Academic libraries in a digital age

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2000, Pages

  Lombardi, John V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0003267168     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/october2000-lombardi     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Even the New York Times follows the inclinations of students and wonders about the future of the academic library. Lisa Guernsey. "The Library As the Latest Web Venture." The New York Times (June 15, 2000), and Carol A. Wright outlines the relationships of the electronic media to the standard General Education program in Carol A. Wright. "Information Literacy within the General Education Program: Implications for Distance Education ," The Journal of General Education (49.1, 2000) 23-33.
2. Even the New York Times follows the inclinations of students and wonders about the future of the academic library. Lisa Guernsey. "The Library As the Latest Web Venture." The New York Times (June 15, 2000), and Carol A. Wright outlines the relationships of the electronic media to the standard General Education program in Carol A. Wright. "Information Literacy within the General Education Program: Implications for Distance Education ," The Journal of General Education (49.1, 2000) 23-33.
3. Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, and Heinrich Schwarz. "It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know - Work in the Information Age." First Monday (5:5 May 1, 2000) offer an ethnographic perspective on how people interact and construct their personal and professional networks in an information age with a number of interesting examples. On a more focused scale, see the essay on teaching medicine in cyberspace in Kathleen W. Jones and Russell C. Maulitz. Teaching the History of Medicine in Cyberspace. NetNotes: Medical History on the Internet, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (72:4, 1998) 734-743. .
4. Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, and Heinrich Schwarz. "It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know - Work in the Information Age." First Monday (5:5 May 1, 2000) offer an ethnographic perspective on how people interact and construct their personal and professional networks in an information age with a number of interesting examples. On a more focused scale, see the essay on teaching medicine in cyberspace in Kathleen W. Jones and Russell C. Maulitz. Teaching the History of Medicine in Cyberspace. NetNotes: Medical History on the Internet, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (72:4, 1998) 734-743. .
5. Naturally, visionaries spin versions of our digital futures, some seeing nirvana in our future and others finding catastrophe. An interesting perspective on this futurology comes from the chapters of The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, published in March 2000 by Harvard Business School Press with excerpts reprinted in First Monday (5: 4, April 3, 2000). .
6. Naturally, visionaries spin versions of our digital futures, some seeing nirvana in our future and others finding catastrophe. An interesting perspective on this futurology comes from the chapters of The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, published in March 2000 by Harvard Business School Press with excerpts reprinted in First Monday (5: 4, April 3, 2000). .
7. For a helpful perspective on the World Wide Web, see Bill Hilf. "Media Lullabies: The Reinvention of the World Wide Web." First Monday (3:4 April 6. 1998). .
8. Michael Jensen's opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2000) explores the impact of e-publishing on traditional publishers in his "E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing." Even so elite a journal as The New Yorker entered the fray in its combined issues of 6/19 and 6/26/2000 with James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page: Books Will Endure, But Will Publishers?" The Wall Street Journal also follows the commercial issues of publishers vs. the Internet as in the recent articles by Tom Weber, "Will E-Publishers Reshape or Flood the Book Market?" Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2000, and Erin White, "Book Publishers Aim to Get Ahead Of the Electronic-Piracy Game," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2000 [both available on-line for subscribers to WSJ service at [http://www.wsj.com]. In typical Internet speed, the on-demand book has gone international. For a Venezuelan example see the website for EdiciónXDemanda at . For an excellent example of the Internet hypertext-multimedia book, published via Post-Modern Culture (itself an all electronic journal) see Peter S. Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books," Post Modern Culture (8:2, 1998) which leads to the full text of: Peter S. Donaldson,. Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books, Post Modern Culture (1998) .
9. Michael Jensen's opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2000) explores the impact of e-publishing on traditional publishers in his "E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing." Even so elite a journal as The New Yorker entered the fray in its combined issues of 6/19 and 6/26/2000 with James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page: Books Will Endure, But Will Publishers?" The Wall Street Journal also follows the commercial issues of publishers vs. the Internet as in the recent articles by Tom Weber, "Will E-Publishers Reshape or Flood the Book Market?" Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2000, and Erin White, "Book Publishers Aim to Get Ahead Of the Electronic-Piracy Game," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2000 [both available on-line for subscribers to WSJ service at [http://www.wsj.com]. In typical Internet speed, the on-demand book has gone international. For a Venezuelan example see the website for EdiciónXDemanda at . For an excellent example of the Internet hypertext-multimedia book, published via Post-Modern Culture (itself an all electronic journal) see Peter S. Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books," Post Modern Culture (8:2, 1998) which leads to the full text of: Peter S. Donaldson,. Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books, Post Modern Culture (1998) .
