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Early Nineteenth-century Russian Middle Class Culture.
My work involves studying the expansion of middle class reading audiences against the backdrop of changes in the socio-economic sphere. My current focus is on merchant readers, who were far more literate and culturally involved that is normally supposed to be the case. I base my work on a variety of primary sources from which I have created an online archive entitled Early Nineteenth Century Russian Readership and Culture. My major resource is a database of almost 12,000 records of subscriptions placed by ordinary Russians in the period 1825-1846 (http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/database/), according to which merchant subscriptions accounted for almost 10% of the total.
Bridging the Gap in Early Library Education History for African Americans: The Negro Teacher-Librarian Training Program (1936-1939).
The development of a little known library education program during the pre-Brown v. Board and pre-civil rights era is explored in detail. Scarcely noted in the literature, the program was hosted on four Historically Black Colleges & University campuses and is credited with training over 200 African American teacher-librarians from 16 Southern states during the Jim Crow period. Provided is an account of significant historical precursors, including the first-ever accreditation of Southern Negro public high schools, details of the involvement of the American Library Association through its Board of Education for Librarianship, the role of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, other national and regional education organizations and philanthropic foundations. It is noted that the efforts put forth in expediting this initiative and the success of the program are wedged between the end of the Hampton Library School program and the founding and existence of the Clark Atlanta University School of Library Service which currently faces closure. The author contextualizes the program's importance to the evolvement of secondary education of the largely undereducated and disenfranchised people of the Southern region and the quiet impact on social change. Suggested also are the implications the geographic structure of this 1930s program has for recruitment of African Americans to library education programs today.
Gabriel García Márquez Bibliography.
Gabriel García Márquez is one of the most significant literary writers of the 20th century, having won the Nobel prize for literature in 1982. The Bibliographic Guide to Gabriel García Marquez is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of books, articles, and audio-visual materials on the career and works of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer and journalist. The work is divided into two parts. The first part of the book lists primary sources by and about Márquez. The second part brings together entries for secondary sources including reviews of the laureates works and stories, and a section of reviews of books about García Márquez. The first four volumes were published by Greenwood Press while the fifth, currently in progress, will be available online from the University of Illinois Online Catalogue. This bibliography won the José Toribio Medina award from the Seminar on the Acquisitions of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM),for best bibliography of the year. This research was possible thanks to the continued support through grants from the Research and Publications Committee of the University of Illinois Library.
Information Seeking Behavior of International Students.
The enrollment of international students in the U.S. is increasing each year, and they bring diversely different backgrounds in terms of information seeking behavior. Differences in information seeking behavior can be attributed to such factors as telecommunications infrastructure in their home countries and perceptions of library services. I seek to find out what information seeking behaviors they bring to the U.S., and how research libraries can work with international students especially in the area of electronic library services. I conducted several surveys on campus to examine their reactions to library instruction sessions and electronic resources provided by the library. I compared the results between domestic and international students and also among international students based on their home countries. I am currently investigating to find similarities and differences among international students based upon their field of study.
International Copyright and Libraries.
My research continues to focus on international copyright issues for libraries, in particular for Slavic and East European materials. It involves several projects: the third article in a three-part series on "Current Copyright Legislation of the CIS Nations and Its Relevance for U.S. Library Collections" focusing on the nations of Central Asia; an article on the history of copyright relations between the U.S. and nations of Eastern Europe and Eurasia; and an article on copyright relations between the U.S. and Baltic nations. I am also planning a project approaching copyright from a philosophical lens: a study of the philosophical origins of copyright in Eastern Europe.
Joyce Wright, Associate Professor and Head, Undergraduate Library
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Undergrad Library
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The Meeting and Clashes of East and Southeast Asian and Western Library Institutions.
The work is to offer a modern scholarly interpretation of how the profession has developed in widely different cultural environments, with diverging social, ideological and political dynamics and its contribution to the on-going process of creating cultural legacies.
International Bibliography of Sikh Studies.
Due to their growing interest in Sikhism, people from around the world want to learn more about the Sikh culture, history, politics, and religion. In recent decades, several studies on Sikhs have attracted global attention. Many colleges and universities in India, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, United States and other countries have introduced teaching and research programs on Sikh culture, religion and Diaspora. Several conferences and seminars have been organized at international level on different aspects of Sikhism. This growing awareness has resulted in an avalanche of literature on Sikh studies. For the bibliographical control of the voluminous literature on Sikhism, some efforts have been made in the past, but most of these works contained materials published up to 1980s and did not have international coverage. The present work is a first attempt of its kind to bring together at one place all books, composite works, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, project reports, and electronic resources produced globally until June 2004.
