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Library Juice 3:2 - January 12, 2000 Contents: 1. Coffman would have you sell your soul!!! 2. New Publisher and Editor for The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D L*I*B*R*A*R*I*A*N 3. Institute of Museum and Library Services newsletter 4. ROMINFO 5. Hypertext Library Lingo update 6. ALSC updates popular intellectual freedom publication 7. ALA list processor on the web 8. Clemency Librarians 9. Letter from Sanford Berman to Attorney General Janet Reno 10. HR 21 -- Reinvention at the Library of Congress 11. ACRL bibliography for new instruction librarians 12. Responses to request for Information Literacy Course Readings (BI-L) 13. Who Owns What 14. 2000 Around the World Quotes for the week: "Two trucks loaded with a thousand copies of Roget's Thesaurus collided as they left a New York publishing house last week, according to the Associated Press. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, appalled, surprised, shocked and rattled." -From Alan Schlein, sent to Marylaine Block Home page of the week: Marylaine Block http://www.marylaine.com/ _____________________________________________________________________________top 1. Coffman would have you sell your soul!!! The ever controversial Steve Coffman has a new article on the web in which he advocates sordid deals with advertisers: "And Now a Word from Our Sponsor" http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan00/searcher.htm Marylaine Block has written a response in her newsletter: http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib38.html Karen Schneider, "Internet Librarian" columnist for American Libraries and PUBLIB co-moderator, had this to say: Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:41:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs[at]bluehighways.com> To: publib <publib[at]sunsite.berkeley.edu>, Subject: Considering Coffman This time I'm not coughing him up, totally. Coffman keeps working on his formulae and it seems to have improved somewhat. (By the way, that intrapreneur test was scary--I had a perfect score.) I disagree with Coffman on several main points. (By "I," I refer to Karen G. Schneider, librarian, not co-moderator of the discussion list. I have not now, nor have I ever destroyed six email messages from Steve Coffman. The only "ad" in this message is not hominem, but a plug to come to the Coffman panel at PLA, which should be lively and feisty.) The biggest disagreements I have with Coffman's latest treatise are a) corporate sponsorships. They are current management vogue, but that doesn't make them good. (Remember TQM <shudder>?) PBS as a model is particularly instructive. PBS buckled under pressure from the homophobic right and declined to produce the second series for Tales of the City. Ironically, a commercial station stepped in and produced it. so much for "public" broadcasting. b) mistaking the trends of five years ago for the trends of tomorrow. Huge bookstores with amenities have been popular, but what people increasingly want to do right now, anyway, is sit home drinking their own coffee and ordering books from Amazon. I don't want a heartwarming experience when I buy a book, if I can trade it for convenience. The reason that in-store sales didn't suffer this holiday season, from what I read, is that we are in a boom economy so the impact of online sales has been masked. c) thinking that books are going to be around for a lot longer than they are. He's cooled down considerably on the World's Largest Library model, but I think the concept will be totally OBE'd by the time he gets the momentum to pull it off. Any vision on that grand a scale should not be based on the paper-based book. d) forgetting about childrens' services, and for that matter forgetting about service in general. Nobody really wants to argue with some gum-chewing teenager whether or not Sartre is spelled Sartre. The commercial that showed a young man attempting to buy a present for his sweety in department stores, then fleeing home to shop online, had it right. And though childrens' services serve a disturbingly small percentage of any given population, they are popular and could be more so if we cultivated them. Children will continue to need to socialize in educational settings outside of school and home. It may well be that the surviving librarians are the book selectors, the techies and the youth services folks. What all this means for libraries, I'm still mulling over. Karen G. Schneider kgs[at]bluehighways.com Assistant Director of Technology Shenendehowa Public Library, Clifton Park, NY http://www.shenpublib.org _____________________________________________________________________________top 2. New Publisher and Editor for The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D L*I*B*R*A*R*I*A*N Marvin Scilken was the creator of The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D L*I*B*R*A*R*I*A*N, the "how I run my library good" newsletter (or something like that), which was a much loved quarterly print publication for 28 years until Marvin died last summer, during the New Orleans ALA conference. Your library probably has copies somewhere, unmistakable for their wealth of typewritten character and practical content. Polly Scilken, Marvin's wife, is transferring publication duties to Mitch Freedman, ALA Councilor and director of the Westchester County Public Library. Mitch will be backed up by his daughter Jenna (who is a great friend of Library Juice) as editor, and a staff