LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research
Electronic Journal ISSN 1058-6768
1999 Volume 9 Issue 1; March.
Bi-annual LIBRE9N1 JOURNALS
Contents:
1. ASIAN LIBRARIES
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:46:57 -1000
From: Liz Bryson <bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu
To: hpc-sla@hawaii.edu
Subject: Asian Libraries
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2. CURRENT CITES, FEBRUARY 1999
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:55:24 +0000
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From: Gerry Hurley <Gerry_Hurley@SILVERPLATTER.COM>
Subject: Current Cites, February 1999
Here's the latest issue of Current Cites forwarded from our
friends at PACS-L.
:
Gerry Hurley
email: gerryh@silverplatter.com
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_Current Cites_
Volume 10, no. 2
February 1999
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
This issue guest edited by Roy Tennant
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ISSN: 1060-2356
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1999/cc99.10.2.html
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Contributors:
Terry Huwe, Margaret Phillips,
Roy Tennant, Jim Ronningen, Lisa Yesson
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Beamish, Rita. "Rescuing Scholars from Obscurity." The New York Times (February
18, 1999): D7. - How to get wider distribution of obscure dissertations? Answer: the Web
(of course). This article profiles various enterprises for distributing dissertations
including two commercial sites, Dissertation.com (http://www.dissertation.com) and UMI
(http://www.umi.com/). Also profiled is Virginia Polytechnic Institute
(http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/) which provide free access to its dissertations and is pushing
other schools to join its Networked Library of Digital Dissertations
(http://www.ndltd.org/), which they hope will become a worldwide clearinghouse of
dissertations. - MP
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Besser, Howard and Robert Yamashita, "The Cost of Digital Image
Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and
Usage of Image Data", 1998,
(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/). - "A Mellon Foundation
grant was awarded to UC Berkeley to study the costs and benefits of the networked
distribution of digital museum information for educational use. This study takes advantage
of the existing collaboration between the seven cultural repositories and seven
universities that make up the Museum Education Site License Project (MESL), and utilizes
professionals from the participating MESL institutions as well as the communications and
collaborative structures that MESL established." This is a significant study of the
issues involved in creating and delivering digital archives of primary materials in an
online environment. The study concentrates on the
MESL project, and thus to images and delivery in a campus setting primarily, but many of
the issues and findings extend well beyond that. Of particular interest is attention paid
to the end-user and demand and use of such databaases. The Executive Summary
(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/finalreport/ 0-execsummary.html)
provides a concise 9 page overview of this very detailed study. - RR
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Chapman, Stephen, Paul Conway and Anne R. Kenney "Digital Imaging and Preservation
Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books"
RLG DigiNews 3(1) (February 15, 1999)
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-1.html#feature1). - This short piece is a
useful summary of the main findings of the full report of the same name, published by the
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) at
http://www.clir.org/programs/cpa/hybridintro.html in Microsft Word and Adobe Acrobat
formats. The purpose of this report is to disseminate information on this hybrid approach
to preserving brittle books, and to stimulate further discussion and research into this
strategy. Topics covered include the characteristics of microfilm both as a source for,
and end product of, digital conversion, the choice of a digital conversion path (film
first or scan first), and proposed administrative and structural metadata for the page
images. - RT
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Dale, Robin. "Lossy or Lossless? File Compression Strategies
Discussion at ALA " RLG DigiNews 3(1) (February 15, 1999
(http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-1.html#technical1)
. - The American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia at the end of
January 1999, was the site of a discussion by six experts about the pros and cons of
"lossy" and "lossless" compression schemes. Lossless compression
schemes can reduce the size of a file without losing any of the information contained
within it; lossless schemes sacrifice some data to achieve greater file size savings. The
six experts included some of the top people in the field: Carl Fleischhauer from the
Library of Congress, Louis Sharpe, III of Picture Elements Inc., Howard Besser from UC
Berkeley, Peter Hirtle from Cornell, Joy Paulson of the University of Michigan, and
Steven Puglia from the National Archives and Records Administration. The common theme of
the remarks are that "it depends". Given one set of circumstances and goals
lossless compression is called for (for example, for the preservation of digital masters),
while lossy compression is often perfectly acceptable for other situations (for example,
for derivative versions to be delivered to the end-user over a computer network).
