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Second Edition
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Editorial Advisory Board
Marcia Bates Lisa Hinchliffe
Department of Information Studies, University of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana,
California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Illinois, U.S.A.
John C. Bertot Karen Holloway
SchoolofInformationStudies,FloridaStateUniversity, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.
Glen E. Holt
Michael Buckland St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
School of Information Management & Systems,
University of California, Berkeley, California, Mary Lee Kennedy
U.S.A. The Kennedy Group, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Suzanne H. Calpestri Allen Kent
The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, Allen Kent Associates, St. Petersburg, Florida;
University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Retired, School of Information Sciences,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Nancy M. Cline U.S.A.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Thomas Krichel
Sheila Creth Palmer School of Library and Information Science,
Progressive Solutions, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York,
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Vic Elliott M. S. Vijay Kumar
Division of Information, The Australian National Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
University, Canberra, Australia Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A. Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico
Mart´ın Go´mez Lucy B. Lettis
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, Marsh & McLennon, New York, New York, U.S.A.
New York, U.S.A.
Maurice B. Line
Nancy E. Gwinn Consultant, Harrogate, U.K.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.,
U.S.A. Clifford Lynch
Coalition for Networked Information,
Charles Henry Washington, D.C.; University of California,
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Consultant, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. School of Informatics, University at Buffalo,
State University of New York, Buffalo, New York,
James Matarazzo U.S.A.
School of Library and Information Science,
Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Neils Ole Pors
Department of Library and Information Management,
C. Allen Nichols Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Wadsworth Public Library, Wadsworth, Ohio, U.S.A. Copenhagen, Denmark
Cathy Norton Paul Sturges
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Department of Information Science, Loughborough
Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, University, Leicestershire, U.K.
U.S.A.
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Contributors
Richard Abel = Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Grace Agnew = Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Pam Baker = California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, U.S.A.
Susan Beatty = University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Robert L. Becker = Wolters Kluwer, Riverwoods, Illinois, U.S.A.
Pieter Boeder = Communications Consultant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amy E. Brand = CrossRef, Lynnfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Joseph Branin = Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
Bonnie C. Carroll = Information International Associates, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Ye-Sho Chen = Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Edward Colleran = Copyright Clearance Center, Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Mike Crump = The British Library, London, U.K.
Anthony Debons = University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Ruth Dickstein = University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Amy Driscoll = California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, U.S.A.
Ulla Ehrensva¨rd = National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Frederick J. Friend = University College London, London, U.K.
Carla J. Funk = Medical Library Association, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Emily Gallup Fayen = MuseGlobal, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Edward D. Garten = University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.
Frances Groen = McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Kevin M. Guthrie = JSTOR, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Birger Neal Hjørland = Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gail Hodge = Information International Associates, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Darren Hoerner = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Bettina Hohn = University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Kimio Hosono = Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Kelly Barrick Hovendick = Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
David J. Ives = NELINET, Inc., Southborough, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Sylvia James = Sylvia James Consultancy, Sussex, U.K.
Kathryn R. Johnson = Information International Associates, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Sophia K. Jordan = Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Corinne Jo¨rgensen = Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.
Amy M. Kautzman = University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
R. David Lankes = Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Mayre Lehtila¨-Olsson = National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Tomas Lidman = National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Timothy Mark = University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Robert F. Nawrocki = Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
William Neal Nelson = Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Kjell Nilsson = National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Norman Paskin = International DOI Foundation, Oxford, U.K.
Lisa Pillow = University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Jonathan Purday = The British Library, Baston Spa, U.K.
Folke Sandgren = National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Reijo Savolainen = University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Lyudmila Shpilevaya = The New York Public Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz = The New York Public Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Janet L. Steins = Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Frederick W. Stoss = University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
Gary E. Strong = The Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York, U.S.A.
Laura Tull = Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
Konrad Umlauf = Humboldt-Universita¨t zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sirje Virkus = Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K.
Timothy Walch = National Archives and Records Administration, West Branch, Iowa, U.S.A.
Jenny Walker = Ex Libris Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Darlene Warren = University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Peggy White = University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Alicia Wise = Publishers Licensing Society, London, U.K.
Liavon Yurevich = The New York Public Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Academic Libraries in Canada = Frances Groen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Academic Libraries in Eastern Europe = Sirje Virkus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Academic Libraries in Japan = Kimio Hosono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Acidic Papers and Preservation Strategies = Sophia K. Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
African American Studies Databases = Lisa Pillow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anthropology Libraries = Janet L. Steins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Book and Journal Publishing = Richard Abel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
The British Library = Jonathan Purday and Mike Crump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Canadian Association of Research Libraries = Timothy Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
CENDI = Bonnie C. Carroll, Kathryn R. Johnson, and Gail Hodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Consortia, Library Buying = Frederick J. Friend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Copyright Clearance Center = Edward Colleran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
CrossRef = Amy E. Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Digital Object Identifier (DOI(cid:1)) = Norman Paskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Digital Reference = R. David Lankes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Domain Analysis in Information Science = Birger Hjørland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Electronic Records Management = Robert F. Nawrocki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Environmental Information = Frederick W. Stoss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Everyday Life Information Seeking = Reijo Savolainen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Firewalls = David J. Ives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Fundraising on the Internet: On-Line Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations =
Pieter Boeder and Bettina Hohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
German Academic Libraries = Konrad Umlauf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Herbert Hoover Library = Timothy Walch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Information Commons = Peggy White, Susan Beatty, and
Darlene Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Information Counseling = Anthony Debons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Information Productivity = Ye-Sho Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Institutional Repositories = Joseph Branin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Integrated Library Systems = Emily Gallup Fayen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
The Internet and Public Library Use = Corinne Jo¨rgensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Joint Information Systems Committee = Alicia Wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
JSTOR = Kevin M. Guthrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Libraries in Belarus = Liavon M. Yurevich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Libraries in Ukraine = Lyudmila Shpilevaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Library Standards in Higher Education: An Overview = William Neal Nelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Medical Library Association = Carla J. Funk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
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National Library of Sweden: History of the Royal Library = Tomas Lidman,
Ulla Ehrensva¨rd, Folke Sandgren, Mayre Lehtila¨-Olsson, and
Kjell Nilsson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Polish Libraries = Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Public Libraries, Public Access Computing, and the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation = Darren Hoerner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
The Queens Borough Public Library = Gary E. Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
SFX = Jenny Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Special Libraries in the UK = Sylvia James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Student Outcomes Assessment = Amy Driscoll and Pamela Baker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Trends in Legal Publishing = Robert Becker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Undergraduate Library Collections = Amy M. Kautzman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Unicode = Laura Tull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Video on Demand—The Prospect and Promise for Libraries =
Grace Agnew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Virtual Libraries and Distance Learning in the United States = Edward D. Garten . . . . . . . . . . 404
Women’s Studies Databases = Ruth Dickstein and Kelly Barrick Hovendick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
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