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ALA Midwinter Meeting Announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Mon Jan 5 21:08:00 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 14:26:48 -0600
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4 Messages, 290 Lines
1) Panel on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) (145 Lines)
2) Panel on Internet Filtering (35 Lines)
3) MARS Outreach Task Force (45 Lines)
4) RLIN Forum (70 Lines)
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From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids@nwu.edu>
This message is being cross posted to several lists. Please excuse any
duplication.
Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals
LITA Special Interest Group
http://www.lita.org/igs/epej.htm
Panel Discussion and Business Meeting New Orleans Convention Center
Rms. 97-98, Monday, January 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Document Tracking in an Electronic Universe:
Description, Applications and Implications of
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Publisher Item Identifiers (PIIs)
Introduced and moderated by
Kimberly Douglas <kdouglas@caltech.edu>
Director, Sherman Fairchild Library and Technical Information Services
California Institute of Technology
Overview of issues:
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has been designed to overcome
the impermanence of URLs and to identify and track digital media at any
desired
level of granularity. The DOI System has been designed by the Association of
American Publishers (AAP), in partnership with the Corporation For National
Research Initiatives (CNRI), to link customers with publishers, facilitate
electronic commerce, and enable copyright management systems. The DOI
System,
governed by The International DOI Foundation, is now in use by more than a
dozen U.S. and European publishers. These include Academic Press, Elsevier,
John Wiley & Sons, Houghton Mifflin, Springer-Verlag and Harcourt Brace.
Widespread implementation of this system promises to have a profound effect
on library functions and services, from ILL to online catalogs.
The PII - Or, A funny thing happened on the way to the DOI
Karen Hunter <K.HUNTER@elsevier.com>
Senior Vice President
Elsevier/North-Holland Scientific Publishing Co.
DOI overview: what they are; how they are to be used; and how they work
Ed Pentz <epentz@harcourtbrace.com>
Manager, Electronic Business Development
Academic Press
DOIs as an Internet standard: Update on NISOs DOI working groups
Brian Green <brian@bic.org.uk> and Pat Harris
Managing Agent of Book Industry Communication (BIC)
BIC / EDItEUR
Bringing DOIs into the library:
DOI implementation in an integrated library system
Cindy Edgington Miller <cindy@endinfosys.com>
Director of Product Strategy
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.
Implications for library users and library services
Julia C. Blixrud <jblix@arl.org>
Senior Program Officer
Association of Research Libraries
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Useful URLs for understanding digital object identifiers
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Articles about DOIs:
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html
Article by Clifford Lynch published in issue 194 of the ARL
newsletter describing in very readable language the background on DOIs and
articulating five issues and concerns regarding their use.
A response by Bill Arms is linked from the end of this article.
http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497doi.htm
DOI: Darling of Industry or Dead on Impact, Trialogue, no. 4, Spring 1997
http://www.ybp.com/yrm/trialogue/497/497rtsmn.htm
Rights Management in the Digital Age: Trading in Bits, not Atoms, Trialogue,
no. 4, Spring 1997
http://www.scripting.com/seybold/stories/960702.html
Seybold's commentary is somewhat dated, July 1996, however the issues
he articulates with the implementation of DOIs remain largely unresolved.
http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/bicinfo.html
This site provides the British perspective and is maintained by
Brian Green, one of the programs speakers, and includes a link to the
article,
"In Search of the Unicorn: the DOI from a user Perspective" by Mark Bide
discussing the methodology behind DOIs with scenarios and discussion.
http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/uniquid
Article by Brian Green (speaker) and Mark Bide entitled "Unique
identifiers: a brief introduction." Introduces DOI vocabulary and addresses
the shortcomings of legacy object identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, SICI).
http://elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/infoident/
Norman Paskin's article "Information Identifiers," originally published
in Learned Publishing, vol 10, no. 2 pp. 135-157 (April 1997), provides
extensive technical background and assessment of various types of object
identifiers that publishers have explored.
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Publisher Demonstrations and Explanations of their work with DOIs:
http://www.doi.org
Publisher organized information describing the purpose and progress
of each organization's work in developing DOIs. There are demos illustrating
different publishers' implementations.
http://www.apnet.com/www/doi
Academic Press explanation and demonstration of its work with DOIs.
The speaker Ed Pentz, above, is instrumental in this work.
http://www.alcs.co.uk/doidocs/index.htm
This site is for the Author's Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
which has linked the DOI system to a text numbering scheme and embedded the
DOI
in a text watermark using a system developed by the IMPRIMATUR project. This
is done to identify any illegal use of the text.
