> Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
> Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility
> The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase
> Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles
> The European Film Gateway
> An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan
> Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship
> Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics
> Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall meeting
- Zotero Library to RSS Feed
(source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester, 28/02/09)
- E08 Podcast: An Interview with David Consiglio on Merging Library and Computing Organizations
(source: Educause, 27/02/09)
C'est le début de la fin... (et vice versa).
- Start Now: 30 Days to Prepare for Your Next Position
(source: Stephen's Lighthouse, 01/03/09)
On ne sait jamais... ce que le sort nous réserve, n'est-ce pas?
- Computers in Libraries
- Information Today
- Searcher
(n° de mars)
- What is not available online is not worth reading?
(source: Webology, 2008, vol. 5, n° 4)
"This short article discusses an emerging trend in the information-seeking behaviour of scientists, i.e. mere reliance on online information. Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists believe that what is not available online is not worth the effort to obtain it."
- Management information systems and strategic performances: The role of top team composition
(source: International Journal of Information Management, vol. 29, n° 2, avr. 09, pp. 104-110 / pre-print)
"Organizations adopt sophisticated management information systems, which provide top managers with an ample range of information to achieve multiple strategic performances. However, organizations differ in the extent to which they improve their performance. This paper analyzes the role of top management team in the relationship between management information systems and strategic performance. Using data collected from 92 top management teams, it analyses how different team compositions interact with a sophisticated management information system, and how this interaction affects strategic performances, which are focused on cost reduction and flexibility. The findings show how the effect of management information system on strategic performance (focused on flexibility) is moderated by top management team diversity."
- Knowledge sharing in inter-unit cooperative episodes: The impact of organizational structure dimensions
(source: International Journal of Information Management, vol. 29, n° 2, avr. 09, pp. 151-160 / pre-print)
"We study how classic organizational structure dimensions should be altered to be more adapted to organizational knowledge sharing. In particular, we look at the dimensions: coordination, centralization, formalization, and specialization, in their relationship to the concept of knowledge sharing. Empirical data was collected by means of a questionnaire in two companies. Our findings indicated that expected relationships, such as the negative effect of centralization or the positive effect of lower formalization, were not found. Interdependency and knowledge complexity, caused by specialization, had an important interacting effect on the relationship between coordination and knowledge sharing. A comparison between the two companies revealed that the organization-specific context in which the coordination is applied influences the potential of this coordination for knowledge sharing."
- Understanding University Library Users' Mistreatment of Books
(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 20/02/09)
"This paper analyses university library users' attitudes towards book vandalism in order to develop a basis for intervention. Using a customer oriented approach data was collected from users who attended an academic library exhibition on vandalized books at a University campus. Respondants were asked both for their reactions to the vandalism as well as to suggest measures to solve this problem. Punishment and surveillance were most frequently mentioned as preventative measures although users also recognized the utility of the exhibition in increasing awareness of book mutilation. Further implications of social marketing for libraries are also discussed."
En tant que gros lecteur, je consomme pas mal d'ouvrages de ma bib. Et quand je tombe sur des pages entières surlignées, des envies de meurtre m'envahissent...
- Print on Demand: What Librarians Should Know
(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 20/02/09)
"Although “self publishing” has been around since publishing began, and “vanity presses” are nearly as old, the advent of digital printing both simplifies and complicates the situation for everyone."
- Révision complète de la maîtrise en sciences de l'information (EBSI, Montréal)
(source: B-n de J-M. Salaün, 04/03/09)
- Web 2.0 et information-documentation : évolution ou révolution?
(source: Documentaliste, ADBS, mars 09 / sur abonnement)
"Genèse et validation des contenus, prédominance de l'accès, externalisation de la mémoire, convergence du web social et du web sémantique, remodelage des processus cognitifs : autant de notions revisitées ou initiées par le web 2.0 et qui sont fondamentales pour les professionnels de l'information. Ceux-ci se sont majoritairement approprié ce phénomène et témoignent de leur expérience des outils, des usages et de la transformation des relations avec les utilisateurs. Un dossier conçu dans un esprit de questionnements et d'esquisses de scénarios."
