Library Hi Tech: Volume 22 Issue 2

Selection for digital preservation

This editorial discusses long‐term archiving and long‐term access to digital documents, with an emphasis on criteria for selection. Selecting materials for digital preservation…

Using XSLT to manipulate MARC metadata

This paper describes the MARCXML architecture implemented at the Library of Congress. It gives an overview of the component pieces of the architecture, including the MARCXML…

Meta‐information about MARC: an XML framework for validation, explanation and help systems

This article proposes a schema for meta‐information about MARC that can express at a fairly comprehensive level the syntactic and semantic aspects of MARC formats in XML…

Creating metadata practices for MIT’s OpenCourseWare Project

The MIT libraries were called upon to recommend a metadata scheme for the resources contained in MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. The resources in OCW needed descriptive…

Medium or message? A new look at standards, structures, and schemata for managing electronic resources

This article examines several library metadata standards, structures and schema relevant to the challenge of managing electronic resources. Among the standards, structures and…

Repurposing MARC metadata: using digital project experience to develop a metadata management design

Metadata and information technology staff in libraries that are building digital collections typically extract and manipulate MARC metadata sets to provide access to digital…

Future considerations: the functional library systems record

The paper performs a thought experiment on the concept of a record based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and library system functions, and concludes that…

A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty‐first century

The current library bibliographic infrastructure was constructed in the early days of computers – before the Web, XML, and a variety of other technological advances that now offer…

A comparative review of common user interface products

A common user interface replaces the multiple interfaces found among individual electronic library resources, reducing the time and effort spent by the user in both searching and…

Visual image repositories at the Washington State University Libraries

The World Civilizations Image Repository (WCIR) and Photos Online are two collaborative image database projects under way at the Washington State University (WSU) Libraries. These…

GIS in the management of library pick‐up books

The management of library “pick‐up books” – a phrase that refers to books pulled off the shelves by readers, discarded in the library after use, and picked up by library…

PSU Gateway Library: electronic library in transition

Developments in information technology have led to changes in the mode of delivery of library services, and in the perceptions of the role of librarians in the information‐seeking…

Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs

ProPrint world‐wide print‐on‐demand services for study and research

The libraries of more and more universities and research institutions have local digital repositories, and the amount of material is increasing every day. Users need an integrated…

Patently ridiculous

The Open Source Software movement has much to offer the library community. But can it survive the onslaught of patent applications?