Library Hi Tech: Volume 30 Issue 4

Thirty years of information technology

Michael Seadle

This issue of Library Hi Tech aims to offer a retrospective over the last 30 years of information technology as used in libraries and other memory institutions, particularly…

Interactions between libraries and technology over the past 30 years: An interview with Clifford Lynch 23.06.2012

Clifford Lynch, Elke Greifeneder, Michael Seadle

The purpose of this paper is to look back on the last 30 years of technology development for libraries.

The 1990s: the formative years of digital libraries

William Y. Arms

This article aims to discuss some of the principal digital libraries projects during the 1990s and the impact that they had on modern libraries.

A personal history of digital libraries

Michael Lesk

This paper aims to present a personal view of the development of digital libraries, starting with the original vision of 1945 and describing how it came to the dominance of online…

The rise of digital curation and cyberinfrastructure: From experimentation to implementation and maybe integration

Joyce Ray

The terms “digital curation” and “cyberinfrastructure” have been coined in the last decade to describe distinct but related concepts of how data can be managed, preserved…

The first 30 years of the internet through the lens of an academic library: The University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, 1982‐2012

Beth Sandore Namachchivaya

This paper aims to examine how the internet both precipitated and facilitated significant shifts for academic libraries in the kinds of services they provide, and the ways in…

TIIARA: the “making of” a bilingual taxonomy for retrieval of digital images

Elaine Ménard

This paper aims to present the results of the second phase of a research project aiming to develop a bilingual taxonomy for the description of digital images. The objective of…

Websites for booklovers as meeting places

Máté Tóth, Ragnar Audunson

The study aims to report on a research project that analyzed social websites for booklovers. These sites represent a service that is promising for public libraries in their…

From static to dynamic: Using the OPAC to generate real‐time lists of departmental acquisitions for library current awareness service

Anthony McMullen, Barry Gray

This paper aims to report on a successful implementation of a current awareness service designed to inform teaching faculty and liaison librarians as to the status of library…

Promotional strategies for information products and services: Aligning with the serious and entertainment facets of information consumers' lives

Ina Fourie, Liezl Ball

Libraries are subscribing to many expensive information products/services available through information aggregator/provider services. It is a concern for them, as well as these…

LHT reviewers 2012