Hathi Trust

Hi class,

Check out this organization:

http://www.hathitrust.org/


See you soon!
Rong

Some new tools ...

Here are some of the new tools mentioned in a recent post to LITA listserv:


1. A new browser, RockMelt:

http://www.rockmelt.com/

2. Google Refine 2.0:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-google-refine-20-power-tool.html

3. A directory of open source and free software

http://ht.ly/382Al



Best,
Rong

Thanks but not thanks Emerald

Hi class,

You may be interested in checking out the following blog:

http://kreschen.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/thanks-but-no-thanks-emerald/

Best,
Rong

The Harvard Library Laboratory: Shelflife

Hi class,

You may be interested in checking the projects done by the Harvard Library Laboratory (http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/) and one of their products -- shelflife:

http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/
http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/shelflife/

See you in class soon!
Rong

Ex Libris bX -- recommender services

Hi class,

I don't know how many of you have heard about Ex Libris bX, but here is where you can see it in action:

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

And here is bX used in Yonsei University in Korea:

http://library.yonsei.ac.kr/main/main.do?sLang=en

I will talk to you more about this in class on Friday,
Rong

New Library Technology Report: Rethinking Linking

Hi class,

The new Library Technology Report is out. And the information about it is available via the following link --

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3156

And Simmons library owns the e-version of the report. Now the question for you is: how do you find the report??

See you in class tomorrow,
Rong

ebrary's new patron driven acquisition model

Hi class,

Read the news about ebrary's PDA model here:

http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_PDA_launch.pdf

Best,
Rong

JSTOR Current Scholarship Program 2011 title list

Hi class,

Since we will have a JSTOR speaker this week, here is the link to their current scholarship program 2011 title list

http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/current-scholarship-program/2011-title-list

And here is the link to their current collections title list:

http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/current-scholarship-program/current-collections


See you on Friday!

Rong

Journal Cuts Threaten Research

Hi class,

Please read the following article about library journal cuts:

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/57728/

Rong

Rethinking Library Linking

Hi class,

You may be interested in checking out this article that appeared on American Libraries with the title -- "Rethinking Library Linking: Making OpenURL Better with Data, Data, and More Data"

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/print/4942

See you on Friday,
Rong

techmeme

Hi,

Also check out the following page for tech updates:

http://techmeme.com/

Rong

Blogs that help you to keep up with the technology

Hi class,

Here is a list of blogs posted by Todd Vandenbark as helpful to keep up with technology:

• A List Apart (web design)
• American Libraries Technology in Practice (from ALA)
• iLibrarian
• iMedical Apps
• Information Wants to be Free
• Slashdot (general technology news)
• ITALica (from LITA)
• Krafty Librarian
• Librarian in Black
• Mobile Libraries
• Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies
• Accessibility Watch
• WebAIM

Best,
Rong

Google Interview with Stephen Colbert

Hi class,

You may be interested to view this interview between Google's CEO Eric Schmidt and Stephen Colbert.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/googles-eric-schmidt-faces-off-with-stephen-colbert/

See you tomorrow,
Rong

Web-scale Discovery Tools

Hi class,

Here is an article about Serials Solution's Summon and EBSCO's Discovery Service.

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/09152010/summon-summons-100th-customer

See you tomorrow in class!

Rong

Charleston Conference

The Charleston Conference 2010 will be held November 3-6, 2010.

The conference url is:

http://www.katina.info/conference/program.php

Best,
Rong

ProQuest Dialog Product

Hi class,

There is a new interface of dialog called ProQuest Dialog that will be released in the near future. The new product is supposed to support both end-user search and information professional search. So the command language will be kept and executed through its "power search" option.


Here is some information about the product --

http://www.dialog.com/feature/


See you in class tomorrow!

Rong

Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference 2011 Call for Proposal

Hi class,

You may be interested in learning more about ER&L 2011 call for proposals here:

http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/presenters/call-for-proposals


See you on Friday!

