Library Hi Tech: Volume 26 Issue 1

The digital library in 100 years: damage control

Michael Seadle

This editorial aims to look at damage control for the problems digital libraries will face in 100 years because of choices we make today.

Topic maps and the ILS: an undelivered promise

Edward Iglesias, Suellen Stringer Hye

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current use of topic maps in the library field, how they might be integrated into the ILS structure and some of the…

Visualizing OPAC subject headings

Ioannis Papadakis, Michalis Stefanidakis, Aikaterini Tzali

This paper aims at providing a robust, user‐friendly and efficient navigation procedure in an online library catalog that is based on semantic information encapsulated within…

OPAC integration in the era of mass digitization: the MBooks experience

Christina Kelleher Powell

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the OPAC integration in the University of Michigan's local implementation of materials digitized in the partnership with…

Using Google Maps as an interface for the library catalogue

Michael Vandenburg

The paper aims to describe a proof of concept web application designed to allow users to search for library materials with geographic subject headings using Google Maps as the…

Morphing metadata: maximizing access to electronic theses and dissertations

Sevim McCutcheon, Michael Kreyche, Margaret Beecher Maurer, Joshua Nickerson

This paper aims to describe work at Kent State University Libraries and Media Services to promote and devise electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) storage at OhioLINK's ETD…

The potential of metasearching as an “open” service

David Dorman

This paper has two objectives: to illustrate to non‐technical librarians the elements that make up the process of metasearching and to discuss how the openness of each of those…

DRAM/Variations3: a music resource case study

Stephanie Krueger, Philip Ponella

The objective of this article is to describe how two small non‐profit, primarily grant‐funded music projects are working to provide solutions for scholars and students in an…

From static files to collaborative workspace with SharePoint

Kevin Herrera

The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Services at the University of Mississippi Libraries with particular emphasis on the use of this…

Developing utility tools to enhance Voyager access, search and workflow automation

Daniel Xiao, John Paul Fullerton

This paper aims to describe three utility tools developed at Texas A&M University Libraries, which were designed for quick access and search of the Voyager OPAC and the Voyager…

Capturing intellectual capital with an institutional repository at a business school in India

Gayatri Doctor

Digital repositories are emerging technologies for knowledge sharing and management in academic institutions. Digital repositories collect, store, preserve, index and share the…

Useware engineering: a methodology for the development of user‐friendly interfaces

Detlef Zuehlke, Nancy Thiels

The development time for user interfaces is drastically reduced by today's shorter product life cycles. Generally, at the end of the development phase, there is not enough time or…

E‐resources: transforming access services for the digital age

Taryn Resnick, Ana Ugaz, Nancy Burford, Esther Carrigan

Libraries spend increasingly large amounts on electronic resources (ERs), but may not have adjusted staffing to support these resources. Assisting users with ER access problems is…

Introduction

Bradford Lee Eden