Professional Reading Shelf
Preservation
Archives
Source: BL
10 million pound programme to save the world’s historical and cultural records
“Representatives from the international historical, conservation and diplomatic worlds gathered today at the British Library to mark the launch of the Endangered Archives Programme – a �10 million joint initiative between the British Library and the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund to help save the world’s endangered archives.”
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Libraries–Canada
Source: Canadian Library Association
CLA Response to Library and Archives Canada Paper
In response to Library and Archives Canada Paper entitled Directions for Library and Archives Canada
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Health Libraries–United Kingdom
Source: Kable’s Government Computing
Health service opens e-library
“A national library service, to be run by the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), is to provide the “knowledge” content for new systems such as the electronic patient record, it was announced on 17 November 2004.”
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Information Retrieval
Metadata
Source: FCW
EPA builds a better search
A keyword search in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Web pages used to yield a mishmash of results. Typing, say, “water quality” in the search engine might have returned links to high-level overviews of water quality issues or to documents that merely mentioned water quality. ‘The relevancy ranking of our search engine couldn’t really say, ‘Here’s a general thing about water quality that could get you started,’ said Richard Huffine, program manager for the EPA’s National Library Network. So EPA officials modified the search engine.”
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Open Access
Source: E-LIS
Supporting and Enhancing Scholarship in the Digital Age : The Role of Open Access Institutional Repositories
“This paper examines the emerging trend of university-based institutional repositories (IRs) designed to capture the scholarly output of an institution and to maximize the research impact of this output. The relationship of this trend to the open access movement is discussed and challenges and opportunities for using IRs to promote new modes of scholarship are provided.”+
Read the paper [PDF]

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