Recommended reading for anyone facing file format decisions for digital images. - RT
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"Digital Libraries: Technological Advances and Social Impacts"
Computer 32(2) (February 1999). - The focus of this issue of Computer is on digital
libraries, with six articles including the introductory piece (from which the special
section derives its name) by Bruce Schatz and Hsinchun Chen. Half of the articles are from
three of the six NSF-funded Digital Library Initiative projects (Cornell, Stanford, and
UIUC), with additional contributions from those working with the JSTOR (journal storage)
and New Zealand Digital Library projects. Although most of what is described in these
articles comes from the "big science" end of digital libraries, some useful
nuggets for the rest of us can be mined. In particular, the JSTOR article -- being more
focused on production than research -- is useful in terms of the technical decisions that
were made while mounting a massive archive of digital material. - RT
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"Digital Library Using Next Generation Internet" IEEE Communications Magazine
37(1) (January 1999). - This special focus on digital libraries includes six articles from
various research perspectives, mostly industry (IBM, NEC, etc.), edited by Chung-Sheng Li
and Harold S. Stone. Although a few of the articles are somewhat cutting-edge (such as the
one on software agents) and unlikely to be of practical use any time soon, others (such as
the one focusing on IBM's digital library projects and the one on searching the Web)
either relate to projects in production now or technologies that are on the near horizon.
All things considered, if you are trying to soak up anything related to digital libraries,
go for it. Otherwise, take a pass. - RT
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Gessner, Rick. "The Next-Generation Layout Engine: Netscape's Gecko" Web
Techniques 4(3) (March 1999):63-70
(http://www.webtechniques.com/features/1999/03/gessner/gessner.shtml).
- If this were a puff piece about the latest Netscape technology, you would not be reading
about it here in Current Cites. No, you're reading about it here because Gecko is
potentially much more. Gecko is being developed under the Open Source model via
Mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org/), which means
pretty much anyone can help work on it, and the benefitd accrue to everyone. A
"layout engine" is a piece (or many inter-related pieces) of software that can
take an object instance and any associated files (such as style sheets, images, etc.) and
render those objects on your screen. At the heart of every Web browser is a layout engine,
for example. In fact, differences between layout engines in different Web browsers cause
no
end of grief for Web authors striving for minute control over the look of their Web pages.
As a "next-generation" layout engine, Gecko is aiming to provide full and native
support for HTML and XML, cascading style sheets (full CSS1 and partial CSS2), and the
Resource Description Framework (RDF). Gessner (a Netscape employee) claims that when Gecko
ships, it will be "the fastest, smallest, most standards-compliant HTML layout engine
available." We'll see. But meanwhile, don't let the little reptile escape your
notice. - RT
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Greenstein, Daniel. "Publishing Scholarly Information in a Digital Millenium"
Computers and the Humanities (32) 4 (1998): 253-256. - This special issue of Computers and
the Humanities features a collection of stories based on a variety of commercial and
scholarly forays into electronic publishing. While these four case studies may not top
your reading list, Greenstein's preface does provide a good introductory synopsis on
the risks, rewards and future directions for electronic publishing. He also has a call to
action for the scholarly community: it's time to better articulate requirements (both as
consumers and producers) with regard to electronic publications. - LY
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Lossau, Norbert and Frank Klaproth, "Digitization Efforts at the Center for
Retrospective Digitization, Gttingen University Library" RLG DigiNews 3(1) (February
15, 1999) (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-1.html#feature2). -
Detailed technical descriptions of digital imaging projects are rare, which makes this
short piece more interesting than it would be if they were not. Those libraries, museums,
and archives that are setting up scanning operations are faced with an array of difficult
decisions for which there are few guidelines. For anyone in such a position, it can be
useful to discover what decisions others in similar situations have made. This piece
describes some of those decisions made by the Gttingen University Library, with links to
more complete descriptions (including, for example, a description of the metadata elements
they insert into the TIFF file header). Anyone interested in the nuts-and-bolts side of
digital libraries should take a look at this.