In this work, over 10,000 items of literature produced in English have been listed alphabetically by author names under twenty-eight chapters and sub-headings. In the first chapter on ‘Printed & Electronic Resources', an annotated survey has been presented of all major reference documents published on Sikhism and a select listing of electronic and web based resources has been added.
Academic Library Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
U.S. foundations including the Carnegie Corporation and MacArthur Foundation have launched major initiatives to revitalize African universities. University libraries are important parts of the projects and libraries have received funding for collections and to implement new technologies. Library staff development is a key component of these projects and the Mortenson Center is working with grants from the foundations to recommend and develop strategies for continuing education. The research focuses on strategies to best assist these university libraries in moving forward to support teaching and research.
Digital Collection of Japanese Historical Maps and Pictorial Maps.
Because of the significant development of technology, many libraries and museums in Japan have digitized their cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) as digital collections. Currently I focus on historical and pictorial map collection and the issues regarding web accessibility, usage of meta data, and bibliographic control, especially geographic names.
The Librarian, a "Composite Portrait" Painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (ca.1566).
The Librarian (ca.1566) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo is a "composite portrait" of a gentleman cleverly assembled from a pile of books. My research is an ongoing attempt to move beyond the traditional interpretation of the painting as a parody of librarianship and of intellectualism. Most descriptions of The Librarian focus on identifying the portrait's sitter and largely ignore the painting's cultural context; an understanding of the history of books and libraries deepens and broadens the significance of the image. In "Reopening the Book on Arcimboldo's Librarian" (Libraries & Culture v.40, no.2), I explore the connection between Arcimboldo's painting and the illustration of the "book fool" in Sebastian Brant's famous book, Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools). The compositional and conceptual similarities between the two images suggest that The Librarian was probably seen as a clever joke about the folly of collecting books without reading them. In another paper to be presented at the Seventh International Conference of the Society of Emblem Studies, I examine the meaningful differences between Arcimboldo's original conception and the modified image of The Librarian printed in 1642 as part of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's Frauenzimmer Gesprächspiele ("Playful Colloquies for the Ladies"). This work resides in the University's Rare Book and Special Collections Library, and a reproduction of Harsdörffer's Librarian appears prominently in the Library's ten-millionth volume.
The Librarian,
by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.(Click image to bring up a larger view.)
Throwing the Book: The story of a rare upward departure.
In the summer of 1994 Daniel Spiegelman shimmied up an abandoned dumb waiter in the Columbia University library to get to the rare books floor six stories up where he then proceeded to dismantle a wall, steal books, reassemble the wall, and go back down the shaft - several times over a two month span. He eventually took this loot - roughly $1.3 million in books - to Europe to sell to collectors. When he was caught in the Netherlands after about a yearlong tour he tried to avoid extradition to the U.S. by telling the Dutch authorities that he was a financier of the Oklahoma City bombing knowing they wouldn't extradite people to the U.S. who might face the death penalty. When he was finally brought back to New York the federal sentencing judge there was about to sentence him based on the monetary value of his theft; Jean Ashton, head of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia, knew that the books were more valuable than simply their price on the market. She set about convincing the judge of that fact the result of which was an upward departure from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines - something unique in the history of the Guidelines. There are some really amazing details to this story including two prison escape attempts, one suicide attempt, a previous forgery conviction, a subsequent federal sentence and several trips to Connecticut.
Publishing and Collecting in Restoration and Early 18th-Century England.
Thomas Tooly (1688-1758) was just making a name for himself as an editor, translator and popularizer of classical texts when he was expelled from his fellowship at St. John's College, Oxford, under a storm of local controversy. My research will bring together unpublished and unnoticed material by and about Tooly and so put in context a number of scarce-and in two cases, uniquely surviving-publications that have been collected in the UIUC Rare Book and Special Collections Library.
I am conducting research on pamphlets annotated by the book-collector, parliamentarian and diarist Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Luttrell was one of the greatest of English book collectors, comprehensively acquiring pamphlets and tracts as they were published and in many cases annotating them. His massive diary was published as A Brief historical relation of state affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 (Oxford: University Press, 1857. 6 vols.). My research connects Luttrell's reading and his diary, and investigates contemporary conventions of annotation, note-taking and commonplace writing.
The Artistic Avant-garde in Belgium and France at the Fin-de Siècle.
