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Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world.   |
Information Today
August 25, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
GPO Disapproves of Report on the Future of Federal Depository Libraries The report had too little input -- only 75 comments from a small community of depository librarians with no input from the ultimate users of government information. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
Information Today
March 2001
Laverna Saunders |
Building the Virtual Reference Desk The distribution of electronic full text to users wherever they are has resulted in fewer transactions at the reference desk. Librarians, therfore, are eager to learn about using developments in digital reference services as a strategy for reaching patrons... |
Information Today
March 31, 2015 |
GPO to Launch Webinar Series in April The webinars will be presented via its FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) Academy by representatives from the GPO and FDLP libraries across the country. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary |
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. |
Searcher
September 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
Information Today
August 3, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Library Reference Services Are on an Info Quest The patrons of approximately 50 libraries from all over the U.S. are now able to text a question from their mobile phones to 309-222-7740 and a "real, live librarian" will respond within minutes. |
Information Today
August 23, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Acquires 24/7 Reference Services Two of the nation's leading virtual reference services have merged. The Metropolitan Cooperative Library System has transferred the assets of its popular 24/7 Reference operation to OCLC, the world's largest library network. |
Searcher
August 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 1 Add it all up and one can see that virtual reference built on chat technology is a pretty expensive proposition. |
Information Today
September 26, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
End User Survey of Federal Depository Libraries The survey conducted by Outsell was designed to serve as a support for GPO's strategic planning effort as well as for libraries participating in the depository library program. |
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
Information Today
February 21, 2013
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO's Mission Is Validated by an Independent Study The report affirms GPO's mission of authenticating, preserving, and distributing Federal information and recommends measures to strengthen the agency's business model and activities for the future. |
Information Today
July 5, 2005
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings. |
Information Today
June 16, 2003
Barbara Quint |
LSSI Sells Virtual Reference Operation to Tutor.com LSSI (Library Systems and Services, Inc.) has sold its Reference Division to Tutor.com, an online homework help and educational service. The acquisition includes LSSI's Virtual Reference ToolKit, Web Reference Services, and Integrated Reference Management System with RefTracker. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Gano & Linden |
Government Information in Legacy Formats: Scaling a Pilot Project to Enable Long-Term Access An "open repository" model would allow institutions to approach archiving tasks and sets of CD-ROMs in different ways. |
Information Today
April 23, 2012
Miriam A. Drake |
Federal Depository Library Program: Legislative Issues The program is the subject of a report released by the Congressional Research Service: "Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress" that includes a brief history of the program and a discussion on some key issues. |
Information Today
March 11, 2014 |
GPO Offers Free Ebooks The U.S. Government Printing Office will expand its ebook program to allow free public access to titles in the GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, a finding tool for federal historical and current publications. |
Searcher
October 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Gaslight Librarians scattered across the country, committed to the preservation and dissemination of public information can do a more thorough and secure job than just federal agencies alone. |
Information Today
December 2003
Barbara Quint |
The Numbers Racket The bottom line is that the people own the government. The people pay for the government. The people own the information the government collects and the documents it produces. The government owes the people what they have paid for. The Web is the best way to deliver that information. |
Information Today
June 16, 2003
Miriam A. Drake |
GPO and OMB Compromise on Agency Printing: More information at a lower cost? At the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, GPO will develop a demonstration print procurement contract for an agency or department chosen by OMB. The program will feature an online system that allows federal agency GPO customers to use a one-stop and integrated system for print ordering and invoicing. |
Information Today
October 30, 2000
Barbara Quint |
With OCLC's New Strategy, Is the Earth's Largest Library in Sight? OCLC, the largest library online cooperative, is setting a new strategy that could move it as well as public and academic libraries across the country and the world into an emerging, unified, virtual library service on the Web... |
Information Today
February 14, 2013 |
U.S. Government Printing Office Joins Pinterest Connecting people through "things" they find interesting is the founding principle of Pinterest and a natural fit with GPO's core mission of Keeping America Informed on the three branches of the federal government. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Janes & Silverstein |
Question Negotiation and the Technological Environment People seeking answers or providing them now have many more options for "question negotiation", in the broadest Tayloresque sense. Consulting an information professional continues to be one of those options. In fact, such professionals can now be much more accessible. |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Information Today
August 24, 2009 |
U.S. Healthcare Reform Bill Available on FDsys As lawmakers and Americans discuss healthcare reform, the U.S. Government Printing Office has made available H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, in electronic and printed form. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Information Today
April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Information Today
April 23, 2012 |
OCLC and Credo Reference Extend Partnership OCLC and Credo Reference announced a special collaboration project designed to increase collection visibility and usage with library users. |
Information Today
August 5, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Is the GPO Endangered? For the Government Printing Office, dissemination of government documents is a nonpartisan, virtually automatic process, which has been enhanced in recent years by expanded reliance on the Internet and other new technologies. Now the GPO's hands have been tied. |
Information Today
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
'Documents? What Documents?' The long-term feud between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government over who gets to print and publish federal government documents has broken out once more. |
Information Today
February 11, 2010 |
AskColorado Goes Live With InstantService Colorado's statewide virtual reference cooperative, AskColorado, debuted its revamped service using new software from InstantService, a Seattle-based company that provides integrated chat, email, and knowledgebase solutions to businesses and call centers. |
Information Today
October 11, 2004
Barbara Quint |
All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web Excited by the pilot program, the management of the world's largest library vendor has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search. |
Searcher
January 2001
Barbara Quint |
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight? |
Information Today
October 23, 2008
Beth Ashmore |
HathiTrust: A Digital Repository for Libraries, by Libraries Long-term preservation is something libraries need, and it has been one of the concerns about Google as a digitization partner. These resources need to be, in the long term, managed by libraries. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Information Today
February 27, 2012
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Innovation Lab Offers to Build Websites for Small Libraries The project began as a response to serious concerns posed by OCLC's Global Council as to the lack of web presence for small libraries. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2005 |
Ohio's Virtual Reference Service Receives $1.12M Approval The State Library Board of Ohio has approved $1.12 million in Library Services and Technology Act funds for year two of the state's innovative KnowItNow 24x7 virtual reference service. |
Searcher
October 2002
Mariam A. Drake |
Cost Cutting or Access Control: OMB Dismantiling GPO? By far, the most significant damage resulting from the Office of Management and Budget's proposal would be the effect it would have on the Government Printing Office's ability for ensuring citizen access to government information. |
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. |
Information Today
December 9, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Government Printing Tug of War Continues The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum on May 3, 2002 that directed executive agencies to contract directly with private firms for printing their documents. Things have gotten even more complicated since then in a bitter spate of infighting. |
D-Lib
January 2005 |
In Brief The Gamera Software Development Kit for Document Image Analysis... XML Techniques for the Representation and Interchange of Thesaurus Data... The UTOPIA Project... In the News... etc. |
Searcher
October 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
Information Today
August 28, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Consortium--Minus NARA--Archiving Bush Administration Websites Archiving policies, procedures, and assignments have not kept pace with the rapid switch of the federal government to web technology. |