- RT
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Withers, Rob and Jane F. Sharpe. "Incorporating Internet resources into bibliographic
instruction." College & Research Libraries News 60 (February 1999): 75-76. - Some
practical tips on incorporating the Internet into bibliographic instruction: don't try to
cover everything; instead, identify pertinent topics such as effective searching,
evaluating resources, or resources in a particular discipline; have a back-up plan (the
age-old "technical difficulties" problem); market your skills to the faculty who
may not associate Internet training with the library. Teaching the Internet within the
contraints of the traditional instruction section is a challenge and the authors have
provided a short, practical checklist of how to do so effectively. - MP
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3. D-LIB MAGAZINE MARCH 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:35:45 -0500
Sender: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science"
<ASIS-L@asis.org>
From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Subject: The March 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available
[Forwarded for your infromation. Dick Hill]
The March 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at <http://www.dlib.org>.
The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib
Magazine at: <http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/mirrored/lis-journals/dlib/>; the Australian
National University Sunsite maintains a mirror at
<http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib>; and a new mirror site has been added at
the State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen at
<http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/dlib.html>.
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.
Stories in this issue of D-Lib Magazine include:
The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective
Eleanor E. Fink, The Getty Information Institute
The Mathematics Archives: Making Mathematics Easy to Find on the Web
Earl D. Fife, Calvin College and Lawrence Husch, University of Tennessee
- Knoxville
Collaboration as a Key to Digital Library Development: High Performance
Image Management at the University of Washington
Geri Bunker and Greg Zick, University of Washington
Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library
Framework
Kurt Maly, Old Dominion University, Michael Nelson, NASA Langley
Research Center, Mohammad Zubair, Old Dominion University
The California Digital Library
John Ober, California Digital Library
The featured collection is:
Chemist's Art Gallery
Leif Laaksonen, Center for Scientific Computing
(With images courtesy of Computers in Chemistry at Cabrillo College,
Aptos, California.)
Bonnie Wilson
Managing Editor
D-Lib Magazine
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4. INFORMATION RESEARCH
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:58:40 -0000
Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <JESSE@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
From: Tom Wilson <t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Information strategies, etc., in higher education
To: Multiple recipients of list JESSE <JESSE@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
Those with an interest in aspects of this area may be interested in a couple of papers in
the current issue of Information Research at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html
One is by David Allen and N.Fifield on attempts in the UK to apply business process
engineering - now rather fading in business but, as usual, hitting higher education just
as it is losing its appeal :-)
The other is the report of an investigation into the management information needs of
academic heads of department (Deans in US parlance) - those engaged in information
strategy activities might be interested in this.
Professor Tom Wilson
Editor, Information Research
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Tel: +44-114-222-2642
Fax: +44-114-278-0300
e-mail: t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk
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5. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREY LITERATURE
(from: GreyNet NewsBriefNews, Quarterly Newsletter, vol 8, no. 1, 1999)
Volume 1 Number 1 of this new quarterly journal will be pblished in 2000. However in
advance there wil appear in October 1999 to coincide with GL’909, the Fourth
International Conference on Grey Literature in Washington DC, USA.
