The article examines the influence of More Products, Less Process (MPLP) on digitization practices and discusses how a major digitization project involving the John Muir Papers had decision making that reflects elements of the MPLP philosophy. It further analyzes how the minimalist metadara practices supported by MPLP require careful implementation with the context of evolving user expectations for locating information on the Web. It cites the relevance of MPLP to digitization in making user access paramount, embracing flexibility and expending greatest effort on the most deserving materials. It notes how the Muir Papers project shows how different series in the same collection can legitimately merit differing levels of image capture and description.
The article offers various library activities to create physical learning environments. It suggests several paper activities including paper money printing, dead bug collection and paper toys and presents a list of early literacy toys, and math and science toys and resources. The article also enumerates toys that should be available in the library environment, including puppets, puzzles, magnetic letters, abacus and child-safe musical instruments and discusses issues in choosing toys such as picking items that can sustain sanitizing and considering rotating the toy collection.
Investigates paper consumption and recycling in law libraries in the United States. Percentage of large law libraries that are throwing away their paper wastes; Lack of mandatory recycling programs in states; First step towards participation in a paper recycling program.
The article reviews the book "From the Hand to the Machine - Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation," by Cathleen A. Baker.
Reports on the International Organization for Standardization's reapproval of ISO 9706 standard for permanent paper. Countries that voted for the standard's reapproval; Research on lignin in paper; Criteria for folding endurance; Information resources.
Discusses the presence of a minute amount of radioactivity in the paper used in books and journals. Presence of radium-226, thorium-232, potassium-40, cesium-137 and other radionuclides in journals made of high-quality paper; Difference in radioactivity due to difference in type of pulp, the production processes and the additives used.
*COLLECTIONS, *ACADEMIC libraries, *MOTION picture film collections, *PAPER, *UNIVERSITY & college alumni
Abstract
The article offers news briefs on collections given to university libraries in the U.S. Broadcast executive Bill Brothers has given his collection of 20th-century films to the University of Florida at Gainesville's Smathers Libraries. The University of California at Berkeley has announced that its Bancroft Library will be receiving more than 450 boxes of papers spanning the 30-year public service career of Berkeley alumnus Robert Matsui, who served in the U.S. Congress.
Published
2007
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