Library Hi Tech: Volume 16 Issue 2

Selecting a Z39.50 client or Web gateway

Fay Turner

This guide to the selection of a Z39.50 client presents numerous evaluation criteria and poses questions that should be asked when reviewing and testing end‐user products. The…

Building on the Cornell‐Yale Model: Digitizing the Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University

Michael Seadle

This article has two purposes. One is to summarize the elements of the Cornell‐Yale digitization model in a way that would be useful to other institutions planning to follow their…

MicroMARC for integrated formats

Nancy W. Fleck, Margaret Rust

Archives collection managers have employed the power and flexibility of MicroMARC:amc since 1984. Now this MARC‐based information and storage retrieval software has been expanded…

Practical engagement programs: the “PEP” at Michigan‘s School of Information

Mauritia Peterson Holland

The School of Information at the University of Michigan has adopted a bold interdisciplinary curriculum focused on creating a new discipline. Two of the program‘s central tenets…

The Internet public library: an intellectual history

Joseph Janes

The ideas and work behind the Internet Public Library are described, from the original conception and initial set of projects through to current endeavors. Emphasis is given to…

The economics of the Internet public library

Barbara Hegenbart

The economic model of the theory of the firm is a helpful framework to be applied to libraries. In particular, cost‐minimization measures can help determine how not‐for‐profit…

Two psychologists in search of a school of information: a personal journey

Gary M. Olson, Judith S. Olson

Having followed a path from the outside in the University of Michigan‘s School of Information, the authors have a broad vision of the school‘s intellectual agenda and the…

Library studies at the school of information

C. Olivia Frost

Library and Information Studies (LIS) remains an integral part of the newly chartered School of Information at the University of Michigan. Forging student, community‐based, and…

It‘s just a tool: fifteen years of personal computing

Walt Crawford

“You say you‘re ready to buy a personal computer for your library or your own personal use.” That‘s how this all began, back in 1984. Fifty articles and 15 years later, it‘s time…