Contributions to the new journal can be sent to:
IJGL Journal Editor, Julia Gelfand,
University of California
UCI Science Library 228,
PO Box 19556, Irvine,
CA 92623-9556, USA
email: jgelfand@uci.edu
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6. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:07:55 +0000
Original-Sender: ListServ@jimmy.qmced.ac.uk
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Subject: (Fwd) Invitation to Publish
From: n.fleming@mail.qmced.ac.uk
To: "CIS department list" <cidept@jimmy.qmced.ac.uk>
Sender: lis-fid-request@mailbase.ac.uk
**May be of interest to Information Management people**
I would like to invite papers for consideration to be published in:
The International Journal of Technology Management (Special
issue on ENABLING ORGANISATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS USING
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE). Guest Editor Zahir Irani
The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (Special Issue
on Supporting Supply Chain Management Through an IT/IS Infrastructure). Guest
Editor Zahir Irani
The 6th European Conference on IT Evaluation (at Brunel University, UK). Conference
Co-Chair Zahir Irani.
Please find call for papers attached.
Regards,
Zahir
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Dr Zahir Irani
Lecturer of IS/Industrial Placements Director
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH
Tel: +44 1895 274 000 Ext. 2133
Fax: +44 1895 251 686
E-mail: Zahir.Irani@brunel.ac.uk
URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstzni
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7. JASIS
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:35:45 -0800
Reply-To: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science"
<ASIS-L@asis.org>,
Terry Brooks <tabrooks@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
From: Terry Brooks <tabrooks@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: JASIS Millennium Issue - Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Special Topic Issue of JASIS
Information Science at the Millennium
The next Special Topics Issue of the _Journal of the American Society for Information
Science_ (JASIS) is scheduled to appear at the end of 2000 on the topic of Information
Sci-ence at the Millennium. The guest editor for this special issue will be Terrence A.
Brooks, Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at The
University of Washington.
What are the forces shaping the science of information as we step into the 21st century?
What information problems have information technology solved, and what problems have been
introduced by information technology? How has information technology redefined familiar
information objects such as documents, books and libraries? How has information
tech-nology modified familiar acts such as reading and writing? What decisions and
standards are we creating now that will influence information structures, sharing, storage
and retrieval in the 21st century?
There are numerous research issues facing Information Sci-ence at the Millennium. Specific
topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* How has information technology redefined the document, the act of writing, the act of
reading?
* How does information technology make the private public? How does it defy corporate
boundaries and span national frontiers?
* How does information technology change publishing? The role of the scholarly journal?
The tenure process? Teaching?
* What happens when the computer, the television and the telephone meld into one machine?
When the latest music can be downloaded? When the latest movie is on the Web?
* What are the new economic models? Pricing structures of electronic information?
* What are the impacts on human society when information machines mediate sociability?
* What information science research methods retain value in the 21st century and which
should be discarded? What are our new objects of study? How have they changed?
The guest editor seeks papers that discuss Information Science at the Millennium.
Inquiries can be made to Terrence Brooks at tabrooks@u.washington.edu or by calling (206)
543-2646, fax at (206) 616-3152.
Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to:
Terrence A. Brooks
School of Library and Information Science
University of Washington
Box 352930
Seattle, WA 98195-2930
The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special
issue is March 1, 2000. A select panel of referees will review all manuscripts, and those
accepted will be published in this special issue of _JASIS_. Original artwork and a signed
copy of the copy-right transfer agreement will be required for all accepted papers. An
electronic version of the final draft can be submitted, and is encouraged.
A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further
information about JASIS at
http://www.asis.org/.
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Terrence A. Brooks
School of Library and Information Science
University of Washington
Box 352930
Seattle, WA 98195-2930
Voice: 206 543-2646
Fax: 206 616-3152
tabrooks@u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~tabrooks/
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:37:30 -0500
Reply-To: "ASIS-L: American Society for Information Science"
<ASIS-L@asis.org>,
Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Subject: JASIS, Volume 50, #4
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 4
[Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the contents
of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table of Contents as well
as material from the introduction to the special section.]
CONTENTS
Editorial
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
287
The editors of this Special Topics Issue on The National Information Infrastructure have
provided their own coverage of the issue in their introduction. However, also included are
two regular papers and a brief communication which will be covered here. The issue begins
sadly with a memoriam for Bob Korfhage.
