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The Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, Designed by Frank Furness | Masterpiece by Michael J. Lewis - WSJ.com

IPEDS Library Statistics Program

ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

Lies My Vendor Told Me | Peer to Peer Review - 8/27/2009 - Library Journal

Commentary on the Westlaw marketing campaign and other vendors who try to double-dip by selling directly to users things that they already have access to through the library's paid subscription.

Planet Biblioblog 2.0

Books in Russia and the Soviet Union : past and present / edited by Miranda Beaven Remnek.

. Books in Russia and the Soviet Union : past and present / edited by Miranda Beaven Remnek. 3447031247 series Wiesbaden : O. Harrassowitz, 1991.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z368 .B66 1991

The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

This article aims to argue for the benefits of all scholarly journals being Open Access. Authors argue that non-open access journals are significantly detrimental to an authors' research impact. Their argument is that even if all journals charged an at-cost price for their content no (or very few) libraries would be able to afford all journals in this situation. The article gives excellent statistical information, including charts and grafts depicting the impact that Open Access has on citations, downloads, budgets, and institutional archive growth.

This article explores the benefits of open access publication to scholars and researchers in so much as Open Access will greatly increase their research impact because a ten-fold number of other researchers will be able to review their work. By referring to some of the statistics and information the authors of this article have compiled, I will further list the importance of why pushing publishers toward Open Access or "less astringent copyright practices" is of extreme importance in today's library fields. Undoubtedly, pushing information on why pushing publishers toward O.A. would help library's with their budgets, but also would increase library usage. However, I think it is also important to argue librarians have a duty to further scholarship, showing that O.A. helps facilitate research and increase citations and articles downloads will be an extremely efficient way of doing this.

Georgia State Lawsuit Release and "Legal Complaint"

The above article is a PR address from the Association of American Publishers regarding the infringement lawsuit brought up on Georgia State University by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and SAGE Publications. The document gives the reasons why these three publishers felt it necessary to bring up charges against GSU and why it is important that the copyright they hold over their published works is important (mainly because of the significant funds they spend publishing their works).

http://publishers.org/main/PressCenter/documents/GSUlawsuitcomplaint.pdf

The above link directs you to the legal complaint in its original form. Using the above legal cliam and the press release to help decipher and guide me through this legal document will help me to better understand why the publishers feel they have been wronged by Georgia State University. The infringements listed by Georgia State University have most assuredly been facilitated by the library/libraries of GSU or at least exacerbated by the library/libraries.

I will use the above article as a way of understanding what was it exactly that publishers feel are significant reasons to bring up suit against an entity. By examining the stated reasons for the lawsuit, I could further research as to what could be done to eliminate the possibility of being sued for supplying copyrighted works to students, faculty, and staff by the university library. The above articles will help me to define in my essay what is sufficient cause for a publisher to take up suit against a university / library.

Copyright Policies and the Deciphering of Fair Use in the Creation of Reserves at University Libraries.

The above article revolves mostly around the the use of electronic reserves at university libraries and what copyright restrictions apply to the use of E-Res. Also, it discusses various court cases involving copyright and attempts to form a listing of percentages of work that could be used without infringement. By doing this the authors attempt to form a more 'objective' and concrete idea of what constitutes copyright infringement. In addition, the authors argue against using the Copyright Act of 1976 as a guideline for libraries, stating that it does not accurately depict fair use.

This article will be extremely useful to me because it attempts to objective numbers as to where copyright infringement begins and fair use ends. Also, it explains the awareness of copyright law by various individuals who work in and around a library. By using some of the information compiled from this article I intend to show how unlikely it is to expect a librarian to do the calculations and to have a cogent knowledge of what is fair-use and what constitutes infringement. Also, by concurring with this article's authors on the unreliability of the copyright act of 1976 to accurately define fair use for libraries will help to build the credibility of my argument.

