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Nancy | 3 Jul 06:30

RE: Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?

The two technologies with which I most engage in discussions are email lists 
and message boards.
The lists give everyone's response an equal weight, which means I don't miss 
something valuable because it's not presented as enticingly as something 
posted by a greater wordsmith.

Both email lists and message boards are easy to interact with, but some 
versions of each of these types of technologies are more user friendly than 
others.

Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
Associate Librarian
Lake Forest College
sosna@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces@...
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces@...] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
>
> If you are engaging with peers, colleagues, friends, family, etc.
> (rather than simply having things "come to you"), then RSS is not quite
> as effective. It may point you to ongoing conversations but you will
> still have to use another tool to participate.
>
> I have found myself disengaging with RSS in some instances and going
> back to email because it was a more effective tool. That even includes
> some "read-only" behavior, such as commits for an open source project,
> news flashes, etc.
>
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B.G. Sloan | 2 Jul 22:56
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OCLC Formally Withdraws WorldCat Policy


"According to OCLC's announcement, 'a new group will soon be assembled to begin work to draft a new policy
with more input and participation from OCLC membership. Until then, the 'Guidelines for the Use and
Transfer of OCLC-Derived Records' will continue to govern WorldCat data exchange, as it has since 1987."

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668022.html

Bernie Sloan
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Dawn K | 2 Jul 21:01

Naming convention for electronic document holdings

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I've recently been hired to help create a corporate library catalogue and
electronic document holdings - using SharePoint 2007 for both.

When cataloguing/uploading the files, I will also rename them to help with
finding duplicate docs, version variation, etc.

Does anyone have experience/ideas for creating a naming convention that
would work for 5,000-10,000 documents (internal and external reports,
articles, etc.)?

It would be wonderful to learn from others' experiences to help make this
project a success!

Thank you for your responses ~
Dawn
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Lori Bell | 2 Jul 18:23
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ATLAS project: corrected copy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1 , 2009
CONTACT:  Lori Bell, Alliance Library System, lbell <at> alliancelibrarysystem.com
John Walber, LearningTimes, john@...
 
          Alliance Library System and LearningTimes Announce ATLAS
Alliance Library System (ALS) and LearningTimes are pleased to announce the debut of ATLAS (Alliance
Trail to Learning and Syndicated Sites) at http://www.atlaspodcasts.org.  ATLAS is a new set of social
media tools ALS is using to promote information and historical photos about Illinois history.  ALS and
LearningTimes partnered to create this innovative and exciting new model of collaborative digital
imaging collections using multimedia and social networking tools to bring historical times to life, and
involving a community at large in its creation.  The project debuted June 29th with an online
conference.  A recording of the event is available at
http://www.atlaspodcasts.org/webcast-2009-06/.  The Cullom-Davis Library at Bradley University
will serve as the first partner library to produce additional podcasts on Illinois history to be added to
the site. They were involved in the first set of ten podcasts, providing the material for the five from
 Peoria.
At the heart of the ATLAS project are digital images of historic people, places, documents and objects. 
The images are combined with audio descriptions and placed on a map of Illinois to produce an engaging new
interactive learning model for libraries and their customers.  
The project began with ten short high-quality podcasts about nineteenth century Illinois and famous
women from the first hundred years of statehood.  Produced in association with LearningTimes, each
podcast spotlights a specific person or topic area.  ATLAS visitors are able to mouse over a city in
Illinois and select a story of interest, featuring engaging commentary and information.  A searchable
database allows users to search sound files, narratives and photographs. The programs may be enjoyed
right from the ATLAS site, or downloaded to a portable audio player.
The ATLAS site will support dozens of additional podcasts.  To encourage continued growth and wide
participation, LearningTimes trained over 50 librarians from all over the state to produce their own
podcasts.  Based on the popular LearningTimes program “Producing Great Audio and Video
Podcasts,” these online workshops offered concrete approaches for bringing each of the elements of a
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Lori Bell | 2 Jul 18:02
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Alliance Library System and Learning Times Announce ATLAS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1 , 2009
CONTACT:  Lori Bell, Alliance Library System, lbell <at> alliancelibrarysystem.com
John Walber, LearningTimes, john@...
 