In Memoriam
Robert R. Korfhage
Edie Rasmussen, Christine L. Borgman, Donald Kraft, and Kai A. Olsen 288
Special Topic Issue: The National Information Infrastructure
Guest Editors: Patricia D. Fletcher and John Carlo Bertot
Introduction
Patricia D. Fletcher and John Carlo Bertot
295
The development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) implies that government
agencies are contending and can contend with a raft of digital and electronic network
policy and management issues. These policies include, but are not limited to, information
management, information technology (IT) management, security, intellectual
property/copyright, universal service, privacy. This issue of JASIS deals broadly with
some of the key issue areas outlined above, presenting readers with various perspectives
on the building of the NII -- from policy analysis methodology to implications for
creating and implementing government-based Web sites to new paradigms for government
information and IT management.
Catching a Ride on the NII: The Federal Policy Vehicles Paving the Information Highway
Patricia D. Fletcher and Lisa K. Westerback
299
Fletcher and Westerback present a review of the current Federal information policies that
frame and guide agency information and IT management processes as agencies engage in
NII-related systems development activities. The article provides insight into the complex
and multi-dimensional information and IT management policy environment in which Federal
agencies reside.
Better Funding for Government IT: Views from the Front Line
Jerry Mechling
305
Mechling identifies a key factor that drives agency IT-related issues -- the budget. The
research-based article contends that the budget process is often complicated,
misunderstood, and requires cross-agency collaboration to be effective. The article
provides readers with suggestions and recommendations for improving the budget process,
thus leading to more effective Federal IT investments.
Descriptive Assessment of Information Policy Initiatives: The Government Information
Locator Service (GILS) as an Example
Charles R. McClure, William E. Moen, and John Carlo Berto 314
This article combines policy analysis methodologies and Federal information policy. The
authors present readers with a description of numerous methodologies that policy analysts
and researchers can use to conduct an analysis of a particular policy or set of policies.
The article demonstrates the use of these techniques by conducting and analysis of the
Federal Government Information Locator Service (GILS).
And the Last Shall Be First: Recordkeeping Policies and the NII
Margaret Hedstrom and David Wallace
331
This article presents readers with an in-depth look at electronic record keeping issues
and policies. The authors review current Federal recordkeeping policies -- both
traditional and electronic -- and identify various issues with which Federal agencies,
records managers, preservationists, and others must contend in the digital environment.
Government Information: From Inaccessibility to Your Desktop and Back Again
J. Timothy Sprehe
340
Sprehe, an author of some of the seminal Federal information policy instruments such as
the 1985 Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-130, contends that the networked
environment is creating a tension between the public's desire for accessible government
information, technology-based Federal agency information delivery mechanisms, and societal
issues such as the need to safeguard personal privacy. Sprehe explores these sometimes
conflicting issues in a thought-provoking article.
Crossing the Threshold: Practical Foundations for Government Services
on the World Wide Web
Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo, and Ann DiCaterino
346
For those who think that providing interactive government services via the Web is simply a
matter of installing a Web server and registering a domain name, consider the issues
raised by Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo, and Ann DiCaterino in "Crossing the
Threshold: Practical Foundations for Government Services on the World Wide Web."
Through the establishment of the Internet Technologies Testbed, a Center for Technology in
Government-based study identified several key agency factors that enabled agencies to
engage in Web-based government services.
Government's Role in Reducing ``Year-2000'' Risks
Leon A. Kappelman, Jerry L. Johnson, and Kathy Rosmond
354
The article by Leon Kappleman, Jerry L. Johnson, and Kathy Rosmund, "Government's
Role in Reducing 'Year 2000' Risks" clearly points out the leadership role that the
Federal and state governments have in dealing with a current, global crisis in computing.
They present action items for the major government programs to take in addressing the Year
2000 problem Research
The Value of Interdisciplinarity: A Study Based on the Design of Internet Search Engines
Susan Davis Herring
358
Using the ISI databases, INSPEC, Information Science Abstracts, ERIC, and Expanded
Academic Index, Herring found 49 papers on the development and design of search engines
for the World Wide Web. The references of these papers were then examined and the authors
of each reference categorized as workers in library science, information science, computer
and information science, computer science, or other. Six disciplinary categories of cited
journals were determined from assigned headings. Twenty-six percent of the articles are by
library science authors, and forty-three percent appear in computer science journals.