Rong

Researchers use of academic libraries and their services

Hi class,

I look forward to seeing you soon!

There is a report by British Research Information Network on how scholars use library services, including electronic resources. Check out a description and links to the parts of the report here.

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/researchers-use-academic-libraries-and-their-serv

See you in class!

Rong

Welcome and two new sources on e-resources

Dear all,

I look forward to meeting you all on Friday!

I just want you to know that the new issue of Library Technology Reports (vol. 46, no. 6) on electronic resources use measurement by Rachel Fleming-May and Jill Grogg. You can find some basic information here: http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/r3647682764p


Also, ARL (Association of Research Libraries) has a long series of SPEC kits related to electronic resource management or library technology. Here is the link to the complete ARL SPEC kits:

http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/spec/complete.shtml

Looking forward to our first class meeting!

Rong

Research proves value of online access

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/opportunity-for-all-library-compuer-use-study-100325.aspx

Faculty Survey Tracks Changing Perceptions of Libraries

http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/faculty-surveys-2000-2009/Faculty%20Study%202009.pdf

ALA State of Libraries 2010

http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/mediapresscenter/americaslibraries/ALA_Report_2010-ATI001.pdf

Youtube Copyright Law

Send by Dan Borden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Federated Searching Speed

http://federatedsearchblog.com/2010/04/05/federated-search-closing-in-on-the-speed-gap/

Discussion about EBSCO

Hi class,

You might be interested in reading the following post --Has EBSCO become the new evil empire?

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2010/04/02/has-ebsco-become-the-new-evil-empire/

You may also want to check out this article published 10 years ago --
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/bell/07bell.html


See you soon!
Rong

Check out this report about the researchers' views on library services and resources

http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/libraries-report-2007.pdf

Top 50 Best Websites 2009 by Time Magazine

Hi class,

Check out these sites when you have time. They are very neat!

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1918031,00.html

Rong

Google again -- Article on Google's algorithm improvement and development process

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1

How do you "integrate" updating multiple sources of data on electronic resources?

Hi class,

There is a very interesting discussion going on currently at the LITA listserv on electronic resources management system integration. Below is the excerpts of some of the dialogues:

---------
On Feb 24, 2010, at 6:50 PM, "Hoyte, Daniel" wrote:
Unless one of our colleagues is holding out on us and has written an awesome piece of middleware to handle these tasks, we are stuck with multiple entries. The problem is that access to e-resources seems to require three sets of data that no one has figured out how to bring together in a ways that makes management simple.

ERM – great for keeping top level data and license information.
ILS – great for keeping the financial data.
Link resolver – great for providing access and access data. (Assuming the resource vendor puts out good metadata in the title lists.)
Proxy – great for authentication.

I can almost picture running all of these functions from a single application. The issue is that even if all of the functions are housed in a single app, either the data entry forms would become a nightmare of navigation attempting to evade duplicating data entry or some level of data duplication would have to be tolerated.

If e-resource data was standardized this could be the kind of a project that an automation vendor might take up or this could be an opportunity for the open source library community. I know that, at one point, there were long-range plans for one ERM/link resolver to be able to exchange data with a III box. I suspect that those plans may be on hold for a while.

BTW, even though our current setup is good, we still have triple entry.
III for the financials
Ezproxy for authentication
CUFTS/GODOT for ERM / A to Z / link resolving


Daniel Hoyte, M.R.S.
Senior Library Systems Technician
Chapman University Leatherby Libraries
(714) 532-7745
hoyte@chapman.edu
AIM/Yahoo IM: chaphoyte
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion,

From: Landesman, Betty (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] [mailto:landesb@ors.od.nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:30 PM
To: 'lita-l@ala1.ala.org'
Subject: [lita-l] How do you "integrate" updating multiple sources of data on electronic resources?