10. Michael Jensen's opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2000) explores the impact of e-publishing on traditional publishers in his "E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing." Even so elite a journal as The New Yorker entered the fray in its combined issues of 6/19 and 6/26/2000 with James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page: Books Will Endure, But Will Publishers?" The Wall Street Journal also follows the commercial issues of publishers vs. the Internet as in the recent articles by Tom Weber, "Will E-Publishers Reshape or Flood the Book Market?" Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2000, and Erin White, "Book Publishers Aim to Get Ahead Of the Electronic-Piracy Game," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2000 [both available on-line for subscribers to WSJ service at [http://www.wsj.com]. In typical Internet speed, the on-demand book has gone international. For a Venezuelan example see the website for EdiciónXDemanda at . For an excellent example of the Internet hypertext-multimedia book, published via Post-Modern Culture (itself an all electronic journal) see Peter S. Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books," Post Modern Culture (8:2, 1998) which leads to the full text of: Peter S. Donaldson,. Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books, Post Modern Culture (1998) .
11. Michael Jensen's opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2000) explores the impact of e-publishing on traditional publishers in his "E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing." Even so elite a journal as The New Yorker entered the fray in its combined issues of 6/19 and 6/26/2000 with James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page: Books Will Endure, But Will Publishers?" The Wall Street Journal also follows the commercial issues of publishers vs. the Internet as in the recent articles by Tom Weber, "Will E-Publishers Reshape or Flood the Book Market?" Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2000, and Erin White, "Book Publishers Aim to Get Ahead Of the Electronic-Piracy Game," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2000 [both available on-line for subscribers to WSJ service at [http://www.wsj.com]. In typical Internet speed, the on-demand book has gone international. For a Venezuelan example see the website for EdiciónXDemanda at . For an excellent example of the Internet hypertext-multimedia book, published via Post-Modern Culture (itself an all electronic journal) see Peter S. Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books," Post Modern Culture (8:2, 1998) which leads to the full text of: Peter S. Donaldson,. Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books, Post Modern Culture (1998) .
12. Michael Jensen's opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2000) explores the impact of e-publishing on traditional publishers in his "E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing." Even so elite a journal as The New Yorker entered the fray in its combined issues of 6/19 and 6/26/2000 with James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page: Books Will Endure, But Will Publishers?" The Wall Street Journal also follows the commercial issues of publishers vs. the Internet as in the recent articles by Tom Weber, "Will E-Publishers Reshape or Flood the Book Market?" Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2000, and Erin White, "Book Publishers Aim to Get Ahead Of the Electronic-Piracy Game," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2000 [both available on-line for subscribers to WSJ service at [http://www.wsj.com]. In typical Internet speed, the on-demand book has gone international. For a Venezuelan example see the website for EdiciónXDemanda at . For an excellent example of the Internet hypertext-multimedia book, published via Post-Modern Culture (itself an all electronic journal) see Peter S. Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books," Post Modern Culture (8:2, 1998) which leads to the full text of: Peter S. Donaldson,. Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books, Post Modern Culture (1998) .
13. Michael Jensen's opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2000) explores the impact of e-publishing on traditional publishers in his "E-Books and Retro Glue Protect the Vested Interests of Publishing." Even so elite a journal as The New Yorker entered the fray in its combined issues of 6/19 and 6/26/2000 with James Surowiecki's "The Financial Page: Books Will Endure, But Will Publishers?" The Wall Street Journal also follows the commercial issues of publishers vs. the Internet as in the recent articles by Tom Weber, "Will E-Publishers Reshape or Flood the Book Market?" Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2000, and Erin White, "Book Publishers Aim to Get Ahead Of the Electronic-Piracy Game," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2000 [both available on-line for subscribers to WSJ service at [http://www.wsj.com]. In typical Internet speed, the on-demand book has gone international. For a Venezuelan example see the website for EdiciónXDemanda at . For an excellent example of the Internet hypertext-multimedia book, published via Post-Modern Culture (itself an all electronic journal) see Peter S. Donaldson, "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books," Post Modern Culture (8:2, 1998) which leads to the full text of: Peter S. Donaldson,. Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books, Post Modern Culture (1998) .
