info management and retrieval

Laws Need Revision to Encourage Digital Preservation

From Wired Campus: Countries should change their laws and policies to encourage digital preservation of copyrighted works, according to a report released today by the Library of Congress. It drafted...

New Issue: Information Research

Articles in the June, 2008 issue include: + Lorna Uden, Pedro Valderas and Oscar Pastor An activity-theory-based model to analyse Web application requirements + Erik A.M. Borglund and Lena-Maria...

Giving new life to out-of-print books: when publishers’ and libraries’ interests meet

Direct to Full Text by Vandooren, Françoise and Gass, Cécile (2008) Source: Learned Publishing 21(3). Abstract: The Library of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Editions de l’Université de...

Tagging tagging. Analysing user keywords in scientific bibliography management systems

by: Christian Wolff, Markus Heckner, Susanne Mühlbacher From the abstract: In this paper, an empirical study of tagging behaviour in web-based bibliographic annotation systems is presented. Starting...

Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast

From the article: “Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., are banding together to fight information overload. Last week they formed a nonprofit...

Webcast: Resource Description and Access: Background & Overview

Direct to Presentation by Barbara Tillett RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation...

Tutorial: DOHM: Digitisation of Heritage Matrials

DOHM: Digitisation of Heritage Materials by Long, Andrew Stawowczyk (Date Created: Mar 2008) (Australia) This training program in digital copying and archiving of still images was developed by the...

New Research Paper from MS: What is Autonomous Search?

What is Autonomous Search? by Youssef Hamadi; Eric Monfroy; Frederic Saubion. From the abstract: Autonomous search is a particular case of adaptive systems that aims at improving its solving...

June/July Issue of ASIS&T Newsletter Now Online

American Society for Information Science and Technology Newsletter June/July 2008 40 pages; PDF. Articles include: + Bringing Genre into Focus + Why Information has Shape + Stalking the Wild Web...

ALA 2006-07 Annual Report released

The 2006-07 Annual Report is available on the Web by clicking here.The report includes such highlights as: * Congress ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to restore its library...