Library Marks the Evolution of British Englishby Sheilah Kast Weekend Edition - Sunday, March 6, 2005 Guest host Sheilah Kast speaks with Jonnie Robinson, curator of the British Library's Collection of Accents and Dialects. The library recently released over 55 hours of audio on their Web site that document the evolution of British English over the past 50 years.BLのオーディオ…
aDORe: a modular, standards-based Digital Object RepositoryHerbert Van de Sompel et al. [draft]Herbert Van de Sompel and four co-authors, aDORe: a modular, standards-based Digital Object Repository, a preprint. Abstract: 'This paper describes the aDORe repository architecture, designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of Digital Objects at the R…
March 2, 2005 ARL Announces...Publication of Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access JournalsCharles W. Bailey, Jr. 2005 ISBN 1-59407-670-7 129 pp. $45 The table of contents, preface, and overview of key open access concepts from this publication are available online as a PDF at http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/OABweb.pdf.Open Access PDF
Understanding the foundation: the state of generalist search education in library schools as related to the needs of expert searchers in medical librariesPurpose: The paper explores the current state of generalist search education in library schools and considers that foundation in respect to the Medical Library Association's statement on expert searching.Results: The educational foc…
Collection-level descriptions: metadata of the future?AbstractThe potential for digital library growth has recently drawn into question the ability of users to navigate largedistributed and heterogeneous collections. This column attempts to summarise some of the potential benefits to be derived through the implementation of collection-level descriptions for both user resource discovery and inst…
Large-scale Archival Storage (PDF 340KB)Technology Watch Report 04-03The Large-scale Archival Storage of Digital Objects by Jim Linden, Sean Martin, Richard Masters, and Roderic ParkerBLのケーススタディあり。
Library staff skills boosted by ICT trainingKey factsThanks to the People's Network there are over 30,000 computer terminals in the UK's public libraries - an average of seven per branch. In addition to installing ICT terminals, People's Network project has involved training all public library staff to European Computer Driving License standard, so that they are…
CLIR pub 129:Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking SpaceWhat is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authorsan architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classicsexplore these questions in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space. I…
Provisional recommendation from the Berlin3 conference Participants in the recent Berlin3 Open Access conference (Southampton, February 28 - March 1) will issue a consensus recommendation for signatories of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to implement. The recommendation should be released soon, but Stevan Harnad and Andy Gass have posted a provisional version to the the AmSci OA Forum. I…