Library and information scientists are considerably more interdisciplinary than computer
scientists in terms of the journals in which they publish and the works they cite. Use of
resources outside these two disciplines is very limited. Cognitive science, ergonomics,
and psychology rarely appear.
Information Science and Information Policy: The Use of Constant Dollars and other
Indicators to Manage Research Investments
Albert Henderson
366
Henderson, using the growth in collection expense numbers of 41 ARL libraries with
National Science Board deflators, and R&D expenditure growth from the NSB, finds
parallel growth until the post-WWII research expansion, a recovery of library growth in
the 1960s due to the federal response to Sputnik and the presumed superiority of Soviet
information systems. With President Johnson's decision not to run in 1968, and the
decreased defense spending resulting from the controversial war in Vietnam, library
funding began a sharp decline and library growth was flat between 1970 and 1980, while
research recovered in 1975. Research dollars continue to increase in the 1980s and 1990s,
and library expenditures growth roughly parallels this growth in the 1980s, with
divergence beginning in the 1990s. Henderson presents a pessimistic portrayal of declining
library fortunes due to a policy fixation on technology rather than knowledge.
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Brief Communication
Impact of Information Needs an Organizational Design
M. E. Burke and Karen Tulett
380
In the brief communication, Burke and Tulett find that a mechanistic model of
organizational design is more restrictive than an organismic structure on lower echelon
individuals, but that it is nonetheless cost effective for information processing.
Book Reviews
382
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JASIS VOLUME 50, NUMBER 5
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:33:02 -0500
Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <JESSE@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Subject: JASIS, Volume 50, Number 5
To: Multiple recipients of list JESSE <JESSE@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 5
[Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the contents
of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table of Contents as well
as material from the introduction to the special section.]
Editorial
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
385
Research
Increasing Link Marker Effectiveness for WWW and other Hypermedia
Interfaces: An Examination of End-User Preferences
John R. Carlson and Charles J. Kacmar
386
How do hypermedia users rate the effectiveness of link marker design? Using various text
node forms, and a graphic node, Carlson and Kacmar apply seven different marker designs.
An instrument for each node was used to evaluate the reactions of 122 undergraduate
students. All groups expressed a clear preference for link designation by color and
generally for graphic bounded markers over character set markers or unbounded graphics,
like bullets. The design of the link marker seems to be of more importance to novice
searchers than to those more expert.
The Role of Experience in the Information Search Process of an Early Career Information
Worker: Perceptions of Uncertainty,
Complexity, Construction, and Sources Carol Collier Kuhlthau
399
Kuhlthau carries out a case study over a 5-year period of a security analyst's perception
of information seeking processes. Novice efforts involved preparing a correct story for
each client that fit that the person's style and information needs. As an expert, the role
is seen as adding value to the client's knowledge base even if it involves pointing out
the story is wrong. Both internal and external sources were used extensively at both
stages, but internal sources less as an expert where clients were also information
sources. A mediator was not viewed as important, and indeed a possible role was considered
to be the training of analysts in the research process.
A Parallel Relational Database Management System Approach to
Relevance Feedback in Information Retrievel
Carol Lundquist, Ophir Frieder, David O. Holmes, and David Grossman
413
Using a relational structure, parallel processing, and standard SQL, Lundquist et al.
calculate similarity coefficients between documents and queries and isolate the highly
similar documents. SQL is then used to extract the terms from the isolated documents, and
to rank these terms to select terms for feedback. SQL statements then create new queries
and allow for varying new term weights relative to the initial terms. Using TREC queries
and TIPSTER data, the collection weight times the number of isolated documents provided
the best improvement in measures. The best number of documents for feedback term
selection was between five and twenty, and the best number of terms from a list so
generated between ten and twenty. The parallel processors and disk I/O imbalance remained
below 10% during computation, indicating that additional processors would reduce response
time. Parallel efficiency, however, falls with a large number of processors since words
are more likely to start with some letters than others and data is unevenly distributed.
