UF Libraries Journal Club
2008
An informal forum for library faculty and staff to discuss recent library science articles and their own research.

The McDonaldization of academic libraries?

College & Research Libraries
v. 61 no. 3 (May 2000) p. 248-61

Smathers 2010: recruitment and retention challenges and strategies for the future

Article:

Recruiting Non-MLIS Graduate Students to Academic Librarianship

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Geographic Information System application developed for the Egyptian libraries

What is GIS?

What is remote sensing?

President Bush Discusses Importance of Democracy in Middle East

Americans for Democracy in the Middle East

American Embassy In Cairo, Public Affairs Section

Chelsea Dinsmore, Val Davis, Sara Russell Gonzalez, & Carrie Newsom

When Junior Librarians Find Themselves in Charge

Article:

The Crisis and Opportunities in Library Leadership

PDF

Attending the World International Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting

An overview of WIPO

WIPO website

Results of the RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey

Interpretation of the results (13pgs)

Data Supplement (46pgs)

Discussion of the topic: "State-sanctioned Spying: The Legal Framework of the US Intelligence Community."

Article:

THE UNRESOLVED EQUATION OF
ESPIONAGE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

PDF

LC Working Group Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Final Report

Learning from Distance Learners

Article:
"Assessing the library needs and preferences of off-campus students: Surveying distance education students from the Midwest to the West Indies."

PDF

"Problems That Arise When Providing Geographic Coordinate Information for Cataloged Maps"

Coordinates, Series B, No.8

Limitations of the Physicians' Desk Reference 2007

Article

Section 108 of the Copyright Act

"The Section 108 Study Group Report: Executive Summary"

Books Open the World: A Community Libraries Project in Rural Uganda

"Libraries in the Wild"

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"The cost of getting books read in rural Africa: Estimates from a survey of library use in Burkina Faso."

Reference Renaissance

Lance Heidig’s LibGuide and discussion of learning to love Web 2.0, “Becoming Ambient”

Reference Renaissance Conference Plenary Podcast - First speaker, David Lankes.

David Lankes has a long paper on “Participatory Librarianship” for those who would like to read more.

Developing an Online GIS Interface for Topographic Maps

What is GIS?

Geography Matters

For those who would like to read more: What is ArcIMS? and Topographic Maps.

Cultural Heritage Collections: Grants Programs for Fundable Conservation/Preservation Projects

The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections: Introduction and Executive Summary (For more info see: IMLS Connecting to Collections)