My research focuses upon the examination of the artistic avant-garde in Belgium and France at the turn of the last century. The close ties between artists living in Paris and Brussels have provided fertile ground for further exploration. A current project involves studying the migration of the Neo- Impressionist style from Paris to Brussels. An essay exploring this topic will be published in the exhibition catalog which accompanies the major exhibition, Neo- Impressionism: from Seurat to Paul Klee, to be held this spring and summer at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul:
Coverage of state and international information in government documents courses.The authors surveyed instructors of graduate-level government documents courses in the U.S. regarding their coverage of intergovernmental organization, foreign, and state government information. Though instructors value this information, most allot too few class hours to it. The creation of specialized distance education courses by an alliance of LIS programs would fill this gap. Published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship 31: 29-39.
Contributions of Women to the Public Library Movement.
Topics explored include women's administration of extensive traveling library programs in almost all the states, their significant role in institutionalizing state aid to libraries, their success in securing a large percentage of Carnegie grants and their substantial involvement in the founding of libraries. This research has exposed additional topics of potential interest; for example, the history of women in journalism, women and the race question at the turn of the 20th century, contributions of women to environmental preservation during the Progressive Era.
Joe Zumalt, Assistant Professor, Issac Funk Family Library for Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
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The "Big Deal". Big Impact and the Future of Interlibrary Lending: A longitudinal study of statewide interlibrary loan article sharing in Illinois.
Interlibrary loan (ILL) article sharing data from the 26 largest libraries in Illinois were collected in 1995/96, 1999/00 and most recently in 2002/03. The OCLC Management Statistics Service supplied the data with the permission of the participating libraries. Longitudinal data analysis focused on the changes that have taken place in article sharing over the past eight years within the state, offering insights into the impact of publisher-packaged access to groups of electronic journals, or the "Big Deal." Results show a decline in the number of ILL article requests among the 26 largest libraries in Illinois: a near 26% drop in overall article requests took place between 1999/00 to 2002/03, a much larger decline than was expected. The data provide answers to frequently-posed questions concerning the impact of "Big Deal" journal packages on ILL article sharing and offer some insight concerning the future of ILL in the age of full-text online article availability. <IN PROCCESS/NOT YET PUBLISHED>
Best Practices in the Field of Medical Informatics and Veterinary Medical Librarianship.
My current project is aimed at identifying and documenting "best practices" in the field of medical informatics and librarianship in service to veterinary medicine. This will include on-site interviews and observations at top research institutions, veterinary clinics, and with local general practitioners.
A Comparison of Online Indexes Used for Quaternary Research.
I am completing a project that compared indexes relevant to Quaternary research, an important interdisciplinary area. An informal survey of Quaternary researchers indicated that the most commonly used online databases are GeoRef and Current Contents or Web of Science. The content of Web of Science and Current Contents is essentially identical for purposes of this project. Other databases of interest include AGRICOLA, AGRIS, CAB Abstracts, EiCompendex, Water Resources Abstracts, Zoological Record, Biological Abstracts, Geobase, Biological and Agricultural Index, and Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA). I have conducted a search ("Quaternary or Pleistocene or Holocene") of all 12 databases for the year 2000 and have captured the digital results. A graduate assistant was hired with RPC grant money to parse the data (approximately 13,000 records), populate a common database, and create programming to query the database. Records were examined for relevance and overlap between databases. I am currently finishing the paper.
Issues in Nursing Librarianship.
My personal research program has been to understand the user needs of registered nurses how they seek information, why they seek information, what sources they use, and how to make the information they need more accessible for evidence-based clinical decisions.
Field Guide Citation Patterns.
After creating an annotated guide to North American field guides and an associated Web site listing international field guides, I encountered a range of opinions from librarians about field guides as library resources. As a result, I decided to examine field guide citations in all three citation indexes. Authors from a wide range of subjects use field guides a lot (50 field guides were cited in over 1,600 articles) for almost everything but identifying plants and animals: determining distribution range, color, sexual dimorphism, body size, description, diet, ethnobotanical use, and more. This article has not yet been published.
"Related articles" in PubMed vs. Web of Science
Both PubMed and Web of Science citations have a link called "related articles", however the algorithm for determining relatedness is quite different -- one based on shared cited references and the other based on shared MeSH headings (and other bibliographic components). I am studying the relative worth of the articles retrieved by these two methods, for the same article(s).
Frances Jacobson Harris, Associate Professor and Head, University High School Library
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Instructional Improvement Programs in ARL Libraries.
