LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Digital Preservation interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:54:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16353 Program Manager - Maine Shared Collections Strategy Grant (University of Maine, Maine) Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono seeks a creative and dynamic librarian for a contingent on funding position, with grant funding for three years. ... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:20:02 +0100 895653 http://www.teleread.com/library/scholarly-electronic-publishing-weblog-updated-for-december/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: “Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford,” “Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm,” “Trust Me, I’m an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors,” and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?” and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Google Book Search and Metadata,” “Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?,” and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force” and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes “The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?” and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Non-users’ Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano” and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes “Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It,” “OA Repositories: The Researchers’ Point of View,” “Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model,” and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes “Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing,” “Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal,” and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:35:45 +0100 895609 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/eC6Mm0oVw6U/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: "Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford," "Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm," "Trust Me, I'm an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors," and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?" and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Google Book Search and Metadata," "Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?," and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force" and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes "The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?" and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Non-users' Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano" and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It," "OA Repositories: The Researchers' Point of View," "Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model," and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes "Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing," "Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal," and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:08:58 +0100 895591 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/12/wayback-wednesday-digitization-101-2010.html As I do at the end of each year, I want to spent time looking back at the last 12 months with a few lists and more.I see four trends as I scan the horizon:Digitization is no longer an exceptional activity. While digitization is not a normal activity still for many organizations, it is much more mainstream that is was several years ago.  Look around...can you find a workshop on digitization or on scanning?  Yes, they still exist, but they are definitely not as prevalent as they were before.  Those that haven't jumped on the "digitization train" yet are finding themselves left behind.  (I should note that universities are offering courses on digitization, digital libraries, etc., which go into more depth and which are attracting a high number of students. These courses prepare the students for the growing number of digital library positions that are being advertised.) In the same vein, one thing to notice is that digitization is no longer in the news as it has been. It is no longer that shiny object that captures the media's attention.  For a while, Google Book Search kept digitization in the news, but even that story is no longer capturing headlines as the sides work toward an agreement. Digital preservation is where most of the action is in terms of conversations, conference sessions, research, etc.  This is true because we are a digital society and if we cannot ensure long term access to our digital content, we're doomed.  Losing digital content could mean losing the data and information that we need to run our governments, businesses, academic institutions, etc.  It could also mean losing our history.If you are not thinking about how to ensure long-term access to your digital content, please begin thinking about it now. You might even make it a New Year's resolution. (Yes, do jump on the digital preservation bandwagon. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895638 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/ZBLCRLdWjMs/wayback-wednesday-digitization-101-2010.html As I do at the end of each year, I want to spent time looking back at the last 12 months with a few lists and more.I see four trends as I scan the horizon:Digitization is no longer an exceptional activity. While digitization is not a normal activity still for many organizations, it is much more mainstream that is was several years ago.  Look around...can you find a workshop on digitization or on scanning?  Yes, they still exist, but they are definitely not as prevalent as they were before.  Those that haven't jumped on the "digitization train" yet are finding themselves left behind.  (I should note that universities are offering courses on digitization, digital libraries, etc., which go into more depth and which are attracting a high number of students. These courses prepare the students for the growing number of digital library positions that are being advertised.) In the same vein, one thing to notice is that digitization is no longer in the news as it has been. It is no longer that shiny object that captures the media's attention.  For a while, Google Book Search kept digitization in the news, but even that story is no longer capturing headlines as the sides work toward an agreement. Digital preservation is where most of the action is in terms of conversations, conference sessions, research, etc.  This is true because we are a digital society and if we cannot ensure long term access to our digital content, we're doomed.  Losing digital content could mean losing the data and information that we need to run our governments, businesses, academic institutions, etc.  It could also mean losing our history.If you are not thinking about how to ensure long-term access to your digital content, please begin thinking about it now. You might even make it a New Year's resolution. (Yes, do jump on the digital preservation bandwagon. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895589 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16308 University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian (Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts) This is an Exempt Position that falls within the MSCA Union (Massachusetts State College Association). General statement of duties: Lead, manage, and coordinate the Archives and Special Collections unit of the Bridgewater State University library. Specific examples of duties: Manage all phases of activity of the Archives and Special Collections unit based upon the types of materials held, including but not limited to maps, photographs, print, ephemera, and digital objects.  Maintain a regular and convenient service schedule for public access to the collections. Plan, coordinate, and direct staff activities and work flows in the unit. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:20:01 +0100 895233 http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2010/12/23/happy-holidays-to-all-our-members-and-friends/ The holiday preparations look especially bright and appealing this year, perhaps in contrast to the blanketing of snow that we have enjoyed so far this winter. Economic reports for retail are improving, with expenditures five percent above what they were at this time last year. The positive trend for holiday shopping is good news for consumers and the businesses that cater to their wants and needs. Unfortunately, such a positive view cannot be transferred to the current economic state of affairs affecting health sciences and hospital libraries in the GMR, especially in our publicly funded institutions.  Revenue shortfalls at the state and local level are having a significant impact on staffing and accessibility of information resources at our member organizations. In addition to position elimination, ongoing hiring freezes, and non–renewal of licenses and subscriptions, institutions are showing the strain by reorganizing and combining libraries and their constituent units and by repurposing space for non-library, revenue-producing functions.  Such strategies reduce the accessibility of information resources.  For example, when the ILL unit is combined with its general university counterpart, the importance of using DOCLINE for transacting ILL and of keeping SERHOLD records up-to-date to facilitate DOCLINE may diminish.  When library stacks are repurposed for patient or student functions, legacy print collections may be the first to go to free up space for these new functions. The GMR is attempting to take a proactive stance to soften the long-term impact of reduced budgets on our membership. The E-licensing Working Group of the Regional Advisory Council (RAC), in collaboration with the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services serving as agent for consortial licensing by hospital and smaller academic libraries, identified two candidates for selection in 2010. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:13:24 +0100 894952 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Hangingtogetherorg/~3/yGDwyqcaazU/ The Cloud Library project (see the exposition that follows for a quick reductive overview of the idea) got a lot of attention and had a big impact in the research library community this past year. My colleague, Constance Malpas, is the principal intellectual engine driving this effort. She’s shaped the opportunities, divined the evidence to support first steps and generally been a tireless participant in the discussions and action planning that have sprung up around this opportunity. She’s busy now finalizing a report which will be available in January, 2011. We’ll blog about its release. What’s the idea? In the same way that cloud computing offers resources and applications on demand without the user having to operate and own the underlying assets, the cloud library project posited that it is now possible for academic libraries to rely on access to needed book and journal assets rather than manage them as locally-resident and managed physical items. The entry point for exploring this possibility was to reconsider the relation between a library’s physical book collection, off-site storage repositories, and emerging digital text aggregations. Could a library change its local print inventory by relying on supply of a digital version of the text from a digital aggregator and offer a print volume when necessary through an arrangement with an existing storage facility(ies)? We found willing exemplars of each player - New York University as a customer, ReCAP as a storage facility willing to supply and the Hathi Trust as a digital text aggregator willing to offer access to an electronic version of the book. Constance examined the overlap between NYU’s collection, the holdings of ReCAP and the rapidly growing database of digital texts being built by the Hathi Trust from the digital copies received by participants in the Google Books Library Project and other digital copies of books. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:18:33 +0100 895037 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6520 Manage access to Association archives, including adding new acquisitions, cataloging, arranging and describing collections, preservation and conservation. Working with end users, content providers and stakeholders, manages and updates association-wide taxonomy. Provides reference assistance to library users. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage use and develop collections in the Archives, identify, acquire, and catalog new NFPA publications, regardless of format; search for older publications not represented in the archives - Arrange and describe archival collections, create finding aids, catalog new acquisitions and update MARC records to ensure access - Create, maintain, and manage digital preservation projects for individual items and collections to provide electronic access to image collections - Oversee conservation and preservation to protect older materials - Collaborate with users and stakeholders to maintain an association-wide controlled vocabulary for NFPA’s digital assets; use nationally-recognized indexing, metadata and taxonomy standards for consistency across the Association - Develop user documentation to train content providers and searchers on how to tag collections and web pages - Provide research to staff, using Archives, library and databases, to assist with code and product development - Answer walk-in, email, and telephone inquiries. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:10:02 +0100 894267 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16282 Archivist for Digital Development and University Records (Ball State University, Indiana)   Professional position available immediately.  Major responsibility:  engage in acquisition, processing, preservation, digitization, promotion, and use of the unit’s collections, programs, and services; contribute to the formulation, development, management, and promotion of the University Libraries’ digital projects and repositories in the ongoing transition from print to a predominately digital environment. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:05:02 +0100 894257 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/12/book-preserver-son-patrimoine-numerique.html I received a brief email announcement that a new book entitled Preserver Son Patrimoine Numérique has been published.  The 325-page book (available only in French) focuses on digital preservation for individuals and families.  The book is also available in a digital version (16,90€).  The book was written by Claude Huc, a former engineer at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. He was also the founded and leader of Pérennisation des Informations Numériques (PIN), the French national digital preservation group.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894361 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/JcKteMC6HvE/book-preserver-son-patrimoine-numerique.html I received a brief email announcement that a new book entitled Preserver Son Patrimoine Numérique has been published.  The 325-page book (available only in French) focuses on digital preservation for individuals and families.  The book is also available in a digital version (16,90€).  The book was written by Claude Huc, a former engineer at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. He was also the founded and leader of Pérennisation des Informations Numériques (PIN), the French national digital preservation group.