Professional Reading Shelf
Online Information
Source: Emerald
This Week ONLY: Free Full Text Access to Three Recent Issues of Online Information Review
Articles include:
+ Web authoring tools and meta tagging of page descriptions and keywords (Vol. 29. No. 2)
+ The impact of electronic information delivery on reference enquiries (Vol. 29. No. 2)
+ Information resources on chemistry and natural sciences in general (Vol 2. No. 2)
+ Google Scholar: the pros and the cons (Vol 29. No. 2)
+ A MAP for the library portal: through the labyrinth of online information sources (Vol 29. No. 1)
+ From the search problem through query formulation to results on the web (Vol 29. No. 1)
+ Knowing where they’re going: statistics for online government document access through the OPAC (Vol 28. No. 6)
+ Date-restricted queries in web search engines (Vol 28. No. 6)
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Open Access–DRM
Source: INDICARE Monitor
The role of digital rights management in Open Access
“Growing conviction that scientific progress will significantly benefit if scholarly articles and research papers are made freely available on the Web has given rise to the Open Access (OA) movement. While there is some awareness that OA articles may require digital rights management (DRM), there is currently only low-level interest in the topic, with many OA advocates maintaining that it has no relevance to OA. The issue is complicated by the fact that there are currently two ways in which research papers are made OA, each of which has different implications from a rights point of view.” Analysis by Richard Poynder.
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Electronic Records–Archiving
Source: Federal Computer Week
‘Tomahtoes’ get in the way of saving e-records
“Historians complain about techies and archivists shouting at one another, but the historians do offer some solutions. Anna Kasten Nelson, a historian in residence at American University, suggests that agency IT officers devise a mechanism to separate the insignificant ‘Where do you want to eat lunch?’ e-mail messages from the substantive ones, such as ‘Here is a draft of the legislation I am about to introduce.’”
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Public Libraries
Source: St. Petersburg Times
Library to pack up quirky history
“Lost in the hype and anticipation over the July 31 grand opening of Largo’s $21-million library is a smaller, far less glitzy building that has satiated thirsty minds, saved procrastinating students and entertained children for more than 30 years. The county’s most used library (an average of 1,400 visitors pass through each day) is moving to a new home. But before the shelves are cleared and the doors closed at 351 East Bay Drive, the St. Petersburg Times took a look to see what made this particular library special.” Note: In addition to everything else mentioned in the article, this particular library is special because it’s the first one that employed your deputy editor.
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Public Libraries–Censorship
Source: New Orleans Times–Picayune
Gay book not child’s play, says lawmaker
“Books ‘containing the theme of homosexuality’ and other ‘age-inappropriate’ topics should not be on public library shelves accessible to children, a St. Tammany Parish lawmaker said Thursday.”

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