Balanced data storage results in better CPU times than would be predicted by processor
increases.
Hypersonic and Supersonic Flow Roadmaps Using Bibliometrics and Database Tomography
R. N. Kostoff, Henry J. Eberhart, and Darrell Ray Toothman
427
In a somewhat larger bibliometric study Kostoff, Eberhart, and Toothman use what they term
Database Tomography (DT), a technique which extracts phrases from text, counting their
frequency of occurrence and measuring their proximity to one another. Experts then select
themes from the high-frequency phrases. Science Citation Index and Compendex were searched
for the terms ``hypersonic'' and ``supersonic,'' and the results divided into relevant and
nonrelevant sets. High-frequency phrases from the relevant set were ORed to the query and
those from the nonrelevant set were combined using an AND NOT operation. Papers (1,284 in
all) were retrieved with an average 2.63 authors per paper. Authors, journals,
institutions, and countries concentrate in a few high contributors. Few papers were highly
cited, and these tended to be recent.
An Analysis of Orientedness in Cataloging Rules
Shoichi Taniguchi
448
By ``orientedness,'' Taniguchi means an inclination of a cataloging rule toward a certain
objective or function of bibliographic description. A code should state objectives,
principles based upon these objectives, and rules oriented toward the objectives.
Objectives are associated with orientedness toward identity, contents, bibliographic
relationships, access conditions, provenance, consistency, and cost-effectiveness.
Analysis of a code's principles and rules in this light will show that a consistent weight
application to orientedness would result in changes to AARC2, and that different weight
applications would lead to different rule sets.
Information Society or Cash Nexus? A Study of the United States as
a Copyright Haven
Julian Warner
461
During the 100 years after 1791 when the U.S. did not grant copyright to foreign citizens
economic and political developments are seen by Warner to precede and influence
information developments. Spatial expansion and economic development created a growing
economic market in the U.S.A., a high literacy rate, and a demand for reading material.
After the late 1870s, the closing of the frontier and declining growth rates led to a
higher dependence on exports and increasing interest in conforming with other foreign
trade policies. Early U.S. copyright policy is compared to current policies in the
Republic of China.
Brief Communication
Do Deans Publish What They Preach?
Blaise Cronin and Holly Crawford
471
In this issue's brief communication, Cronin and Crawford report on a search of the sitting
library and information science school deans or directors of the top 20 programs in the
1996 Gorman Report using the Social Science Citation Index to determine citation level to
their publications from January 1981 to December 1997. Sixteen are in the 0-99 range.
There appears to be no relationship between a school's ranking and its administrator's
record of scholarship.
Book Reviews
The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the Post-Modern
Library, by Francis L. Miksa
Birger Hj\orland
475
Basic Research Methods for Librarians, by Ronald R. Powell
William T. Fischer
477
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8. INTERLENDING & DOCUMENT SUPPLY, VOLUME 27, NO 1
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:17:19 +0000
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Subject: Now available: Interlending & Document Supply, Vol27(1)
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Volume 27, No 1 of the journal Interlending & Document Supply has
recently been published.
Contents:
Document delivery services in China's agricultural sector: a survey Qiaqiao Zhang
The Digital Object Identifier system: digital technology meets content management
Norman Paskin
Charging users for interlibrary loans in UK university libraries - a new survey
Pat Clinton
Opinion paper: From interlending and document delivery to cooperative collections and
document access
Lars Bjornshauge
Interlending and document supply: a review of recent literature - XXXV
Pauline Connolly
Miscellany
Compiled in collaboration with the IFLA Office for International Lending
Index to Vol 26, 1998.
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Interlending & Document Supply (ISSN 0264-1615) is published 4 times a year by MCB
University Press, in association with the British Library Document Supply Centre.
