Over a two-year period, the Getty Information Institute (formerly the Getty Art History Information Program) sponsored and carried out a major study of end-user online searching by humanities scholars. Complete logs of the searches and output were captured, and the twentyseven scholars involved were interviewed in depth. An overview of the study and its results is presented, with particular emp...

95 (*) Work partially supported by the JNICT contract PRAXIS/2/2.2/TIT/1667/ (**) Work supported by the JNICT fellowship PRAXIS XXI/BD/59/68/95 Abstract In this paper we discuss the digital library metaphor and introduce the concept of networked digital library, here defined as a library with the additional mission of stimulating, supporting, disseminating and recording the process of creation ...

Job autonomy is a topic that should be of concern to both library managers and employees because job autonomy may predict job satisfaction and retention. This article describes job autonomy among public and academic librarians using data reported by respondents to the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS 1) Research Project1 survey. The authors extracted a subset of the LI...

Users’ information seeking and their use of information retrieval and digital library technologies do not happen in isolation: they are always embedded in the context of wider activities. These activities motivate their search activity and use of technology, and can vary in enormously in nature and scale. Understanding the relationships between digital libraries and these contextual activities ...

Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) is a hot topic in today’s library world. Driven by stagnant or dwindling library budgets, libraries – at first in the US, and now internationally – have been exploring new ways to offer their patrons – i.e. library users – access to the broadest range of high-quality content for research and teaching. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of academic co...

have benefitted from the addition of concrete examples and more theoretical material. Those chapters provide so little information that they would be of minimal use to a new administrator or to a staff member seeking to understand the political environment of a college campus. Several thought-provoking chapters balance these deficiencies, however. Frank Cervone provides an excellent description...

I feel ambivalent about this book. On the one hand, I think it worthwhile to read Woodward's ruminations, as a seasoned librarian—she was previously a senior library administrator at Wayne State University, then director of the Fremont County Library System in Wyoming. On the other, I frequently found that the pacing and style of this book interfered with its purpose. Nevertheless, I think it v...

With the amount of scientific digital content available online constantly increasing, the community of science has been increasing its efforts towards automatically collecting and organizing such information. This has led to such system architectures as CiteSeer , a digital library and search engine focusing on scientific literature in Computer and Information Science and related fields, the vi...

CASPUR allows many academic Italian institutions located in the CentreSouth of Italy to access more than 7 million of articles through a digital library platform. We analyzed the behaviour of its users by considering their “traces” stored into the web server log file. Using several Web Mining and Data Mining techniques we discovered that there is a gradual and dynamic change in the way how arti...