of contributing editors including Bernadine Hoduski (who founded GODORT), Carol Leita (who founded Librarians Index to the Internet), and Sanford Berman (who needs no introduction). Mitch writes: Your good ideas, forms, procedures, humor, articles, comments, newsletters, releases, etc., will continue to be welcomed and form the core of U*L. You're invited to send them to U*L at the new mailing address: The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*DTM Librarian P.O. Box 325 Mount Kisco, NY 10549 _____________________________________________________________________________top 3. Institute of Museum and Library Services newsletter The Institute of Museum and Library Services has launched a monthly email newsletter, The Primary Source. The Primary Source explores how museums and libraries across the country use IMLS awards to further their service to the public. The newsletter provides the latest information about IMLS activities, grant programs, and publications, and showcases best practices. Every issue contains valuable links to information on the IMLS web site. If you are interested in reading or receiving The Primary Source, please visit the IMLS site at http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/new_imls.htm#ps. You will find current and past issues of the newsletter and subscriptionscriptioninformation. _____________________________________________________________________________top 4. ROMINFO Dear collegues, We are on the way of making an international data base of scientific and proffesional information about Europian minority of Roma (Gypsies). The organizer of that data base - "ROMINFO" is Research and Development organization "YUROM Centar" and "World Organization of Roma". The data base has already 4500 bibliographical records. In order to finish the job we started, it is neccessary your help and cooperation as soon as possible. In the action of collecting the data almost all important libraries of the world are participating. "ROMINFO" data base processes data according to UDK system. The programmes used are: CDS/ISIS, recommended by UNESCO. We are interested in all kinds of information and all the data holders. Could you, please, provide us with bibliographical search in the subject: Roma (Gypsies) that you have in your bibliographical fund. By sending even one piece of data, you acquire the right to have our bibliography, that we plan to complete on June 2000. Thanking you in advance, we remain Yours Sincerely, INDOC Centar Osman Balic NAUCNO ISTRAZIVACKA, OBRAZOVNA I HUMANITARNA ORGANIZACIJA SCIENTIFIC- RESEARCH, EDUCATIONAL AND HUMANITARY ORGANIZATION YUGOSLAVIA, 18000 Nis, J. Ristica 14/ 22, Tel./ Fax: ( + 381 18 ) 24- 339. e-mail: yuromcentar[at]bankerinter.net ; http://www.YUROMCentar.ORG.YU/ROMINFO _____________________________________________________________________________top 5. Hypertext Library Lingo update Those of you who have followed the progress of the "Hypertext Library Lingo" glossary will be interested to know that the file has been expanded from 700 to 1800 terms + definitions, and renamed "ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science." It is now available at the URL: http://www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html, with forwarding from its former Internet address. With this expansion, the dictionary now runs smoothly only on a 64MB (or higher) machine, but plans are underway to convert ODLIS into a searchable database and to enhance its graphic appearance. The next major expansion will occur on April 1, 2000 with the addition of 200-250 terms. ODLIS has also been copyrighted. Libraries may link to the dictionary, but the file may not be changed or adapted in any way without the author's permission. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. If you have a term which you would like the author to add, please contact: Joan Reitz Instruction Librarian Ruth A. Haas Library Western Connecticut State Univ. reitzj[at]wcsu.edu (203) 837-8308 _____________________________________________________________________________top 6. ALSC updates popular intellectual freedom publication NEWS For Immediate Release/January 2000 Contact: Rebecca Singer 1-800-545-2433, ext. 2165 rsinger[at]ala.org The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has updated the intellectual freedom publication, Intellectual Freedom for Children: The Censor is Coming. This notebook, written by the ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee with committee chair, Jan Watkins as compiler, is an essential guide to information on intellectual freedom issues. It includes guidelines, policies, resolutions, background readings and resource lists that help librarians prepare for and respond to challenges to materials. It also provides valuable information on the impact of the Internet on intellectual freedom and a discussion on library use of filtering software. "With technology changing so rapidly, Intellectual Freedom for Children: The Censor is Coming is an invaluable tool to help all libraries be prepared before the censor comes," says Caroline Ward, ALSC President." If you are facing a challenge now, or merely preparing for future challenges, this notebook will help your library develop policies so that it can be prepared with an effective, measured response." The publication, will be available in the store at the ALA Midwinter Meetings in San Antonio or by calling ALA Order Fulfillment at 800-545-2433, press 7. ISBN 0-8389-8074-0; $28 non-members; $25.20 ALA