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C. Sean Burns; Jennifer Pusateri; Daniela K. DiGiacomo – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
This paper presents a novel approach to designing an online, open-source course in systems librarianship, an area of librarianship that may be perceived as complex and intimidating because of the technologies involved. The course design focuses on making systems librarianship more approachable for library and information science students who may…
Descriptors: Library Science, Online Courses, Open Education, Instructional Design
Hastings, Robin – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Backups are a modern fact of life. Every organization that has any kind of computing technology (and that is all of them these days) needs to back up its data in case of technological or user errors. Traditionally, large-scale backups have been done via an internal or external tape drive that takes magnetic tapes (minicassettes, essentially) and…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Storage Devices, Information Storage, Computer Software Evaluation
Michel, Jason Paul; Tzoc, Elias – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
The Digital Initiatives department at Miami University, like most digital initiatives and special collections departments, has a large number of rich digital image collections, stored primarily in a third-party database. Typically, these databases are not findable to the average Web user. From a desire to expose these collections to the wider Web…
Descriptors: Scripts, Library Materials, Metadata, Internet
Sharpe, Paul A.; Vacek, Rachel E. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
Library intranets require flexibility and efficiency and enhance the internal communication and collaborative nature of creating and organizing the institution's information. At the University of Houston Libraries, the focus was on public services, so little attention was given to the intranet--the tool every department relied on for quick access…
Descriptors: Information Management, Internet, Database Management Systems, Knowledge Management
Etches-Johnson, Amanda; Baird, Catherine – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
The days of top-down communication and controlled internal messages at a library organization are--or should be--behind us. Modern libraries must be fluid and flexible organizations with equally nimble internal communication infrastructures in place to keep up with the fast-paced environments that have been created in these organizations. As is…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Internet, Knowledge Management, Database Management Systems
Caldera-Serrano, Jorge – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2008
This article attempts to offer an overview of the current changes that are being experienced in the management of audio-visual documentation and those that can be forecast in the future as a result of the migration from analogue to digital information. For this purpose the documentary chain will be used as a basis to analyse individually the tasks…
Descriptors: Information Management, Internet, Indexing, Television
Godbee, Sara; de Jong, Mark – Journal of Access Services, 2007
The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) serves a dispersed patron base, and its library has developed, over time, a circulation system for distributing physical research materials to its patrons throughout the United States. This article discusses the development of this system and its associated interface/database management system…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Programming, Internet, Database Management Systems
Cronin-Kardon, Cynthia L.; Halperin, Michael – Acquisitions Librarian, 2007
Lippincott Library's Historical Corporate Annual Reports Collection contains useful primary sources of information for several disciplines, including applied accounting and business history. They also are reflections of the societal and cultural mores of the times. Unfortunately, these reports are fragile, difficult to locate, and hard to access.…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Annual Reports, Library Automation, Primary Sources
Howden, Norman – 1997
This manual offers guidance for librarians on every aspect of local area networking from start-up through maintenance and trouble shooting. This second edition has been revised to include information on: definition and explication of TCP/IP; Novell 4.0; Internet connection gear; equipment capable of handling Web access; Windows NT and Windows for…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Guidelines, Information Management, Internet
Schuyler, Michael – Computers in Libraries, 1997
Discusses libraries' uses of filters to prevent access to objectionable sites on the Internet. Highlights include the American Library Association's resolution against filters as a violation of First Amendment rights; patron's use of terminals for e-mail or games; using filters for collection management; and listservs and online resources…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Games, Electronic Mail, Information Management
Lancaster, F. W.; Sandore, Beth – 1997
This books deals with the logical intersection of technology and management in the context of libraries and other information centers. It is divided into the following sections: Effects of Technology on the Institution and its Management; Effects of Technology on Services and Users; and Special Issues in the Management of Technology. Chapters are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Document Delivery, Higher Education, Information Management
Williams, Martha E., Ed. – 1998
This volume contains 52 of the 70 papers that were reviewed and selected for presentation at the 1998 National Online Meeting. While the balance of the papers are not included in this Proceedings, their titles, together with author names and author affiliations, are listed at the end of the volume and they are included in the index. The volume…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Electronic Libraries
Williams, Martha E., Ed. – 2000
This Proceedings contains 51 of the 68 papers reviewed and selected by the Organizing/Reviewing Committee for presentation at the National Online Meeting, 2000. The volume begins with the introductory presentation of the Program Chairman, Martha E. Williams, "Highlights of the Online Database Industry and the Internet 2000." The balance of the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Electronic Libraries