14. Richard K. Johnson addresses the efforts he expects the for-profit journal publishers to employ in their response to the internet and urges librarians to band together to resist continued price gouging: "A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing," D-Lib Magazine (6:5, May 2000) . Peter B. Boyce provides his own perspective on the electronic journal in the field of astronomy in "What Does the Future Hold? Ask an Astronomer" (presented at NC Serials Conference, Chapel Hill, March 16, 2000) . And Eyal Amiran offers an essay on the future of the serial in an electronic world which addresses both the philosophical notion that underlies serialization and the issues of power and politics associated with journals in his "Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution," The Yale Journal of Criticism (10:2, 1997) 445-454 .
15. Richard K. Johnson addresses the efforts he expects the for-profit journal publishers to employ in their response to the internet and urges librarians to band together to resist continued price gouging: "A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing," D-Lib Magazine (6:5, May 2000) . Peter B. Boyce provides his own perspective on the electronic journal in the field of astronomy in "What Does the Future Hold? Ask an Astronomer" (presented at NC Serials Conference, Chapel Hill, March 16, 2000) . And Eyal Amiran offers an essay on the future of the serial in an electronic world which addresses both the philosophical notion that underlies serialization and the issues of power and politics associated with journals in his "Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution," The Yale Journal of Criticism (10:2, 1997) 445-454 .
16. Richard K. Johnson addresses the efforts he expects the for-profit journal publishers to employ in their response to the internet and urges librarians to band together to resist continued price gouging: "A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing," D-Lib Magazine (6:5, May 2000) . Peter B. Boyce provides his own perspective on the electronic journal in the field of astronomy in "What Does the Future Hold? Ask an Astronomer" (presented at NC Serials Conference, Chapel Hill, March 16, 2000) . And Eyal Amiran offers an essay on the future of the serial in an electronic world which addresses both the philosophical notion that underlies serialization and the issues of power and politics associated with journals in his "Electronic Time and the Serials Revolution," The Yale Journal of Criticism (10:2, 1997) 445-454 .
17. Karen Coyle discusses the challenges of mega library programs in her description of "The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study," D-Lib Magazine (6:3, March 2000) . David Bearman and colleagues review another major effort in "A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata: Progress Report on Reconciling Metadata Requirements from The Dublin Core and INDECS/DOI Communities," D-Lib Magazine (5:1, January 1999) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html]. They capture the all encompassing model for this project by recognizing that their standard data definition needs to match this underlying commerce model: "People Make Stuff, People Use Stuff, and People Do Deals About Stuff." Steve Coffman takes a different perspective in proposing that all the public libraries at least convert themselves into a variant of Amazon.com in his piece on "Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving into the Future." Seacher (7:3, March 1999) . Proving that whatever you can imagine will become a product on the Internet, ebrary.com has a web site and business model designed to accomplish pretty much what Coffman suggests. . Standards are at the core of the librarians' sense of professional standing as is visible in the documents on "Standards for College Libraries, 2000 Edition" and the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education," both items produced by the Association of College and Research Libraries Standards Committee and available at: and respectively.
18. Karen Coyle discusses the challenges of mega library programs in her description of "The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study," D-Lib Magazine (6:3, March 2000) . David Bearman and colleagues review another major effort in "A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata: Progress Report on Reconciling Metadata Requirements from The Dublin Core and INDECS/DOI Communities," D-Lib Magazine (5:1, January 1999) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html]. They capture the all encompassing model for this project by recognizing that their standard data definition needs to match this underlying commerce model: "People Make Stuff, People Use Stuff, and People Do Deals About Stuff." Steve Coffman takes a different perspective in proposing that all the public libraries at least convert themselves into a variant of Amazon.com in his piece on "Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving into the Future." Seacher (7:3, March 1999) . Proving that whatever you can imagine will become a product on the Internet, ebrary.com has a web site and business model designed to accomplish pretty much what Coffman suggests. . Standards are at the core of the librarians' sense of professional standing as is visible in the documents on "Standards for College Libraries, 2000 Edition" and the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education," both items produced by the Association of College and Research Libraries Standards Committee and available at: and respectively.