Library Related Conferences

List of library-related conferences and online events

Make a Copyright U-Turn and 5 Other Audacious Statements about Copyright and Educational Fair Use

The Kaleidoscopic Concern

he Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the release of a new digital publication, "The Kaleidoscopic Concern" by Kaetrena D. Davis-Kendrick. This annotated bibliography on racial and ethnic diversity in librarianship focuses on new areas of study such as gender issues and white privilege with regard to racial minority and ethnic librarians. "The Kaleidoscopic Concern" is available on the ACRL Web site as a free downloadable digital publication

Governing tomorrow's campus : perspectives and agendas / Jack H. Schuster, Lynn H. Miller, and associates.

Schuster, Jack H. . Governing tomorrow's campus : perspectives and agendas / Jack H. Schuster, Lynn H. Miller, and associates. 0028973720 series New York : American Council on Education : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1989.
Call#: Van Pelt Library LB2341 .S3154 1989

Walter Metzger, "Academic AGovernance and evolutionary perspective"

Libraries on Twitter - TwitterLeague

Libraries Using Twitter

Twitter for libraries

Journal of academic librarianship

Journal of academic librarianship [0099-1333]

College and research libraries

College and research libraries [0010-0870]

Brown University: Copyright and Fair Use (Audio-visual)

Rules and Permissions for Audio-visual Media Copyright law and audio-visual materials

Netflix at Dickinson

From the ACRL/NY Annual Symposium 2008:

Exploring New Methods of Content Delivery: Three Trial Approaches
Amelia Brunskill, Liaison Librarian for the Sciences, Dickinson College
Maureen O'Brien Dermott, Asstistant Director of Access Services, Dickinson College

Archive for the VideoLib Electronic Discussion

Children's Internet Protection Act

Citation: "Children's Internet Protection Act." 2000. Internet Free Expression Alliance. 4 April 2009. <http://ifea.net/cipa.pdf>.

The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a law passed by Congress that encourages filtering the Internet to protect minors by giving schools and libraries financial incentives to do so. Throughout the text, the legislation defines terminology used in the remainder of the document. It states that schools and libraries cannot use federal funds to buy computers or aid Internet access unless they have policies and softwares in place designed to filter visuals on the Internet that contain obscenity, child pornography and material harmful to minors. There is also discussion of how the government plans to implement the law in schools and libraries and how groups can waive this requirement. An exception to the filtering rule is also provided; schools can disable filtering softwares for research purposes. The law concludes by discussing how schools and libraries need to document and enforce the policies outlined in CIPA, and what the legal ramifications for the schools and libraries are if they do not enforce the policies.

CIPA is relevant to my paper because it demonstrates how the government can constitutionally play a role in protecting children online and it shows governmental support for self-regulation. CIPA, unlike parts of the CDA and COPA, has been ruled to be Constitutional and not in violation of the first amendment, because Congress is providing incentives for schools and libraries to regulate content on their own computers, rather than requiring regulation. Congress seemed to take the Supreme Court’s ruling concerning the CDA into consideration when drafting CIPA, because the law allows filtering of obscene and pornographic material but not indecent material. Encouraging communities to enact regulations protecting children themselves is also a better strategy than governmental regulation because it allows communities to better apply their own standards regarding what is obscene and harmful to minors. The government’s established definitions of obscenity and harm to minors involve applying community standards, so this law does a good job of following past legislative precedents, giving the law even greater validity.

Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments | In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Includes sample e-mails for dialogue with faculty

Wired Campus: Letter to the Editor: Librarians and Tech Officials Must Get Along to Meet Future Challenges - Chronicle.com

Pitt: The University Library System (ULS) Mission

UVa Library Vision & Guiding Principles for the Library of Tomorrow

OSU Mission

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: The Academic Library's Mission - Risk Taking, Creativity, Transparency

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

Geographic Information Retrieval and Spatial Browsing

Ithakas 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The paper probes the relationship between libraries and the faculty at institutions of all sizes, and how the digital shift is altering that relationship. The authors, Roger Schonfeld and Ross Housewright, pulled together the highlights from two surveys conducted in 2006: one of American faculty members and another of librarians in charge of collection developmen

GBS: Bibliographic Supernova - 2/15/2008 - Library Journal

OPAC Wishlist from Librarycrunch

A blogpost from LibraryCrunch listing great additions to the library catalog of the future.

lib-web-cats: Search for Libraries

"lib-web-cats (library web sites and catalogs) is a directory of libraries worldwide. While the majority of the current listings are in North America, the numbers of libraries represented in other parts of the globe is growing. Each listing includes links to the library's website and online catalog. Other information available includes the geographic location, address, library type, current and previous library automation systems used, and the size of the library's collection."