- National Summit on Library Human Resources
(source: Canadian Library Association, 2008 / via ResourceShelf, 06/03/09)
"The outcome of the summit was to identify the strategies and key actions required over the next 5-6 years to move towards the goal of ensuring an adequate supply of well-educated, well-trained librarians and information professionals in order to meet Canada‘s knowledge and information management needs in the first three decades of the 21st century. The Summit objectives were the following:
To identify promising strategies that will help address the current and future human resource issues
To identify the actions that participants and stakeholders will undertake to implement the strategies over the next 5-6 years
To determine how the library community can move forward in a coordinated and collaborative way."
- University of Arizona Libraries Collaborate with Faculty Member to Publish New E-Journal
(source: DigitalKoans, 06/03/09)
- CLIR Issues Newsletter (n° 67, jan-fév. 09)
EthicShare Examines Models for Online Communities
Report Examines Archival Management Software
- 2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics
(source: ACRL, E.-U., 05/03/09 / payant)
"2007 Academic Library Trends and Statistics, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures and service activities of academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications, is now available from ACRL.
The publication includes survey data from 1,311 academic libraries covering five major categories:
* Collections (including volumes, serials, multimedia)
* Expenditures (library materials, wages and salaries, other operating)
* Electronic Resources (including expenditures, collections, services, usage)
* Personnel and Public Services (staff and services)
* Ph.D.s Granted, Faculty, Student Enrollment"
- The JAL Guide to the Professional Literature
(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 05/03/09 / sur abonnement)
- [livre] Self-examination: The present and future of librarianship
(source: Library & Information Science Research, vol. 31, n° 1, jan. 09, pp. 70-71 / sur abonnement)
"Budd has written extensively on the changing landscape of libraries, along with issues of epistemology and values, and communication in librarianship. In this work, he offers a “serious examination…of librarianship—what it is and what it can be” and “provide[s] opportunities and suggestions for reflection” (p. vii). He provides a method—dialectical phenomenology—as a means towards these ends and encourages all library professionals to be reflective professionals actively engaged in dialogue as we search for meaning within the profession, individually and together."
- Emerging requirements of computer related competencies for librarians
(source: Library & Information Science Research, en ligne, 25/02/09 / sur abonnement)
"Computers and productivity tools help library patrons to access information, generate insights, structure results into a useful format, and produce knowledge. The use of these productivity tools by patrons requires librarians to alter their traditional professional role, which was primarily to provide information access for patrons, so that they can also provide expanded services and support to these patrons. This study focuses on understanding the computer and productivity tool skills that librarians desire for their new role in assisting patrons with information integration. Many aspiring and working librarians perceive their computer and productivity tool competencies as ranging from novice to proficient, and hope to increase their competencies to very skilled."
- Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries
(source: Library & Information Science Research, en ligne, 28/02/09 / sur abonnement)
"Collection development in college and university libraries most often occurs using longstanding traditional selection methods, such as favorable book reviews or local user needs. This study uses citation analysis as a tool to select books for the social science book collection in one academic library and compares the circulation of books using traditional methods to those books using citation analysis. The journal impact factor was used to determine those journals and authors cited the most in the disciplines of business, anthropology, education, political science, psychology, and sociology. If those authors published books, the books were purchased and circulation data on the books were tabulated and compared to books chosen using traditional methods. Findings indicate that books purchased using traditional methods of selection circulated more, except when individual disciplines were measured. In the areas of business, political science, and psychology, there was no significant difference in circulation statistics, and together both the traditional and citation analysis methods accounted for circulation of nearly 95% of the social science collection. Since it is based on scholarly activity, citation analysis is a collection development method that could be used in all academic libraries."
- Classification of Library Resources by Subject on the Library Website: Is There an Optimal Number of Subject Labels?
(source: Information Technology & Libraries, vol. 28, n° 1, mars 09 / sur abonnement)
"The number of labels used to organize resources by subject varies greatly among library websites. Some librarians choose very short lists of labels while others choose much longer lists. We conducted a study with 120 students and staff to try to answer the following question: What is the effect of the number of labels in a list on response time to research questions? What we found is that response time increases gradually as the number of the items in the list grow until the list size reaches approximately fifty items. At that point, response time increases significantly. No association between response time and relevance was found."
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