Professional Reading Shelf
Online Information
Source: OCLC
OCLC Researchers Hits the Road
Links to several PowerPoint presentations from members of OCLC Research.
+ Mining for Digital Resources: Identifying and Characterizing Digital Materials in WorldCat
+ A Systemwide View of Library Collections
+ Information Management in a Knowledge Society
+ Metadata: Practice and practice
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Legal Research
Source: GlobalLex
A Guide to the U. S. Federal Legal System Web-based Public Accessible Sources
A new guide by Gretchen Feltes, a Faculty Services/Reference Librarian at New York University School of Law Library.
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E-Books
Source: Brown and White (Lehigh University)
E-books may soon hit market, CEO says
A Lehigh alumnus described the future of the publishing age, which he believes will include electronic books, Thursday at Linderman Library.”
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Scholarly Publishing
Source: APS News
Publication and the Internet: Where Next? (PDF; 240 KB)
“There are, I believe, two important components to a new publishing model. The first is to rely as much as possible on the authors of scientific papers to take over functions now carried out by scientific journals. Good software tools can facilitate this. The second is to recognize tasks that — irreducibly — require professional editors and staff, and to assign the real costs and collect revenues for these tasks. In the following, I will quote costs for these services as a fraction of the present cost for the Physical Review to process a paper (?PR cost?).”

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