Library Hi Tech: Volume 25 Issue 2

Defining a digital library

Michael Seadle, Elke Greifeneder

This editorial seeks to examine the definition of a “digital library” to see whether one can be constructed that usefully distinguishes a digital library from other types of…

Being a librarian: metadata and metadata specialists in the twenty‐first century

Karen Calhoun

This paper aims to forecast the changing roles of librarians – especially catalogers and metadata specialists – in today's technology‐driven research, teaching, and learning…

Networking a nation: ILL developments in Australia

Roxanne Missingham

This paper sets out to describe developments in Australian libraries and the national interlibrary loan and document delivery systems, in particular the outcomes of the Local…

ResDesk: An automated solution for course reserves request tracking and process management

Wendi Arant‐Kaspar, Henry Carter, Sheetal Desai, John Byrd, Douglas Hahn

This article seeks to look at the need for a library request system that can provide improved relationship management and personalized services, and meets public expectations…

Griffin search: how Westminster College implemented WebFeat

Bobby L. Hollandsworth, Jennifer Foy

This paper aims to shed light on federated search engine solutions by documenting how Westminster College implemented a new system after a failed attempt.

Using podcasts to promote Government documents collections

Newkirk Barnes

This paper seeks to provide a model for creating podcasts to promote academic library resources and services, with an emphasis on government documents collections.

ICT skills readiness for the emerging global digital economy among small businesses in developing countries: Case study of Botswana

Stephen M. Mutula, P. Van Brakel

The paper aims to present the findings of an empirical study carried out as part of an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) data‐gathering exercise that would culminate…

GIS and census data: tools for library planning

Karen Hertel, Nancy Sprague

This article seeks to demonstrate a technique for using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyze US Census data to better understand potential library users and improve…

The state of wireless laptop lending programs: A survey of academic libraries

Hugh Holden, Ma Lei Hsieh

This paper seeks to learn, by way of a survey, what librarians at US colleges and universities were doing and the issues they were encountering as they considered, developed, or…

New web site, new opportunities: Enforcing standards compliance within a content management system

David Kane, Nora Hegarty

This article sets out to describe the background behind WIT Libraries' recently launched new‐look web site: its origins, implementations and long‐term goals, and explain how the…

Taking the information to the public through Library 2.0

Kevin Curran, Michelle Murray, Martin Christian

Libraries as they are known today can be defined by the term Library 1.0. This defines the way resources are kept on shelves or at a computer behind a login. These resources can…

Copyright in the networked world: international document delivery

Michael Seadle

This column seeks to look at the case of a long‐standing project to arrange document delivery between US and German libraries. This case represents the broader problem of…