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Organized by Lloyd Davidson
Head Life Sciences and Access Services and Kaplan Humanities Fellow
Northwestern University
Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
LDavids@nwu.edu
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Lloyd A. Davidson
Life Sciences Librarian and Head, Access Services
Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering
2233 N. Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Ldavids@nwu.edu (847)491-2906 (Voice) (847)491-4655 (fax)
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From: George Porter <george@library.caltech.edu>
> Internet Filtering and Alternatives: An Open Discussion Forum
>
> Special Discussion made possible by the MARS Executive Committee
> New Orleans Convention Center
> Rm. 93, Saturday, January 10, 1998, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
>
> Organized, introduced and moderated by
> George S. Porter <george@library.caltech.edu>
> Reference Librarian
> Sherman Fairchild Library
> California Institute of Technology
>
> Internet filtering has been a major topic of conversation, regional
> library association programming, and media coverage throughout 1997.
> Come to a practical, open discussion. Feel free to step up and ask
> questions or tell of relevant experiences in your library.
>
> Noted author, columnist, and ALA Councilor Karen G. Schneider will
> offer insights gleaned from The Internet Filter Assessment Project
> <http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap/>. Karen Hyman, Executive Director
> of the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, has tackled the
> facts and issues of Internet access policies with librarians and
> trustees numerous times, in workshops and in policy-making meetings.
> These two librarians will set the stage during the first half hour.
> The remainder of the hour will be reserved for audience participation.
>
> George S. Porter
> Technical Reference Librarian
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
>
> California Institute of Technology
> Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125
> Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
> george@library.caltech.edu
>
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From: Naomi Lederer <nlederer@manta.library.ColoState.EDU>
---Please excuse any cross duplication---
RUSA's MARS (Machine-Assisted Reference Section) has
created an Outreach Task Force to address concerns about
membership in the section. Please join us at Midwinter ALA
in New Orleans for a brainstorming session.
Saturday January 10, 1998
11:30-12:30
Hilton (Riverside) Hotel, Windsor
(confirm location in final conference program)
You do not need to be a member of MARS to attend.
Mission statement: "The MARS Outreach Task Force will
explore recruitment and retention issues within MARS. What
we hope will emerge from the Task Force is a better sense of
what Martians need and what sets us apart from other sections
within RUSA and other associations within ALA. Another is
the coordination of "Meet Martians" events designed to give
people a chance to talk with us outside of committee
meetings."
If you can't make it to our meeting, feel free to send your
thoughts on this topic to Naomi Lederer.
See you there!
Naomi Lederer, Chair, MARS Outreach Task Force
Naomi Lederer
Reference Librarian/Undergraduate Instruction Specialist
Colorado State University
Morgan Library
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1019
(970) 491-0593V FAX: (970) 491-5817
nlederer@manta.library.colostate.edu
http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/howto.html
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From: "K. Smith-Yoshimura" <BL.KSS@RLG.ORG>
All are invited to attend the RLIN Forum in New Orleans during the
American Library Association mid-winter conference. The final agenda for
the two sessions (one focusing on Z39.50 local system clients and Zephyr,
the other on RLIN ILL) is appended below. No reservations are required.
Questions and comments are encouraged.
For further information contact:
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Member Programs and Initiatives, RLG
phone: 650-691-2270
email: bl.kss@rlg.org
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RLIN FORUM
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1998
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
MARRIOTT, BALCONY K
NEW ORLEANS, LA
AGENDA
9:30 - 10:45 SESSION 1:
Experiences using Z39.50 Local System Clients to Retrieve
Records from the RLIN Database using the RLG Zephyr Service
Discussion Panel:
Overview of Zephyr Configuration Guidelines: Areas where
problems retrieving RLIN records with local system clients
occur
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Manager, Bibliographic Initiatives,
Research Libraries Group
Experiences using SIRSI's Smartport with Zephyr
Philip Schreur, Head, Cataloging Department, Stanford
University
Experiences using Geac's GeoPAC and GeoCAT with Zephyr
Wilma Minty, Head, Catalogue Support Services, Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford
All attendees encouraged to talk about their experiences
with different local system clients, challenges overcome,
and outstanding issues.
10:45-11:00 *** BREAK ***
11:00-12:30 SESSION 2:
RLIN ILL Practitioners Meeting
Dennis Massie, RLG Program Office for SHARES, will facilitate
discussion on issues related to RLIN ILL from ILL users'
perspectives. Possible topics:
Batch updating
RLIN ILL training and documentation
Eureka Request
RLIN ILL "Best Practices"
ISO ILL protocols
RLIN ILL statistics
Regional meetings of RLIN ILL practitioners
Any aspect of the RLG SHARES program
