like SKYHOOK and OSusanna develop identities when the social cues are minimal. Like Wynn and Katz, they anchor their analysis in processes that have been identified by sociologists of face interaction -- Erving Goffman and Georg Simmel. They do argue that on-line chat is unique in the way that it challenges the significance of time, space, and physical location in shaping social relationships. And, they carefully report the ways that on-line chat spaces can support people's abilities to create multiple and fluid identities. But they see much in common between these processes of identity formationn and those that Georg Simmel identified as taking place among "strangers" in cities at the turn of the century. The final article shifts from the processes and politics of identity formation and focuses on public policies about telecommunications and industrial development in India. In 'The Socioeconomic Implications of Telecommunications Liberalization," Ben Petrazzini and Girija Krishnaswamy examine the way that India's telecommunications policy approaches are an unusual mix of central regulation and privitization. They place India's telecommunications policies in the context of the privitization approaches that are common in Latin America and the strong regulatory approaches that are common elsewhere in Asia. They examine several important repercussions of this more complex strategy, such as the costs of services, network growth, the risk of private investments, universal service, and employment. Petrazzini and Krishnaswamy illustrate how different countries can organize the development, access to, and pricing of telecommunications in very different, but viable, ways. This issue concludes with David Garson's review of the scholarly anthology, Information Systems in the Political World edited by Kim Viborg Anderson. I welcome a new member to TIS's editorial board: Professor Nancy Baym of Wayne State University. This journal's vitality owes much to the high quality reviewing of the editorial board. In particular, Associate Editors Phil Agre, Gary Marx, and Rick Weingarten played pivotal roles in working with the authors of the articles about identity formation to make this issue possible. I have delayed circulating the introductory letter and Table of Contents of this issue, although it has been out for for some time. TIS has been undergoing some significant changes in production. Starting with issue 14(1), TIS will be printed in an 8.5"X11" format, and with a new layout and cover page. The production changeover, coupled with a consolidation of Taylor and Francis's offices in Philadelphia has led to some prodiction delays (some anticipated and others unanticipated). We anticipate that issue 14(1) will be out within weeks and that we will soo catch up with our normal publication schedule. I'm also attaching a copy the Table of Contents of TIS 14(1). Please check our web site (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS) for a current list of editorial as well as news on forthcoming issues, calls for papers, and abstracts of articles from previous issues. ================ TABLE of CONTENTS: The Information Society 13(4) Contents Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Rob Kling Articles Wynn, Eleanor & Jim Katz - Hyperbole over Cyberspace Hert, Phillippe "The Dynamics of On-Line Interaction in a Scholarly Debate" Halbert, Debora -- Discourses of Danger and the Computer Hacker Waskul Dennis & Mark Douglass - "Cyberself: The Emergence of Self in On-line Chat Petrazzini, Ben and Girija Krishnaswamy 'The Socioeconomic Implications of Telecommunications Liberalization: India in the International Context' Book Review Kim Viborg Anderson. "Information Systems in the Political World." Reviewed by David Garson ----------------- TABLE of CONTENTS: The Information Society 14(1) (to appear) Contents Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Rob Kling Articles Petrazzini, Ben A., and Krishnaswamy, Girija. "Socioeconomic Implications of Telecommunication Liberalization: India in the International Context." Tang, Puay. "How Electronic Publishers are Protecting agains Privacy: Doubts about Technical Systems of Protection." Shade, Leslie Regan. "A Gendered Perspective on Access to the Information Infrastructure." Zelwietro, Joseph P. 1997. "The Politicization of Environmental Organizations through the Internet." Forum: Mosco, Vincent. 1997. "Myth-ing Links: Power and Community on the Information Highway." Book Reviews Reviewed by Peter Asaro: Technology and the Politics of Knowledge, by A. Feenberg and A. Hannay (Eds.). Reviewed by Michael Heim: Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory, by A. Feenberg. ---- Rob Kling http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~kling The Information Society (journal) http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS Center for Social Informatics http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI Indiana University 10th & Jordan, Room 005C Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 812-855-9763 // Fax: 855-6166 Read & contribute to the .... Social Informatics Home Page --> http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI a resource about research, teaching, conferences & journals ********************************************************************************** **** ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIANSHIP - SPRING 1998 Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:52:26 -0500 Sender: GEONET-L Geoscience Librarians & Information Specialists From: Lois Heiser Subject: Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:08:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrea Duda To: GEONET-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship The Spring 1998 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now available at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/ The theme of this issue is Using the World Wide Web in Science and Technology Libraries. The articles in this issue are: Taking Local Resources Global: The NCSTRL Experience at UC Berkeley Library by Ann Jensen, University of California, Berkeley Selection Criteria for Web-Based Resources in a Science and Technology Library Collection by Robert B. McGeachin, Texas A&M University Delivering the Goods: Web OPACs and the Expanding Role of the Cataloger by Norm Medeiros, NYU School of Medicine Academic Library WebTeam Management: The Role of Leadership & Authority by Bill Johnson, Texas Tech University Library Precision Among Internet Search Engines: An Earth Sciences Case Study by Lisa Wishard, Pennsylvania State University The National Research Library Alliance: A Federal Consortium Formed to Provide Inter-Agency Access to Scientific Information by Laurie E. Stackpole and Roderick D. Atkinson, Naval Research Laboratory Regular features include Science and Technology Sources on the Internet and Book Reviews. With this issue we also start a new column, "Then and Now," by Daryl Youngman of Kansas State University. This series aims to examine the origins and development of various tools and practices as used in science and technology libraries. =========================================================== Andrea L. Duda Networked Information Access Coordinator Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: duda@library.ucsb.edu InfoSurf: http://www.library.ucsb.edu =========================================================== ********************************************************************************** **** JASIS Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:42:09 -0400 Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Richard Hill Subject: Table of Contents, JASIS 49, 6 Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 49 NUMBER 6 MAY 1, 1998 [Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS, both as presented here and full text.] CONTENTS In This Issue [The text of "In This Issue" is inserted below each article reviewed Bert R. Boyce 485 RESEARCH Professional Summarizing: No Cognitive Simulation without Observation Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer and Elisabeth Neugebauer 486 Endres-Neggemeyer and Neugebauer empirically observe and isolate the work steps of the document representation process to create a model of the summarization mechanism. A toolbox of strategies used in summarizing processes is identified, and used to create a conceptual model which is projected onto a blackboard design. Scholarly Communication and Electronic Journals: An Impact Study Stephen P. Harter 507 Using a database of peer-reviewed electronic journals drawn from two directories, Harter did cited work searches for 39 ejournals on the three ISI citation databases. Using DIALOG to create a reasonable collection of the various forms of the ejournal titles to be found, considerable effort was devoted to a manual cleanup of the results. Eleven were published in both print and electronic formats, and citations make no distinction as to which format was utilized. Fifteen ejournals were not cited and 13 were cited between one and five times. Eight were cited ten or more times; three from the sciences and five from the social sciences. Thus overall impact must be considered low. The top ejournal had 1500 citations in 1994 alone, but it is available in both formats. The top pure ejournal has 190 citations, and PACS Review, some of whose volumes were published in book form had 111 citations. These top three, when compared to other journals in their disciplinary area, ranked high in impact factor, but poorly in total number of articles published. A Comparison of Group and Individual Performance among Subject Experts and Untrained Workers at the Document Retrieval Task W. John Wilbur 517 Using a cosine vector approach, the 50 closest documents to 100 query documents chosen randomly by Wilber were isolated. Judges compared each set of 50 to the query document assigning relevance on a scale. Using seven subject expert judges, six were considered a panel and the seventh the target user, with target user rotated to increase the data points. A panel of six learned, but other than subject expert judges, was also used. Groups were more effective than individuals at predicting the judgments of an unknown user, and other than subject expert groups performed nearly as well as expert groups. Because some documents are rated high by most judges and others are rated high by few or only individual judges, only by pooling can documents of wide appeal be identified. This infers the need for emulation of group rather than individual judgements in retrieval processes. Citation Context versus the Frequency Counts of Citation Histories