Rethinking Library Linking: Breathing New Life into OpenURL

by Cindi Trainor, Jason Price

Overview

This issue of Library Technology Reports provides practicing librarians with real-world examples and strategies for improving resolver usability and functionality in their own institutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838991336
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	36
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Cindi Trainor is the Coordinator For Library Technology and Data Services at Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, where together with her awesome staff she plans for, implements, maintains and assesses technology in the libraries. She is the former Director of Library/Information Technology for the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges and spent several years at the University of Kentucky Libraries. She is active in LITA and a proud member of the library geek community. She also writes and shoots photos for ALA’s TechSource blog, is a co-author of The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians, and is a photographer whose portraits have appeared in Library Journal, Digitale Bibliotheek and the New York Times

Jason Price is the Collections and Acquisitions Manager at the Claremont Colleges Library. He has a PhD in Plant Evolutionary Ecology from Indiana University Bloomington where he cut his teeth as a teacher and researcher before earning an MLS from IU-SLIS. After spending 10 years as a graduate student, he thoroughly enjoys applying his hard won analytical skills to current library challenges. His role as E-resource Package Analyst/Consultant for the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium provides opportunities to work with publishers, vendors and libraries to improve products and increase pricing equity. He wishes to thank his colleagues on the OpenURL Evaluation team, who collected data for Chapter 3, and especially his family and coauthor for their forbearance throughout this ambitious project.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Part I Today's Landscape Chapter 1 Teenagers and the Library Chapter 2 Information-Retrieval Systems: For Better or for Worse Chapter 3 Information Technology Meets Communication Technology Part II Consequences Chapter 4 The Fallout: Intended and Unintended Consequences Chapter 5 From Mischief to Mayhem: Behavior Chapter 6 The Deep End: Content Part III Next Steps Chapter 7 Fishing Poles, Not Fish: Damage Control Chapter 8 Putting It All Together References Index