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Metadata in Practice

American Library Association, 2004

IT IS BOTH an exciting and frustrating time to be working in the world of metadata. Exciting because so many new communities are discovering the usefulness of metadata at the same time as librarians seriously consider the limitations of our traditional notions of the functions of libraries. New metadata formats seem to erupt like dandelions on a...

The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance

American Library Association, 2003

George Eliot’s Middlemarch, deemed by many the finest English-language novel of the nineteenth century, is rooted in a particular time and place. The time is the late 1820s and early 1830s and the place England—a country going through a profound change. Superstition was giving way to science, quackery to scientific medicine,...

The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet

American Library Association, 2003

Ihave literally been writing this book in my head for five years, and I must admit to leaping at the chance to create it when ALA Editions first approached me. The topic—simply described as “libraries and vendors”— represents such an undercurrent to how I think about libraries and librarianship that the first outline spilled...

Protecting Your Library's Digital Sources: The Essential Guide to Planning and Preservation

American Library Association, 2004

Today libraries, archives, and organizations of every size are creating websites with digital materials that they maintain day in and day out. Some repositories are digitizing written works in the public domain and putting them on the Web and on CD-ROM (or equivalent technology) to make them accessible to the public, with the twofold aim of (1)...

Putting XML to Work in the Library: Tools for Improving Access and Management

American Library Association, 2003

The authors, hoping to stimulate interest in XML (Extensible Markup Language) and explain its value to the library community, offer a fine introduction to the topic. The opening chapter defines XML as "a system for electronically tagging or marking up documents in order to label, organize, and categorize their content" and then goes on to...

Weaving a Library Web: A Guide to Developing Children's Websites

American Library Association, 2004

We have entered a digital age in which preschoolers can handle a mouse better than a crayon. In this digital world children want to interact with information, not just receive it. Technology is as ordinary to them as television and radio were to previous generations. Computers and the Internet provide them with information and entertainment,...

Usability Testing for Library Websites: A Hands-On Guide

American Library Association, 2001

People acquire information from many sources other than libraries. For example, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Amazon .com sell and distribute books, videos, and CDs and compete for the time and attention of our library’s customers. Barnes & Noble also provides children’s programming and Internet-related classes for families....

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