Professional Reading Shelf Information Seeking
Source: Information Research A New Issue of Information Research is Now Online (Vol. 10 No.1, Oct. 2004)
This issues includes papers presented at ISIC 2004: the 5th Information Seeking in Context Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 September, 2004
Papers include:
+ Information behaviour that keeps found things found
+ Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour
+ A new model of information behaviour based on the Search Situation Transition schema.
+ From information behaviour research to the design of information systems: the Cognitive Work Analysis framework
+ Talking about the problem: a content analysis of pre-search interviews
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RFID
Source: News.com RFID, coming to a library near you
From the article, "Some argue that libraries are ahead of the pack and that the lesson they learn could prove instructive to others. 'Libraries are much further along with using RFID in a consumer environment than anybody else,' said Jim Lichtenberg, an IT consultant to libraries. 'They represent a wonderful test-bed in which to work through the issues of RFID because they have such a profound concern about the rights of their patrons.'"
-- Government Printing Office
Academic Libraries GPO Presents Southern Oregon University Library Of The Year Award
"'Southern Oregon University, and especially our library faculty, staff and students, are being recognized nationally for their innovation in public service, and the University could not be more thrilled with this honor,' said Southern Oregon University President Elisabeth Zinser. 'I want to personally thank the Government Printing Office for this prestigious honor. The creation of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives exemplifies our long tradition of stewardship and accessibility to an impressive and growing collection of government documents at the Hannon Library,' Zinser said."
-- Libraries--Research--African Americans
Source: Miami Herald African-American Research Library: Vision fulfilled
"The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd. near Fort Lauderdale, one of three such establishments in the United States providing access to black literature and culture, is fulfilling its mission on its second anniversary, according to founder Samuel Morrison, former director of the Broward County Library System."
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Health Information
Source: CBC Internet-based health information may be hazardous: study
"People with chronic diseases ought to pay more attention to what their doctor tells them rather than relying on advice from the internet, according to a new study. Researchers at University College London reviewed clinical trials that measured the effectiveness of computer-based tools called Interactive Health Communication Applications...The review appears in the October issue of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research."
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Library Management
Now Available: Free (One Week Only) Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of
+ Library Management
Access is provided via Emerald's Journal of the Week program. Articles include:
+ Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries? (Issue 6/7)
+ The power of influence: what affects public library staff's attitudes to the Internet? (Issue 6/7)
+ Content in institutional repositories: a collection management issue (Issue 6/7)
+ View Managing fee-based public library services: values and practices (Issue 6/7)
+ Managing the information revolution: library management, the control of prescriptive technologies, and the future of librarianship (Issue 4/5)
+ Library weblogs (Issue 4/5)
+ Baby Boom generation librarians (Issue 4/5)
-- Open Access
Source: The Independent US Public Library of Science launches rival to 'The Lancet'
From the article: "A major new 'open access' journal for medicine is launched today, putting it in direct competition with the established publications in this lucrative area including Reed Elsevier's The Lancet. The Public Library of Science (PLoS), a US-based not-for-profit organisation, is behind PLoS Medicine, which it said was 'the most significant international general medicine journal to emerge in over 70 years'. It is the second journal launched by PLoS, which established a biology publication last year."
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