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894277 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16265 Librarian/Archivist (Vulcan Inc., Washington) The Librarian/Archivist is responsible for original cataloging of library materials in a variety of formats, processing of archival collections, conducting basic preservation activities, providing access to the collections, and assisting with reference services. This position works with traditional archival materials, artifacts, photos, and digital media. The Librarian/Archivist works closely with the Director to collaborate on projects that utilize the archival collections. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:05:02 +0100 893230 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62630 Direct to "Beginner's Guide to Digital Preservation" [The guide] has been written for those working on JISC Higher Education projects who would like help with preserving their outputs but is also relevant to those from the Cultural Heritage community. It is aimed at those who are new to digital preservation but can also [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:51:26 +0100 893023 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/JUuLa3alLZs/jisc-beginners-guide-to-digital.html "JISC Beginner's Guide to Digital Preservation has been written for those working on JISC projects who would like help with preserving their outputs. It is aimed at those who are new to digital preservation but can also serve as a resource for those who have specific requirements or wish to find further resources in certain areas" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:47:50 +0100 892983 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/JUuLa3alLZs/jisc-beginners-guide-to-digital.html "JISC Beginner's Guide to Digital Preservation has been written for those working on JISC projects who would like help with preserving their outputs. It is aimed at those who are new to digital preservation but can also serve as a resource for those who have specific requirements or wish to find further resources in certain areas" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893087 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/digital-scholarships-2010-publications/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892859 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/Ua-tRgnxYjQ/event-aligning-national-approaches-to.html As received via email.Aligning National Approaches to Digital PreservationMay 23-25, 2011Tallinn, Estoniahttp://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADPWe are pleased to announce the “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference. This conference will enable preservation programs from different countries and regions to share information with each other for the purpose of building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of ourcollective digital memory.The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of national approaches to enable new forms of international collaboration and an edited volume that documents an action plan for building collaboration among interested digital preservation initiatives. Keynotes and Panel Chairs include:Laura Campbell, U.S. Library of CongressGunnar Sahlin, National Library of SwedenInge Angevaare, Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation Joy Davidson, HATII, University of Glasgow Maurizio Lunghi, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Adrienne Muir, Loughborough University Raivo Ruusalepp, Tallinn University Michael Seadle, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPlease visit http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP to register or for more information on participating in or sponsoring this conference.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892735 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/12/event-aligning-national-approaches-to.html As received via email.Aligning National Approaches to Digital PreservationMay 23-25, 2011Tallinn, Estoniahttp://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADPWe are pleased to announce the “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference. This conference will enable preservation programs from different countries and regions to share information with each other for the purpose of building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of ourcollective digital memory.The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of national approaches to enable new forms of international collaboration and an edited volume that documents an action plan for building collaboration among interested digital preservation initiatives. Keynotes and Panel Chairs include:Laura Campbell, U.S. Library of CongressGunnar Sahlin, National Library of SwedenInge Angevaare, Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation Joy Davidson, HATII, University of Glasgow Maurizio Lunghi, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Adrienne Muir, Loughborough University Raivo Ruusalepp, Tallinn University Michael Seadle, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPlease visit http://www.Educopia.org/events/ANADP to register or for more information on participating in or sponsoring this conference.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892719 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/KIt63H5lzuM/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:16 +0100 892644 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/digital-scholarships-2010-publications/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:03 +0100 893610 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62586 From the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) website has a new section to provide a high level view of the collections that partners are preserving worldwide. Users of "Explore Partner Collections" will see a map plotting the origins of born digital [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:46:54 +0100 892621 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62579 From the DigitalPreservation.gov Web Site: The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) is preserving the political record by capturing websites from the House of Representatives, Senate, congressional committees and related entities. Increasingly, many members of Congress use social media, such as Facebook and YouTube, to communicate with [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:01:19 +0100 892520 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/12/scholarly-electronic-publishing-bibliography-version-79/ Version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 3,880 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Changes in This Version Two new sections have been added in this version: (1) Electronic Books and Texts: Research and (2) General Works: Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works). The bibliography has the following sections (new/revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 2.4 Research* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Digital Copyright* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Digital Libraries* 6.2 Digital Preservation* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Metadata and Linking* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892865 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/12/report-survey-of-library-and-museum.html I received an email about this report -- The Survey of Library and Museum Digitization Projects, 2011 Edition -- and thought it was worth mentioning. I don't know anything about it, except what is below.ABSTRACT: The nearly 200 page report looks closely at how academic, public and special libraries and museums are digitizing special and other collections. The study is based on detailed data on costs, equipment use, staffing, cataloging, marketing, licensing revenue and other facets of digitization projects from nearly 100 libraries and museums in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and Australia. The study covers and presents data separately for digitizers of photographs, film and video, music and audio, text and re-digitization of existing digital mediums. Data is also broken out by budget size, region of the world, type of institution and other factors.  Data presented separately for academic libraries, public and government libraries, special libraries and museums.COST: $89.00 print or PDF; $189.00 for a multi-site licenseJames Moses, Research Director for the Primary Research Group, has circulated the information below about the report on the Digital-Preservation discussion list:Just a few of the study’s many findings are that: Digitizers whose primary medium was music and audio spent 56.25% of their total digitization staff time on cataloging and metadata related issues.Digitization budgets come largely through non-budgetary allocations. The library or museum annual budget accounted for only a little over 35% of the overall digitization budget.  Prospects for digitization funding in the United States were much better than prospects outside of the USA; about 28.6% of US survey participants considered the outlook pretty good or excellent while only 5.88% of those from other countries shared this optimism. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892539 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/o6gaEt_yE4w/report-survey-of-library-and-museum.html I received an email about this report -- The Survey of Library and Museum Digitization Projects, 2011 Edition -- and thought it was worth mentioning. I don't know anything about it, except what is below.ABSTRACT: The nearly 200 page report looks closely at how academic, public and special libraries and museums are digitizing special and other collections. The study is based on detailed data on costs, equipment use, staffing, cataloging, marketing, licensing revenue and other facets of digitization projects from nearly 100 libraries and museums in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, and Australia. The study covers and presents data separately for digitizers of photographs, film and video, music and audio, text and re-digitization of existing digital mediums. Data is also broken out by budget size, region of the world, type of institution and other factors.  Data presented separately for academic libraries, public and government libraries, special libraries and museums.COST: $89.00 print or PDF; $189.00 for a multi-site licenseJames Moses, Research Director for the Primary Research Group, has circulated the information below about the report on the Digital-Preservation discussion list:Just a few of the study’s many findings are that: Digitizers whose primary medium was music and audio spent 56.25% of their total digitization staff time on cataloging and metadata related issues.Digitization budgets come largely through non-budgetary allocations. The library or museum annual budget accounted for only a little over 35% of the overall digitization budget.  Prospects for digitization funding in the United States were much better than prospects outside of the USA; about 28.6% of US survey participants considered the outlook pretty good or excellent while only 5.88% of those from other countries shared this optimism. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892467 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/cHHLktM986Q/ Version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 3,880 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Changes in This Version Two new sections have been added in this version: (1) Electronic Books and Texts: Research and (2) General Works: Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works). The bibliography has the following sections (new/revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 2.4 Research* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Digital Copyright* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Digital Libraries* 6.2 Digital Preservation* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Metadata and Linking* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:01:01 +0100 892650 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-most-important-ereader-company-youve-never-heard-of-by-eric-hellman/ Imagine you’re the head of a big print media company. Sales of your print products have been eroding steadily and you find yourself competing with internet businesses that have very different business models and cost structures. Your own website revenues have been growing steadily, but it will be many years before they match your print subscription revenue. You know in your heart that digital subscriptions will somehow be the answer, but your otherwise loyal reader base is resisting web subscription rates that would allow you to sustain your business. What do you do? One answer is something I’ve speculated about, based on cost reduction trends for tablets and ebook readers. Bundle a reader device into your subscriptions! The consumer gets a device for “free”, and you’ve retained a premium subscriber. You could even bundle a shopping application and collect a commission on purchases of content made through your estore. At first glance, the obstacles to a successful implementation of the bundled e-reader strategy might seem profound. Here’s an incomplete list of what you’d have to do: You’d need an inexpensive device, of course. But it can’t be something cheesy, because it will be carrying your brand. You’d need an operating system for your device. Lucky for you, Google seems to have a good solution with Android. But you still need people who can customize and adapt Android to make it shine. You’d need to figure out the logistics of getting your content onto the device. Maybe you’ve already started this process with Apps for iPad or Android. If you’re serious about an estore, someone has to build that, too. It’s not only an engineering project it’s also a big business development task to gather businesses willing to sell their content and goods through your estore. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:34:26 +0100 892150 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/MiQ-uO9TX-s/university-of-pennsylvania-libraries.html "The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust, an extraordinary partnership of more than two dozen major academic and research libraries. Launched in 2008, the HathiTrust is a collaborative digital library initiative that seeks to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. As a sustaining partner, Penn will be contributing to enhanced access, discovery and preservation of digital content for use by its scholars and the research community worldwide" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:46:11 +0100 891607 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/iiLyAvU7Bss/springer-partners-with-lockss-program.html The LOCKSS Program has announced Springer's participation in the Global LOCKSS Network. Springer has committed for LOCKSS preservation nearly 42,000 e-books; more than 2000 e-journals, 174 eReference works, and 22,000 Protocols. By implementing a library ownership model, Springer is enabling libraries to fulfill a core library mission - to build and preserve digital library collections (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:15:53 +0100 891460 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/08/digital-preservation-major-pronom-update/ The US National Archives has announced that PRONOM has been significantly updated. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The National Archives has contributed to the update of a groundbreaking system—made available online today—that supports long-term preservation of and access to electronic records. The "new and improved" version of this "PRONOM" system was developed in partnership with the National Archives of the United Kingdom and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. PRONOM is a web-based public technical registry of more than 750 different digital file formats that enables digital archivists, records managers and the public to precisely identify and confirm digital file formats. This identification is the first step to ensuring long-term electronic file preservation by enabling the identification of those file formats that are in danger of becoming obsolete. . . . Technology from the National Archives contributed to a 25% increase in the number of entries in the PRONOM database, greatly enhancing PRONOM's range. "The National Archives is proud to share these technologies and contribute to PRONOM. Providing sustained access to valuable digital information is essential to preserving both our nation's records, and valuable digital assets worldwide" said NCAST Director, Kenneth Thibodeau. "The electronic records of the U.S. Government must be preserved for future generations, just as traditional paper and parchment records were preserved for us." | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891495 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62467 From a NARA (National Records and and Archives Administration) Announcement: The National Archives has contributed to the update of a groundbreaking system —made available online today– that supports long-term preservation of and access to electronic records. The “new and improved” version of this “PRONOM” system was developed in partnership with the National Archives [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:26:21 +0100 891360 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/07/digital-library-applications-programmer-at-university-of-california-santa-cruz/ The University of California, Santa Cruz Library is recruiting a Digital Library Applications Programmer (grant funded through 03/31/2012). Here's an excerpt from the ad: The University of California, Santa Cruz Campus will make available digital collections on a cutting-edge website. This website will provide access to Grateful Dead Archive materials and tools to facilitate public contributions to the archive. This project will enable the university to convert a significant part of a traditional archive to digital form and make it available online while simultaneously experimenting with the impact of fostering, creating, and curatorship of a large, socially constructed archive. The website will support discovery, delivery, use and construction of the Grateful Dead Archive for a broad range of users including the general public and the academic research community. The position will contribute to the development of open source software Omeka (http://omeka.org/) developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Enhancement of the software will include improving social metadata capacity, permissions and rights consent for contributed digital content, and migration (export and import) of metadata and data between collection management software/social sharing sites and Omeka, as well as applications, servers and repositories supporting access, content management and digital preservation. Lastly, the position will also support the installation, configuration and management of applications and servers supporting the website. Under general supervision and reporting to the Grateful Dead Project Manager, this position designs and develops code to enhance applications and installs, configures and manages server, storage and networking hardware. Work is performed using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, XML software and XSLT stylesheets. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891501 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/Kg_zREcBTlg/ The University of California, Santa Cruz Library is recruiting a Digital Library Applications Programmer (grant funded through 03/31/2012). Here's an excerpt from the ad: The University of California, Santa Cruz Campus will make available digital collections on a cutting-edge website. This website will provide access to Grateful Dead Archive materials and tools to facilitate public contributions to the archive. This project will enable the university to convert a significant part of a traditional archive to digital form and make it available online while simultaneously experimenting with the impact of fostering, creating, and curatorship of a large, socially constructed archive. The website will support discovery, delivery, use and construction of the Grateful Dead Archive for a broad range of users including the general public and the academic research community. The position will contribute to the development of open source software Omeka (http://omeka.org/) developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Enhancement of the software will include improving social metadata capacity, permissions and rights consent for contributed digital content, and migration (export and import) of metadata and data between collection management software/social sharing sites and Omeka, as well as applications, servers and repositories supporting access, content management and digital preservation. Lastly, the position will also support the installation, configuration and management of applications and servers supporting the website. Under general supervision and reporting to the Grateful Dead Project Manager, this position designs and develops code to enhance applications and installs, configures and manages server, storage and networking hardware. Work is performed using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, XML software and XSLT stylesheets. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:02:14 +0100 891231 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8757 State: Arizona The Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ) is seeking a motivated and innovative individual to fill the position; Curator of Visual Materials. Reporting to the Coordinator for Special Collections and Archives, the Curator of Visual Materials will oversee all tasks related to the management of the library's unique visual material holdings. The visual materials collections are the most heavily used component of the archives. The library's interdisciplinary documentary resources focus on the Colorado Plateau and Northern Arizona University. Responsibilities include but are not limited to acquisition, processing, digitization for 24x7 global access (http://archive.library.nau.edu/ ), generation of metadata, oversight of patron orders, preservation, supervision, and reference services. Formats include traditional and digital photographs, moving images, and graphics. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: An ALA-accredited master's degree in Library/Information Science or an advanced degree in a closely related field, such as Museum Studies or Archival Administration from an accredited program. One year of experience working with photographic or other visual materials collections. College level course work in the history of photography. For complete information on applying, minimum requirements and a detailed job description see: http://hr.nau.edu/ (.) The Salary range is $52,000 to 55,000 DOE. Northern Arizona University is a committed Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. Women, minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. NAU is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Submitted on 2010-11-30 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100 890892 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/06/daily-tweets-2010-12-06/ Ontario Academic Librarians Concerned about Severe Budget Cuts http://bit.ly/gWyjMo # The Game of Monopoly [Interview with author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires] http://bit.ly/eN1hZn # Justice Alito Says High Court Should Have Addressed Question of Copyright Notices Online http://bit.ly/hfWgUf # KeepIt Preservation Exemplar Repositories: The Final Countdown http://bit.ly/fmOd4r # In Online Privacy Plan, the Opt-Out Question Looms http://nyti.ms/gz4sz2 # Mobilizing User-Generated Content for Canada's Digital Advantage http://bit.ly/i46yCX # BSI Publishes Web Accessibility Code of Practice BS8878 http://bit.ly/fdTGDQ # (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891508 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/06/harvard-university-library-system-reorganization/ Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced in a letter that Harvard President Faust and the Harvard Corporation have accepted the recommendations of the Library Implementation Work Group for reorganizing the Harvard University Library system. Here's an excerpt: The Work Group recommendations, which have been accepted by President Faust and the Harvard Corporation, call for establishing a coordinated management structure for the University's libraries that will balance the need for School-based strategic decisions regarding patron-facing activities with the clear need for a more harmonized approach to the global strategic, administrative, and business processes of our library system. This structural redesign will bring the libraries even closer to curricula across all Schools, allowing librarians to work arm in arm with faculty members to develop course plans that bring into the classroom the best resources that the University can access, from the latest scientific article to a page from Keats' journals. The redesign will also permit cataloging and preservation of materials to be prioritized across the entire collection, and new scholarly materials, which will largely be born in digital formats, to be shared more easily through a sustainable model that would make these materials available for generations of scholars to come. Read more about it at "Harvard U. Library Restructuring Seeks to Unify High-Tech Services," "Library Administration to Be Redefined" and "Renewing Harvard’s Library System." | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891505 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/3lCbXdTL2d8/ Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced in a letter that Harvard President Faust and the Harvard Corporation have accepted the recommendations of the Library Implementation Work Group for reorganizing the Harvard University Library system. Here's an excerpt: The Work Group recommendations, which have been accepted by President Faust and the Harvard Corporation, call for establishing a coordinated management structure for the University's libraries that will balance the need for School-based strategic decisions regarding patron-facing activities with the clear need for a more harmonized approach to the global strategic, administrative, and business processes of our library system. This structural redesign will bring the libraries even closer to curricula across all Schools, allowing librarians to work arm in arm with faculty members to develop course plans that bring into the classroom the best resources that the University can access, from the latest scientific article to a page from Keats' journals. The redesign will also permit cataloging and preservation of materials to be prioritized across the entire collection, and new scholarly materials, which will largely be born in digital formats, to be shared more easily through a sustainable model that would make these materials available for generations of scholars to come. Read more about it at "Harvard U. Library Restructuring Seeks to Unify High-Tech Services," "Library Administration to Be Redefined" and "Renewing Harvard’s Library System." | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:03:06 +0100 891235 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/Iu5Lm21yX80/ Ontario Academic Librarians Concerned about Severe Budget Cuts http://bit.ly/gWyjMo # The Game of Monopoly [Interview with author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires] http://bit.ly/eN1hZn # Justice Alito Says High Court Should Have Addressed Question of Copyright Notices Online http://bit.ly/hfWgUf # KeepIt Preservation Exemplar Repositories: The Final Countdown http://bit.ly/fmOd4r # In Online Privacy Plan, the Opt-Out Question Looms http://nyti.ms/gz4sz2 # Mobilizing User-Generated Content for Canada's Digital Advantage http://bit.ly/i46yCX # BSI Publishes Web Accessibility Code of Practice BS8878 http://bit.ly/fdTGDQ # (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:00:00 +0100 891238 http://ifl.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/4/337?rss=1 (Source: IFLA Journal current issue) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890940 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/8oA0m3c27hY/ The Memento Project has won the Digital Preservation Award 2010. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Institute for Conservation and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce that the Memento Project led by Herbert Van De Sompel and colleagues of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Michael Nelson and colleagues of Old Dominion University, USA, has won the Digital Preservation Award 2010. . . . "The ability to change and update pages is one of the web’s greatest advantages but it introduces a sort of structured instability which makes it hard to depend on web pages in the long term. For more than a decade services like the UK Web Archive and the Internet Archive have provided a stable but partial memory of a fragment of the web—but users had no way of linking between current content and earlier versions held by web archives." "The Memento project resolves this by letting users set a time preference in their browser. The underlying technology then deploys basic, under-used features of the HTTP protocol to direct users to whichever archived copy of a website most closely matches their request." [Richard Ovenden, Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition] | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:05:22 +0100 891240 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/DMs37nYAGL8/ The Syracuse University Library is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Syracuse University Library seeks an energetic and visionary librarian who is passionate about the challenges of digital scholarly communication. This librarian will have a deep knowledge of the scholarly process and an avid interest in the future of digital research. A main assignment will be to direct Surface, the university’s new institutional repository/research database at http://surface.syr.edu, with the goal of building it into a model, state-of-the-art online resource. The scholarly communication librarian will develop an understanding of the theory, principles, and evolving practice of scholarly communication in the academy in order to make available, facilitate, and extend the broadest access to resources needed by the Syracuse University community for teaching and learning. This position will bridge the gap between the library and the SU research community by advising, instructing, and advocating for best practices in open access, and digital resources and preservation. This position is part of the library’s Unit for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication (RCSC), and will work closely with the associate dean to communicate with faculty and graduate students. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:02:31 +0100 891243 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62372 From a Clockss Announcement: The CLOCKSS Archive, Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA) and Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) are pleased to announce that they have partnered to create the Law Review Preservation Program: the first comprehensive long-term archiving solution for law reviews published online. With funding and support from LIPA, law reviews published on bepress’s Digital Commons platform [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:35:50 +0100 890314 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16174 Area Head - Library (University of Connecticut, Connecticut) Area Head-Library (UCP 11) Director - University Archives and Special Collections University of Connecticut Reporting to the Vice-Provost for University Libraries and housed in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Director, University Archives and Special Collections, participates in a range of duties including fund raising with appropriate University staff, strategic planning, budgeting, staff oversight, public programming, collection development, and research assistance. The Director, University Archives and Special Collections, oversees three team leaders who carry out the University Libraries’ programs in Archives and Special Collections; Conservation; and Public Programming, Marketing, and Communications. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:25:01 +0100 890014 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/01/selected-internet-resources-on-digital-research-data-curation/ Brian Westra et al. have published "Selected Internet Resources on Digital Research Data Curation" in the latest issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Here's an excerpt: In order to present a webliography of reasonable scope and length, the authors focused on resources applicable to the broader topic of digital research data curation as they relate to the natural sciences. Materials primarily or solely devoted to medical informatics, social sciences, and the humanities were not included. However, it should be noted that a number of the resources presented here are also applicable to research data curation in disciplines other than the sciences—for example, data repository software may be as useful to the social scientist as it is to a researcher in ecology. Additional scope specificity, when necessary, is provided in respective section listings below. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:02:37 +0100 890266 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/P04Sif9pNkc/ Brian Westra et al. have published "Selected Internet Resources on Digital Research Data Curation" in the latest issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Here's an excerpt: In order to present a webliography of reasonable scope and length, the authors focused on resources applicable to the broader topic of digital research data curation as they relate to the natural sciences. Materials primarily or solely devoted to medical informatics, social sciences, and the humanities were not included. However, it should be noted that a number of the resources presented here are also applicable to research data curation in disciplines other than the sciences—for example, data repository software may be as useful to the social scientist as it is to a researcher in ecology. Additional scope specificity, when necessary, is provided in respective section listings below. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:02:07 +0100 889839 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16134 Records Manager/Digital Resources Archivist (Williams College, Massachusetts) Williams College Libraries seeks a creative, service-oriented and technologically skilled archivist to galvanize the college’s records management program and help shape the libraries’ role in college-wide initiatives to manage the campus’s intellectual property.  As a small liberal arts college library we value collegiality, collaboration and working one-on-one with members of the campus community.  The Records Manager/Digital Resources Archivist reports to the College Archivist/Special Collections Librarian and is an active member of the department. This is a full-time, 12-month administrative staff position. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:10:01 +0100 889623 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16151 Information Acquisition and Management Librarian (Harvard Medical School, Countway Library of Medicine, Massachusetts) Duties and Responsibilities: The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine seeks an energetic and highly motivated librarian to join our innovative and dedicated staff in the role of Information Acquisition and Management Librarian. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:10:01 +0100 889620 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/cfp-2011-oha-annual-meeting-memories-of.html CFP: 2011 OHA Annual Meeting "Memories of Conflict and Disaster: Oral History and the Politics of Truth, Trauma, and Reconciliation."2011 OHA Annual MeetingOctober 12-16, 2011Renaissance Denver HotelDenver, ColoradoURL: http://www.oralhistory.org/annual-meeting/2011-oha-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/"Memories of Conflict and Disaster: Oral History and the Politics of Truth, Trauma, and Reconciliation."Call for PapersThe Oral History Association invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and presentations for its 2011 annual meeting to be held October 12-16, 2011, at the Renaissance Hotel in Denver, Colorado.The 2011 OHA Annual Meeting is being held a month after the 10th anniversary of 9/11/2001. The past century has spawned more than this one grave event; 9/11 was one of a myriad of natural and manmade conflicts and disasters that have occurred throughout the world in the recent and more distant past. Sonaturally, the theme of this meeting reflects these timely topics. And as the subtitle suggests, we have lent a particular ear to the interpretation and preservation of these events in light of the search for truth, thedocumentation of trauma, and the quest for reconciliation.Cataclysmic conflicts and disasters destroy people and property. They also, however, offer the prospect of change and rebirth. Leaders seemingly try but rarely succeed to learn lessons from these types of events; ordinary people tell, gather, and preserve individual stories of loss, survival, resilience, and renewal. The documentation of such recent events in human history in a way that adheres to the OHA's best practices and standards can be tricky to navigate. Conflict and disaster need not be explosive or ground-shaking to shape the cultural landscape, and as such, we welcome a wide interpretation of the call for papers.Denver, on the front range of the U.S. Rocky Mountains, and the Renaissance Denver Hotel will serve as host to the 2011 meeting. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890340 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62270 From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Announcement: The National Archives and Records Administration and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) have entered into an agreement ensuring long-term preservation and access to the NTIS collection of authenticated and secured digital scientific, technical, and engineering information (STEI). [Clip] The goals of [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:15:19 +0100 889450 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Hangingtogetherorg/~3/I1hvUGouTgs/ A couple of weeks ago the UCLA Film & Television Archive hosted “Reimagining the Archive,” a three-day conference that brought together archivists, scholars, artists, creators of digital humanities projects, and assorted others to hear about a wide-ranging array of digital initiatives. While there was a certain focus on the moving-image realm, the papers went far beyond. A few talks that have stuck with me: Keynoter Rick Prelinger, speaking after the opening reception, was his usual feisty self. He called for film archivists to become activists in finding ways to lessen the intellectual property stranglehold on access to and re-use of moving-image content, in part by reducing the emphasis on commercially-produced content in favor of “ephemeral film” (his term). He also issued a call to defend the power of the original image, unpolluted by enhancements like sound tracks and voiceovers. A panel on digital scholarship included some good stuff. The p.i.’s on the Sacred Samaritan Texts project (digitized Torah scrolls) at Michigan State modeled a nice approach to working in close concert with members of multiple user communities who helped them understand the documents and the ways in which both scholars and religious practitioners would approach them as both texts and artifacts. Fast-forwarding from A.D. 500 to 21st-century art took us to Adam Lauder, a digital scholarship librarian at York University (Canada) who is building IAINBAXTER&raisonnE. He seeks to reinterpret the concept of the catalogue raisonné by using crowdsourcing to create a virtual exhibition, curation, and research environment. Lauder offered up the phase “ephemeral curating,” which I kind of like. (Hmm, “ephemeral” emerges as theme.) Howard Besser focused on projects that are using visual segmentation to enable more granular analysis of moving-image content. ... Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:00:00 +0100 895041 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=822 A couple of weeks ago the UCLA Film & Television Archive hosted “Reimagining the Archive,” a three-day conference that brought together archivists, scholars, artists, creators of digital humanities projects, and assorted others to hear about a wide-ranging array of digital initiatives. While there was a certain focus on the moving-image realm, the papers went far beyond. A few talks that have stuck with me: Keynoter Rick Prelinger, speaking after the opening reception, was his usual feisty self. He called for film archivists to become activists in finding ways to lessen the intellectual property stranglehold on access to and re-use of moving-image content, in part by reducing the emphasis on commercially-produced content in favor of “ephemeral film” (his term). He also issued a call to defend the power of the original image, unpolluted by enhancements like sound tracks and voiceovers. A panel on digital scholarship included some good stuff. The p.i.’s on the Sacred Samaritan Texts project (digitized Torah scrolls) at Michigan State modeled a nice approach to working in close concert with members of multiple user communities who helped them understand the documents and the ways in which both scholars and religious practitioners would approach them as both texts and artifacts. Fast-forwarding from A.D. 500 to 21st-century art took us to Adam Lauder, a digital scholarship librarian at York University (Canada) who is building IAINBAXTER&raisonnE. He seeks to reinterpret the concept of the catalogue raisonné by using crowdsourcing to create a virtual exhibition, curation, and research environment. Lauder offered up the phase “ephemeral curating,” which I kind of like. (Hmm, “ephemeral” emerges as theme.) Howard Besser focused on projects that are using visual segmentation to enable more granular analysis of moving-image content. ... Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:00:00 +0100 889875 http://dltj.org/article/jpeg2000-uk-report/ Earlier this month, the JPEG 2000 Implementation Working Group, the Wellcome Trust Library, and the U.K. Digital Preservation Coalition hosted a free one-day seminar called JPEG2000 for the Practitioner. The presentation slides are now linked to the seminar program and is a short report of the event by Christy Henshaw of Wellcome Library. The presentation slides by themselves carry a great deal of depth even without a recording of the audio. In particular I can recommend “What did JPEG 2000 ever do for us?” by Simon Tanner and “JPEG 2000 standardization – a pragmatic viewpoint” by Richard Clark. As brief introductions to where we’ve been with JPEG 2000 and where we could go.Hat tip to Ron Murray for pointing this out to me.Post from: Disruptive Library Technology JesterLatest Views on JPEG2000 for Presentation and Archiving (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:22:17 +0100 889459 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378831011096259 Abstract: Purpose – In this increasingly digital world, archivists have had to reconsider early definitions and measures of authenticity in order to ensure their applicability to the process of preserving digital records. This paper sets out to explore the complexities involved in defining and preserving the authenticity of digital files. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on literature from the field to present a comprehensive overview of traditional definitions of authenticity and highlight the shifting nature of those definitions in the digital age. The discussion begins with a look at traditional archival understandings of authenticity as they relate to physical objects. The paper goes on to examine these challenges and efforts and includes a look at the resource demands and technology tools currently used to evaluate digital authenticity. The paper conducted extensive research on the subject to compile source materials and draw conclusions. Findings – This paper highlights the inherent challenge of establishing and maintaining pertinent criteria for authenticity when archivists are, for the most part, electing to reformat and effectively change digital records in order to ensure their long-term preservation. Practical implications – This paper includes practical implications for redefining, measuring, and preserving the authenticity of digital records. Social implications – This paper has social implications in that it asserts a need to question the well-established understanding of what it means to be authentic. Originality/value – The paper brings together a range of information and presents a comprehensive yet succinct view of the issues involved in defining and preserving digital authenticity, not otherwise found in the literature serving the archive community. (Source: Library Hi Tech : Table of Contents) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:05:03 +0100 889313 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/11/26/digital-technology-lets-libraries-share-their-fragile-treasures-with-the-world-latimes-com/ LAtimes – “Powerful scanners allow for the preservation and easy dissemination of ancient texts, but the volume of material waiting to be processed is enormous.” (Source: Library Stuff) Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:25:47 +0100 888720 http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/robert-darnton-on-how-google-can-save-americas-books/ This New York Review of Books Blog Post is another article/post by Professor Darnton, Director of Harvard University Libraries, on book digitzation, libraries, and related topics. Google represents the ultimate in business plans. By controlling access to information, it has made billions, which it is now investing in the control of the information itself. What began as Google Book Search is therefore becoming the largest library and book business in the world. Like all commercial enterprises, Google’s primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders. Libraries exist to get books to readers—books and other forms of knowledge and entertainment, provided for free. The fundamental incompatibility of purpose between libraries and Google Book Search could be mitigated if Google were willing to contribute some of its data and expertise to the creation of a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). [Clip] All major research libraries have digitized parts of their collections. Since 1995 the Digital Library Federation has worked to combine their catalogues or “metadata” into a general network. More ambitious enterprises such as the Internet Archive, Knowledge Commons, and Public.Resource.Org have attempted digitization on a larger scale. They may be dwarfed by Google, but several countries are now determined to out-Google Google by scanning the entire contents of their national libraries. [Clip] Even if Google refused to cooperate, a coalition of foundations could provide enough to finance the DPLA, and a coalition of research libraries could provide the books. By working systematically through their holdings, a great collection could be formed. It would conform to the highest standards in its bibliographical apparatus, its scanning, its editorial decisions, and its commitment to preservation for the use of future generations. ... Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:34:55 +0100 888293 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/XePdeHb5CQc/ Once a year we take time out of our busy schedule to formally survey and then acknowledge our WebJunction Community Partner administrators. This year we asked partners two questions: 1) What 1-3 programmatic efforts using WebJunction are you most proud of this year? 2) Which partner(s) do you look to for advice/consultation/guidance as you plan your WebJunction programming and why? The responses we collected from our partners were fantastic reminders of all the work that has gone into their programming and state partnership over the last year. We were energized by the work that has gone on and wanted to share with you the broad array of accomplishments achieved by our community partners. Hold on to your hats… a LOT has been going on in 2010! Course Usage WJ Idaho: Effective and broad reaching course marketing WJ Indiana: Certification program WJ Iowa: Public Library Management and Course of the Month online programs WJ Pennsylvania: Epic end of year course sale and member engagement WJ Washington: Fantastic end of year course efforts and marketing Course Creation WJ Georgia: GALILEO (Georgia’s Virtual Library) courses available in WebJunction Georgia’s course catalog WJ Illinois: Brand New Course: There will always be Storytellers in all WebJunction course catalogs WJ Pennsylvania: 3 new Access PA courses in WebJunction Pennsylvania’s course catalog Content Creation WJ Connecticut: Using Library Statistics to Make the Case For Your Library – Online! WJ Idaho: Implementation of groups, including ID_Teen Read Week 2010. ... Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:08:45 +0100 888635 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8508 State: Connecticut Project Archivist, Divinity Special Collections Divinity Library Yale University New Haven, CT Rank: Librarian I-II www.yale.edu/jobs Fixed Duration: One (1) year from date of hire, non-renewable Schedule: Full-time (37.5 hours per week); Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30-5:00) Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that include two major art museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LIBRARY The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual growth and is a highly valued partner in the teaching and research missions of Yale University and scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including more than 12.5 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaged in numerous digital initiatives designed to provide access to a full array of scholarly information. Housed in the Sterling Memorial Library and twenty school and departmental libraries, it employs a dynamic, diverse, and innovative staff of over 500 who have the opportunity to work with the highest caliber of faculty and students, participate on committees, and are involved in other areas of staff development. For additional information on the Yale University Library, please visit the Library's web site at http://www.library.yale.edu/. ... Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:00:02 +0100 887892 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8509 State: New York Digital Projects Librarian (Vassar College, New York) Vassar College seeks a Digital Projects Librarian. This is a new position, reporting to the Head of Library Technology. The digital projects librarian will serve as an essential member of our recently created digital initiatives team. This team will have responsibility for developing a program of support for the creation, delivery, access and preservation of digital content and collections in the broadest terms. We seek an innovative, energetic individual who will work collaboratively to research, develop, refine and implement interfaces, infrastructure, policies, procedures, workflows, metadata standards and crosswalks for digital collections and projects. This librarian will manage assigned projects, and participate in the overall management of digital collections and production work, including the application of standards, metadata, workflow design, production coordination, and quality controls. Additionally, the successful candidate will participate in the maintenance and development of the library's website and other library systems. Required: MLS or equivalent degree or experience; demonstrated knowledge of and interest in current and emerging trends, issues and best practices in digital library initiatives and projects and the technologies used to support those initiatives. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to display imagination, ingenuity and humor in solving problems and in working with people. Highly desirable: Experience with creating and applying metadata standards to describe digital collections. Experience with XML, XSLT, cross-walking, and scripting. Experience with standards-based non-MARC metadata schemas, such as Dublin Core, MODS, METS, EAD and TEI. Solid understanding of digital repository software. Knowledge of digital preservation practices, including cost factors and productivity issues. ... Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:00:02 +0100 887891 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8549 State: Illinois The American Theological Library Association (ATLA), a high-tech professional association of theological libraries & librarians that produces electronic products in all fields of theology and religion seeks qualified applicants for a full-time Digitization and Product Support Associate position and for a full-time Product Support Analyst to join the Department of Electronic Products and Services (EPS). (For more information about the other open position in the department, the Product Support Analyst position, please visit our listing at: http://www.atla.com/member/job_openings.html#ATLA_Product_Support ). Essential Duties: Approximately 50% of the time will be spent creating and inspecting of digital files such as images and PDFs, both manually and by means of selected software packages. Tasks include: * Digitizes ATLA Serials (ATLAS) journals. Tasks may include inventory, collation, disbinding, scanning and processing of ATLAS journals and pages. * Prepares full text utilizing OCR software. * Works with other digitization and production staff to ensure synchronization of indexing and digital materials. * Collaborates with the digitization team to develop and document digital processing workflows, guidelines, and to ensure workflow and production continues and meets deadlines. Approximately 50% of time will be spent performing quality control tests on ATLA products and providing product support. Tasks include: * Performs quality control tests on MARC21 index records, digital files, and other ATLA products or data. Collects pertinent data and, working with support team members, performs corresponding analyses to ensure timely detection of quality concerns and identification of their causes and coordinates the tracking of quality control analyses for each product to ensure consistency with each product release and with ATLA standards while meeting firm deadlines. ... Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:00:02 +0100 887879 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-presentation-on-new-us-government.html FDsys is the new content management and delivery system for the Government Printing Office (GPO). It is intended to replace the well-known GPO Access site as a source of U.S. official publications.In early November, Ashley Dahlen, Outreach Librarian at the GPO in Washington, gave a presentation on the new system:"GPO Access will be going away soon as the U.S. Government Printing Office rolls out the Federal Digital System (FDsys), an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. Learn about the new system and its features, what content is available through it, and search strategies. Not only is FDsys a powerful tool for the public to access online, authoritative Federal information, but it also serves as a preservation repository for the content and a content management system for Federal agencies. " (Source: Library Boy) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888081 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2639 Call for Chapters: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader While information needs and behavior have become a central research concern in library and information studies, the particularities of gender and sexuality have yet to be centered in the field. Bringing queer and feminist theories into conversation with current LIS research, Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader addresses this gap, gathering existing research along with new scholarship on the intersection of gender and sexuality and information use. Contributors address a range of concerns, including paradigms of information needs and behavior research, methodological challenges, and current approaches to assessing and meeting LGBTQ and women’s information needs. Responding to emergent critiques of positivism and behaviorism in LIS scholarship, this collection also seeks to trouble what we think we mean when we talk about gender and sex, as well as “information” and “behavior,” as settled, stable constructs. Critical and Interdisciplinary Focus Current work in disciplines as diverse as legal theory, literary criticism, design, anthropology, and technology studies exercise a profound impact on LIS research. At the same time, the somewhat nebulous sub-disciplines within our field, such as information seeking behavior, information structures, archival studies, museology, information retrieval, and information policy, have been connected by researchers in new and innovative ways. LIS scholarship has also sought in recent years to challenge traditional approaches and suggest new directions for research into the purposes, practices, phenomenon, and organization of information. This reader serves as a comprehensive multidisciplinary anthology where different epistemologies and methodologies meet. It offers a timely and reasoned contribution to feminist and queer LIS research and promotes perspectives that can serve the cause of social justice. ... Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:17:10 +0100 888745 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-microform-and-digitization-review.html CFP: Microform and Digitization Review: Preservation and Access Issues for Cultural Heritage InstitutionsBeginning with the first issue of 2011, Microform & Imaging Review will have a new name: Microform and Digitization Review Preservation and Access Issues for Cultural Heritage InstitutionsThe new name reflects the true scope of the journal and its audience. Although not peer-reviewed, the journal reaches an international audience, and articles are published soon after submission. Sample articles are available at:http://www.reference-global.com/toc/mfir/38/1The editor is seeking authors to write on variety of topics:- Case studies of innovative digitization projects (use of specialized digitization equipment, web 2.0 features, etc.)- Digitization and/or microfilm projects in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or South America- Digital preservation- Digitization of museum collections- Digitization of special formats (videos, newspapers, maps, etc.)- Microfilm as a component of a digitization project (e.g., as a preservation format)The next two deadlines for submitting articles are January 25 and April 20.Please email queries and proposals to the journal editor, Ken Middleton, at ken.middlet@gmail.com (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888805 http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/careers-gateway/starting-out/Pages/workingwithrarebooksandspecialcollections.aspx Jobs with full or part-time responsibilities for rare book and special collections occur in a range of organisations: for example, specialist independent libraries (e.g. astronomy or architecture libraries), public libraries (especially local studies collections), cathedral libraries, university and other research libraries, and national libraries. Job description Rare Book and Special Collections librarians can be responsible for a wide range of material including early printed books, rare modern books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, bookbindings, and artifacts (for example, printing types). They require a wide range of skills – some specialist and some shared with other librarians – in (for example):  historical bibliography and understanding of the structures of books as objects the principles and main issues of management, preservation (including environmental control and safe handling) and organisation of printed materials and non-printed materials such as documents, manuscript books and museum objects special cataloguing that meets research needs reference work, including the increasingly wide range of digital resources promoting the collections, ranging from large-scale digitisation projects to setting out a small selection of rare books for a visiting group or single potential benefactor fund-raising: both from philanthropic sources and – through grant applications – from statutory funding bodies They also require knowledge of: the collections and their subject areas to help interpret them and assess and promote their research value languages, to help manage and research the collections and also to assist users collections of similar material in other libraries, to help appreciate the particular strengths of their own collections and the possibilities for collaboration SalarySalaries vary considerably depending on the sector you are working in. ... Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:46:19 +0100 887712 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/call-for-chapters-gender-sexuality.html Call for Chapters: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A ReaderWhile information needs and behavior have become a central research concern in library and information studies, the particularities of gender and sexuality have yet to be centered in the field. Bringing queer and feminist theories into conversation with current LIS research, Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader addresses this gap, gathering existing research along with new scholarship on the intersection of gender and sexuality and information use. Contributors address a range of concerns, including paradigms of information needs and behavior research, methodological challenges, and current approaches to assessing and meeting LGBTQ and women’s information needs. Responding to emergent critiques of positivism and behaviorism in LIS scholarship, this collection also seeks to trouble what we think we mean when we talk about gender and sex, as well as "information" and "behavior," as settled, stable constructs.Critical and Interdisciplinary FocusCurrent work in disciplines as diverse as legal theory, literary criticism, design, anthropology, and technology studies exercise a profound impact on LIS research. At the same time, the somewhat nebulous sub-disciplines within our field, such as information seeking behavior, information structures, archival studies, museology, information retrieval, and information policy, have been connected by researchers in new and innovative ways. LIS scholarship has also sought in recent years to challenge traditional approaches and suggest new directions for research into the purposes, practices, phenomenon, and organization of information. This reader serves as a comprehensive multidisciplinary anthology where different epistemologies and methodologies meet. It offers a timely and reasoned contribution to feminist and queer LIS research and promotes perspectives that can serve the cause of social justice. ... Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 887381 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3129 Those who are not yet convinced that we need digital deposit of government information into Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) libraries, should read this: Could the Smithsonian No Longer Be Free?, by Stephanie Condon, CBS News, (November 11, 2010). The draft proposal [of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission], penned by commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, suggests a number of ways to cut discretionary spending by more than $200 billion in 2015 -- including reducing federal funding for the Smithsonian and the National Park Service. The commission co-chairs suggest the Smithsonian Institution should charge admission fees at its 19 museums and the National Zoo, which are all currently free, to make up for the lost funding. And the response by the Smithsonian: ...The Smithsonian is the national museum and has been open--free of charge--for 164 years. In a sense, Americans already pay to visit the Smithsonian with their tax dollars, which provide about two-thirds of the Smithsonian's annual budget. The Commission's recommendation that the Smithsonian charge admission would create a barrier for many audiences--those who are underserved and who would most benefit from exposure to the Smithsonian's collections, exhibitions and research.... Imagine that! An institution with a long history of free public access to our heritage being suddenly told, "Sorry, but we just can't afford to keep access free anymore -- even if the public has already paid for it." We have been told over and over that GPO has good intentions, and we fully believe that they do -- today. They don't want to charge for government information. They do want to make everything available freely for ever. But GPO does not set its budget. Good intentions are not sufficient to guarantee preservation and access in the digital age. None of this will be new to regular readers of FGI. ... Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:28:28 +0100 887036 http://www.llrx.com/fdsys.htm "GPO Access will be going away soon as the U.S. Government Printing Office rolls out the Federal Digital System (FDsys), an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. Learn about the new system and its features, what content is available through it, and search strategies. Not only is FDsys a powerful tool for the public to access online, authoritative Federal information, but it also serves as a preservation repository for the content and a content management system for Federal agencies." (Source: LLRX.com) Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:08:47 +0100 887971 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16035 Digital Projects Librarian (Vassar College, New York) Vassar College seeks a Digital Projects Librarian. This is a new position, reporting to the Head of Library Technology. The digital projects librarian will serve as an essential member of our recently created digital initiatives team. This team will have responsibility for developing a program of support for the creation, delivery, access and preservation of digital content and collections in the broadest terms. We seek an innovative, energetic individual who will work collaboratively to research, develop, refine and implement interfaces, infrastructure, policies, procedures, workflows, metadata standards and crosswalks for digital collections and projects. ... Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:50:02 +0100 886266 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8387 State: Washington, D.C. Title: Archives Specialist, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives Location: Dumbarton Oaks Library and other locations as necessary. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, located in Georgetown in the Washington, DC area, is dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through Fellowships, symposia, exhibitions and publications. The Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is located in the Library building (http://www.doaks.org/library/icfa.html). The ICFA supports scholarship in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape studies by acquiring, organizing, preserving, cataloging, and providing access to images in various media; documentation, both textual and visual, of archaeological surveys and excavations; and papers of noteworthy scholars in the three disciplines. The Byzantine collection of ICFA includes approximately one-half million photographs in different formats as well as fieldwork papers and records. Reports To: Shalimar Fojas White Manager, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives Grade: 53 Function: Dumbarton Oaks is seeking an Archives Specialist for its Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives. The position is a limited term appointment of one year (12 months). Reporting to the Manager of the ICFA, the Archives Specialist will work closely with the Byzantine Assistant Curator and the Digitization Specialist to provide greater access to the ICFA’s holdings by establishing physical and intellectual control over its multi-media collections. Key Responsibilities: 1. The Archives Specialist will inventory, arrange, re-house, describe, preserve, and otherwise process archival and photographic collections in the ICFA to professional archival standards. 2. ... Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:10:02 +0100 886235 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8389 State: Arkansas Processing/Electronic Records Archivist Institution: Arkansas State University Location: Jonesboro, AR Posted: 11/08/2010 Application Due: 01/19/2011 Type: Full Time Position Summary: Primary functions include arranging and describing congressional, gubernatorial, and legislative collections; processing and preserving electronic records; and creating and maintaining digital collections derived from archival and related materials. Minimum Qualifications: ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library & Information Science with an emphasis in archives or Master's Degree in History / Public History with archival experience Desired Qualifications: -Strong knowledge of and/or experience in archiving electronic records. -Strong knowledge of and/or experience in processing congressional, legislative, or political collections. -Expertise in metadata creation, migration, and preservation. -Excellent oral and written communication skills. -Flexibility to accept and manage change and the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously. -Excellent interpersonal skills. -Ability to travel as needed to participate in consortia and professional activities. Application Information Contact: Arkansas State University Phone: 870-972-3454 Web Posting: https://jobs.astate.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1289263250640 Submitted on 2010-11-10 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:10:02 +0100 886233 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3126 The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources' State Library and State Archives (Cultural Resources) have a new website designed to guide local and state government employees who are responsible for the preservation of North Carolina state public records. http://digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov The site has resources that can help North Carolina government employees -- and those responsible for digital information in general -- learn how to ensure that today's digital information is saved so that it can become tomorrow's heritage. The site includes tutorials that explain what digital preservation is and why it is important; a checklist of key digital preservation practices; "quick tips," advanced tutorials, and more. While the site is directed toward North Carolina public servants, it is general enough to be useful to those considering, implementing, or teaching on the topic. Thanks and hat tip to Lisa A. Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina, NC Department of Cultural Resources, and the Bestpractices mailing list (Bestpractices@islemail.org). (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:57:13 +0100 886280 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-ohio-valley-group-of-technical.html CFP: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2011 ConferenceTechnical Services RenaissanceMiami University, Oxford, OHMay 15-17, 2011CFP URL: http://techserv.lib.muohio.edu/ovgtsl11/call-for-proposals by December 3, 2010:URL: http://techserv.lib.muohio.edu/ovgtsl11/Description: In this time of turmoil for libraries, some Technical Services librarians are building a foundation for the future. Some study past successes and failures to guide future decisions and actions. Others applycurrent tools and concepts to reinvent existing services and to create innovative new services more relevant to today’s information environment. Finally, some are creating entirely new concepts and paradigms that willhelp drive the future of libraries. The foundation we are building will support a rebirth of function, form and purpose — a Technical Services Renaissance.Keynote speakers: Karen Coyle, Librarian and Consultant, and Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.The Conference Program Committee invites forward thinking submissions in all areas related to technical services librarianship including acquisitions, cataloging, serials, electronic resources and preservation in academic, public, and special libraries. Participants are encouraged to think about where we are headed and where we want to go and to share work in areas on the leading edge of librarianship. ... Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 887392 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/11/14/institutional-repository-bibliography-version-3/ An institutional repository is a digital repository specific to a single institution that contains diverse types of digital works that deal with the disciplines associated with that institution. Version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. It primarily includes published articles, books, and technical reports. A limited number of conference papers and unpublished e-prints are also included. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated): 1 General 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies 11 Institutional Repository Software 12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author The following recent Digital Scholarship publication may also be of interest: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 886218 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/b4f15N5XF9Y/ An institutional repository is a digital repository specific to a single institution that contains diverse types of digital works that deal with the disciplines associated with that institution. Version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. It primarily includes published articles, books, and technical reports. A limited number of conference papers and unpublished e-prints are also included. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated): 1 General 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies 11 Institutional Repository Software 12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author The following recent Digital Scholarship publication may also be of interest: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) See also: Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:01:15 +0100 887406 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/24KTW2VtZ7w/current-scholarship-program-2011-title.html "The Current Scholarship Program makes current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, providing a single point for librarians and end users around the world to access this content, and ensuring this content's long-term preservation. Faculty and students around the world will be able to access all licensed content on JSTOR - current issues, back issues, and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries - easily and seamlessly. For the 2011 subscription year, 174 titles from 19 publishers are available via the Current Scholarship Program. Libraries may subscribe to current issues on a Single Title basis or assemble their own custom collections of single titles. For both Single Title and Collections, JSTOR provides current issue access back to the Digital Availability Date for each title. This date is defined as either: (a) the first online volume published that was also available for purchase by libraries from the publisher (e.g. not an aggregator), or (b) for titles not yet online, the year ahead of the moving wall. This date is fixed so a current subscription grows in content year after year for all subscribers. In addition to current issues, libraries may subscribe to full runs of Single Titles (from Volume 1, Issue 1 to present) and Collections" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:10:02 +0100 885903 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/24KTW2VtZ7w/current-scholarship-program-2011-title.html "The Current Scholarship Program makes current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, providing a single point for librarians and end users around the world to access this content, and ensuring this content's long-term preservation. Faculty and students around the world will be able to access all licensed content on JSTOR - current issues, back issues, and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries - easily and seamlessly. For the 2011 subscription year, 174 titles from 19 publishers are available via the Current Scholarship Program. Libraries may subscribe to current issues on a Single Title basis or assemble their own custom collections of single titles. For both Single