Sinisa Maricic, Jagoda Spaventi, Leo Pavicic, and Greta Pifat-Mrzljak 530 Maricic et al., selected 219 cited papers and their citing paper. The physical section of the citing paper where the cited paper occurred was noted and a point value assigned. The citation's meaningful (high) or cursory (low) nature was also judged and using these two values a combined ordinal scale was created. A factor analysis seems to indicate separability by location. One factor is dominated by the introduction, one by the results section and the third by an inverse relationship between methodology and conclusion sections. The time delay of citation has little effect on this analysis. Cursory citations are found only in the introduction and meaningful citations are in all sections. The numerical analysis and the context analysis provide varying results and caution against evaluation on raw citation counts. User Satisfaction with Information Seeking on the Internet Harry Bruce 541 Measures of satisfaction lack clear definition and tend to be multi-variate constructs based on a combination of the results of rating scales on several variables providing only ordinal measures. Satisfaction for Bruce is measured using cross modality matching to achieve an interval scale. Two hundred e-mail addresses were invited to take part and 37 academics agreed. After being interviewed concerning past information seeking experiences on the Internet, satisfaction estimates were solicited and received in terms of numerical magnitude estimates, a one to six category rating, and in terms of grip force exerted. The measures for satisfaction have correlations similar to those for estimates of line length by the same subjects, and the ratios for line estimation and satisfaction are virtually identical. Subjects regard themselves as infrequent users, are self taught and have a high expectation of success in Internet searching. No relationship was found between Internet training and satisfaction, or between satisfaction and frequency of use. Testing the Maximum Entropy Principle for Information Retrieval Paul B. Kantor and Jung Jin Lee 557 Kantor and Jung Jin Lee test the Maximum Entropy Principle for retrieval using the TREC5 database and a binary classification based on the presence or absence of terms in text. MEP performs best with small data sets and progressively worsens as database size increases. Whereas it's use is certainly computationally tractable, it seems unlikely that the principle accurately reflects the distribution of terms across relevant and non-relevant texts or that it will lead to enhanced retrieval. BOOK REVIEWS The Internet Searcher's Handbook: Locating Information, People, and Software, edited by Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, and Joseph Janes Valerie Jaffe 567 Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, edited by Bluma C. Peritz and Leo Egghe Judit Bar-Ilan 568 Information Science: Still an Emerging Discipline, edited by James G. Williams and Toni Carbo Charles H. Davis 569 Internet Economics, edited by Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey Christinger Tomer 569 Modern Information Systems for Managers, by Hossein Bidgoli Yonathan Mizrachi 571 Information Seeking in Context, edited by Pertti Vakkari, Reijo Savolainen, and Brenda Dervin Terrence A. Brooks 573 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, by Edward R. Tufte Robert J. Skovira 574 Information Services for Secondary Schools, by Dana McDougald and Melvin Bowie Carol A. Doll 575 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 577 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JASIS VOLUME 49, NO 7, MAY 15 1999 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:38:37 -0400 Reply-To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: Richard Hill Subject: Table of Contents, JASIS 49, 7 Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 49 NUMBER 7 MAY 15 1998 [Note: below are URLs for viewing past contents of JASIS, both as presented here and full text.] CONTENTS Special Topic Issue: Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Emerging Information Systems Applications Guest Editor: Hsinchun Chen Introduction Hsinchun Chen 579 Internet Browsing and Searching: User Evaluations of Category Map and Concept Space Techniques Hsinchun Chen, Andrea L. Houston, Robin R. Sewell, and Bruce R. Schatz 582 A Smart Itsy Bitsy Spider for the Web Hsinchun Chen, Yi-Ming Chung, Marshall Ramsey, and Christopher C. Yang 604 Speech Recognition for a Digital Video Library Michael J. Witbrock and Alexander G. Hauptmann 619 A Texture Thesaurus for Browsing Large Aerial Photographs Wei-Ying Ma and B.S. Manjunath 633 Architecture, Design and Development of an HTML/JavaScript Web-Based Group Support System Nicholas C. Romano, Jr., Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., Robert O. Briggs, and Douglas R. Vogel 649 Book Reviews Costing and Pricing in the Digital Age: A Practical Guide for Information Services, by Herbert Snyder and Elisabeth Davenport Bruce R. Kingma 668 Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation, by Gerald Kowalski M. Carl Drott 668 >From Print to Electronic: The Transformation of Scientific Communication, by Susan Y. Crawford, Julie M. Hurd, and Ann C. Weller Marianne Affifi 670 Knowledge, Concepts, and Categories, edited by Koen Lamberts and David Shanks Terrence A. Brooks 671 Authoritative Guide to Web Search Engines, by Susan Maze, David Moxley, and Donna J. Smith Candy Schwartz 672 ------------------------------------------------------- The full text from 1996 (Volume 47) forward is available at this time at the "interscience" site.. Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 http://www.asis.org rhill@asis.org ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JASIS volume 49, no 12, OCTOBER 1998 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:14:40 -0400 Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science" From: Richard Hill Subject: JASIS TOC, Volume 49, #12 [Note: below are URLs for viewing past contents of JASIS, both as presented here and full text.] Journal of the American Society for Information Science VOLUME 49 NUMBER 12 OCTOBER 1998 Special Topic Issue: Social Informatics in Information Science Guest Editors: Rob Kling, Howard Rosenbaum, and Carol Hert CONTENTS Social Informatics in Information Science: An Introduction Rob Kling, Howard Rosenbaum, and Carol Hert 1047 Information Technology, Employment, and the Information Sector: Trends in Information Employment 1970-1995 Stana B. Martin 1053 Collaborative Information Retrieval: Toward a Social Informatics View of IR Interaction Murat Karamuftuoglu 1070 IT and Changing Professional Identity: Micro-Studies and Macro-Theory Geoff Walsham 1081 Collaboration and Conflict in the Development of a Computerized Dispatch Facility Andrew Clement and Chris Halonen 1090 Work, Friendship, and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman 1101 The Impact of Gender, Occupation, and Presence of Children on Telecommuting Motivations and Constraints Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Michael N. Bagley, and Ilan Salomon 1115 Contexts of Uninhibited Online Behavior: Flaming in Social Newsgroups on Usenet Joseph M. Kayany 1135 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo JASIS volume 49, no 13, NOVEMBER 1998 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:24:05 -0400 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: Richard Hill Subject: JASIS Table of Contents, V. 49, #13 Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) VOLUME 49, NUMBER 13 November, 1998 [Note: below are URLs for viewing past contents of JASIS (from 1986 to present), both as presented here and full text. Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" column has been inserted in this table of contents.] CONTENTS In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 1143 RESEARCH Topological Aspects of Information Retrieval Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau 1144 We begin with two articles suggesting the possible separation of documen t and query vector space. Viewing information retrieval as a topology on a document space determined by a similarity function between queries and documents gives what Egghe and Rousseau call a retrieval topology. Such topologies might use a pseudo metric which measures the distance between documents independent of the query space, or might make all similarity functions between documents and queries continuous, called here the similarity topology. The topological model allows the introduction of Boolean operators. The inner product is suggested as producing a more powerful model than the cosine measure. On the Necessity of Term Dependence in a Query Space for Weighted Retrieval Peter Bollmann-Sdorra and Vijay V. Raghavan 1161 Bollmann-Sdorra and Raghavan show that if query term weights are to be useful in retrieval, term independence is an undesirable property in a query space. Independence remains desirable in document space. It would appear that the assumptions that documents and queries are elements of the same space, and that term independence is required, are not warranted. Optimizing a Library's Loan Policy: An Integer Programming Approach Hesham K. Al-Fares 1169 Al-Fares presents a new loan policy model which incorporates a decision variable for maximum books to be borrowed, along with the traditional loan period, and adds user satisfaction with policies to the usual book availability satisfaction indicator. Each indicator is defined as the ratio of satisfied demand to total demand. Number of renewals, duplications, demand, and reservations are considered to have a very small effect. On the Fusion of Documents from Multiple Collection Information Retrieval Systems Ronald R. Yager and Alexander Rybalov 1177 Yager and Rybalov assume m retrieval systems without file overlap each providing a ranked list of texts based upon their varying ranking criteria, and in response to a common query, and define fusion as the construction of a single ordered list of the n most relevant texts over all m system responses. This requires determining the potential of each system to provide relevant answers to the query. A previous fusion method which is empirically effective but where different runs will result in different orderings, uses a random selection method biased toward the length of the contributing list. Alternatively one might use the longest remaining list for each choice or take equally from each collection until the shortest is exhausted, and then continue until the next shortest is exhausted, and on, until all are exhausted. A centralized fusion scheme