Articles are invited on all aspects of document delivery and interlending. Opinion papers
or brief communications are also considered. For a copy of the Guidelines for authors, or
to submit articles for consideration by the editorial board, please contact the Assistant
Editor, Dave Johnson, at the British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23
7BQ, UK. Email dave.johnson@bl.uk
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9. LIBRARY CONSORTIA MANAGEMENT
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 06:49:00 -0500 (EST)
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Library Consortia Management: An International Journal http://www.mcb.co.uk/lcm.htm
--------Call for Papers--------
The Editor invites prospective authors to submit original manuscripts for possible
publication in this international journal.
-Editorial aims and objectives-
Library Consortia Management: An International Journal is a forum for discussion of, and
dissemination of knowledge about, the theory and practice of library consortia management
around the world. The journal reflects the perspectives of the various stakeholders in
library consortia, including library directors, consortium executive directors, library
trustees, publishers, information industry vendors, and directors of information
technology within library organizations.
-Scope and topicality-
Library consortia have been increasing in number, scope and importance, are now a vital
facet of library management, scholarly publishing, and the electronic information
industry. To enable the value and power of consortia to become more efficiently exploited
globally, this journal provides insights and describes methodologies to improve the
negotiation of information licenses and contracts, archive electronic information, provide
resource sharing services, and the manage the library consortium as an organization. The
following illustrates some of possible journal topics.
Electronic information licensing, including: selecting electronic resources for consortium
collections; international initiatives in the management and building of electronic
information resources; publisher and vendor negotiation strategies and opportunities
(including ideas from other industries and organizations that have formed purchasing
co-operatives); reviews of services and offerings from different information providers and
publishers; technical systems and requirements for providing content and statistical
information; access management; authorization and security; preservation and archiving of
electronic resources; collaborative cataloguing; user education about consortium services;
and, copyright and intellectual property issues.
Management of print and other traditional library resources, such as resource development
(approval plans, serial services), interlibrary loan, and direct patron borrowing.
Emerging areas for consortial services, such as new information formats, facilities
management, union catalogs and patron-initiated circulation systems, managing memberships
in multiple consortia; technology and telecommunications management for effective delivery
of consortium services (including information systems, data protection, telecommunications
practices); and, legal and security management issues (such as legislation, liability,
integrity and confidentiality).
Consortium internal organizational management. Covers the techniques and strategies to
manage library consortia and networks, including: member relationships and internal
management; how to form and join consortia; consortium financial planning and control
(including revenue generation and allocating costs among consortium members); consortium
finance; consortium facilities management; human resource management; strategic management
of libraries; maintaining membership involvement in the consortium through advisory
committees and other means; surveys of current consortium management practices; human
resource management and training; and, project management.
-Article Presentation-
Articles should be between 2000 and 4000 words in length, although shorter communications
dealing with more immediate issues, responding to points raised in articles and raising
new issues for discussion will also be included. Such items should be up to 1000 words in
length. Articles should be typed with wide margins and double spacing. Two copies should
be sent to the Editor together with a brief autobiographical note, 1-6 keywords, an
abstract of approximately 150 words and a suggested title.
-Submission of disks-
Once an article has been accepted for inclusion within the journal, disks should be
supplied with manuscript whenever possible. Contributors in a position to comply with this
request should submit any 3.5" disk prepared on a PC or Macintosh system in Word
format.
-Copyright-
Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work in not an infringement
of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such
warranty.
-Review Procedure-
Each paper submitted is subject the following review procedures:
It is reviewed by the Editor for general suitability for publication If it is judged
suitable a blind review process takes place Based on reviewer recommendations, the Editor
then decides whether the particular article should be accepted as is, revised or rejected.
-How to Submit-
Manuscripts or outlines of proposed articles should be submitted to the Editor:
Arnold Hirshon
4129 Fawn Trail Road
Allentown PA 18104 USA
phone: 610/758-6263
email: arh5@lehigh.edu
Please circulate this call for papers among your colleagues
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