members. _____________________________________________________________________________top 7. ALA list processor on the web from Rob Carlson, ALA webmaster: We are pleased to announce the availability of web access to ALA's list processor. LP-Web not only provides access to list archives, but also gives registered users the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe from lists and change their mail preferences (to receive list mail in digest form, for example). List owners may also use the web interface to perform a variety of owner functions. To use LP-Web, point your browser to the address http://lp-web.ala.org:8000/ Most users will need to select a username and password before they can get to many of LP-Web's features. (Most ALA lists are restricted in several ways to protect our subscribers from getting "spam," and these restrictions mean that most of the LP-Web functions one would see as a "guest" user are simply not available.) Registration is a two-step process designed for your security. After you enter a username, a password, and your email address, you will be sent an email message with a registration number in it. Reply to this message, and your registration will be in effect. You will not receive any more email about the LP-Web registration process, unless there was a problem. You can go directly to the URL above and put in your username and password and begin using the LP-Web interface. Two important things to remember: 1) Please be sure to register using the email address under which you are subscribed to ALA lists. If there is a discrepancy between the address you use when you register and the address under which you are subscribed, you will not be able to view archives or manage your list subscriptions through LP-Web. Also, any new lists you subscribe to after registration will be subscribed using the address you entered when you registered. Email the "lpweb-admin" address on each page of LP-Web for help resolving address problems. 2) Whatever conditions are in effect for the "mail version" of a list are also in effect for the "web version." So, for example, if a particular list's archives are open to list subscribers only, you will be required to subscribe to the list before you can view the archives. Similarly, if subscription to a list requires the approval of the list owner, your subscription request will be sent to the list owner first, who will then either subscribe you to the list, or will let you know that the list is closed to new subscribers. Please know that this software is still being tested and revised, so it may appear a little rough in places. Please bear with us, and use the "lpweb-admin" address to report actual problems. _____________________________________________________________________________top 8. Clemency Librarians The extraordinary power of librarians is little understood in the cultural process of social transformation. I believe that the Western world is undergoing a cultural revolution of mercy. I propose that the professional information science elites organize an international campaign to obtain clemency for prisoners on death row. Librarians are central to the abolitionist movements including the anti-death penalty groups, the antistoning groups, and so forth. Librarians have a critical role in an open society where information flows affect life-and-death outcomes. Increasingly, librarians are becoming more active as advocates in real-time Internet operations. An example can be gleaned from an article by David Firestone on the activism of Ray Markey. ("A Bookish Advocate for His Union's Rights," _New York Times_, November 3, 1998.) In addition to the strong and assertive profile of his work on behalf of librarians and trade unionists, the article discusses how librarians are using the Internet as a power tool for positive change. I think of librarians as lifesavers, as advocates who can, through an urgen dedicated niche network, determine whether or not a person in mortal danger can be helped to survive. The social history of librarianship is replete with humanitarian impulses; the rise of real-time technology gives to librarians a new and unforeseen power, greater than ever before. Of great importance is the use of electronic media among professional librarians who work together on urgent appeals and other immediate forms of advocacy. When librarians across the globe unite in a series of electronic moments, prisoners condemned to die can live. This applies not only to the Internet but also to other electronic mediums, some of which are still emerging in the age of ultra-miniaturization. I propose a special organization of book professionals, Librarians for Clemency, to coordinate the national and international linkages in real-time operations, in appeals work. This requires the use of a "Clemency Clock," a schedule of executions, like the wiring of Wall Street workstations with time zone maps and alignment zones. Just as trading can go on twenty-four hours a day in certain forms of securities trading, human rights work goes on constantly on a global clock. Time advantages across time zones can be of special use when executions are only hours away. Linking a large array of advocates together in a time-coordinated appeal has great power to influence outcomes and change decisions. Librarians for Clemency has a dual purpose: stopping executions in real-time calends and the long-term advocacy of abolition. Everywhere, the advocates and protectors of intellectual life cherish the life of ideas. To read is to