s and supplementary: http:/eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/links2pdf.htm Practicum http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/Ethno-Sociology-Practicum.pdf George Marshall (1947) spoke of the enormous complexity facing the postwar era that made it “exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisal of the situation.” Bill Gates, echoing Marshall in a Harvard address (2007) six...

ly about the images in terms of types of vocabulary chosen and their ability to articulate levels of meaning for each of the presented images. At the outset of the study, the researcher had only a vague idea of students’ abilities to describe the presented images using words. As a result of this study, it is clearer that the participating students had the capacity to identify various meanings i...

The vision of the Semantic Web (SW) is gradually unfolding and taking shape through a web of linked data, a part of which is built by capturing semantics stored in existing knowledge organization systems (KOS), subject metadata and resource metadata. The content of vast bibliographic collections is currently categorized by some widely used bibliographic classification and we may soon see them b...

WHILECOMPUTERIZATION HAS AFFECTED many library operations, it has had relatively little impact on most humanities work other than to make library collections more accessible within libraries (e.g., the OPAC) and among libraries (interlibrary loan systems). However, recent advances in technology are much more likely to have an immediate impact on arts and humanities work and its relationship wit...

THISPAPER DESCRIBES A general methodology for developing bibliometric performance indicators. Such a description provides a framework or paradigm for application-oriented research in the field of evaluative quantitative science and technology studies, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. It is based on our study of scholarly output in the field of Law at the four major universiti...

Orthography is the linguistic study of written language: elements of text such as letters, punctuation marks and spelling. Information retrieval systems operate in the orthographic realm matching some text strings (i.e., index entries) from documents with other text strings (i.e., query terms) from patrons. During the early history of information retrieval, it has been convenient to assume the ...

IN ORDER TO TEACH HUMANISTS how to search effectively the variety of information technologies available to them, librarians should reassess traditional instruction techniques. Teaching methods must be considered in view of the special characteristics inherent in humanities disciplines, humanities databases, and the humanist’s own attitudes and learning styles. This article analyzes the attitude...

THISPAPER REPORTS O N WORK FROM TWO STUDIES I N PROGRESS related to assessing digital library reference services and developing standards that support such services. The paper suggests that two types of standardsutilization and technical-should be considered together in the costing, statistics, and measures for digital reference services. The digital reference community has the opportunity to e...

A Virtual union catalog is a possible alternative to the centralized database of distributed resources found in many library systems. Such a catalog would not be maintained in a single location but would be created in real time by searching each local campus or affiliate library’s catalog through the Z39.50 protocol. This would eliminate the redundancy of record storage as well as the expense o...

This paper begins to identify and characterize the knowledge used by experienced librarians while searching for subject information in online catalogs. Ten experienced librarians performed the same set of six subject searches in an online catalog. Investigated was the knowledge used to solve retrieval problems. This knowledge represents expertise in the use of the catalog. Data were collected t...