19. Karen Coyle discusses the challenges of mega library programs in her description of "The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study," D-Lib Magazine (6:3, March 2000) . David Bearman and colleagues review another major effort in "A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata: Progress Report on Reconciling Metadata Requirements from The Dublin Core and INDECS/DOI Communities," D-Lib Magazine (5:1, January 1999) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html]. They capture the all encompassing model for this project by recognizing that their standard data definition needs to match this underlying commerce model: "People Make Stuff, People Use Stuff, and People Do Deals About Stuff." Steve Coffman takes a different perspective in proposing that all the public libraries at least convert themselves into a variant of Amazon.com in his piece on "Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving into the Future." Seacher (7:3, March 1999) . Proving that whatever you can imagine will become a product on the Internet, ebrary.com has a web site and business model designed to accomplish pretty much what Coffman suggests. . Standards are at the core of the librarians' sense of professional standing as is visible in the documents on "Standards for College Libraries, 2000 Edition" and the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education," both items produced by the Association of College and Research Libraries Standards Committee and available at: and respectively.
20. The Library of Congress American Memory project is a good example at as are the Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia, available at . Also of interest is the tightly focused translation to the web of a classic late 19th-century medical reference work Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army) described in Russell C. Maulitz, "Billings in Cyberspace: Toward the Electronic Index-Catalogue," Netnotes: Medical History on the Internet, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (71:4, 1997) 689-692 .
21. The Library of Congress American Memory project is a good example at as are the Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia, available at . Also of interest is the tightly focused translation to the web of a classic late 19th-century medical reference work Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army) described in Russell C. Maulitz, "Billings in Cyberspace: Toward the Electronic Index-Catalogue," Netnotes: Medical History on the Internet, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (71:4, 1997) 689-692 .
22. Suzanne Cohen and colleagues present the Cornell University version of this movement in "MyLibrary: Personalized Electronic Services in the Cornell University Library," D-Lib Magazine (6:4 April 2000) . For another version, see the site at MyLibrary@NCState at . For an excellent example of an athletic portal see the Stanford sports portal at . An alumni portal for the University of Florida that represents a shell system applicable to many universities with similar functions appears at .
23. An example from Innovative Interfaces Millennium system reads: "Innovative Interfaces partners with libraries worldwide to provide Web-based information technology solutions to both patrons and staff. Innovative's Millennium system is a Web-based, open-platform system that offers the best and most comprehensive functionality of any library automation software. Its Java™ interface offers staff and patrons an intuitive, easy-to-use, and platform-independent system. With its multi-tiered system architecture, object-oriented design, and complete scalability, Millennium provides full, integrated functionality; its core modules constitute a time- and library-tested automation system that can be implemented in every type of library. Innovative prides itself on its adaptation to and adoption of new technologies; it offers libraries industry-standard software solutions that are platform-independent, Web-based, and intuitive, as well as outstanding, industry-leading services and support. Millennium includes modules unequalled for quality, value, functionality, and ease of use. Innovative offers a full suite of Millennium modules designed for a variety of functions that can be implemented in every sort of library." .
24. David M. Levy's "Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose," D-Lib Magazine (6:1 January 2000) engages this question with some cautionary comments about the myth of the all-digital universe .
25. Laura Zick offers a compelling view of librarians and intelligent software collaborating to serve patrons in "The Work of Information Mediators: A Comparison of Librarians and Intelligent Software Agents," First Monday, (5:5 May 2000) . For an example of a collaboration that produces a guide to new materials appearing on line see The Scout Report . This review appears not only on the net but also in various specialized email editions sent to subscribers for free. Their intro blurb highlights the librarian's role: "Surf smarter, not longer. Let the Internet Scout Project show you the way to the best resources on the Internet - then you can choose what's best for you. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community.{emphasis added}."
26. Laura Zick offers a compelling view of librarians and intelligent software collaborating to serve patrons in "The Work of Information Mediators: A Comparison of Librarians and Intelligent Software Agents," First Monday, (5:5 May 2000) . For an example of a collaboration that produces a guide to new materials appearing on line see The Scout Report . This review appears not only on the net but also in various specialized email editions sent to subscribers for free. Their intro blurb highlights the librarian's role: "Surf smarter, not longer. Let the Internet Scout Project show you the way to the best resources on the Internet - then you can choose what's best for you. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community.{emphasis added}."