think. To think is to act. From _Clemency: the Future of the Death Penalty: The Action Handbook for Abolitionists and Activists_, by A. L. Stubbs (New York, NY: Clemency Books, 1999) ISBN 0-9672803-0-3 _____________________________________________________________________________top 9. Letter from Sanford Berman to Attorney General Janet Reno Hon. Janet Reno Attorney General Dept. of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave. (Room 4545) Washington, DC 20530 Dear Attorney General Reno, As a professional librarian committed alike to freedom of information and basic human rights, I wish to thank the Justice Dept. for undertaking an investigation in to the 1976 car-bomb assassination of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his assistant, Ronni Moffitt. You also merit congratulations for this year declassifying and releasing over 7,000 documents related to Chilean General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 military coup and subsequent human rights violations. However, I understand that the potentially most enlightening and revealing files -- from the CIA -- have yet to be released. Please consider doing so as quickly as possible. Such documents may importantly contribute to the Letelier-Moffitt inquiry, Spain's upcoming trial of Pinochet, and the American public's understanding of the true U.S. role in toppling Salvador Allende's democratically-elected government, as well as supporting the consequent repression imposed by the Pinochet regime. With best wishes, Sanford Berman Author/Editor/Librarian 4400 Morningside Road Edina, MN 55416 _____________________________________________________________________________top 10. HR 21 -- Reinvention at the Library of Congress By Kent Dunlap BULLETIN BOARD: The Voice of the Library of Congress Professonal Guild AFSCME 2910 December 6, 1999 Recently, the Gazette has publisehd a number of gushing articles about reinvention at the Library of Congress. This reinvention effort is commonly referred to as HR 21, although it could also be termed spending a lot of money hiring a group of consultants called the Hay Group. The role of the labor organization in this reinvention effort is seldom mentioned in the articles, but when labor is mentioned we tend to be characterized as firmly on board. This article is intended to set the record straight. The HR 21 project can generally be summarized as two overlapping initiatives. The first initiative concerns the authoring of a missions and strategic goals statement. This effort appears fairly benign, and indeed rather comical. The second initiative concerns a so-called hiring improvement plan. This second initiative contains many truly worrisome aspects. This drafting of the mission/strategic goals statement has been completed, and been released for public consumption. The authoring of this document appears to have begun by a word search of the English language for all words having positive connotations. Once identified, these warm and fuzzy words were inserted into the statement to create a document brimming full of "success," "performance," "effective," "goals," "efficient," "diversity," etc., etc., etc. Words having negative connotations, such as "incompetent," stupid," "bias," "slow," "disorganized," "ineffective," and "fiscally irresponsible" were rightfully banned from the document. Henceforth, no one at the Library of Congress will be permitted to have a negative attribute. Nothing in my comments should be taken to mean that I believe achieving greatness is not a worthwhile goal. I would hope that a basic goal of professionalism exists in every staff member. However, the measure of greatness should be the opinion of others outside the organization regarding how well the Library performs its responsibilities. This mission statement appears to be a rather pathetic effort to achieve greatness through self-definition. Sadder yet is the reality that top management felt it necessary to hire highly paid consultants to assist in the figuring out of the basic mission of the agency which they are supposed to be leading. Much more worrisome is the document termed "Hiring Improvement Plan" dated August 12, 1999. The document has not been distributed to staff, although labor organizations, as "stakeholders," have received copies. The initiative was originally termed "Direct Hire," which says a lot right there. The name was later changed to "Hiring Improvement Plan," but the basic thrust remained the same. The document raises various ideas for enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. One of the worst ideas contained in this document is increased use of temporary employees. The use of temporaries in federal service is the Federal Government's equivalent of peonage. These employees have few effective rights because of their tenuous employment situation. The Hay Group believes increased use of temporaries is a good idea. The Guild strongly disagrees. Another bad idea is reducing the number of candidates interviewed for open positions at the Library of Congress. The Hay Group believes selecting officials are burdened with too many interviews under the current system. In some federal agencies interviews are limited to three, with tie scores being broken by a random process using social security numbers. While this procedure is not currently used by the Library of Congress, the Hay Group has raised it as an idea to consider. If implemented, many of the highest rated staff members would never be interviewed for open positions due to the