From Carnegie to Internet2 de P. Michelle Flander

From Carnegie to Internet2: Forging the Serial's Future

P. Michelle Flander

Joseph C. Harmon

Jonathan David Makepeace

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The Internet has been called a revolution, and it is; both in the ways that people and institutions communicate with each other, and in the ways that resources can now be shared. Professionals in the information field share a mandate to enable current and future generations to make use of this technology.

From Carnegie to Internet2: Forging the Serial's Future is derived from proceedings of NASIG's 14th Annual Conference, held in June 1999 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This comprehensive guide to the conference proceedings discusses the powerful impact that the current explosion of information technology has had on librarianship and shares information to help you understand and benefit from these new tools.

From Carnegie to Internet2 begins with a discussion of metadata--how it is created, how it is used and misused, and how to access it through search engines, including current and future access to electronic serials. Next, you'll encounter a proactive process for looking at what's to come for your library in “Scenario Building: Creating Your Library's Future.”

As you proceed through From Carnegie to Internet2 you will find fascinating discussions of:

full-text databases
electronic serials
reliable and unreliable Web sources
the history of librarianship
scholarly publishing by librarians
the evolution of distance education . . . and much more!

The current information and practical insight in From Carnegie to Internet2 will help you improve your technical skills and prepare you and your library for the 21st century!

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Introduction, Preconference Programs, Metadata Preconference, Scenario Building: Creating Your Library's Future, Plenary Sessions, Moving the Network Revolution in Knowledge Management Beyond Random Acts of Progress, Information Ecologies, Shift Happens: Ten Key Trends in Our Profession and Ten Strategies for Success, Issues Sessions, Academic Librarianship and the Redefining Scholarship Project, Elements of Style for Next Generation Serials Electronic Data Interchange, Initial Articles (Peak Project), PEAK Project Overview, Project PEAK: Vanderbilt's Experience with Articles on Demand, E-Business for E-Journals: Article Pay-Per-View, UNIFIED SEARCHING OF LOCALLY MOUNTED AND DISTRIBUTED WEB JOURNALS, The American Physical Society and the TORPEDO Ultra Project, , The U. S. Naval Research Laboratory and the TORPEDO Ultra Project, The Evolution of Distance Learning Environments: Shift Happens, The Evolution of Distance Learning Environments: Shift Happens, Looking Back, Looking Back, One Hundred Percent Communication, One Hundred Percent Communication, . . . And I'll Have That Order with a License on the Side, Please, Vendors and Licenses: Adding Value for Customers, Licensing: A Publisher's Perspective, Subscription Agent and Publisher Initiatives, Breaking the Database Barrier, Searching and Access to Full Content on the Web, or, We've Got Documents and Publications, Now What?, Developing a Web Collection: Selection and Evaluation, Developing a Web Collection: Selection and Evaluation, Academic Issues in E-Journal Selection and Evaluation, Reducing Journal Costs Through Advertising: Exploring the Possibilities, Additive Change: Unobtrusive Advert

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From Carnegie to Internet2 is derived from proceedings of NASIG's 14th Annual Conference, held in June 1999 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Discussing the powerful impact technology has on librarianship, this comprehensive guide examines metadata, scenario building, full-text databases, electronic serials, reliable Web sources, the history of librarianship, scholarly publishing by librarians, the evolution of distance education, and communication among groups and individuals. The current information and practical insight in From Carnegie to Internet2 will help you improve your technical skills and prepare you and your library for the 21st century.