INLS 210-89

Day 4

2/14/00

1.One minutes

Big Point

Problem solving and reference areas need lots of R&D in DLs

Importance of quality control and filtering for info services

Intellectual property concepts vary across cultures

Questions

How does “assessing effort put into a question” before access to a reference librarian impact the “democratization” of the Internet?

People are impatient, how can we make them use FAQs and other services?

Are there ways that physical libs can augment DLs in new ways?

Who will lead DLs? (univ, business, gov)?

What are the practical ways people can contribute to a sharium?

What is status of digital watermarks for rights protection?

Can people do self-rating? Will they state personal biases?

Would DLs be more successful if they focused on specific info sectors? (special vs general libs)

What are the by-products of information seeking (e.g., making seeking easier next time)?

What are the business analogs—e.g., mobile repair docs

2.

3.Finish Collection development discussion

Digitization

ASCII text vs bitmaps (OCR)

Compare UIUC DL for engineering articles using SGML and PDF display options to JSTORE using HTML display but PDF, postscript, or HTML for printing for older humanities and social science articles, also compare to e-reserves here at UNC. (look at the options at UNC libraries)

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

Music

Video

Metadata (bibliographic records)

Preservation and maintenance

4. Multimedia. Discuss Informedia project. The integration of multiple techniques and approaches is an innovation in this project.

Discuss multimedia, including compression basics (PP slides)

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?