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Griggs, Kim – Computers in Libraries, 2011
BeaverTracks Historical Locations and Walking Tour is a mobile project at Oregon State University (OSU), where the author serves as programmer/analyst. It connects the past to the present by linking historic images to current campus locations. The goal of BeaverTracks is to showcase and bring attention to OSU Libraries' digital collections as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Campuses, Historic Sites
Lewis, Barbara; Griffin, Melanie – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Librarians have long struggled to find user-friendly mediums to provide meaningful information to patrons using bibliographies, pathfinders, and subject guides with varying degrees of success. Content management systems, such as Springshare's LibGuides, have recently been developed to facilitate the creation of online subject guides. Special…
Descriptors: Librarians, Users (Information), Bibliographies, Databases
Benson, Allen C. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2009
This article explores ontological principles and their potential applications in the formal description of archival photographs. Current archival descriptive practices are reviewed and the larger question is addressed: do archivists who are engaged in describing photographs need a more formalized system of representation, or do existing encoding…
Descriptors: Photography, Visual Aids, Archives, Semantics
Gorzalski, Matt – Journal of Archival Organization, 2008
Since its publication in 2005, Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner's "More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing" has led to much discussion and self-examination within the archival community about working through backlogs. This article discusses the impact of Greene and Meissner's work and considers the questions and…
Descriptors: Archives, Information Processing, Access to Information, Money Management
Sabre, Jeannette Mercer; Hamburger, Susan – Journal of Archival Organization, 2008
In light of numerous discussions about whether to follow Mark Greene and Dennis Meissner's suggestions to process lightly and broadly, valid reasons remain for continuing traditional practices for many literary correspondence collections. In this case study, the authors use the Kenneth Burke Papers in the Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania…
Descriptors: Indexing, Archives, Case Studies, Academic Libraries
Woodward, Eddie – Journal of Archival Organization, 2008
Local records are the foundation on which social history is constructed. However, in an era when most historians categorize themselves as social historians, it is amazing to note how much these primary resources appear to be underutilized in scholarly works. This article attempts to understand why this is so by investigating how it is that…
Descriptors: Social History, Records (Forms), Government Libraries, Primary Sources
Song, Sang Chul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An unprecedented amount of information encompassing almost every facet of human activities across the world is generated daily in the form of zeros and ones, and that is often the only form in which such information is recorded. A good fraction of this information needs to be preserved for periods of time ranging from a few years to centuries.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Sources, Indexing, Access to Information
Brunt, Rodney M. – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2007
Experiences in researching the documentation of the intelligence (codename Ultra) produced by breaking Enigma at Government Code & Cypher School, Bletchley Park, 1939-45, are described. The major problems are identified and shown to lie in the obscurity of the associated processes, disguised as they were within general bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Archives, Indexing, Military Science

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 1999
This multi-part bibliographic essay identifies the most relevant issues about the publishing of scholarly electronic journals: access, cataloging and indexing, pricing, archiving, and licensing. Each section highlights the current debates on the topic and provides references to sources of further study. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Annotated Bibliographies, Archives, Cataloging
Lash, Jeffrey N. – 1989
This paper presents a summary of the policies and practices that have governed the accessioning and use of artifacts in the National Archives chiefly over the last decade, and it offers recommendations for the prospective relocation and utilization of artifacts at Archives II. The report is organized around three major headings: a treatment of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Cataloging, Classification
Nanard, Marc; Nanard, Jocelyne – 2001
This paper focuses on a user driven approach to improve video indexing. It consists in cumulating the large amount of small, individual efforts done by the users who access information, and to provide a community management mechanism to let users share the elicited knowledge. This technique is currently being developed in the "OPALES"…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Indexes
Coats, Lisa R. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
User studies have been conducted for many years in the information and library science fields. In the archival world, this phenomenon has not been as common and less emphasis has been placed on collecting and studying the user's perspective in general. However, there are studies showing the "use" of these types of studies, particularly in the…
Descriptors: Archives, Standards, Coding, Metadata
Medina, Alicia Garcia; Coso, Teresa – 2001
The interest in graphic information has increased explosively and is explored through various communication networks like the Internet and the audiovisual media. Art libraries, museums, cultural centers, and art foundations manage and store a lot of images in several departments and in print and digital formats. This paper discusses the cataloging…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Cataloging, Classification
Levine, Jennie A.; Evans, Jennifer; Kumar, Amit – Journal of Archival Organization, 2006
In April 2005, the University of Maryland Libraries launched "ArchivesUM" (www.lib.umd.edu/archivesum), an online database of finding aids for manuscript and archival collections using Encoded Archival Description (EAD). "ArchivesUM," however, is only the publicly available end-product of a much larger project-an integrated…
Descriptors: Archives, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Access to Information
Werner, Claudia – 2001
This paper discusses the collection of digital publications at Die Deutsche Bibliothek as part of its mandate as the central archival library and national bibliographic center of the Federal Republic of Germany to collect, archive, index, and provide public access to all German and German-language publications. The first section describes the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Bibliographies, Depository Libraries
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