27. The challenge of putting special collections on line is clear in Michael L.W. Jones, Geri K. Gay, Robert H. Rieger's "Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts," D-Lib Magazine (5:11 November 1999) . Indiana University's Hoagy Carmichael Collection is at . Michelle Mach and Cynthia D. Shirkey illustrate the librarian's commitment to provide guides to a specific category of texts in "Twentieth-century authors: Biographic and bibliographic information is just a click away," College & Research Libraries News, Internet Resources, (ALA) December 1999 . No project succeeds without engaging the challenge of intellectual property, and Lynn Pritcher describes how one specialized project dealt with these issues in "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age," D-Lib Magazine (6:2 February 2000) . Francie C. Davis and Joyce Renfroe Gotsch get specific on how to organize for service in the electronic age within the context of a small college library in "Disprove Old Library Perceptions Through Technology Training. Marketing Library Services. A "How-To" Marketing Tool Written Specifically for Librarians!" InfoToday (12:4 June 1998) .
28. The challenge of putting special collections on line is clear in Michael L.W. Jones, Geri K. Gay, Robert H. Rieger's "Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts," D-Lib Magazine (5:11 November 1999) . Indiana University's Hoagy Carmichael Collection is at . Michelle Mach and Cynthia D. Shirkey illustrate the librarian's commitment to provide guides to a specific category of texts in "Twentieth-century authors: Biographic and bibliographic information is just a click away," College & Research Libraries News, Internet Resources, (ALA) December 1999 . No project succeeds without engaging the challenge of intellectual property, and Lynn Pritcher describes how one specialized project dealt with these issues in "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age," D-Lib Magazine (6:2 February 2000) . Francie C. Davis and Joyce Renfroe Gotsch get specific on how to organize for service in the electronic age within the context of a small college library in "Disprove Old Library Perceptions Through Technology Training. Marketing Library Services. A "How-To" Marketing Tool Written Specifically for Librarians!" InfoToday (12:4 June 1998) .
29. The challenge of putting special collections on line is clear in Michael L.W. Jones, Geri K. Gay, Robert H. Rieger's "Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts," D-Lib Magazine (5:11 November 1999) . Indiana University's Hoagy Carmichael Collection is at . Michelle Mach and Cynthia D. Shirkey illustrate the librarian's commitment to provide guides to a specific category of texts in "Twentieth-century authors: Biographic and bibliographic information is just a click away," College & Research Libraries News, Internet Resources, (ALA) December 1999 . No project succeeds without engaging the challenge of intellectual property, and Lynn Pritcher describes how one specialized project dealt with these issues in "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age," D-Lib Magazine (6:2 February 2000) . Francie C. Davis and Joyce Renfroe Gotsch get specific on how to organize for service in the electronic age within the context of a small college library in "Disprove Old Library Perceptions Through Technology Training. Marketing Library Services. A "How-To" Marketing Tool Written Specifically for Librarians!" InfoToday (12:4 June 1998) .
30. The challenge of putting special collections on line is clear in Michael L.W. Jones, Geri K. Gay, Robert H. Rieger's "Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts," D-Lib Magazine (5:11 November 1999) . Indiana University's Hoagy Carmichael Collection is at . Michelle Mach and Cynthia D. Shirkey illustrate the librarian's commitment to provide guides to a specific category of texts in "Twentieth-century authors: Biographic and bibliographic information is just a click away," College & Research Libraries News, Internet Resources, (ALA) December 1999 . No project succeeds without engaging the challenge of intellectual property, and Lynn Pritcher describes how one specialized project dealt with these issues in "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age," D-Lib Magazine (6:2 February 2000) . Francie C. Davis and Joyce Renfroe Gotsch get specific on how to organize for service in the electronic age within the context of a small college library in "Disprove Old Library Perceptions Through Technology Training. Marketing Library Services. A "How-To" Marketing Tool Written Specifically for Librarians!" InfoToday (12:4 June 1998) .
31. The challenge of putting special collections on line is clear in Michael L.W. Jones, Geri K. Gay, Robert H. Rieger's "Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts," D-Lib Magazine (5:11 November 1999) . Indiana University's Hoagy Carmichael Collection is at . Michelle Mach and Cynthia D. Shirkey illustrate the librarian's commitment to provide guides to a specific category of texts in "Twentieth-century authors: Biographic and bibliographic information is just a click away," College & Research Libraries News, Internet Resources, (ALA) December 1999 . No project succeeds without engaging the challenge of intellectual property, and Lynn Pritcher describes how one specialized project dealt with these issues in "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age," D-Lib Magazine (6:2 February 2000) . Francie C. Davis and Joyce Renfroe Gotsch get specific on how to organize for service in the electronic age within the context of a small college library in "Disprove Old Library Perceptions Through Technology Training. Marketing Library Services. A "How-To" Marketing Tool Written Specifically for Librarians!" InfoToday (12:4 June 1998) .