happenstance of their social security numbers. Many of the proposals in this document work at cross purposes. For example, while the Hay Group seeks to restrict interviews, it simultaneously plans to expand applicant pools, largely by encouraging Internet job filings. The combination of the two policies would mean far fewer interviews for highest qualified in-house staff members. The Guild has filed general comments with the Hay Group opposing many of the suggestions in the "Hiring Improvement Plan." Fortunately, none of the awful ideas contained in this document has been formally embraced by the Library as an idea to be implemented. Moreover, any change in merit selection procedures would have to be bargained with labor organizations. In summary, the Guild favors all good ideas, and opposes all bad ideas. Unfortunately, after you shirt through all the hype about reinvention at the Library of Congress, you find far more bad ideas than good ideas being considered. Greatness at the Library of Congress will be achieved by establishing fundamentally *fair* personnel policies. The Hay Group is too often losing sight of that reality. _____________________________________________________________________________top 11. ACRL bibliography for new instruction librarians Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 10:29:21 -0700 From: Martin Raish <martin_raish[at]byu.edu> Subject: IIL Reading List To: BI-L <bi-l[at]listserv.byu.edu> From: Esther Grassian Dear BI-L Subscribers, Just mounted on the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy's (IIL) Web site is an annotated list of readings for new instruction librarians, recommended by current and former IIL Advisory Board members and IIL Immersion Program faculty. We invite you to visit the IIL site and hope these readings will be helpful to you. The url for the list is: http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/readings.html Esther Esther Grassian Instructional Services Coordinator UCLA College Library _____________________________________________________________________________top 12. Responses to request for Information Literacy Course Readings (BI-L) From: Trudi Jacobson <tj662[at]cnsvax.albany.edu> to the BI-L list About two months ago, I posted a message on BI-L asking for help determining appropriate readings and web sites for an undergraduate information literacy course I will be co-teaching this coming spring. I really appreciate all the extremely helpful responses, a number of which we incorporated into our course. I apologize for taking so long to post this compilation of the responses that came directly to me (and hope I included all the messages that weren't posted directly to BI-L). Trudi Jacobson Coordinator of User Education Programs University at Albany Libraries ******************************************************************* If you want something a little negative, try DATA SMOG by David Schenk. Martin Raish -------------------------------- Sounds like you ought to locate the film that my colleague and I used to show for our "Knowledge in the Information Age" honors seminar. It was shot in the 60's as an interview with Marshall Mcluhan, produced by NBC. And now there are some libraries that carry it on videotape, instead of 16mm film. I just checked OCLC and there are 2 bib records for the film version, and 2 bib records for the video version. 16mm: 2 reels, running time 54 minutes. TITLE: This is Marshall McLuhan: The medium is the massage. OCLC: 2998154 / 308378 Videocassette: TITLE: This is Marshall McLuhan: The medium is the massage. OCLC: 32259012 / 8446365 Many libraries have erroneously cataloged some of his works as THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE, which is not always the same book as the film's subtitle THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE. The first time I was viewing the film (before I agreed to co-teach the class), I was pulling my hair out, trying to reconcile the relationship between McLuhan's articles and books, with the 16mm film, before I realized how many libraries improperly changed the spelling of the title of his works! GARY KLEIN, volunteering as Editor of BUSLIB-L and also PRT-LIBN BUSLIB-L's FAQ = http://www.willamette.edu/~gklein/buslib.htm PRT-LIBN's FAQ = http://www.willamette.edu/~gklein/prtlibn.htm Management & Economics Librarian Hatfield Library / Willamette University / Salem, OR 97301 USA gklein[at]willamette.edu work #503-370-6743 http://members.aol.com/tethered ----------------------------- HM851 .S54 1999 AUTHOR Shenk, David, 1966- TITLE The end of patience : cautionary notes on the information revolution / David Shenk. PUBLISHER Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999. A group of essays, most very thought-provoking, and none excessively long Rebecca Spencer ----------------------------- I love Stoll's "Cuckoo's Egg," but not necessarily as a reading for a course such as this. I have difficulty seeing how it might fit in. But I have a few favourites to suggest: Richard Wurman's "Information Anxiety" (Bantam, 1994) is a very fun read. I use Chapters 1 ("The Non-Information Explosion") and 2 ("The Understanding Business") in almost every course I teach, and my students always love it. He has a great writing style, uses lots of visuals, and includes interesting and thought-provoking quotations from a real variety of sources as marginalia. It's out of print, unfortunately, so is almost impossible to use as a text book, but you should be able to get hold of a copy