Iowa Publications Online – Thanks SDLTF!
As part of the ALA meeting: State & Local Documents Task Force, GODORT Annual Meeting: Washington D.C. Saturday, June 22, 2007; 8:00-10:00am Renaissance Hotel: Congressional A/B There will be an open forum that I hope all ALA-attending FGI readers will visit: "Preservation of born digital Iowa online state publications (technological aspects). Barbara Corson, Program Director for Library Services for the Iowa State Library, will be speaking about the technical nuts and bolts of the Iowa Publications Online Project. If you want to know how to preserve born digital State Publications you will want to come to this session. " Compliments to SLDTF for having a session on preserving born digital publications. We at FGI hope it is one of many to come out of ALA Godort meetings. If you attend, please send a write up to admin AT freegovinfo.info. If you're like me and not able to attend ALA this summer, check out the Iowa Publications Online Project and its associated FAQ. Continue reading
Pat Ragains: Docs Librarian in the News
Pat Ragains, Business and Government Information Center librarian at the University of Nevada Reno Library, was quoted in a Reno Gazette Journal article about patent resources at UNR. According to the article, "The University of Nevada, Reno library is one of 80 sites in the nation that is an official Patent & Trademark Depository Library" and has been helping patrons since 1983. Pat, congratulations on the getting the word out about UNR's valuable holdings! Do you know of a media story highlighting some sort of government documents depository? Let us know! Continue reading
P2P Knowledge low in academic librarians?
As I mentioned in my posting on social psychology for librarians, people tend to follow the "central" route of attitude change only if these three conditions are present:
- Relevance to audience;
- Audience has knowledge in the domain;
- Audience has sense of personal responsibility.
Overall, academic librarians demonstrated low knowledge levels (mean quiz score = 49 percent), rarely used P2P applications, and exhibited indifferent attitudes (total neutral responses = 42 percent) toward these burgeoning information technologies.Considering that LOCKSS is a P2P technology, maybe it shouldn't be surprising that the mostly academic documents depository community doesn't quite grasp the power of the P2P approach. But we don't have to stay unaware of such technologies. Here are a few things you can do to become aware of what's available and what it can do:
- Read James R's P2P Backgrounder
- Check out our Digital Libraries Technologies Page
- Read LOCKSS for Librarians
UW Libraries leverage digital content with Wikipedia
Not strictly documents related, but the latest issue of D-Lib features a library using Wikipedia in a ethical way to raise awareness and usage of their digital materials: Lally, Ann M., and Carolyn E. Dunford. "Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections" D-Lib Magazine 13(5/6)(May/June 2007)(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/lally/05lally.html) The UW folks seems to have good before and after tables and graphs to demonstrate that it has been well worth for librarians to add quality library-based content to Wikipedia. Anyone else in the documents world doing this besides UNT? Continue reading
McNeese State University docs dept gets del.icio.us
Over at the new Library 2.0 Government Documents Group, Rebecca Troy-Horton reports that her library's documents department has opened up a del.icio.us account at http://del.icio.us/MSUGovDoc. Her links are annotated and look like a good way to provide context to documents link. We at FGI look forward to seeing her growing list and seeing how Rebecca's tag cloud works out. If your local depository library has a del.icio.us account, would you let us know in comments below? Perhaps docs del.icio.us users could build a network like James R. has suggested from time to time. Knowing who we are is an important first step. Continue reading
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