Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Libraries
Source: DLF
Two Recently Released Reports from the Digital Library Federation
+ Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation
+ Electronic Resource Management
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Government Records–United States
National Archives and Records Administration
Source: GCN
NARA issues proposed rule, Web content guidance
“The National Archives and Records Administration today issued a proposed rule that would make it easier for agencies to transfer records to NARA’s storage facilities…
NARA also today released a guidance for the transfer of Web records. The guidance is effective today.”
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Information Overload
Source: Proceedings The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant (via E-LIS)
Information overload, retrieval strategies and Internet user empowerment
By Christopher N. Carlson, 2003. From the abstract, “Initial user benefits from search engine technology have been critically degraded over time by the rapid increase of Internet pages. Traditional retrieval strategies therefore yield increasingly poor results due to a dramatic increase in ballast in the results. Search engine users thus increasingly experience information overload. Technical approaches to dealing with this problem have caused an initial euphoria, yet have proven ineffective in solving the problem.”
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Clinton Library–Public Documents
Source: AP
Clinton library documents’ openness rests with Bush
From the article: “Former President Clinton will have to ask President Bush for permission to release thousands of domestic-policy records from his two terms in the White House, officials at Clinton’s presidential library said Friday. Clinton has said he wants to make 100,000 documents available to scholars and researchers Nov. 18, the day his presidential library opens and nearly a year sooner than required.”

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