Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 70.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:30:07 +0100
From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: June D-Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
June 19, 2000
June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine available
<http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06contents.html
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
MAIN STORIES:
* "Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content: Establishing a Virtual
Control Zone," by Sandra Payette and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
* "Lessons Learned: Digitization of Special Collections at The University
of Iowa Libraries," by Carol Ann Hughes, Questia Media, Inc. (Formerly,
University of Iowa)
* "Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative
Digital Reference Service (CDRS)," by Diane Nester Kresh, Library of Congress
BOOK REVIEW:
* Usable Information Designs: A review of two recent books:
-- "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity," by Jakob Nielson,
New Riders Publishing: 2000; and
-- "Information Design", edited by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999.
By Jeremy Hylton: "...both books suggest that the measure of a design's
quality should be its effect on user behavior and satisfaction and that the
only way to achieve that quality is to do real tests with real people
during the design process."
IN-BRIEF ITEMS include:
"Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital"
Norbert Lossau, State- und University Library Goettingen
"Cooperation between the British Library and UK Universities"
Alicia Wise, Old Library, Kings College London
"New Open Access Resources from Bartleby.com"
Megan Schade, Bartleby.com
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>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:04:09 -0400
>From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson@cnri.reston.va.us>
>To: Dlib-subscribers@dlib.org
>>available.
>
>Greetings:
>
>The June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine
><http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ is now
>available. The table of contents is at
><http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/j
>une00/06contents.html. This month's issue
>features three stories, nine 'In Brief' items, and a generous selection
>of 'Clips and Pointers'. In addition, Jeremy Hylton, software architect
>at the new company BeOpen PythonLabs, has provided a review of two
>recent books on information design: Designing Web Usability: The
>Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielson, New Riders Publishing: 2000;
>and Information Design, edited by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999. The
>Featured Collection for the June issue is MEDLINEplus.
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>The stories in the June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine are:
>
>Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content: Establishing a Virtual
>Control Zone
>Sandra Payette and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
>
>Lessons Learned: Digitization of Special Collections at The University
>of Iowa Libraries
>Carol Ann Hughes, Questia Media, Inc. (Formerly, University of Iowa)
>
>Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative
>Digital Reference Service (CDRS)
>Diane Nester Kresh, Library of Congress
>
>The 'In Brief' items are:
>
>Report on the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 Conference
>Pamela Memmott, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
>
>Open Archives Initiative
>Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
>
>First ACM/IEEE CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Announced
>Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
>
>Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital
>Norbert Lossau, State- und University Library Goettingen
>
>Cooperation between the British Library and UK
>Universities
>Alicia Wise, Old Library, Kings College London
>
>A National Union Catalogue for the UK?
>Peter Stubley, University of Sheffield
>
>OED Online for FE and HE Institutions
>Susanna Lob, Oxford University Press
>
>New Open Access Resources from Bartleby.com
>Megan Schade, Bartleby.com
>
>Naval Research Laboratory Press Release
>Public Affairs Branch, Naval Research Laboratory
>
>Bonnie Wilson
>Managing Editor
>D-Lib Magazine
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