Research Catalog

Title

Net effects : how librarians can manage the unintended consequences of the Internet / edited by Marylaine Block.

Publication

Medford, N.J. : Information Today, [2003], ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Block, Marylaine, 1943-

Description

xiii, 380 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Libraries and the Internet

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-355) and index.

Contents

Chapter 1. Regaining Control over Selection -- Solution: Create Our Own Web Indexes, with Selection Policies for Inclusion -- To Link or Not to Link / Joyce M. Latham -- Selection Criteria: lii.org -- Solution: Create Our Own Databases -- JSTOR and Electronic Archiving / Ron Chepesiuk -- Solution: Choose Your Journal Titles and Let Vendors Bid for Your Package -- California State U. Adopts New Model to Pay for Journals / Lawrence Biemiller -- Solution: Create Our Own Web Search Engine -- Creating a Yahoo! with Values / Karen G. Schneider -- Chapter 2. Rescuing the Book -- Solution: Easier Access by User-Friendly Cataloging -- The Convenience Catastrophe / Roy Tennant -- Solution: Easier Physical Access to All Nearby Library Collections -- The Best Little Library System in the World / Marylaine Block -- Solution: One City, One Book -- "If All Seattle Read the Same Book" / Nancy Pearl -- Solution: Creating Readers Through Outreach and ESL -- The New Americans Program / Fred J. Gitner -- Solution: Creating Readers Through Outreach to Boys and Men -- You Go, Guys! / Shannon Maughan -- Reading Is 'In' / Janet L. Balas -- Solution: Partnerships -- Making Bookstores Your Partners / Marylaine Block -- Solution: Blogs and Personalized Services by E-Mail -- The MatchBook Program -- Chapter 3. Making Them Adapt to Us: Training Our Users -- Solution: Teach Them While They're Asking for Information -- Reference as a Teachable Moment / Marylaine Block -- Solution: Raise the Stakes. Make Them Care Whether the Information is Right -- It's Not Just for Term Papers / Sarah Kaip -- Teaching Kids Indirectly / Marylaine Block -- Solution: Co-Opt Them: Let Them Teach Each Other -- University Goes Back to Basics to Reach Minority Students / Elaina Norlin -- Working with, Not Against, Web-Savvy Users / Peter Jacso -- Solution: Go Where They Are -- Mobilize Your Instruction Program with Wireless Technology / Molly Susan Mathias and Steven Heser -- Chapter 4. The Shifted Librarian: Adapting to the Changing Expectations of Our Wired (and Wireless) Users -- What IS a Shifted Librarian? / Jenny Levine -- Solution: Use Your Web Site to Attract New Users -- Catching (and Keeping) E-Patrons / Jeanne Holba Puacz -- Solution: Weblogs -- Blogging Your Life Away / Darlene Fichter -- Solution: Use Their Tools of Choice: Chat -- Our Experiment in Online Real-Time Reference / Kelly Broughton -- Solution: Use Their Tools of Choice: PDAs -- Information Your Fingertips / Ken Varnum -- Solution: Personalized Services Through Your Web Site -- News Brief: brarydog.net Launches Web Portal for Students -- Chapter 5. Access Issues -- Solution: Accommodating Disabilities on Our Workstations and Web Pages -- Providing Equitable Access--From Ergonomics to HTML / Cheryl H. Kirkpatrick and Catherine Buck Morgan -- Figure 5.1. Specialized Applications on Our Workstations -- Figure 5.2. Coding Tips for Making Your Web Site Accessible -- Solution: Provide a Helping Hand Across the Digital Divide for Young Adults -- Wiring Teens to the Library / Michele Gorman -- Solution: Help Seniors Cross the Digital Divide -- Surf's Up for Seniors! / Jeanne Holba Puacz and Chris Bradfield -- Solution: Partnerships Within the Community to Reach Across the Digital Divide -- Mary Stillwell: Partnerships That Support Public Access Computing -- Chapter 6. The Techno-Economic Imperative -- Solution: Build Your Own Systems -- Can You Build It? Yes You Can! / Janet L. Balas -- Solution: Open Source Systems and Applications -- Linux in Your Library? / Eric Sisler -- Solution: Support and Contribute to the Free Online Scholarship Movement -- Where Does the Free Online Scholarship Movement Stand Today? / Peter Suber -- Superarchives' Could Hold All Scholarly Output / Jeffrey R. Young -- Solution: For the High Cost of Systems Technicians: Grow Your Own -- A Course in Accidental Systems Librarianship / Rachel Singer Gordon -- Chapter 7. Running to Stay in Place: Continuous Retraining -- Stop the World, I Want to Catch Up! / Marylaine Block -- Solution: Individual Professional Learning -- To Keep Up, Go Beyond / Steven J. Bell -- Solution: An Adequate Dedicated Library Training Budget -- The 1.6% Solution / James B. Casey -- Solution: Systematic Ongoing In-Service Training -- The Learning Systems Approach to Staff Development and Training at Multnomah County Library / Janet Kinney -- Chapter 8. Up to Our Ears in Lawyers: Legal Issues Posed by the Net -- Solution: Gather Information -- Managing Internet Access / Leigh S. Estabrook and Edward Lakner -- Solution: Try to Change the Law -- Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (Affect): Why We Oppose UCITA -- DMCA Revision to Get New Push / Andrew Albanese -- Solution: Understand What the Laws Require of You -- Filters and the Public Library / Mary Minow -- Solution: Policies That Deal with Problems And Honor Library Values -- Laying Down the Law: Crafting Acceptable Use Policy / Rob Reilly -- Guide to Multnomah County Library's Policies Regarding Internet Use -- Solution: Be Prepared -- What to Do Before, During, and After a "Knock at the Door" / Lynne E. Bradley and Claudette W. Tennant -- Chapter 9. Disappearing Data -- Solution: Link-Checking -- On the Link Checking Policy of the Librarians' Index to the Internet / Karen G. Schneider -- Solution: Have a Technological Disaster Plan -- Coping with Disasters / Roy Tennant -- Solution: Advise Legislators on the Impact Proposed Laws Will Have -- Statement of Julia F. Wallace before the Joint Committee on Printing, on "Federal Government Printing and Public Access to Government Documents" -- Solution: Standards for Preservation of Digital Information -- Time Is Not on Our Side / Roy Tennant -- Chapter 10. How to Avoid Getting Blind-Sided -- Solution: Scanning Present Indicators to Foresee Future Needs and Dangers -- Introduction to the Library Foresight System / John Guscott -- Solution: Dream Big -- The Defect in Realism / Marylaine Block -- URLs.

ISBN

1573871710

LCCN

2003008872

OCLC

• ocm52178735
• SCSB-14267791

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries