Professional Reading Shelf
Open WorldCat
Source: Searcher
Open WorldCat Pilot: A User’s Perspective
A new article by Nancy O’Neill from the Santa Monica Public Library. Note: Since the article was written, OCLC has made Open Worldcat permanent. Steven and Gary posted several comments here.
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Digital Archives–Television
Television Archives
Source: News Release
The Preserving Public Television Project Receives Support from The Library of Congress
Two stories about preserving public television content.

1) New Public Television Partnership Receives Major Program Preservation Award from the Library of Congress
“Thirteen/WNET New York, has been awarded close to $3 million by the Library of Congress for Preserving Digital Public Television, a new three-year planning project that will set the groundwork for preserving digital television programming. Joining Thirteen as partners on the project are public broadcaster WGBH Boston, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and New York University. All four institutions will work together to plan standards, procedures and facilities which will lead to creating a long term preservation archive for public television programming produced in digital formats.”

2) The Chicago Tribune has a story about Chicago’s public television station (WTTW), announcing a plan to digitize (make searchable) and license “decades” of content. More in this news release.
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Collection Development
Source: Emerald
This Week Only: Free Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of Collection Building
Articles include:
+ Chemical information in the electronic era (Vol. 23 No. 4)
+ View Collaborative collection building of electronic resources: a business faculty/librarian partnership (Vol. 23 No. 4)
+ From Picture Collection to Picture Collection Online (Vol. 23 No. 3)
+ Linking preservation metadata and collection management policies (Vol. 23 No. 2)
+ User preferences in formats of print and electronic journals (Vol. 23 No. 2)
+ Collecting comic books for an academic library (Vol. 23 No. 2)
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Presidential Libraries–William Jefferson Clinton
Source: Newsweek
Clinton: Ready for His Close-Up
“Visitors to the Clinton Presidential Library, which opens Nov. 18 in Little Rock, Ark., won’t have to search in some far corner to learn about the 42nd president’s impeachment. Instead, it will be dealt with openly in a ground-floor exhibit. ‘We encouraged him to lay it out exactly as it happened,’ says chief archivist David Alsobrook, who has spent the past four years organizing the 80 million pages of documents, e-mails and assorted tchotchkes from world leaders that Clinton amassed during his presidency–more than any other chief executive.”
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Academic Libraries
Source: AP
Floods Destroy Documents at Hawaii Library
“Heavy rain sent water as much as 8 feet deep rushing through the University of Hawaii’s main research library, destroying irreplaceable documents and books, toppling doors and walls, and forcing a few students to break a window to escape.”
See Also:More Info and Updates via Univ. of Hawaii Library School Home Page
A digital archive of disaster images is also online.

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