• FAST Project Demo. (Daniel)

• GLBTQ book jackets project. Update (Tom)

• Suggested readings (also to be discussed at the Cat Lib meeting on Thursday):
  
  • Agre, Philip E. Institutional circuitry: thinking about the forms and uses of information.  Information Technology and Libraries 14(4), 1995, pages 225-230 (full text avail. from ProQuest). Youn cited this piece at our last meeting, and in the mean time I've added the citation and a review to our bibliography. I'm hoping all of us will at least have a chance to read this one before tomorrow.
  
  
  • Mark Gentry & R. Kenny Marone. "The Virtual Medical Library: Resources at the Point of Need via a Proxy Server." Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 1:1 (2004): 3-20. (cf: full text) Matthew comments: "This paper provides an overview of issues related to implementing, promoting, and supporting remote access via a proxy server and selected issuesrelating to licensing and managing electronic resources. The particular experiences of the Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library are highlighted." Daniel adds: "this article and the two that follow might be useful to our group for several reasons, most importantly, I suspect, in that the Medical and other STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) libraries are at the vanguard of changes in our profession. Some of what they do is specific to STM, but some also has to do with changes in user behavior to which all of us will need to adapt."
  
  
  • Katie Bauer. Trends in electronic content at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library: 1999-2003." Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 1:4 (2004): 31-43. (cf.: full text). Matthew comments: "The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale School of Medicine has added thousands of electronic journals and many new research databases in the past five years. The library has gathered and analyzed data to measure trends in the use of these online resources. Data show that library patrons are using more research databases than they were five years ago. They make heavy use of electronic journals, although for the largest and most popular package at Yale, the top 17% of journals account for 80% of all use. The link resolver SFX has proven popular as well at CWML, and its use has risen 150% in its first full year of use. Electronic journals can be shown to save library patrons time. In 2003, electronic journals linked through SFX saved Yale researchers, faculty, and students 17,365 hours."
  
  
  • John Gallagher, Katie Bauer and Daniel Dollar. "Evidence-based librarianship: Utilizing data from all available sources to make judicious print cancellation decisions." Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 29:2 (2005): 169-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lcats.2005.04.004. Matthew comments: "As the cost of periodicals continues to rise, libraries must consider the value of titles currently acquired or subscribed to. At Yale University's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (CWML), staff employed an evidence-based librarianship (EBL) approach that combined use data from several disparate sources to make the best decisions regarding the cancellation of specific journals' print format. These best-evidence sources include the following: a 3-month usage study of 1249 current unbound print journals; statistics about 3465 MEDLINE-indexed electronic journals accessed via ExLibris' linking tool SFX; statistics from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Association of Health Sciences Libraries; and various traditional library statistics.
    

POSTPONED

• XML and XSLT demos. Britta and I have been working on this, but we're unsure how much we'll have to show at this point. The intention is to illustrate what it will mean to be operating in an XML-based bibliographic environment: How MARC records can be transformed and integrated with other resources on the Web, what new kinds of metadata (e.g., cover art, social tags, book reviews, etc.) can be added, etc.

 

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