1991 IATUL Proceedings Copyright (c) 2013 Purdue University All rights reserved. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers Recent Events in 1991 IATUL Proceedings en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 19:54:21 PDT 3600 Implementation of Information Technologies in the School of Technology and Information Management: A Case Study http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/34 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/34 Daryl C. Youngman A Microcomputer Based Current Awareness Service http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/33 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/33 In November 1989, the University of Toronto Library introduced ScanDoc which links a PC-based current awareness and a document delivery service. Current Contents on Diskette is used to scan the current literature; locally developed programs are used to print current awareness notification slips; and the Library's document delivery service provides requested items. The current awareness service is offered to the University's facu1ty and research staff without charge while the document delivery service is provided on a cost-recovery basis. This paper describes the institutional setting, the way in which the service is operated, and the impact that the service has had on its users and on the Library.

]]> Marshall Clinton Connecting to the Future at MIT: The Effects of ISDN on Remote Online Searching http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/32 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/32 Susan N. Bjørner et al. Coordinated Collection Development Issues and Efforts: Utilizing Technologies to Provide Information Services http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/31 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/31 Julia Gelfand Windowing the Past: A Seventeenth Century Technological Archive and Its Electronic Exploitation http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/30 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/30 The management of manuscript collections - unique, irreplaceable, fragile - has historically struggled to reconcile preservation with access. Academic librarians know only too well the uneasy negotiation between the conflicting imperatives of security and availability, conservation and use, which comes to define a level of public service in this area.

It is therefore not surprising that here, as elsewhere, the potential of new electronic media is increasingly a matter for investigation. Manuscripts transcribed, keyboarded or scanned into microcomputer systems become "virtual" manuscripts, no longer unique or fragile, potentially unlimited as to time, place, frequency and volume of use, retrievable through a multiplicity of access points, manipulable into sets or views for specific research or teaching purposes.

This paper chronicles one such process of investigation and experiment, Sheffield University's Hartlib Papers Project, which has been set up to test the outcomes of the application of the latest in information technology to a collection of some 25,000 manuscript sheets.

]]> Alasdair Paterson Avenue: A Multimedia Development Project at Dartmouth College http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/29 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/29 Mark Franklin et al. Evolution and Revolution http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/28 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/28 Mara Pinckard Information Technology and Communication Function: A Challenge for Behavior http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/27 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/27 Mario A. Farias The Global Village Come True: High-Tech Information Network in High Energy Physics http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/26 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/26 In times of fast development, actors in the center of events have a distinctive advantage. Effective participation requires current knowledge of what is going on ("the right information in the right form at the right time"), reliable channels of feedback, and visibility. The idea of a "global village", when introduced in the sociology of communication some decades back, expresses the confidence in modern communications and computing technology to overcome the obstacle of distance and time delays. This, as we all know, is an oversimplification: the complexities of human communication cannot be reduced to signals and processes in cables and computers. Yet, there are areas, for example in well-defined scientific areas with coherent research communities and a "lingua franca", where access to, and dissemination of current information makes global participation possible. It is in this sense that recent developments in information services in High Energy Physics (HEP) make the label of a "global village" justified by covering the entire research community, including groups in the Third World. The solutions found may prove to be relevant to many other areas as a pilot study.

]]> Ann-Sofi Israelsson et al. Tailored Information Please . . . On the Spot! http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/25 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1991/papers/25 Leo Waaijers