This survey investigates how librarians improve their teaching skills and how such skills are evaluated as part of the formal review of professional performance. The purpose of this study is to identify the activities that librarians pursue in order to become more effective teachers and the ways in which library administrators have incorporated assessment of instructional performance into formal methods of professional review.
Organizational Structures and Responsibilities for Instruction Programs in Research Libraries.
Investigation of positions that have responsibility for managing or leading information literacy/instruction programs in research libraries, the place of such positions in the organization (including reporting structures), and the distribution of instructional responsibilities throughout the research library organization.
Information Literacy as Collaborative Curriculum Building in First-Year Programs.
Examines the collaborative nature of integrating information literacy into first-year courses and how a successful integration is dependent on collaboration between librarians and faculty. For publication in a book tentatively titled "The library and the first-year experience" published by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (with Dr. Nancy DeJoy, Millikin University, Director of Freshmen Writing Programs).
Beyond the Mouse Click: Using metaphor and analogy in library instruction.
Examines the need to move library instruction from tool to concept-based and the role metaphor and analogy play in helping students understand the process. For presentation at the LOEX 2005 conference and publication in the conference proceedings.
Bill Mischo, Professor and Head, Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center;
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Great Hall of the Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center
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A Unified, Standards-Compliant System for Describing Archives and Manuscript Collections.
We are prototyping an innovative approach to providing record series/collection, sub-series, and file-level control over archival records and manuscripts. Work completed during the spring and summer of 2005 will support a national grant application to be submitted in 2006. The seed money will be used for database design and output modeling. The prototype system will provide common a platform for data management, comply with all relevant standards for describing archival materials, and provide robust data interoperability. Archival descriptive records will be exported from a SQL compliant database as HTML, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) files, MARC catalog records, PDF files, OAI records, and Rich Text Format files. The system will dynamically update collection-level MARC records in Voyager and EAD files in RLG's Archival Resources. Tools developed under this seed money proposal and the IMLS grant will be made available as open source software.
'Shareable Metadata' and Implementations of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
This work focuses on descriptive metadata authoring practices at both the item-level and collection-level of granularity, and on the impact of these practices on OAI service providers (metadata harvesting agents) and ultimately on end-users of metadata-based resources and services. Our current major project in this area is the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project, a three-year effort to build metadata-based components of a national infrastructure for adaptable, interoperable, and sustainable digital collections. As part of this project we are building a registry of all IMLS National Leadership Grant (NLG) collections having associated digital content, assisting and guiding NLG projects in making item-level metadata sharable via the OAI protocol, and building an item-level metadata repository and search and discovery tools for integrated access to the content of NLG collections. Research is underway in collaboration with other experts nationwide to articulate best practices for sharing metadata about diverse digital content and for using the OAI protocol to support the interests of diverse user communities. In addition to our primary IMLS grant, we are also collaborating with researchers in the Digital Library Federation, in the National Science Digital Library, at UC-Berkeley, and elsewhere on multiple additional, smaller metadata and OAI related grant projects. Further information is available at http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/ , http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ and http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/
Timothy W. Cole, Professor and Head, Mathematics Library; and
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Architectural details in the Math Library.
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Facilitating Scholarly Analysis of Digital Texts.
Two of my TEI-based e-text projects have involved interpretive encoding: that is, using standardized procedures for creating analytical categories and enriching texts for improved retrieval and analysis (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/rusread/rencode.html#analyt). I have also explored topic map approaches for analyzing the semantic content of multi-format digital archives and providing a simplified interface that not only retrieves expected relationships but also draws on XML markup to reveal unanticipated linkages (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/rusread/draft.html). My goal is to promote faculty awareness of various applications of technology to research. My most recent article was entitled: "Adding Value to Slavic Electronic Texts: Approaches for Scholars & Librarians."
Digital Emblematica.
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An example of the allegorical and moralistic nature of emblems. It
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Assessing UIUC's Musical Score Collection.
Seeking to develop a better understanding of the collections they manage, and beginning a process of long-term planning, music librarians at UIUC worked with the preservation administrator to assess their collection's condition. The data collected indicated directions the library should take to enhance the collection's management and refuted long held assumptions about the collection's preservation needs and the institution's ability to purchase replacement copies.
Assessing the Preservation Needs of "Hidden Collections".