Useful for seeing which libraries use which ILS/OPAC

Association of Research Libraries :: Scholarly Communication

Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Futur

Toolbar - Penn Libraries Wiki

Association of American University Presses

The Googlization of Everything

The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Rice University Press: Fons et origo

Institute for the Future of the Book

Association of Research Libraries

Main Page - GPNWiki

Everybody's Libraries Ockerbloom

ARL Diversity Initiatives Awarded IMLS Grant to Create Minority Fellowship Program

Libraries Unleashed

4/22/08 the Guardian had a supplement dealing with libraries and technology...about 15 articles in all.

An excerpt from the introduction:

"Academic libraries are changing faster than at any time in their history. Information technology, online databases, and catalogues and digitised archives have put the library back at the heart of teaching, learning and academic research on campus."

Building Earth's Largest Library

Steve Coffman's article from March 1999 - an Amazom-influenced view of library catalogs and delivery of materials

How much did this influence WorldCat.org?

Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books

Annenberg Library Renovation 2008

Brief video about the Annenberg Library renovation, summer 2008

Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies

Frequently Asked Interview Questions - University of South Carolina SLIS

The Cornell University Library Personas

The Cornell University Library (CUL) personas were developed during April and May of 2007 as part of CUL's Web Vision Project. They are designed to provide insight into the various research practices and processes used by primary clients the library. The personas will be used both during the initial design of CUL's new platform for online access and to validate various design iterations for the platform as they are developed.

Paul Courant's blog about libraries, economics, public policy, and other stuff | Au Courant

Sheridan Libraries Podcasts

ZSR | Current Blogs

YouTube - olinlibrary's Channel

YouTube - OCLC Midwinter 2008 Symposium

Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Strategies suggested by librarians of color

Kim,K . "Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Strategies suggested by librarians of color" The library quarterly [0024-2519] 78.2 (2008). 153-177.

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council QuC)bec, Canada, August 2008

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding"

10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada

ARL Interactive Statistics

Interactive version of the statistics from the Association of Research Libraries

Penn Libraries Mashup

The Looking Glass: A Portrait of Today's Penn Libraries

Local Libraries

Rare Books & Manuscripts Library

Museum Library

Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Fine Arts

Area Studies Collections

Van Pelt Library

Local Special Collections

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Museum Library

Fine Arts and Design Library

Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library

Area Studies Collections

Van Pelt Library

Business Reference Services (Library of Congress)

sharing.pdf (application/pdf Object)

lib-web-cats: Search for Libraries

Useful for seeing which libraries use which ILS/OPAC

PACSCL -- The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries

"Mission

The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) encourages diverse audiences to explore and engage with member libraries' uniquely rich holdings and, through collaboration, strengthens these collections and the institutions that preserve them.

Vision

PACSCL is the most extensive and diverse collaboration among a region's libraries and archives in the United States. Its collections, in their depth and variety, comprise an internationally important body of unique and rare materials for students, scholars, and life-long learners of every background."

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Management Succession in Libraries

John Kupersmith's Webspace

Includes a "Library Terms that Users Understand" section.

Library at night / Alberto Manguel.

Manguel, Alberto. . Library at night / Alberto Manguel. [0676975887 (bound) : ] Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z665 .M36 2006

Duke University Medical Center Library Online - Subject Guides

statistics [Health Sciences Library Wiki] - SUNY @ Buffalo

Personal Librarian - Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Is this an alternative to the liaison program or is it part of the program>

Liaisons - Ebling Library - University of Wisconsin

Tab on home page. No explanation of the goals or mission of program,

Health Sciences Library - Creighton University - Library Liaisons

Nice brief explanation of liaison program. Mentions program is not meant to replace already existing lines of communication between individual librarians and patrons.