from somewhere if your library doesn't have it. He also includes a great chapter on visual information. I also like Theodore Roszak's "The Cult of Information." It's a more difficult read, but he makes some great points about the role of information in our culture, especially when it comes to our reliance on computers. And something that will create debate (if your students are paying attention) is Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil." Not nearly as well-written as his "Cuckoo's Egg," and often way off the mark, but as I said, it should create some discussion. I've also been delving into Christine Bruce's "Seven Faces of Information Literacy," which was her doctoral dissertation. She makes an interesting case for changing the way we think about and teach information literacy. Colleen Bell Library Instruction Coordinator Knight Library Voice: (541) 346-1817 1299 University of Oregon Fax: (541) 346-3485 Eugene OR 97403-1299 Email: cbell[at]darkwing.uoregon.edu ----------------------------- In terms of the students reading about the wider environment you might want to consider the following, though they're not too recent: "Future libraries : dreams, madness & reality" by Walt Crawford & Michael Gorman, published by the ALA in 1995 is an interesting and fairly balanced counter to technological hype. You might want to present the extremes by Nicholas Negroponte's "Being digital" (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995) and Sven Birkets' "Gutenberg elegies : the fate of reading in an electronic culture" (Fawcett Colombine, 1995). I also enjoyed Stoll's "Silicon snake oiI". Regards Virginia Earle User Education Librarian Open Polytechnic of New Zealand/ He Wharekura-tini Kaihautu o Aotearoa Email: earvir[at]topnz.ac.nz Phone: +64 4 560 5821 Fax: +64 4 560 5634 ----------------------------- Esther Dyeson's book Release 2.0 covered all of the issues you mentioned and is a brief and easy read. Anna Marie Johnson Reference Librarian Coordinator for Library Instruction Ekstrom Library University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 502-852-8738/ Fax: 8736 afjohn01[at]gwise.louisville.edu ----------------------------- You might want to check out my readings page for the Info Lit course I teach for ideas. It's at http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/lsc311/01fall99/reading.html An older version is at http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/lsc311/readings.html Here are some of my favorites Wernick, Robert. "Declaring an open season on the wisdom of the ages." Smithsonian May 1997:72-83. --Discusses the first encyclopedia--issues of new ways to organize information, censorship, copyright Brin, David. "the Internet as a Commons." Information Technology and Libraries Dec. 1995:240-242. --Commericialization of information, social responsibility Sterling, Bruce. "Internet." Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Feb. 1993: 99-107. --Succinct overview of the origins of the Internet, focuses on the public domain aspects as well as origin. Describes tcp/ip well Palladino, Grace. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Shelving By Height at the Library of Congress." Chronicle of Higher Education. 11 June 1999. --Breezy but it gets students thinking about how to organize information, something they rarely give a thought to. Susan E. Beck Head, Humanities & Social Sciences Services New Mexico State University Library 505-646-6171 | susabeck[at]lib.nmsu.edu URL: http://lib.nmsu.edu/~susabeck ----------------------------- All by F.W. Lancaster Libraries and librarians in an age of electronics. Information Resources Press, 1982 -- where he originally proposed the paperless society... American Libraries September 1985 p553+ The Paperless Society Revisited Library Journal September 15, 1999 p48+ Second thoughts on the paperless society William H. Gass "In defense of the book: on the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink." Harper's Magazine November 1999 p45-51 Charlet Key Library Director Black Hawk College Quad Cities Campus 6600 34th Avenue Moline IL 61265 phone (309) 796-1311 x1283 fax (309) 796-0393 email keyc[at]bhc1.bhc.edu ----------------------------- Please feel free to browse through the many links to resources (Books, web sites) and articles available on my Bibliographic Instruction and Information literacy sites pages http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/instruc3.htm <http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/instruc3.htm> http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/newinstruc.htm <http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/newinstruc.htm> Citations.. http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/instruct.htm <http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/instruct.htm> Library - Journals on the Net With links to some full text articles http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/libjourn.htm <http://www.geocities.com/~libmary/libjourn.htm> I also have been using Wilson Web's full text database - trial period - for the past 30 days and have found some excellent articles searching - using Information Literacy, Bibliographic Instruction, Filtering in Libraries, etc. Sign up at http://www.hwwilson.com <http://www.hwwilson.com> Here is an interesting web site..with projects, links and articles on the various ways we and animals..tell it like it is! HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE: http://aries.mos.org/ <http://aries.mos.org/> From "What's the Big Deal About the Internet?" to non-verbal communication, or "Is There Anybody Out There?", this online science exhibit from the Boston Museum of Science explores how we deal with communication. It includes great activities and experiments, with scientific essays and links as well. Try out the Six Degrees of Separation email project, or debate whether the internet has made us truly a global community, or has instead led to isolation. Mary Niederlander, Serials Specialist Kaleida Health Medical Libraries Buffalo, NY ----------------------------- "Seek - But On The Web, You Might Not Find" (New York Times, 7/8/99, p. D3) Great article about a research study that examined how many web pages exist, and how many are accessed by search engines. In the study, only 16 percent of web pages are accessed by search engines, and only about 6 percent of web pages contain scientific and educational content. Great article to advocate using multiple sources - print and electronic - and not relying on any one search engine. Online magazine has an annual comparison of search engines, and continuously offers search tips and shortcuts for online databases. Michael Rose (tel) 503-978-5333 Reference Librarian (fax) 503-978-5318 Learning Resource Center (email) mrose[at]pcc.edu Portland Community College/Cascade Campus 705 N. Killingsworth St. Portland OR 97217 ----------------------------- A colleague forwarded your query regarding readings for an information literacy course. I won't append a list here, but I do link to numerous readings along the topics you suggest in a course I teach called Access to Information. It is a senior/graduate course taught as part of both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Most of the readings are available on the Web (I do not require a textbook) and are linked from http://lrs.stcloudstate.edu/cim/courses/im552/schedule.html. Keith Ewing Learning Resources & Technology Services St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 p: 320.255.4824 f: 320.255.4778 e: kewing[at]stcloudstate.edu u: http://lrs.stcloudstate.edu/faculty/kewing ----------------------------- One idea I had was a site I created about three years ago called "Take a Walk on the Wired Side" (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Exhibits/wired/) I hope to be able to completely update it over the winter break (note from Trudi: she did! And it is great!) to include lots of great new sites I've found, some new "digital people" and a few more books. The current bibliography of some relevant things I read before creating the site is at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Exhibits/wired/bibliography.html. I've read lots of things by both the technozealots and the technoskeptics and have some strong opinions of each. I'm not sure I would have a class read Cliff Stoll's book, but I might give them some general, shorter reading about those same issues. Elizabeth A. Dupuis Head, Digital Information Literacy Office The University of Texas at Austin Flawn Academic Center 101 (S5443) Austin, TX 78713 (512) 475-9391 beth[at]mail.utexas.edu ----------------------------- I taught something similar a few years ago and found that _Technopoloy_ by Neil Postman had lots of interesting and thoughtful insights. You may want to use it or portions of it for your class. Jane Schulz FAX: 701-224-5551 Bismarck State College Library Phone: 701-224-5491 Bismarck, ND 58501 jschulz[at]plains.nodak.edu ----------------------------- I saw your question on the BI list about information literacy course readings and wondered whether anyone had suggested Cliff Stoll's newest book - High Tech Heretic. I haven't quite finished, so can't give a final report, but so far, it has made me think and I think there are some good messages for students. Among other things, he says that research isn't easy and we shouldn't expect it to be (but the computer industry tries to tell everyone how quickly and easily things can be done...well, I could go on, but I won't). He challenges us to think about what we are doing and why. Also, a colleague and I talked about the following web site, which is a summary of an article published in Nature that was a lot thicker. However, it seemed to me that simply discussing the numbers might be useful in a class. Here's the site: http://www.wwwmetrics.com/ So...these are my thoughts for the day. Tasha (Cooper) nac2[at]psu.edu _____________________________________________________________________________top 13. Who Owns What http://www.cjr.org/owners/ "Media companies continue to grow, and a shrinking number of them shape what we view and read. What does that mean for journalists -- and for the nation?" An alphabetical list of media companies and the subsidiaries they own, including magazine, newspaper and book publishers; and radio, television and cable companies. Also included is an essay on media concentration and links to the Web sites of each major media company. From the Columbia Journalism Review. - es Subjects: Media | Companies From Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/ _____________________________________________________________________________top 14. 2000 Around the World http://www10.nytimes.com/library/photos/timezone_one.1.html This site features photos of New Year's Eve celebrations greeting the year 2000 at various time zones around the world. Users can view the photos by time zones either in sequence or using the time zone map. 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