These collections, so coined by the ARL's special collections task force, are unprocessed or under-processed special collections materials that are held, many in mass quantities, by larger research libraries. Addressing the problem of bringing access to hidden collections has become a major push for the ARL and many people are trying to address better ways to catalog, inventory, or otherwise describe these collections so that patrons know what we have (currently full processing according to rare book cataloguing standards and archival processing standards are prohibitively time consuming considering the quantities of materials in the backlogs). In addition to the description needs of these collections, however, are frequently preservation needs as well. To help address this, I oversaw a conservation needs assessment of our own backlog of rare book materials (over 20,000 pieces). From the data collected from this assessment, my previous GA on this project and I are seeking to come up with some projections of the needs of similar collections and how best to address the immediate conservation needs of these collections, both physically but also fiscally, when the most critical piece of information regarding the item, its USE, is unknown.
Undergraduate Library Collections 40 years later: An assessment of use and preservation needs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Undergraduate libraries are approaching their 40th year of existence at many major research institutions. As this landmark nears, it signifies an opportunity to assess the physical collections, to both see how these high-use collections have aged, and whether their use patterns are keeping pace with the original missions of their respective institution. The authors report on a detailed collection survey of the University of Illinois Undergraduate Library, which analyzed preservation needs of over 200,000 circulating monograph volumes, as well as the collection's composition and use.
Current and Emerging Challenges for the Future of Library and Archival Preservation.
Confronted with increasingly rapid technological developments and the likelihood of continued economic constraints, libraries face numerous challenges in the coming years that are already impacting their operating models. While many functions are well established, the responsibility of adequately preserving our collections remains a mandate only partially fulfilled. Many of the same developments that increase access complicate preservation efforts by increasing the competition for diminishing resources, expanding the number of options available, and fundamentally questioning established norms such as the notion of permanence. This paper explores the impact of these trends on the library's role of memory institution and poses questions about the near future of preservation in the research library.
The Preservation Professional, a Snapshot of a Changing Discipline (working title).
The library preservation and conservation profession has grown dramatically since 1970; as of 2002 - 03, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) reported seventy-eight full- and part-time preservation administrators holding positions in its 123 member institutions. Sixty of these administrators devote 100% of their time to managing their library's preservation activities. However, 23% devote less than 100% of their appointment to preservation and 6.4% of these administrators devote less than half of their time to preservation activity.
To establish a baseline for ongoing comparative study, and to inform thinking on the future work of educational programs and professional organizations, this study will query ARL preservation librarians on an array of personal and professional demographic information. In addition to understanding the demographics of this sub-discipline, the study seeks to ascertain the value of educational and professional training activities, develop an understanding of the role mentoring relationships play within the discipline, and evaluate continuing education needs. Finally, the study will query professionals with respect to the greatest challenges they have personally faced in their careers, as well as what they see as the most pressing preservation challenges for libraries and the preservation profession.
Measuring Graduate and Professional Students' Perspectives on Library Services, Facilities and Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Does subject discipline continue to influence library use?
The University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Services Advisory Committee has established a program to create a regular rotation of patron surveys. The program is an effort to answer basic questions about attitudes towards the library's services, facilities and collections. Modeled directly after those surveys designed and carried out at the University of Washington Libraries, the UIUC plan calls for an annual rotation of three surveys, each focused on a different user group. The first group surveyed (spring 2004) consisted of graduate and professional students, to be followed by undergraduate students (spring 2005) and faculty (spring 2006). Surveys will be conducted annually thereafter so that each user group will be surveyed every three years. Results from the first UIUC web survey, with 1400 respondents, revealed that graduate and professional students are very satisfied with their library experiences and the pattern of responses by subject discipline corresponds with the findings of Hiller (2002) at the University of Washington, but with some predicted shifts. In addition, suggestions are made for the presentation of data to successfully communicate survey results to decision makers.
Media and Reserves Services: Optimizing services using new technology.
My research activities are devoted to promoting understanding and improving the quality of services and collections for library patrons, with a particular focus on media, reserves, and the implementation of new technologies. Whenever possible my research has been directly tied to projects or initiatives relating to my position as Coordinator of Media Services, Cataloging and Reserves, thereby allowing my research to help facilitate provision of exceptional services and collections on campus. To date I have conducted a number of research studies of both librarians and library patrons in different settings, with the goal of determining how effective certain technologies have been in specific situations, and how implementing new technologies might prove beneficial. My publications have helped to fill a gap in the library literature, as there is not a large body of published work on media issues, and electronic reserves is a popular new topic in need of exploration. The studies have covered a variety of trends and topics ranging from an increase in the amount of information available online and the impact of implementing an electronic reserve service to the role of technology in undergraduate research and media literacy. Though the topics and research methods have varied depending on current projects and needs, the focus has remained constant on promoting possible solutions to current media and reserve issues by investigating how to effectively utilize available technologies and trends.
