CS 6210 - Special Topics
in CS: Digital Libraries and
Computing for the Humanities
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A Crash Course in
Library and Info Science |
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Module 1 Min-Yen KAN |
Thoughts from last time
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Differences between the digital library
and the physical library |
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Database? |
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WWW? |
The Memex
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What issues did Bush bring up in the
excerpt read last week? |
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Access |
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Annotation |
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Changes in curriculum
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20-minute student paper presentations
to feature in the last three classes. |
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Should focus on papers in your survey. |
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Surveys are individual; but
presentations will be by group. |
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10% of your final grade, the balance
coming from your final project grade
(from 50% à 40%). |
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Balloting will be done for survey and
presentation to ensure balanced subjects |
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Your suggestions to improve this
procedure more than welcome! |
Outline
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Today: |
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A brief history of libraries |
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Raganathan’s Laws |
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The Information Seeking Process |
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Reference Interviews |
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Discussion on article |
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Next week: |
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Library Evaluation |
The Library of Nineveh
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Collection of over 1500 clay tablets |
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Had a standardized writing script,
oven-baking process and tablet-making procedures. |
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Subjects: |
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Mostly
supernatural |
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Records of
King’s deeds |
The Libraries of
Alexandria
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Perhaps about 600,000 books |
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___________ |
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Translated pagan works |
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Collection building |
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Most famous for its (gradual)
destruction |
Aspects of ancient
libraries
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Record knowledge, but also |
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Enhance prestige |
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Class distinction |
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Archiving / Preservation |
Library of Congress
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For lawmaker’s
reference, but
also for the public |
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Some history: |
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Burned once by
the British in 1814 |
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Bought Pres. Jefferson’s 6k+ collection
as starting collection |
Library of Congress
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_______ gave the LoC a copy of each
book published |
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Also forced the LoC to develop the MARC
standard for interchange |
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120 M items, including |
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18 M books |
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39 M manuscripts |
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13 M photographs |
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4 M maps |
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.5 M pieces of music |
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.5 M motion pictures |
New York Public Library
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4 Research libraries |
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42 M items |
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2 M users |
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2 M items
accessed/year |
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85 Branch libraries |
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10 M items |
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12 M users |
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12 M items circulated |
New York Public Library
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118 M USD for research libraries |
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134 M USD for branch libraries |
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Organizational Structure |
National Library Board
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Established in 1996 from the National
Library |
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7.6 M items; 6.4 M books |
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~28 M loans |
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27 M library visitors by 2 M users |
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Structure: |
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National Library |
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2 Regional Libraries |
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18 Community Libraries |
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43 Community Children’s Libraries |
Aspects of the modern
library
Objectives of the Library
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Ranganathan (1957) |
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Books are for use |
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Every reader his book |
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Every book its reader |
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Save time of the reader |
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The library is a growing organism |
Break time – Yay!
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When we come back: |
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Did you read the required article? |
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Information Seeking |
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Reference Interviews |
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Discussion on article:
The Earth’s Largest Library |
The Earth’s Largest
Library
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Amazon’s trick in cataloguing |
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User Interface Issues |
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Patron centered UI |
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Properties of the problem different
from Amazon |
References
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Annotated Selected Bibliography of
Full-Text Web-Based Articles Relating to Library Instruction http://library.morrisville.edu/sunyla/lic/fulltext.html |
Next time
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Finish up LIS and we’ll move onto
Fundamentals of Information Retrieval. |
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Pick a topic for your survey paper by
next class. See the course website for
details. |
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Readings: |
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Buckland, Michael (92) Redesigning
Library Services: A Manifesto. |
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Supplemental: Nardi, Bonnie A. (99) Librarians:
A Keystone Species, In Information Ecologies, MIT Press. RBR. |
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Supplemental: Bush, Vannevar (45) As we
may think. The Atlantic Monthly. |