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