An Overview of Web Archiving
Based on a literature review, Niu examines the selection,
acquisition, organization, storage, description, access, and use of web
archives in this informative article. She concludes that different web
archiving strategies are due to “external factor…
Orality in the Library: How Mobile Phones Challenge Our Understandings of Collaboration in Hybridized Information Centers
In this article, the authors explore the tensions between the
traditionally quiet atmosphere of the library, and the “increasingly vocal”
users who are coming through the door, mobile phones in hand. Many libraries
have morphed from a place for sile…
The Game Has Changed
What might seem like a revolutionary call to action for academic institutions to play nicely together may seem much less
revolutionary to libraries which have been doing it for decades, but we still have some things to learn from this piece. Also, the…
Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces
In the January issue of Current Cites, I noted the very-useful
definitional introduction to
the orphan works problem prepared by David R. Hansen of the Berkeley Digital Library
Copyright Project. Hansen has followed up with a second white paper on
…
Library Hi Tech at 30
This year marks the 30th ‘birthday’ of one of my favorite journals, Library Hi Tech, and to celebrate this milestone, editor Michael Seadle looks back briefly at some of the topics and themes covered during the period. He goes from microcomputers and …
Read MorePurposeful Development: Being Ready When Your Project Moves From ‘Hobby’ to Mission Critical
Terry Reese is the developer of the hugely popular MarcEdit program, which provides Swiss Army Knife-like capabilities for working
with MARC records. Terry’s personal journey from working on this program as a hobby, to one day realizing how widely use…
Ciencia 2.0: aplicación de la web social a la investigación
REBIUN, The Spanish Academic Libraries Network,
introduced in 2011 a working guide for the use of resources in the
implementation of scientific research support services, to the Spanish
university libraries. The three areas of activity are a) share …
Preserving Email
Given its ubiquity and importance in communications, it has always disappointed me that archivists have not done a better job of identifying and implementing methods of preserving email. Chris Prom’s new report in the Digital Preservation Coalition’s …
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