Friday, July 16, 2004

Library Journal - The Class of 1988

Overview of status of "mid-career" librarians. Sigh.

According to this I'm a loyalist--which might surprise some. Of course we all know what happened to the loyalists.

-from ResourceShelf

LibEcon - International Library Economics Research Study

An updated version of the Millennium Study, international library statistics - trends and commentary based on the Libecon data' has been released using data up to 2001.

Includes Canadian data.

-from ResourceShelf

Thursday, July 15, 2004

New Books for Archives, Libraries, Museums

Archives
Imagining archives : essays and reflections by Hugh A. Taylor ~ edited by Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds
CD950 .T383 2003 5LT

Documenting a province : the Archives of Ontario at 100 = Chronique d'une province : le centenaire des Archives publiques de l'Ontario
CD3645 .O65 D63 2003 5LT

Libraries
Five hundred years of book design ~ Alan Bartram
Z116 .A3 B37 2001 10LT

The uses of script and print, 1300-1700 ~ edited by Julia Crick and Alexandra Walsham
Z151 .U84 2004 10LT

Online usage statistics : a publisher' guide ~ edited by Bernard Rous
Z286 .E43 O65 2004 10LT

The British book trade and Spanish American independence : education and knowledge transmission of knowledge in transcontinental perspective ~ Eugenia Roldan Vera
Z325 .R89 R65 2003 10LT

Beauty and the book : fine editions and cultural distinction in America ~ Megan L. Benton
Z479 .B46 2000 10LT

Publications management : essays for professional communicators ~ edited by O. Jane Allen and Lynn H. Deming
Z479 .P83 1994 BLB

Humanizing information technology ~ Julian Warner
Z665 .W37 2004 10LT

Net effects : how librarians can manage the unintended consequences of the Internet ~ edited by Marylaine Block
Z674.75 .I58 N48 2003 10LT

Library off-site shelving : guide for high-density facilities ~ Danuta A. Nitecki, Curtis L. Kendrick, editors
Z675 .S75 L53 2001 10LT

The library's continuous improvement fieldbook : 29 ready-to-use tools ~ Sara Laughlin, Denise Sisco Shockley, Ray Wilson
Z678 .L63 2003 10LT

Empowering your library : a guide to improving service, productivity, and participation ~ Connie Christopher
Z682 .C53 2003 10LT

A history of online information services, 1963-1976 ~ Charles P. Bourne and Truci Bellardo Hahn
Z699 .B668 2003 10LT

Language modeling for information retrieval ~ edited by W. Bruce Croft and John Lafferty
Z699.3 .L36 2003 10LT

Emergency response and salvage wheel. [chart] ~ produced by the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property in cooperation with the National Task Force on Emergency Response
Z701 .N38 1997 10LT

Assessing preservation needs : a self-survey guide ~ Beth Patkus
Z701 .P37 2003 10LT

Library anxiety : theory, research, and applications ~ Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Qun G. Jiao, Sharon L. Bostick
Z711 .O59 2004 10LT

Developing web-based instruction : planning, designing, managing, and evaluating for results ~ edited by Elizabeth A. Dupuis
Z711.2 .D48 2003 10LT

Libraries, community, and technology ~ by Andy Barnett
Z716.4 .B27 2002 10LT

The Future of the book ~ edited by Geoffrey Nunberg ; with an afterword by Umberto Eco
Z1003 .F88 1996 10LT

Digital library use : social practice in design and evaluation ~ edited by Ann Peterson Bishop, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield
ZA4080 .D54 2003 10LT


Museums
Museumwise : workplace words defined ~ compiled and edited by Paisley S. Cato, Julia Golden, Suzanne B. McLaren
AM3 .M87 2003 3LT

Grasping the world : the idea of the museum ~ edited by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago
AM7 .G64 2004 3LT

Museum studies : an anthology of contexts ~ edited by Bettina Messias Carbonell
AM7 .M867 2004 4LT-TEMP

Museum visits and activities for family life enrichment ~ Barbara H. Butler, Marvin B. Sussman, editors
AM7 .M87224 1989 3LT

Just who do your customers think you are? : a guide to branding your organization ~ by Jennifer Deutsch and Tamara Real
AM124 .D48 2002 3LT

Acts of possession : collecting in America ~ edited by Leah Dilworth
AM303 .A28 2003 3LT

The two art histories : the museum and the university ~ edited by Charles W. Haxthausen
N380 .C53 1999 8LT

Researching visual arts education in museums and galleries : an international reader ~ edited by Maria Xanthoudaki, Les Tickle, and Veronica Sekules
N430 .R47 2003 8LT

Whose muse? : art museums and the public trust ~ edited by James Cuno ; with essays by James Cuno ... [et al.]
N430 .W46 2004

Leading with passion : change management in the 21st-century museum ~ Sherene Suchy
N470 .S83 2004



New Books For April and May

Books catalogued in April and May.

