Library Hi Tech: Volume 19 Issue 1

The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference

The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference pursued three themes: access, preservation, and intellectual property. The 100 invited participants were mainly middle‐aged…

DAISY Consortium: information technology for the world’s blind and print‐disabled population – past, present, and into the future

The DAISY Consortium created the first digital talking book (DTB) and this is now known worldwide as the DAISY format. The DAISY DTB is the application of existing worldwide…

National library service for the blind and physically handicapped: digital plans and progress

The National Library Service (NLS) produces about 2,000 talking books and 50 magazines per year on specially formatted cassette tape for free distribution to a readership of about…

Digital talking book standards developed by NLS and partners under NISO auspices

The functionality, compatibility, and longevity planned for future digital talking books require clear, exact definitions of component format and content. NLS will achieve this by…

Using digital talking books in schools: RFB&D’s top project

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) is a national non‐profit organization that provides educational and professional books in accessible media formats to people with print…

Worldwide training and technical support for DAISY

How can a worldwide training and technical support program be implemented to support the DAISY standard? The key to a successful implementation plan lies with building expertise…

DAISY on our desktops? A review of LpPlayer 2.4

As the first commercially available software for reading DAISY books on a PC, LpPlayer is an inexpensive vehicle for gaining access to the new format. For this review, several…

Web accessibility at university libraries and library schools

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandates that library programs and services must be accessible to people with disabilities. In an era in which much information resides…

Gutterdämmerung (twilight of the gutter margins): e‐books and libraries

Several aspects of the e‐book revolution are reviewed, as well as some related issues confronting libraries. Regardless of format, texts and text‐bearing devices have…

The common user interface in academic libraries: myth or reality?

Academic libraries have long desired one‐stop shopping for their customers and, in this electronic age, their customers are demanding it: a way to search from a single point at…

Designing the electronic classroom: applying learning theory and ergonomic design principles

This article applies learning theory and ergonomic principles to the design of effective learning environments for library instruction. It discusses features of electronic…

The ARL Geographic Information Systems Literacy Project

Practical Information Policies

Looking at four UK “hybrid” libraries

As part of my on‐going investigation into the ways library planners are integrating learning technologies into their buildings’ architecture and facilities, I visited the…

The logic of inference

This column continues a series on topics in research methodology, statistics and data analysis techniques for the library and information sciences. It discusses the logic implicit…

Copyright in the networked world: copyright status facts

Libraries tend to make assumptions about copyright. The assumption is that any work published since 1923 has copyright protection. This article is about how to discover key facts…