As is the case with many of you, maintenance of our electronic resources requires updating multiple knowledge stores/databases/what have you. We are currently maintaining data in our ILS (Innovative, includes ERM module), a homegrown SQL database that powers our A-Z lists, an open URL link resolver (SFX), and EZProxy. With one exception everything has to be updated separately, they don’t talk to each other. The exception is our ability to enter EZProxy information in the SQL database and run a script that uses it to update EZProxy.

We still have to enter data at least 3 times when we get a new journal. We have 10,000 electronic journals and, for all intents and purposes, no print. And no aggregators. So you can see this is a real problem!

If any of you have found ways to get data to and/or from your ILS, open URL link resolver, A-Z list, and/or proxy server (one-stop shopping is the ultimate, but if you have implemented ways to update only twice instead of 4 times I’ll take it!), can you please contact me so that I can follow up with you on the details? We’re doing an environmental scan to find out what others have done so that we can decide on what to do and get out from under the staff-intensive way we’re working now.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Betty Landesman, M.A., M.L.S., M.S.
Digital Resources and Metadata Coordinator
National Institutes of Health Library
Building 10, Room 1L05
10 Center Drive, MSC1150
Bethesda, MD 20892-1150
Phone: 301-496-3527
Fax: 301-496-0254
E-mail: landesb@mail.nih.gov
http://nihlibrary.nih.gov/
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Keyword Searching White Papers

http://whitepapers.adweek.com/search-marketing-solutions/keyword-research/

Wilson Web Retrospective and Worldcat "quick start"

Hi class,

Check out the following two items:

1. Wilson Retrospective Databases http://www.hwwilson.com/retrospectives.htm

2. OCLC Worldcat local "Quick Start": http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/quickstart/


best,
Rong

EBSCO's ERM Essentials

http://www.ebsco.com/erme/default2.html

10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Implement Next Week

http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/02092010/10-technology-ideas-your-library-can-implement-next-week

pubget for medical literature full-text

Hi class,

I hear several people mentioning pubget.com as a system to give user pdf fulltext files for medical literature.

http://pubget.com/

Check it out yourself.

Rong

20 Great Talks on the Future of Information Science/Technology

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/15/20-great-talks-on-the-future-of-information/

Innovative Academic Library Websites

Hi class,

These are the websites suggested by the members of LITA as innovative library Websites:

University of Idaho
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/index.html

Wartburg College
http://library.wartburg.edu

Buffalo University Libraries
http://library.buffalo.edu/

Syracuse University
http://library.syr.edu/

Virginia Commonwealth University
http://www.library.vcu.edu/

Rong

Dialog Roger Summit Scholarship

Hi Class,

you may want to apply Dialog’s Roger Summit Scholarship to receive $5000 award. The deadline is April 30, 2010.

Here is the announcement –

http://www.dialog.com/pressroom/2010/020210_scholarship.shtml

Here is link to the application form and the search test:

http://gep.dialog.com/scholarship/application.shtml


See you in class in the afternoon!
Rong

Library Website Design

http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Website_Design

http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/2008/10/5-library-website-designs-worth-talking-about.html

http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/2008/11/a-few-more-thoughts-on-library-websites.html

ERL Conference Currently Going On!

Hi class,

Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) conference is currently going on in Austin, TX. Check out the Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) wiki here:

http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/erlwiki/Main_Page

And check out the conference blog here:

http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/

The conference program is here:

http://electroniclibrarian.org/erlwiki/cgi_img_auth.php5/1/13/ERLprogram2010.pdf

See you tomorrow in class!

Rong

EBSCO, Gale Spar Over Exclusivity

Hi class,

You may be interested in checking out this story:

http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/01262010/ebsco-gale-spar-over-exclusivity

Best,
Rong

Welcome to Rong's Blog

Hi class,

Welcome to Rong's LIS454 Digital Information Services and Providers blog. I will be using this to post information regarding current trends and news in the database marketplace and industry.

See you in class!
Rong