          Alliance Library System and LearningTimes Announce ATLAS
Alliance Library System (ALS) and LearningTimes are pleased to announce the debut of ATLAS (Alliance
Trail to Learning and Syndicated Sites) at http://www.atlaspodcatss.org.  ATLAS is a new set of social
media tools ALS is using to promote information and historical photos about Illinois history.  ALS and
LearningTimes partnered to create this innovative and exciting new model of collaborative digital
imaging collections using multimedia and social networking tools to bring historical times to life, and
involving a community at large in its creation.  The project debuted June 29th with an online
conference.  A recording of the event is available at
http://www.atlaspodcasts.org/webcast-2009-06/.  The Cullom-Davis Library at Bradley University
will serve as the first partner library to produce additional podcasts on Illinois history to be added to
the site. They were involved in the first set of ten podcasts, providing the material for the five from
 Peoria.
At the heart of the ATLAS project are digital images of historic people, places, documents and objects. 
The images are combined with audio descriptions and placed on a map of Illinois to produce an engaging new
interactive learning model for libraries and their customers.  
The project began with ten short high-quality podcasts about nineteenth century Illinois and famous
women from the first hundred years of statehood.  Produced in association with LearningTimes, each
podcast spotlights a specific person or topic area.  ATLAS visitors are able to mouse over a city in
Illinois and select a story of interest, featuring engaging commentary and information.  A searchable
database allows users to search sound files, narratives and photographs. The programs may be enjoyed
right from the ATLAS site, or downloaded to a portable audio player.
The ATLAS site will support dozens of additional podcasts.  To encourage continued growth and wide
participation, LearningTimes trained over 50 librarians from all over the state to produce their own
podcasts.  Based on the popular LearningTimes program “Producing Great Audio and Video
Podcasts,” these online workshops offered concrete approaches for bringing each of the elements of a
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LaCrone, David, JCL | 2 Jul 16:58

Survey on Text Messaging in the Library

*apologies for cross-posting*

Does your library offer services via SMS (text messaging) in any way? A group in our leadership training
program is gathering information about other libraries' use of SMS. Please consider completing this
short (8 question) survey:

http://survey.jocolibrary.org/Surveys/TakeSurvey.aspx?s=FFCE7932D1F84AF29A6F91CA33705B70

If you have questions or comments about the survey or SMS in the library, feel free to contact me. Your input
is much appreciated!

David LaCrone
Web Content Developer
Johnson County Library
(913) 495-7548
www.jocolibrary.org<http://www.jocolibrary.org>

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Robin | 2 Jul 16:02
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link tracking software

Greetings, (and apologies if this is considered off-topic),

We have satisfactorily used seventwentyfour software for several years
to track and report broken links; now they have outsourced their billing
and fee payment to a third party company and the price appears to have
gone through the roof. Consequently I'm looking for a replacement
package and would greatly appreciate any recommendations (for or
against) or suggestions for alternatives. As always cost is a factor
but, being aware that we generally get what we pay for, I'm prepared to
incur some expense - just not the $2K + they now want.

TIA for any advice!

Robin Boulton  
IT Manager
St. Charles Public Library District
St. Charles, IL 60174
(630) 584 0076 x 258  
Cell:(630) 918 8738 
http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/ <http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/> 
robin@...
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Leanna Jantzi | 30 Jun 23:05
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personalized library services input

Dear Colleagues,

Simon Fraser University Library is in the midst of replacing its first-generation personalized library
services and is hopeful you can help. The library is investigating the different types of online
personalized library services that are offered to academic library users and the ways in which they are delivered.

If you have a moment, could you let us know what your library offers?

The questions we have include:
What personalized library services do you offer?
Are these services available via a user portal or via the library website? Or  both?
Do your services require a single or multiple user logins?
How popular are the services? Have you received any feedback from users?
 ....and of course, anything else you are willing to add.

Please reply off list to ljantzi@... We will provide a summary of the
responses via this list serve. Many thanks in advance for your input.

Regards,

Leanna Jantzi
ljantzi@...
778-782-6841
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Jennifer Heise | 30 Jun 17:53

Best RSS to email converter for Delicious?

Hi everyone.
We catalog our reference websites in Del.icio.us, but our cataloging
department wants the updates pushed to them
for cataloging. They don't use RSS feeds, so I think we're going to
have to email the RSS feed to them.
Does anyone have a good suggestion for the best RSS to email converter
site to use?
-- Jenne
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A.Asemi | 30 Jun 05:09
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What is Semantic Web Applications in the libraries?

Hi all !
 
Do you have any answer of references for the following questions:
 
What is Semantic Web Applications in the libraries?
 
Which libraries use of Semantic Web in information services?
 
What are the Web 3.00 tools?
 
 
 
Asefeh

 
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B.G. Sloan | 30 Jun 04:31
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Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?

 
Young, Jeffrey R. Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance. Chronicle of
Higher Education. June 25, 2009.
http://beta.chronicle.com/article/Change-or-Die-Scholarly/46962/
 
The intro paragraph: 
 
"Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly
e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis,
Twitter, and social networks like Facebook."
 
Several quotes from librarians...
 
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
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