Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies
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Source: CLIR Full-Text Report, Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies Abstract ||| Direct to Full-Text
By Carol Tenopir with the assistance of Brenda Hitchcock and Ashley Pillow. 72 pages.
-- University Repositories
Source: OCLC University repositories: An extension of the library cooperative
A brief article about how OCLC is working to support several university based repository projects. Direct links to homepages for these projects are also provided.
-- Digital Libraries
Source: OCLC Interview, Herbert Van de Sompel: Developing new protocols to support and connect digital libraries
From the interview intro, Herbert Van de Sompel is a digital library research pioneer known for his cutting-edge work in linking technologies and metadata harvesting.
-- Digital Libraries
Source: NSF Papers from the NSF Post Digital Libraries Futures Workshop
The workshop took place in Chatham, MA in June, 2003. Here are the titles of a few of the papers.
* "The Digital Library Frontier of Knowledge Generation" by Reagan W. Moore
* "Towards Building Digital Library as an Institution of Knowledge" by Hsinchun Chen
* "The Future Ain't What It Used To Be" by Jerry Goldman
* "Transforming Access to the Spoken Word" by Douglas W. Oard
* "Navigating the Distributed World of Community Knowledge" by Bruce R. Schatz
* "Personal digital libraries: Creating individual spaces for innovation" by Christine L. Borgman
* "Roadblocks" by Herbert Van de Sompel
* "End-User Issues Should Have a First Class Status" by Terence R. Smith
* "Enabling the Semantic Web for Scientific Research And Collaboration" by Eric Miller
* "Creating More Natural Access to Information - New Ways to Interact with Knowledge" by Judith L. Klavans
-- Libraries--Internet Filtering ALA President Issues Statement About Best Serving Patrons in Light of CIPA Decision
Blake Carver comments on LISNEWS.Com, "Does the ALA need to do More for budgets and worry about Filters Less?"
I'll add that ALA needs to do more, much more, in making libraries, librarians, and the services available relevant and needed during a time where so many people think it's all in one place. Doing this will help budgets more than just asking for more money.
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