computes a value based upon the number of documents in a list and the number already removed. The value is re-computed for each collection after each removal of the top element in the collection with the highest value. Another possibility is a proportional approach, where the list value is its remaining number of elements less one divided by the original number, and a value can be assigned to each individual document which is the number of elements in the list less its position in the list, divided by the number of elements in the list. Indexing and Access for Digital Libraries and the Internet: Human, Database, and Domain Factors Marcia J. Bates 1185 Bates provides a review of what we know and do not know about indexing and access that will apply to large digital document files. Particularly she emphasizes that statistical regularities exist in the subject representation of files and should influence design, that subject domain should affect system design, and that what we know of human linguistic and searching behavior must be taken into account for an optimal information retrieval system. Software Engineering as Seen through Its Research Literature: A Study in Co-Word Analysis Neal Coulter, Ira Monarch, and Suresh Konda 1206 The indexing for 16,691 documents from 1982 to 1994 which were assigned at least one term from the software engineering category was collected by Coulter, Monarch, and Konda and a co-occurrence study carried out to determine the interaction of software engineering areas of study over time. The association measure was the square of the co-occurrences of two terms over the product of their occurrences. The threshold value was varied with the size of the data sets, but the number of links and nodes was fixed at twenty-four and twenty. For the period 1982 - 1986 15 networks were generated; for 1987 - 1990 16; and for 1991 - 1994 11. The networks exhibit considerable change over time although some consistent themes, like software development and user interfaces, persist. Information Aspects of New Organizational Designs: Exploring the Non-Traditional Organization Bob Travica 1224 To address the role of information technology in non-traditional organizations Travica treats IT as level of use of several specific technologies, and non-traditional structure as the level of organization structure, plus other selected variables. Data came from surveys of a random stratified sample of employees at twelve local accounting offices and an interview with the local manager. Information technology correlates with non-traditional structure. Information technology correlates negatively with formalization and centralization, and positively with cross boundary communication. Spatial dispersion is negatively associated with trust sharing. ------------------------------------------------------- The ASIS home page contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date. The full text of JASIS from 1986 (Volume 37) forward is available at . One must register but there is no charge. This site includes the full text of JASIS and other Wiley journals. 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American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 495-0900 FAX (301) 495-0810 http://www.asis.org ********************************************************************************** **** JOURNAL FOR GLOBAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Call for papers Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:33:07 -0400 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: Pattee Fletcher Subject: CALL for PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the JOURNAL for Global Information Management LIBRARIES AND THE INTERNET: AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA. Patricia Diamond Fletcher, ed. We are soliciting research papers for a special issue of the Journal for Global Information Management. The goal of this special issue is to provide an international picture of the issues to and the responses by libraries to providing services and information on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Public, academic, school, business, and other special libraries will be the subject of the discourse. Current research on effectiveness of library networks and on the potential directions for libraries in a networked environment will be presented to share library best practices, policy, and services. Cross-cultural library issues are solicited. Topics can include: v Development of Internet services in libraries v Special populations for Internet services v Budgeting, accounting, and funding Internet services v Policy issues v Training and staffing issues v Global libraries v Collection development and dissemination v Providing for the information "have-nots" v International copyright v Transborder data flow Important Deadlines: January 10, 1999 -- submissions from authors due to editor***** March 31 -- papers due back to editor from reviewers April 15 -- papers returned to authors for final editing June 1 -- papers due to publisher for Fall issue inclusion Guidelines for submission can be found at the JGIM website: http://www.idea-group.com/jgim.htm Direct all inquiries and submissions to: Patricia Diamond Fletcher, Ph.D. Department of Information Systems 1000 Hilltop Circle The University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD, USA 