Anthropology,Folklore, Costume
Art & Architecture
Chemistry
Computer Science
Doucette
Economics & Business
Education
Forestry & Agriculture
General Science, Astronomy,Physics, Mathematics
Geography, Environmental Science, Geology
Health & Medicine (Mackimmie Library)
Health & Medicine (Health Sciences Library)
History
Law
Life Science
Linguistics,Communication, Languages, Performing Arts, Media & Literature
Military Studies
Music & Audio
Philosophy & Religion
Political Science & International Relations
Psychology
Social Science General, Sociology, Social Welfare
Sport, Recreation,Dance
Technology & Engineering

Complete List in Excel Format (Very Big)

Interesting Site--->PubHub

"Welcome to PubHub: A Repository of Foundation-Sponsored Reports
Starting with the arts — and eventually including the full scope of philanthropic activity in the United States — librarians and editors at the Foundation Center have identified and provided annotated links to electronic versions of reports and issue briefs created by or with foundation resources. PubHub can be searched by keyword or browsed by publication year and organization using the tools provided for that purpose. Project updates and new additions to the repository will be listed on a regular basis below."

-from ResourceShelf


Wednesday, July 14, 2004

New JSTOR Titles

American Indian Quarterly (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 22, no. 4 (1974-1998)

The American Journal of Police Science (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 3, no. 2, (1930–1932)

Comparative Education Review (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 45, no. 4 (1957-2001)

Criminal Science Monographs (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: No. 1 – No. 4 (1915–1923)

Imago Mundi (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 54 (1935–2002)

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 91, no. 1

The Journal of Economic Education (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 29, no. 4 (Autumn, 1969 – Autumn, 1998)

Law and Contemporary Problems (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 61, no. 4 (1933–1998)

Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 38, no. 2 (1910-1991)

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 - Vol. 142, no. 4 (1838–1998)

Technology and Culture (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 1, no. 1 – Vol. 39, no. 4 (1959–1998)

Winterthur Portfolio (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 36, no. 4 (1964-2001)

Article on Librarians and Scholarship

Supporting a Culture of Scholarship for Academic Librarians

Sample Full Text Products Brochure for comment

Please send along any comments.

Publisher Format
Adobe PDF Format

WorldCat records in Google and Yahoo

As a follow up to Saundra's message, Resource Shelf has an article about this Two Million Open Worldcat Records Hit the Yahoo Database

Jennifer's comments on the New WOS Interface

Hiya,
I just had a quick look at the new upgrades for Web of Science, and some of them are pretty neat. My favourites:

1. Citation alerts - track specific articles so that you get an e-mail alert when they are cited. Great for the annual report.

2. The Related Records feature now tells you how many citations a paper has in common with the original paper AND tells you which ones they are too.

3. A wee "Change settings" button near the top right that allows one to toggle open/close the database choices. No more having to go back to the home page to select the index or years.

We can now group results by things like institution (though it doesn't go down to departmental level) or author. There are also a few new indexes where you can just click to add search terms. Plus, the navigation is a lot easier too!

One minus: there's a lot less purple on the site now. They've gone with beige! :) At first glance it does look very different although the functions are still more or less where they used to be.
Also for those of us still using/unwilling to let go of older versions of Netscape, here's another product that needs IE or newer Netscape versions.

JL

Floridian: The secret lives of books

News article on all the cool things people find in used books--including bacon!

-from ResourceShelf

UnderstandingMetadata

"Understanding Metadata is a revision and expansion of Metadata Made Simpler: A guide for libraries published by NISO Press in 2001. NISO Press extends its thanks and appreciation to Rebecca Guenther and Jacqueline Radebaugh, staff members in the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, for sharing their expertise and contributing to this publication."

-from ResourceShelf

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Reading At Risk

"Reading at Risk is not a report that the National Endowment for the Arts is happy to issue. This comprehensive survey of American literary reading presents a detailed but bleak assessment of the decline of reading’s role in the nation’s culture. For the first time in modern history, less than half of the adult population now reads literature, and these trends reflect a larger decline in other sorts of reading. Anyone who loves literature or values the cultural, intellectual, and political importance of active and engaged literacy in American society will respond to this report with grave concern.