Title and Collections, JSTOR provides current issue access back to the Digital Availability Date for each title. This date is defined as either: (a) the first online volume published that was also available for purchase by libraries from the publisher (e.g. not an aggregator), or (b) for titles not yet online, the year ahead of the moving wall. This date is fixed so a current subscription grows in content year after year for all subscribers. In addition to current issues, libraries may subscribe to full runs of Single Titles (from Volume 1, Issue 1 to present) and Collections" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 886770 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/9L1Rnw_jiHw/programa-gratuito-preserva-dados.html Programa gratuito preserva dados digitais para o futuro: "Cientistas europeus disponibilizaram gratuitamente um software desenvolvido com o objetivo de garantir que os dados armazenados digitalmente sejam preservados, acessados e compreendidos no futuro"A ferramenta é resultado do CASPAR (Cultural, artistic and scientific knowledge preservation, for access and retrieval - preservação do conhecimento cultural, artístico e científico para o acesso e recuperação), um projeto que consumiu 8,8 milhões de euros de investimentos dentro do programa europeu Agenda Digital. (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:06:00 +0100 885644 http://acrlog.org/2010/11/09/building-smart-collections-for-todays-users/ This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is from Anna Creech, Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Richmond, Virginia. She also blogs at Eclectic Librarian. Some days I look at my projects list and tasks and wonder how in the world I ended up here. They often appear to be more like what one might expect to be doing in an office of institutional research rather than in a library. I am an electronic resources librarian, which I have found to be a title used for everything from online reference instruction to cataloging to acquisitions. In my case, I do little instruction or cataloging, and spend most of my time analyzing the digital resources we have acquired. Increasingly, as libraries are forced to cut their resources even more severely, and in some cases, justify their existence, we have had to use more metrics to determine the value of our resources, whether they are personnel or materials. While this has been a tradition in libraries for as long as I’ve known them, it’s not what most of us thought we would be doing when we entered the profession. But, we can’t keep our heads in the sand any longer. Just as we have many people who are passionate about the preservation of materials, we need to have as many if not more people in libraries who are passionate about the stewardship of the resources we purchase. We can no longer afford to purchase material that sits on a shelf and may never be touched. We need to be smarter about the things we acquire and a big part of that is looking at trends in the past to predict the future. When I analyze usage data, I am looking for the anomalies that indicate a problem with a resource, such as sudden drops in use, declining patterns, etc. I talk to the public service librarians about resources that seem to be declining in use to make sure they are still relevant to our programs and researchers. ... Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:05:48 +0100 885078 http://acrlog.org/2010/11/09/building-smart-collections-for-todays-users/ This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is from Anna Creech, Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Richmond, Virginia. She also blogs at Eclectic Librarian. Some days I look at my projects list and tasks and wonder how in the world I ended up here. They often appear to be more like what one might expect to be doing in an office of institutional research rather than in a library. I am an electronic resources librarian, which I have found to be a title used for everything from online reference instruction to cataloging to acquisitions. In my case, I do little instruction or cataloging, and spend most of my time analyzing the digital resources we have acquired. Increasingly, as libraries are forced to cut their resources even more severely, and in some cases, justify their existence, we have had to use more metrics to determine the value of our resources, whether they are personnel or materials. While this has been a tradition in libraries for as long as I’ve known them, it’s not what most of us thought we would be doing when we entered the profession. But, we can’t keep our heads in the sand any longer. Just as we have many people who are passionate about the preservation of materials, we need to have as many if not more people in libraries who are passionate about the stewardship of the resources we purchase. We can no longer afford to purchase material that sits on a shelf and may never be touched. We need to be smarter about the things we acquire and a big part of that is looking at trends in the past to predict the future. When I analyze usage data, I am looking for the anomalies that indicate a problem with a resource, such as sudden drops in use, declining patterns, etc. I talk to the public service librarians about resources that seem to be declining in use to make sure they are still relevant to our programs and researchers. ... Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 885070 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01435121011093432 Abstract: Purpose – At the beginning of this millennium it was decided to renovate higher education legislation and to restructure the institutions in Finland. The new University Act was passed in the summer of 2009. One important aspect of the new Act means that the formerly state-owned universities become more autonomous. In addition, the number of universities in Finland will be reduced by merging some of the old universities into new units, like Aalto University and the UEF, which were both inaugurated in 2010. This also has meant the birth of new multi-campus universities as well as posing new challenges for the management of finances. At the same time, the digital revolution of scientific information has changed the paradigm of the libraries from ownership to access. It is no longer necessary to purchase paper journals and store them within the library building. Instead, the electronic versions are licensed, thus providing academics as well as students with 24/7 access to the material. This digital change has also triggered a generation gap between ageing library staff and the digital-age student generation. This paper discusses the management of the lifecycles of different types of documents – printed/digital and serials/monographs – in a rapidly changing environment. In addition, the paper aims to discuss the distribution of work and outsourcing of the collection storage with the National Repository Library with the emphasis on enabling access to the outsourced collections with the help of modern database technologies. Some evidence of the effects on library expenses and usage is also given. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses the statistical data of Finnish academic libraries in presenting its results. Findings – The National Repository Library has enabled Finnish university libraries to focus their collection policies and to make savings in the cost of premises. ... Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:05:09 +0100 884644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/aQuzSQjSqhI/british-library-hints-at-videogame.html "The British Library is looking to work more closely with the videogame industry to help preserve gaming's 30-year history. Fears are growing that not enough is being done to archive the thousands of games which have been produced in the United Kingdom. Now Paul Wheatley, a specialist in digital preservation, at the British Library, says it is keen to lend support, building on work already done by an initiative called the National Videogame Archive. Industry experts say the country is in danger of losing vast quantities of gaming content and Mr Wheatley believes games and related documents from the 1970s through to the 1990s are already being lost. His concerns mirror those of the British Library's chief executive, Lynne Brindley, who said last year the country faced a "black hole" of lost information as more records are moved digitally online" - The independent (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:21:29 +0100 884339 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/aQuzSQjSqhI/british-library-hints-at-videogame.html "The British Library is looking to work more closely with the videogame industry to help preserve gaming's 30-year history. Fears are growing that not enough is being done to archive the thousands of games which have been produced in the United Kingdom. Now Paul Wheatley, a specialist in digital preservation, at the British Library, says it is keen to lend support, building on work already done by an initiative called the National Videogame Archive. Industry experts say the country is in danger of losing vast quantities of gaming content and Mr Wheatley believes games and related documents from the 1970s through to the 1990s are already being lost. His concerns mirror those of the British Library's chief executive, Lynne Brindley, who said last year the country faced a "black hole" of lost information as more records are moved digitally online" - The independent (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 06 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 885233 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61795 From an Article in The Independent: The British Library is looking to work more closely with the videogame industry to help preserve gaming's 30-year history. Fears are growing that not enough is being done to archive the thousands of games which have been produced in the United Kingdom. Now Paul Wheatley, a specialist in digital preservation, at the [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:59:42 +0100 884158 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=817 There has been quite a bit of buzz around curation micro-services as a useful and effective way to handle digital preservation needs. The basic idea is this: rather than have a monolithic repository built on top of a database system, you have small, interoperable services built off the file system. The beauty of this struck me immediately. By having small, interoperable services you can easily replace a service with a new one without harming the others. You can write new services and insert them without harming anything else.  And by relying on the filesystem instead of a database, should the worst happen you can simply walk the tree to rebuild your knowledge of what is there. I was an immediate fan boy of this new architecture coming from my former employer, the California Digital Library (CDL). So that’s why I both blogged about it and also arranged to sponsor a free webinar on the digital curation system that uses these curation micro-services. Dubbed Merritt for the lake that lies near the CDL offices, Merritt is a system that provides permanent storage, persistent URLs, tools for long-term management, and an easy user interface for deposit and update. The webinar is open to all but advanced registration is required. Register here* to attend this free webinar via WebEx on 18 November at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (UTC 19:00). This is the eighth webinar in the OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series developed to highlight specific innovative applications, often locally developed, that libraries, museums and archives may find effective in their own environments, as well as to teach technical staff new technologies and skills. Recordings of these webinars are made available on the OCLC Research Web site and in iTunes. While I have your attention, I want to thank Melissa Renspie, who is the person who makes this all happen. ... Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:33:36 +0100 884831 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/11/most-recent-issue-of-law-library.html The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has published the most recent issue of its publication Law Library Journal.Among the articles that attracted my attention:The European Human Rights System : "This article presents the historical, organizational, and bibliographic information needed to research the Council of Europe’s regulation of human rights. It begins with an explanation of the reasons for the organization’s founding and then describes its statute, its structure, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the history of the changes in the treaty’s procedures, and its enforcement mechanisms. The final section provides similar treatment for another, less well known, of the Council’s human rights treaties, the European Social Charter."Breaking Down Link Rot: The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archives Examination of URL Stability: "Ms. Rhodes explores URL stability, measured by the prevalence of link rot over a three-year period, among the original URLs for law- and policy-related materials published to the web and archived though the Chesapeake Project, a collaborative digital preservation initiative under way in the law library community. The results demonstrate a significant increase in link rot over time in materials originally published to seemingly stable organization, government, and state web sites."The Quality of Academic Law Library Online Catalogs and Its Effect on Information Retrieval: "Quality in online catalogs is generally presumed to be high. Ms. Briscoe examined a number of online catalog entries and documented the accuracy of selected bibliographic records. After finding a high level of errors, she surveyed reference librarians to determine if they believed that these errors would affect their ability to answer reference questions." (Source: Library Boy) Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 884191 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15967 Head, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California) Department: Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies/William Andrews Clark Memorial Library     Rank and Salary: Salary and appointment level based on experience and qualifications. ... Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:40:02 +0100 883808 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61750 The November 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available (2 pages; PDF). Stories Include: + PREMIS (metadata) for digital preservation + News from a recent conference (iPRES2010), meetings (International Internet Preservation Consortium), and workshop (Digital Preservation Coalitions) held in Vienna, Austria + Profile of Digital Preservation Pioneer Nancy McGovern + Recaps from a talk [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:40:07 +0100 883900 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3120 Ross Housewright has a post on the fdlpmodeling blog that explains in a bit more detail how Ithaka S+R will proceed in its contract with GPO to "develop sustainable models for the FDLP in the 21st century." Project structure & process, by Ross Housewright, FDLP: Modeling for the Future, October 27, 2010. There is good information in the post, and I urge you to read it closely. The GPO RFQ requires Ithaka S+R, to develop a value proposition for the "21st century Federal Depository Library Program." "Value proposition" isn't defined in the RFQ, so we are left to wonder exactly what GPO expects. Value Proposition is a term from business and management and has a variety of inconsistent meanings. As a practical matter, value propositions may be very vague or quite precise. In response to Ross's post on the project structure and process, I posted the following comment to the fdlpmodeling web site: Thanks for this outline of your work plan. Your description of how you are interpreting GPO's requirement to produce a "Value Proposition" raises some more questions. You say that you will analyze "how the roles and incentives associated with the overall recommended direction, as well as the individual model or models, match with library needs" and how your recommendations would help in the "articulation of the benefits associated with participation." To me, these definitions sound like you will limit the "value proposition" to benefits to libraries and, more specifically, to libraries that "participate" in FDLP (by which, I presume you mean FDLP libraries). ... Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:46:09 +0100 883460 http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/google-books-improves-its-search-algorithms-demonstrates-feasibility-of-national-libraries/ A pair of interesting articles about Google Books came to my attention over the last day or so. First, in The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal looks at how Google has been tweaking and updating its search algorithms to trawl the linkless world of text on paper, where searchers have radically different needs than those who search the web. In the last couple of days, Google has rolled out a new tweak called “Rich Results,” which presents one extra-large search result if Google thinks that you’re searching for a specific book title. Rich Results is the latest in a series of smaller front-end tweaks that have been matched by backend improvements. Now, the book search algorithm takes into account more than 100 "signals," individual data categories that Google statistically integrates to rank your results. When you search for a book, Google Books doesn’t just look at word frequency or how closely your query matches the title of a book. They now take into account web search frequency, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the title, and how often an older book has been reprinted. Google Books is becoming a better and better for finding the knowledge you want within the books that are available. Leaving the copyright controversy aside, there has never been a better way to search for material inside books; the old card catalog system (or even digital card catalog) just pales by comparison. And perhaps we should leave the copyright controversy aside. At least, that’s the perspective offered by the other article that caught my eye. On The Guardian, Robert McCrum looks at the question of creating national digital libraries. He points to a recent presentation (reprinted in The New York Review of Books) by Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, which proposes the idea. ... Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:04:21 +0100 883377 http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/policy/responses/cilip-responses-to-consultations-2010/Pages/default.aspx Details of all the consultation responses CILIP has responded to in 2010 Big Lottery Fund Change to Policy DirectionCILIP's response to the consultation paperOctober 2010One of the Government's reforms to the National Lottery is that the Big Lottery Fund should focus its funding on the voluntary and community sector. CILIP welcomes the proposals as they would facilitate joint working between the statutory sector and the voluntary and community sector and would enable partnerships to bid for real resources for local communities. However, we would be disappointed if the new policy direction prohibits local authority services from making a direct application for grant funding. Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS CILIP's response to the White PaperOctober 2010The response was put together by the Health Libraries Group on behalf of CILIP. Please note that the proposals concern England only. We  say that an information revolution should be managed by information professionals. The radical proposals in the White Paper will have major implications for knowledge and information management. We welcome the idea of an information strategy that covers all parts of the knowledge and information management process. Read the CILIP press release: Information revolution must be managed by information professionals Review of Offender Learning: Call for EvidenceCILIP submission to the Government consultationSeptember 2010CILIP clearly sets out the important contribution of prison libraries to offender learning in its response:"Libraries are an integral part of offender learning in prison and have a role to play in progressing the policy framework set out in Reducing re-offending through skills and employment: Next steps (2006)." Our response includes examples of good practice within England's prison library service and includes Libraries Change Lives 2010 award winner HMP Edinburgh Library Partnership. ... Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:00:11 +0100 883889 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=816 Last week we publishedTaking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives, which updates and significantly expands an earlier survey done by ARL in 1998. Some pretty fascinating outcomes, at least for those like me who are deeply invested in the special collections and archives realm and also have a data geek streak. I also presented a webinar on some of the major outcomes, and the slides are here (recording coming soon). How to summarize? For starters, here’s what I call the “wet blanket” overview of the data, otherwise known as “What’s wrong with this [big] picture?” Overall collections size is growing Use is increasing Too many materials remain “hidden” Backlogs continue to grow Staffing is generally stable (or was, as of 2008/09) 75% of library budgets have been cut What does this tell us? IMHO, anyone who is waiting for a miracle drug in the guise of a generous handout of staff and funding is in danger of going on life support. Let’s get real: challenges in managing special collections are huge, and perhaps getting huger — but are we any different from other research library sectors in which demands, old and new, outstrip available resources? Our collections may be “special,” but when we’re competing for the same nonexistent resources as our other library colleagues, we better be able to demonstrate a healthy lifestyle. And that means responsible special collections management that places top priority on making all materials discoverable, and without delay. The report includes a bunch of recommended action items intended to address some weaknesses that seem to affect the collective health of special collections, to wit: Develop and promulgate metrics. (We can’t justify what we can’t measure.) Explore potential for collaborative collection development. (Why don’t we do it? What would it look like?) Deal collaboratively with preservation of audiovisual materials. (They’re rotting. ... Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:54:37 +0100 883495 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/kr5ER4M_BjM/event-joint-conference-on-digital.html Received via email.Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canadahttp://www.jcdl2011.orgHosted by the University of OttawaSponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDLCALL FOR PAPERS*************************The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries",including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries also can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide.The theme for JCDL 2011 is "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data", in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship, broadly writ. Publishing models are changing, along with the breadth of digital material that must be managed coherently in the context of users forcing the move from information silos to a landscape of interconnected systems supporting scholarship for both research and education. ... Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 883447 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/11/event-joint-conference-on-digital.html Received via email.Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canadahttp://www.jcdl2011.orgHosted by the University of OttawaSponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDLCALL FOR PAPERS*************************The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries",including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries also can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide.The theme for JCDL 2011 is "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data", in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship, broadly writ. Publishing models are changing, along with the breadth of digital material that must be managed coherently in the context of users forcing the move from information silos to a landscape of interconnected systems supporting scholarship for both research and education. ... Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 883404 http://gnomicutterance.livejournal.com/52519.html No! You cannot think of anything more fun than working closely with me every single weekday! I will bring in candy! I will go swimming with you! I will let you play with my large collection of librarian action figures! (Photograph to come as soon as I remember to bring a camera.)Archivist for Digital CollectionsThe Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) supports the teaching and research mission of Tufts University by ensuring the enduring preservation and accessibility of the university's permanently valuable records and collections. The DCA assists departments, faculty, and staff in managing records and other assets. The DCA collaborates with members of the Tufts community and others to develop tools to discover and access collections to support teaching, research, and administrative needs.The Archivist for Digital Collections (ADC) oversees the formulation, preparation, and management of digital objects and collections for the DCA. This work includes:supervising student workers;developing policies and procedures concerning digital objects and metadata;implementing appropriate standards and best practices;conducting quality assurance for digital collections;undertaking preservation activities;and managing the collections management system. The Archivist for Digital Collections works closely with the Director to manage projects yielding digital collections including proposal development, and implementation and oversight of funded projects. The ADC collaborates closely with department colleagues on workflow development and implementation. ... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:16:43 +0100 883419 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/epRcS--PS-c/ Barrett Jones, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education - Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress writes: The Library of Congress launched the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) initiative earlier this year.  The mission of DPOE is to foster a national network of education programs for digital preservation.  DPOE is conducting a survey of digital preservation training needs. The results of this survey will be used to develop course content and delivery options for digital preservation education. Take the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D6RF8RZ Download a flier: DPOE (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:21:27 +0100 882753 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15956 iSchool at Drexel Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty (The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania)   The iSchool at Drexel   College of Information Science and Technology       Full-time Faculty Positions       The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology invites applications for several tenure-track positions at the assistant, associate, or full professor level.  We welcome applications with a wide variety of teaching and research interests. ... Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:30:02 +0100 882489 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61611 From an Announcement by Gordon Tibbitts: CLOCKSS is very pleased to announce that the two major academic library groups in Japan have joined the CLOCKSS archive: the Japanese Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) and the Private and Public University Libraries Consortia (PULC). JANUL consists of 92 libraries, while roughly 360 libraries are part of PULC. [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:31:58 +0100 882398 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61602 From the Document: This document identifies the file formats that Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will be supporting within the Trusted Digital Repository (TDR). The formats are identified as: + Recommended; or + Acceptable for transfer. “Recommended” formats are those that LAC believes will be sustainable over a long period of [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:41:11 +0100 882295 http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/news/2010/10/28/brazilian-professor-to-share-etd-expertise-nov-4/ Ana Pavani, an electrical engineering professor at Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will give a presentation about Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) developments in Brazil and Latin America at 2 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Room 104 of the Downtown Campus Library. A reception will follow in the Robinson Reading Room, Wise Library. Pavani serves on the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Board of Directors and has been instrumental in implementing the national Brazilian ETD program as well as in development of the Latin American ETD Consortium. At PUC, Pavani has designed and managed the implementation of an institutional repository. The current collection contains ETDs, senior projects, journals, books, articles, and courseware. Pavani is interested in evolving the Brazilian national ETD program. During her visit, she will seek advice from WVU Libraries faculty and staff regarding implementation of multimedia applications in ETDs as well as preservation methodologies. (Source: WVU Libraries News) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:30:32 +0100 883125 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/10/report-expert-meeting-price-tags-of.html Quote the report:On 16 September 2010 a rather unique meeting took place in The Hague: the experts behind five past and present projects on cost modelling for digital preservation came together to exchange information and discuss possibilities for international cooperation. The projects discussed included Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS, UK), CMDP (Denmark), LIFE3 (UK), DANS (Netherlands), National Archives Testbed (Netherlands). I haven't read this seven-page report yet, but skimming through it, I can see that there is a lot to digest.  Plus you can view all of the presentations, too (46 pages).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 882716