ARL Libraries' Practices and Services during Moves.
Moving collections, services, and personnel is a daunting experience, and at some point, every library has to face these challenges. This research is examining library moving projects with an emphasis on temporary relocations to find out how libraries managed the transfer of collections and personnel during the move and how materials are accessed and cared for while in their temporary locations. These libraries' experiences will be compared with UIUC Library's temporary facility, the Horticultural Field Laboratory ("Faux Oak").
Single versus Multiple Records for our Serials: Bringing together essential serial data to form the super serial bibliographic record.
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Deep-linking into Royal Society of Chemistry e-journals: A case study documenting the difficulty of providing link resolution into serials with multiple title changes.
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Archives Management and Copyright Issues.
My research interests center on programs for cultural archives in institutions of higher education and policy issues in the management of archives. Building on the experience of the University of Illinois archives in providing a model for the selection, preservation, and use of the records of professional associations, I have focused on academic archives and the use of archival service agreements for the management of association archives and continue to receive requests on these topics. In addition, I have a developing interest in intellectual property law and the rights of librarians, archivists, and users, especially in the historical context of United States copyright law.
College and University Archives: Selected Readings.
We are developing a replacement for a 1979 volume treating key issues regarding the administration of College and University Archives. This volume will gather an authoritative literature that treats the typical issues of theory and technique faced by college and university archivists. While college or university archivists still struggle with the issues of appraisal, arrangement, description, reference, use, and preservation, which are treated in the 1979 volume, the amount of literature on these topics has mushroomed during the past 25 years. However, articles specifically addressing these issues from a college and university archives perspective are less common. More importantly, the issues currently engaging archivists have undergone significant transformation. Electronic records, digital access, and on-line reference provide only the most obvious examples of how traditional archival problems have been transformed. The volume will include both newly commissioned pieces, including one by Ellen Swain on oral history and Chris Prom on trends in electronic access tools.
Electronic Delivery of Requested Interlibrary Loan Materials.
My research focuses on electronic document delivery issues for patrons affiliated with the UIUC campus. I've presented a number of papers and written articles that look at issues such as turnaround time, 24/7 access, and technical barriers to receiving documents electronically on the desktop. My work has been published in Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply and Journal of Library Administration.
Evaluation of World Wide Web Sources to Answer Reference Questions.
I've tackled this project in several ways: 1) I have investigated the accuracy of Web in answering the actual reference questions from a large library system, 2) I have investigated the different results delivered by the most popular online, cost-of-living calculators, 3) I have evaluated the accuracy of salary tools for librarians using real salary data.
Jo Kibbee, Associate Professor and Head, Reference
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Professional Competencies for Reference and User Services Librarians.
This work, a collaborative effort with Jo Bell Whitlach of San Jose State University, presents competencies for reference professionals, training methods to achieve these competencies, and assessment methods that assist individuals in determining whether competencies have been achieved. It is anticipated that ALA editions will publish this work in early 2006.
Determining Virtual Reference Success - Four interrelated projects.
Reference Access and Outreach Strategies for Student Documentation.
My research focuses on reference, access, and outreach issues as they relate to student life and culture documentation. My most recent project is a study of college/university archives' policies and practices for providing access to student records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). I'm completing an article based on an National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant-funded project concerning capture and appraisal of student organization websites (with Chris Prom).
For another Reference research project, see also, Assessing the Impact of Reference Services Provided to Undergraduate Students , above.
It's Not Your Parents' Library Anymore: Challenges and opportunities in the new webs of complexity.
As barriers of space and time dissolve, the global e-future looks as dangerous as it does adventurous. The twenty-first century holds the promise of a modern Renaissance, in which traditional research library collections and services collide with the promises and realities of digital information and knowledge management. As perhaps the most intriguing and grand challenges of the twenty-first century center on implications of the juxtaposition between silicon and carbon for culture, so the most intriguing challenges and opportunities for research libraries center on the juxtaposition between the traditional library and digital information and knowledge management, with resultant webs of complexity. This paper examines these challenges and opportunities, raises questions of values and principles, missions and strategies, content and copyright, and methods and ethics, and hypothesizes that despite their increasingly homogeneous collections, twenty-first century research libraries will be characterized more by their divergences than by their similarities.
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