Goals and Potential Liaison Activities - Maxwell Library - Bridgewater State College

Non-medical library. Listing of the goals and potenetial activities of the liaison program.

Academic Liaison Program - University of Connecticut

Non-medical library, but does mention a team approach. Very detailed explanation of the mission and responsiblities of a liaison.

Galter Liaison Program Description

No link from home page, but can be located from Education drop down menu.

Library Liasions - Washington University in St. Louis

Summary of liaison program. See specific links for :

List of Library Liaisons - lists addresses and biosketches

Library Liaison Program Overview - detailed explanation of the mission of the liaison program

Letter introducing Library Liaison Programto WUSM Community - example of support from top library administration for the program

Link to program not on the home page, but listed under Services & Information.

Liaison Program - The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library Emory University

Library Liaison Program - West Virginia University Health Sciences Library

Ruth Lilly Medical Library - Indiana University School of Medicine

DLIST - Digital Library of Information Science & Technology

"dLIST, an open access archive for the Information Sciences, is supported by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona."

Thoughts and Experiments B; Laura Robinson Hanlan - WPI Liaison Program

I Love Libraries - Quotes about Libraries

Library Lingo

From University of Florida.

Moving Library Collections: Glossary

From the University of Oregon.

Manual for UNT Library Liaisons, University of North Texas Libraries

Matacio - Library Liaison Programs in the 21st Century

Meet Your Librarian: Health Sciences Library - UNC-Chapel Hill

Librarian profiles have Write Us Into Your Grant

The New York Academy of Medicine - Library - Liaison Service

Marketing and Outreach for Science

Health Sciences Subject Librarians - University of Minnesota

Library Liaisons (Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University)

Library Liaison Contacts - Indiana University SOM

University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries

Norris Medical Library - Liaison program - University of Southern California

Contact Us - LaneConnex - Lane Medical Library - Stanford

Welch Medical Library Liaison Program

Medical Library Liaison Programs

Quotations about Libraries and Librarians (IFLA)

Marketing Libraries - an annotated bibliography

Flamenco : UC Berkeley Architecture Slides

mentioned in peter morville's library2.0 talk at michigan.

ranganathan -> ncsu -> berkeley?

Marketing Your Library - Resources for Marketing Libraries

Digital Library Federation

German Society of Pennsylvania. Horner Memorial Library

The Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library is both a lending library and a research facility, housed in an original 1888 reading room built for that purpose and recently restored by the Society. The library houses more than 70,000 volumes, three-quarters are in German. It is considered the largest private collection of German books in the United States (outside of universities)

LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness

Searches 1400+ library-related feeds.

libSite.org | A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites

LibSite.org is built around the premise that library-related projects need and deserve a higher profile, that the current technology allows us to engage this material in any number of creative ways.

FEATURES
For that reason, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts -- the last two being configurable down to individual tags. Users can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page.

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Live Discussions

Interview with Dianna Oblinger, VP of Educause on information literacy among college students.

American Library Association

Open Letter to ILS Vendors | TechEssence.Info

This is great! Now, if only they will listen...

A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025

Title: A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025
Authors: Lewis, David W.

Issue Date: 12-Jan-2007
Abstract: The paper presents a model for academic libraries for the next 20 years. The parts of the model are: 1.) Complete the migration from print to electronic collections; 2.) Retire legacy print collections; 3.) Redevelop the library space; 4.) Reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise, and 5.) Migrate the focus of collections from purchasing materials to curating content. The interactions of the parts of the model and organizational issues for implementation are explored.
Description: Paper presented at "Visions of Change," California State University at Sacramento, January 26, 2007.

ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter

Taiga Forum - Taiga2 2007 - a photoset on Flickr

Photos from Taiga2

LITA wiki

New LITA wiki - not much content yet

The Library Predict-o-matic 3000

New 'tool' predidts the next library system mergers and product developments

Association of Research Libraries

ARL has redesigned its website

Back from the Taiga

Blog entry on the first Taiga Forum (March 06)