INLS 210-89

Day 3

2/7/00

1.One minutes

Big Point

Sharing—putting minds together

Lots of project variance!

Information seeking occurs in context

DLs give opportunity to rethink/revisit foundations of our field

Questions

Can we really offer many video/CD counterparts to books?

How do we balance the “library service” and “learning to seek info” goals? (situation dependent)

How to serve range of users (e.g., expert to novice)?

How will sharium/DLs fit in existing human-interaction models?

How to integrate physical and digital catalogs (and other objects)

How can avoid being elitist in promoting/teaching information seeking skills? (as well as modes/genres)?

How will democratic ideals function in DLs?

How ethical are cascading services (differentiated services)?

Is the sharium a different concept than library?

Will DLs increase the digital divide?

How to encourage sharing in corporate environment (consultants get paid to practice what they know)

Are all DLs teaching libraries?---is the sharium a mega-teaching plan?

What are the mechanisms of contribution to sharium?

2. Finish the Sharium concept

Slides on G drive continued

3.Collection development

Community needs—drive CD policy

Challenges of distributed community

Challenges of new services

Example: user needs assessment at Library of Congress ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/3640html/3640.html

Acquisition

Intellectual property rights

Digitization

ASCII text vs bitmaps (OCR)

Images (see MESL study http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/)

Music

Video

Metadata (bibliographic records)

Preservation and maintenance

4. One-minute paper

What was the main point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?