ENY-ACRL Spring Conference, May 17, 2004
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
This poster presentation will outline the procedures for
setting up server-side includes -- html Web page coding that allows the Web
author to better manage Web sites. Whether building a complete library Web site
or setting up a few pages for personal use, the use of server-side includes can,
for example, allow the author to create a common file for the header of the
pages and have this single file "included" in any number of pages.
Later, if a change needs to be made to the header it only needs to be made once.
Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) Digital Media
Library (DML) is an archive that houses RIT faculty, staff and student scholarly
works and materials related to teaching. The objective of the RIT DML is to
maximize access to RIT scholarship by sharing scholarly documents, theses,
dissertations, projects, and eventually, images, audio and video with the RIT
and global community. A great deal of money and energy is tied to the creation
of digital / non-digitized materials across the RIT campus. The RIT Library's
response to that need was the RIT DML. We envisioned a single search point where
RIT-created digital media (documents, images, audio/video) can be accessed by
RIT faculty & students and beyond. The RIT DML is accessed through the Web
and administered by the Library. Content is controlled by the colleges or by
departments working in conjunction with the Library.
Since its creation in 1818, the New York State Library has been a repository of official State publications of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of New York State government. In June of 1993, the New York State Document Depository Program was recognized in law with the approval of Chapter 176, Laws of 1993. The law stipulates that every state office, department, division, board, bureau, commission or corporation (excluding the New York State Legislature) shall submit to the State Library 30 copies of any final annual, biennial, regular, statutorily mandated or other report, study or multi-year plan issued by a state agency in multiple copies, which has been distributed to the public. Publications have been microfilmed from 1974 through 1994 for both preservation and distribution purposes. Since 1996, the New York State Library has produced digital scanned copies of NYS paper documents as an alternative to microfiche. The New York State Library's digital media management system (Sirsi Hyperion) was unveiled in January 2004. Hyperion allows the harvesting of New York State government documents that are published in PDF format.
The College of Saint Rose recently completed a third print
journal use study. This poster will present data in 2 tables from the print
journal use studies conducted at Saint Rose in 1996, 2000, and 2003. Results in
Table 1 show the decrease in print journal use overall. Data presented in Table
2 show the change in use by each discipline represented at the College of Saint
Rose.
This session will focus on the work of the Digital Advisory Committee (DAC) of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council (SENYLRC). Ronald Patkus, current chair of the committee, will provide an historical overview of the committee and discuss its early planning efforts. He will also offer a description of the current activities and collaboration of institutions involved with www.hudsonvalleyheritage.org. Elaine McConnell, a member of the DAC, will discuss the experience of one institution that has participated in the regional effort, the United States Military Academy at West Point. Elaine will focus on the issues involved in implementing use of ContentDM, an OCLC product used by Hudson Valley Heritage. She will pay special attention to technical issues. The session will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn about an important regional digitization effort and its experiences of collaboration with institutions of higher learning and cultural heritage organizations in the Hudson Valley.
A Poster Session describing the approach and
decision-making process at Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections for three digitized railroad-related archival
collections.
Digitizing archival collections is a hot topic; how to access the materials once
digitized is even hotter. What system is best for what type of digital item?
What decisions are made for digital access to archival materials? Are all
digitized archival materials presented to users in the same way using the same
system? Why might one system be better suited than another for a particular set
of materials? How do archival materials differ from books and why does that
matter when selecting a delivery platform?
Using recent experience at Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, this poster session will address the process of choosing
delivery platforms for three railroad-related archival collections.
Syracuse University Library (SUL) is developing an online tutorial to assist undergraduate students in conducting research and navigating available information resources. The tutorial is based on ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and is organized into six sections relating to phases of the research process. A set of interactive components will also be included such as worksheets for students to record their ideas; interactive games to reinforce information literacy concepts; and quizzes to provide feedback to librarians and faculty on student performance. This poster session will outline the planning and development process for the tutorial project (including use of Library Science interns); present the most current version of the tutorial, and share evaluation results. Plans for integrating the tutorial into classroom and Library instruction will also be discussed.