INTERNET TRENDS AFFECTING LIBRARIANS

a presentation by Marylaine Block for the Philadelphia QuintEssentials Conference, October 28, 2003

Federated Searching and Data Mining

Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html

Recombinant Roles Envisioned for Library Portals http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/dempsey_recombinant_library.pdf

The Right Solution: Federated Search Tools
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA302427

Tips on Searching for a Federated Search Service http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct03/hane1.shtml





Ill-Considered Legislation

Broadcast Flag -- see the EFF backgrounder on it at http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2801

Information Quality Act

PATRIOT ACT I and II

Database Protection Act





The Shifted Librarian: Go Where Our Users Are

See Jenny Levine's page, http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/

  • Blogs
    BlogBib CARL 2002 http://blogbib.blogspot.com/

    Be Spacific http://www.bespacific.com/

    Bibliolatry http://www.etches-johnson.com/blog.html

    Library Blogrunner http://blogrunner.com/snapshot/S/2/6/00218162.html

    Library Stuff http://www.librarystuff.net/

    LIS News http://www.lisnews.com/

    Peter Scott's Library Blog http://blog.xrefer.com/

    Resource Shelf http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/

    Scholarly Electronic Publishing http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

    The Virtual Chase http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert.shtml

    Waterboro Library Blog http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

  • RSS
    Steven Cohen. Rss for Non-Techie Librarians http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm

    RSS Workshop: Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web http://gils.utah.gov/rss/

    Radio UserLand http://radio.userland.com/

    News Is Free http://newsisfree.com/

    Syndic8.com http://syndic8.com/

  • Interactive
    Ask a Librarian

    Interactive blogs

    Online Forms

    MatchBook at the Webrary http://www.webrary.org/rs/matchbookabout.html

    Suggest a Site/Book

  • Service 24/7/365 through:
    Online databases

    Online Tutorials -- see Multnomah County Library's Genealogy Tutorial http://multcolib.org/train/jumpstart/family/

    Our own super search engine: Fiat Luxe -- see Karen G. Schneider's article in Library Journal's NetConnect, Summer, 2002 http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=netConnect

  • Chat - Virtual Reference
    Digital Reference Services Bibliography http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html

    Live Digital Reference Case Studies http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digicase.htm

    Digital Reference Question Logs http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/log.htm

    DigRef L http://www.vrd.org/Dig_Ref/dig_ref.html

  • Personalized Web Pages:
    brary dog http://brarydog.org/

    Dialog Releases Dialog Portals Service http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031013-1.shtml

    Eric Lease Morgan's Portal Webliography http://www.infomotions.com/portals/

    Putting the MY in My Library
    http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA323338

  • PDAs
    Handheld Librarian http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/

    Theresa Embrey. Today's PDAs Can Put an OPAC in the Palm of Your Hand." Computers in Libraries http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/mar02/embrey.htm

    Ken Varnum. Information @ Your Fingertips: Porting Services to the PDA. Online, Sept. 2000. (text available through FindArticles.com)

    PDAs for Health Care: Health Library Initiatives http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/lib.htm

    PalmBooks.org http://palmbooks.org/

    PDA Resources - VCU Libraries http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/pda.html

  • Wireless
    Bill Drew's Wireless Librarian http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/

    For more examples, see Wilton Library's Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html


    Free Online Scholarship

    Peter Suber, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/. Read his guide to the FOS Movement for links to a wide number of free scholarship projects, including:

    arXiv http://arXiv.org/

    BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/

    Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

    Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/

    Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/




    Digital Library Projects

    PubMed Central has started a major archival scanning project in conjunction with several different publishers. The National Library of Medicine will scan cover-to- cover images of participating journal issues, back through volume one. You can read about the scanning project at http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html

    D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/

    Digital Library Federation http://www.diglib.org/

    PADI- Preserving Access to Digital Information http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

    Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll

    Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/

    Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

    Marylaine Block. Doing It Right: How Some Universities Encourage the Creation of Prime Research Web Sites http://infotoday.com/searcher/sep02/Block.htm

    Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

    "Superarchives ould Hold All Scholarly Output." http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm





    Open Source

    OSS4Lib http://www.oss4lib.org/

    Eric's Linux Information http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux/

    Open Source Software in Libraries: a Workshop http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-workshop/ossnlibraries-workshop.html




    Lawsuits

    Suit against Microsoft re plug-ins

    SCO suit claiming ownership of Linux

    Lawsuits against peer-to-peer technologies

    Linking: see EFF backgrounder at http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking//


    The Decline of Free Information

    Copyright Term Extension Act

    Database Protection Act -- see InfoWorld article, http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/16/HNsubbill_1.html
    "Boucher offered four other amendments to the bill, which were either voted down or withdrawn. One would have exempted libraries from penalties in the bill, but that amendment was rejected by the committee. A second Boucher amendment would have prevented database owners from using the bill to protect legal materials produced by federal courts or any legislative materials."

    Digital Millennium Copyright Act

    Decline of Advertising Revenues

    Leading to the decline of print and online magazines -- see MediaBistro, http://www.mediabistro.com/, Jim Romanesko's Media News, http://www.poynter.org/medianews/

    The End of Free http://www.theendoffree.com/

    Among the victims: the Industry Standard, Brill's Content, Lingua Franca, Arts & Letters Daily, about.com/, Feed. On the endangered list or looking for new revenue: Salon, Slashdot, American Lawyer. Laying off reporting staff and columnists: virtually every newspaper and magazine and other media -- CNN, AOL, MTV, Boston Globe, Playboy, various Primedia titles, about.com/, Springer-Verlag, etc. Time's staff is expected to be cut in half by 2010.


    Security

    SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
    http://www.sans.org/top20/index1.php
    "This updated SANS Top Twenty is actually two Top Ten lists: the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in Windows and the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in UNIX and Linux. Although there are thousands of security incidents each year affecting these operating systems, the overwhelming majority of successful attacks target one or more of these twenty vulnerable services."


    Old Allies Turning Against Each Other


    See my article, Shifting Alliances, in ExLibris, November 16, 2001, http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib121.html


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