Overview news item on this report The Chronicle: Daily news: 07/09/2004 -- 01

-from ResourceShelf

University of Alberta Uses Blog for Current Library News

RSS and FURL

Two new (okay, new to me) web based technologies for keeping uptodate and for managing links to resources. Thanks to Paul Pival and Vivian Stieda for getting me started on these. Try them out for yourself and get a feel for how this technology could affect researchers.

Maybe if there was enough interest we could even sponsor a library session? You can let me know you are interested by adding a comment to the end of this message.

RSS
Also called aggregators, these applications are used to keep track of updates on information sources such as blogs.

Of interest to libraries is Ingenta's move to allow RSS tracking of journals--by choosing this service a researcher can keep track of new tables of contents pages, basically an alerting service. More info on this at Resource Shelf.

Paul pointed me to bloglines, a site that allows one to set up a free RSS account.

FURLS
I'd never heard of this one until Vivian sent me a note.

A FURL is a way of centrally locating your booksmarks, and creating an archive of searchable web pages. You can sign up for an account on their web page http://www.furl.net/index.jsp

"Furl is dedicated to making it easy for users to archive, recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. With a couple clicks, Furl will archive any page. You can easily find it by browsing your personal directory of web pages or by using the full text search that only searches pages you've archived. It's like having your own Google.

Not just limited to archiving pages, Furl also gives you the best ways to share content. Furl makes it easy for your friends to decide which categories of links they are interested in and receive a daily "newsletter" of links. Furl also generates RSS feeds for your links and makes it simple for you to integrate this content into an existing website. "

I tried this with science direct, and was able to bookmark an article, but sadly not to save the entire text in my FURL account. Still, it looks like a great way to centrally manage and store cool articles and web pages.

Drawbacks
-what if the FURL site goes out of business or starts charging, will my archive be lost? -what about the privacy of my links?

Makes creating this kind of service locally seem quite attractive n'est pas?

Let me know what you think.
Helen.

American Psychological Association Launches New Databases

American Psychological Association Launches New Databases

The initial release of PsycBOOKS will include over 600 books, with more than 10,000 individual chapters, published by APA and over 1,500 entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology, co-published by APA and Oxford University Press, as well as a selection of archival books from other publishers. The file will also be released at that time for loading by other vendors.

The PsycCRITIQUES database of book reviews in psychology will replace APA’s bimonthly print journal, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. According to Beebe, it will provide major enhancements, very current reviews, and much more content. The migration to electronic will take place between September 2004, when the database goes live, and December 2004, when the final print issue will be published.

APA also announced the offering of extended free trials, through Sept. 30, 2004, of the PsycEXTRA gray literature database on APA’s PsycNET search system. PsycEXTRA will also soon be available via EBSCOhost. PsycEXTRA is a database of the “gray literature” in psychology and related behavioral fields, providing access to relevant material published outside traditional peer-reviewed journals or scholarly books.

In addition to abstracts, citations, and full indexing, PsycEXTRA also includes full text for many of the records. Beebe said it currently includes about 43,000 documents comprising about 100,000 pages of full text. By fall there should be 50,000 to 60,000 documents.

-from InfoToday

Monday, July 12, 2004

Project MUSE-->New Journals

Two new journals:

Southeastern Geographer
The Southeastern Geographer is a biannual publication of the Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers. The journal has published the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists since 1961. Peer-reviewed articles and essays are published along with book reviews, organization and conference reports, and commentaries. The journal welcomes manuscripts on any geographical subject as long as it reflects sound scholarship and contains significant contributions to geographical understanding.

History Workshop Journal
Since its launch in 1976, History Workshop Journal has become one of the world's leading historical journals. Its cutting-edge scholarship, accessible writing, and lively engagement with contemporary concerns continues to win it widespread acclaim from both academic and general audiences.



ERIC Full Text Documents

"On October 1, 2004, ERIC will introduce, for the first time, free-of-charge full-text non-journal ERIC resources. These materials include more than 105,000 full-text documents authorized for electronic ERIC distribution during 1993 - July 2004, previously sold through E*Subscribe from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS, which also sells the ERIC microfiche, is scheduled to shut down operations on September 30, 2004."

-more info at Resourceshelf

Web Of Science Upgrade

The WOS interface has been upgraded, more details at
http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com/whatsnew/#wos