Rethinking Linking: Breathing New Life into OpenURL

[manuscript] In this issue of Library Technology Reports, authors Cindi Trainor and Jason Price revisit OpenURL and library linking. The OpenURL framework for context-sensitive linking has been in use for a decade, during which library collections and users\u27 behaviors have undergone radical change. This report examines how libraries can make use of web usability principles and data analysis to improve their local resolver installations and looks to the wider web for what the future of this integral library technology might hold

Open Source, Crowd Source: harnessing the power of the people behind our libraries

Presented at the Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference in Singapore, this paper was later published in the journal Program: electronic library and information systems in July 2009: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00330330910978581 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the use of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 technologies so that librarians can combine open source software with user-generated content to create a richer discovery experience for their users. Design/methodology/approach – Following a description of the current state of integrated library systems (ILS) and the developments with Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 technologies, examples are given of library suppliers and libraries which are making use of these technologies. Findings – Libraries are moving away from the traditional, vendor-sourced library catalogue software in favour of open source software that can be tailored to meet the community\u27s needs by the people who are most familiar with those needs: library staff. Open source products and some vendor products outside the traditional ILS market allow libraries to pool data created by users: tags, reviews, comments. This allows the smallest libraries to harvest richer data than those of their own communities. Originality/value – The paper provides a “snapshot” of current developments in this fast-moving area

The Permanent Now: Photography and the Human Experience

This essay examines how people document and learn about the passage of time through photography, particularly with rephotography,” the act of revisiting and reshooting a place, person or scene after years or decades have past

The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians

On March 26th, Darien Library hosted an event called “In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries” at which participants were instructed to “come prepared to help sketch out the role librarians should play in defining the future of libraries”. The two speakers, John Berry and Kathryn Greenhill, provoked a conversation among John Blyberg, Kathryn and Cindi Trainor that began in John\u27s office the next day and spilled out across the ensuing week. Below is the resulting document (CC by 3.0). It’s meant to be grand, optimistic, obvious, and thankful to and for our users, communities, and the tireless librarians who work the front lines every day, upholding the purpose of the Library

Library Complex

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President's Message

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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore! Delivery of Library Resources and Services Through Learning Management Systems

Cindi Trainor is the director of Library/Information Technology for the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges. She is interested in library technology, connecting librarians with the teaching process, and photography.Library-licensed electronic resources are typically made available via the library website. Students are often required to read journal articles, faculty are interested in journal tables-of-contents or in receiving current search results in a field. The campus learning management system (also called the course management system) provides a mechanism for delivering licensed and unlicensed electronic resources to faculty and students in a familiar environment. The Claremont Colleges have implemented Sakai, an open-source learning management system. The implementation team, lead by a librarian, provides instruction and documentation to faculty on how to display electronic reserve lists within Sakai using RSS and how to select and display images from the Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Planned capabilities include integration with the RefWorks reference management website and other academic tools. This presentation will also describe and possibly demonstrate the following tools: The University of Michigan and University of Indiana, Bloomington are working on a Sakai tool called "Sakaibrary" that allows users to create citations lists from within Sakai by utilizing federated search and OpenURL capabilities provided by the library. Dartmouth College has integrated library research into Blackboard with RefPacks, library resources modules divided into seven broad subject areas. The University of California at Merced library is using Sakai to deliver their electronic course reserves. The Community College of Vermont has an "embedded librarian" program, wherein librarians are an integral part of course planning and delivery via an online system. Learning Objectives: Attendees will learn various ways to make electronic resources available directly to the students and faculty using the campus learning management system. Attendees will also learn how to integrate library services into learning management systems and will take away a list of ideas to help get them started

President's Message

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