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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Yesterday, we announced the establishment of the first DLIST Advisory Board and our open aggregator service DL-Harvest.  You can read the complete details at DLIST Recent News. comment []9:18:14 PM

Sunday, May 22, 2005

A few days ago, I read You've got email but who's got the rules? in the LA Times.  I thought it was a great article highlighting as it did some of the trends and etiquette of email communication. I wanted to post it here, but today I couldn't find it using the LA Times search. I was able to find it using Google however!  Surprise. You can now read it without registering with the LA Times on AZCentral and on the Depraved Librarian's blog (but you'll have to do that free registration with the Times first).  Read the article for yourself to see into which category you fall. Do you check your email once a day or several times a day? Do you reply right away, every day, or do you reply less often?  Maybe you are like some others - who never reply :).  Do you use a Blackberry?  Do you avoid cell phones with email messaging capabilities? comment []8:44:32 PM

Monday, May 16, 2005

In April DLIST welcomed the Learning Technologies Center as our hosting partner.  Thanks to the Arizona Health Sciences Library, especially Paul Bracke, for hosting  DLIST almost since inception and welcome to the LTC. This move has prompted me to look into the whole issue of digital preservation much, much more closely.  RLG's 1998 study by Margaret Hedstrom and Sheon Montgomory is, of course, a classic, by now.  By this I mean Digital Presevation:  Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions.  Hedstrom's Digital Preservation Research Agenda is also worth a read (although in her conclusion here about SDSC as a testbed and the importance of testbeds in connecting developers to collection managers, Hedstrom forgets other important groups such as evaluators and end users)  as is the widely available talk, Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries.  Important challenges include the life-long support and almost constant maintenance of digital objects.  The bibliography I liked best (although dated) is from the National Library of Australia - PADI, Preserving Access to Digital Information.  comment []6:30:58 PM

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