21250 410-455-3154 410-455-1073 (fax) *****SEE ALSO ***** the "Call for Chapters" for World Libraries on the Information Superhighway (Idea Group Publishing). Papers submitted for the above special issue of JGIM may also be considered - if received in time - for inclusion in the book. CHEERS! ************************************************************* Patricia Diamond Fletcher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems Director, IFSM Graduate Program Faculty Associate, MD Institute for Policy Analysis & Research The University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410-455-3154 410-455-1073 FAX URL: http://research.umbc.edu/~fletcher ********************************************************************************** **** JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - call for papers Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:57:03 -0400 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: Gretchen Whitney Subject: CFP: Jo. of Systems and Info Tech From: Craig Standing Subject: Call for Papers JoSIT Call For Papers The Journal of Systems and Information Technology The Journal provides an avenue for scholarly work that takes a systemic or holistic perspective in relation to areas such as information systems development, information technology and information systems management. The Journal of Systems and Information Technology fosters primarily, although not exclusively, interpretive or qualitative research methods including ethnographic, genealogical, action research and case studies of various kinds. Research that uses quantitative methods, for example statistical surveys, will be suitable if they take a broad perspective of the problems and issues. This means very often that the social and political aspects will be considered as well as the technical. Target topics that will be relevant to JoSIT include but are not limited to: o IS/IT planning that takes a systemic approach o Innovative Soft Systems approaches used in information systems developme nt o The integration of software and/or hardware technologies that provide holistic solutions to problems. For example, the integration of various aspects of software engineering paradigms. o Human Computer Interaction (HCI) problems tackled in an systemic or integrated way. o Research papers that promote the development of interpretive or qualitative research methodologies in relation to Information Systems through case studies. o Systems approaches in the management of information systems. o Holistic approaches in the development of technology policy and technolo gy transfer. o Integrative methods of systems design. o Systems perspectives in IS/IT evaluation. o The use of metaphors as an integrative theme for aspects of IT/IS. o The influence of politics and culture on systems development and the use of information technology. Book Reviews JoSIT will include book reviews and information concerning conferences in the holistic information systems field. Publication and Manuscript Guidelines Researchers as well as Information Systems Professionals are invited to submit papers for the Journal. All papers will undergo a blind refereeing process by at least three referees. Papers can be sent in hard or soft copy. Soft copies should be in Microsoft Word for MAC or PC format. The Journal will be published twice a year in March and September. Further details are available upon request. All submissions must be original works which have not appeared elsewhere and which are not being considered for publication with another journal. As the reviewing process will be conducted anonymously, please leave your name(s) off the manuscript. People are encouraged to send their papers either in by email or hard copy form to: Dr. Craig Standing, Editor-in-Chief, JoSIT email: c.standing@cowan.edu.au Fax: 61 8 9400 5633 Tel: 61 8 9400 5545 School of Management Information Systems Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia 6027 Editorial Board Chief Editor: Dr. Craig Standing Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Members of the Editorial Board Rakesh Agrawal University of Western Sydney, Australia Robert Flood University of Hull, UK James Alleman University of Colorado, USA Duncan Langford University of Kent, UK Teodosio Perez Amaral Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Chantal Morley Institute National des Telecommunications, Evry, France Richard Baskerville Binghamton University, N.Y., USA Michael Myers University of Auckland, NZ Paul Beynon-Davies University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Dewald Roode University of Pretoria, S.A. Subhash Bhatnagar Indian Institute of Management Ross Smith Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Bill Doolin University of Waikato, NZ Hazel Suchard Australian Catholic University Keith Ellis University of Humberside, UK Ned Kock Temple University, USA ***************************************** Dr Craig Standing School of Management Information Systems Edith Cowan University Joondalup Western Australia 6027 Te: 61 8 94005545 Fax: 61 8 94005633 Email: c.standing@cowan.edu.au ********************************************************************************** **** LIBRARY AND ARCHIVAL SECURITY - Call for papers Current issue: volume 14, no 2 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:40:11 -0400 Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: "ad6509@wayne.edu" Subject: Call for papers - Library and Archival Security Volume 14 no. 2 of Library and Archival Security has been issued, and should be reaching libraries within the next few days. The current issue contains articles on state of the art theft detection systems, on disaster planning in an urban public library and a university archives, and on late-night hours in an academic library. L&AS is a peer-reviewed journal dealing with all aspects of physical and data security as they apply to libraries and archives, and accepts articles both from researchers and practitioners. Articles are currently being sought for upcoming issues. Researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners, are especially encouraged to submit book and software/hardware reviews. Submissions on the following topics would be especially welcome: - opinionated editorials and responses to previously published articles, - substantive research papers, especially ones dealing with security practices, digital collections, ethical issues, the security aspects of wide-area networking, disaster planning, conservation initiatives, and assessments of electronic threats to libraries, theft and problem behavior, disaster recovery, - case studies and sample disaster management plans, - research reports and summaries of current trends, - accounts of related conferences, - book and software/hardware reviews. L&AS encourages articles originating in the developing nations, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and the nations of the Pacific Rim. Submissions should be addressed to the Editor at the location given below. --- Chris Brown-Syed Editor, Library & Archival Security. LIS Program, 106 Kresge Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 48202. Ph: +1 313 577-0503. Fax: +1 313 577-7563. ********************************************************************************** **** NEDLIB News sheet issue no 1, July 1998 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:08:59 +0200 Sender: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list From: Titia van der Werf Subject: First issue of the NEDLIB News Sheet released To: IFLA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA ANNOUNCEMENT ------------ NEDLIB News Sheet, issue n.1, July 1998 has been released. In this issue you are updated on NEDLIB project results and you will find special contributions on related topics: * Lex Sijtsma: "Impressions from the DELOS6 workshop" * Titia van der Werf: "Some thoughts after the DOI workshop" and a SPECIAL COVERAGE of the the Multimedia Management System (MMB-system) developed by CSC PLOENZKE for Die Deutsche Bibliothek in Germany. The NEDLIB project News Sheets are issued twice a year. They are made available through the NEDLIB web-site at: They are announced via several discussion-lists. NEDLIB is a project promoted by the CoBRA+ group and supported by the Telematics for Libraries Programme of the European Commission. The project consortium includes nine European national libraries, a National Archive and three main publishers. The objective of NEDLIB is to ensure that digital publications of the present can be used now and in the future. The project started in January 1998. The project will define an architecture for capturing, preserving and accessing digital publications. It will develop tools and define standards and procedures required to implement this architecture in a deposit system of digital publications. NEDLIB will take account of the requirement of long term storage and retrieval as well as the terms and conditions applying to the access of those publications. As a result, the project will define the technical environment and develop test implementations. *** (This message has been cross-posted to several international library-related lists. Apologies if you receive this message more than once.) *** Titia NEDLIB contact point ------------------------------------ Titia van der Werf Library research Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands The Hague The NETHERLANDS e-mail: titia@is.konbib.nl tel : +31 70-3140467 http://www.konbib.nl/persons/titia/ ------------------------------------ ********************************************************************************** *** SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY - VERSION 17 Version 17 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. 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Each file is over 190 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY - VERSION 20 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:55:04 -0400 Sender: International Federation of Library Associations mailing list From: Terry Kuny Subject: [DOC] Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (version 20) now available Version 20 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 800 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY - VERSION 21 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:19:43 CDT Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 21, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 21 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 800 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. 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