University at Albany: Recent submissions
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Review of The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, ed. by William H. Dutton.
(American Library Association, 2014-02) -
Public or Private? Reconsidering Ownership and Value of State Legislators’ Papers
(Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC), 2013)Unlike congressional and presidential papers collections, which have a rich archival literature in support of their acquisition and management, archivists and researchers frequently overlook and undervalue state legislators’ ... -
Evaluating Teen Services and Programs [Book review]
(2012)This is a book review of Evaluating Teen Services and Programs, by Sarah Flowers. -
Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings [Book review]
(2012)This is a book review of Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings by Vanda Broughton. -
Diffusion of scientific knowledge in agriculture: The case for Africa
(2014-01-22)Diffusion of scientific knowledge in the agriculture sector in Africa, primarily in sub Saharan African (SSA) countries, is dominated by traditional extension service that is slow, linear, hierarchical, and poorly funded. ... -
Assessment Strategies for Cataloging Managers
(2014-01-22)Qualitative assessment activities, when conducted regularly and methodically, can help managers and administrators understand the impact and value of the work that we do for our customers. Are we meeting our customers' ... -
Looking Back, Moving Forward in the Digital Age: A Review of the Collection Management and Development Literature, 2004–8
(American Library Association, 2011-09)The collection and management of digital resources dominated collection development and management literature produced during 2004–8. Themes covered the changing nature of local collections, redefining collection management ... -
Library Catalogs Revisited: An Annotated Bibliography
(2013-12-04)Online Library Catalogs or OPACs are on the move again after years of little to no improvement. Once the subject of a large amount of research, catalogs had taken a back seat to other electronic information services ... -
Technology and its impact on the information environment and society in developing countries
(University of the Punjab, 2012) -
A bibliometric mapping of the structure of STEM education using co-word analysis
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013)STEM, a set of fields that includes science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; allied disciplines ranging from environmental, agricultural, and earth sciences to life science and computer science; and education and ... -
Visualizing and mapping the intellectual structure of information retrieval
(Elsevier, 2012)Information retrieval is a long established subfield of library and information science. Since its inception in the early- to mid -1950s, it has grown as a result, in part, of well-regarded retrieval system evaluation ... -
Benchmarking e-government: A comparison of frameworks for computing e-government index and ranking
(Elsevier, 2011)Countries are often benchmarked and ranked according to economic, human, and technological development. Benchmarking and ranking tools, such as the United Nation's e-Government index (UNDPEPA, 2002), are used by decision ... -
A comparative study of flickr tags and index terms in a general image collection
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010)Web 2.0 and social/collaborative tagging have altered the traditional roles of indexer and user. Traditional indexing tools and systems assume the top-down approach to indexing in which a trained professional is responsible ... -
An analysis of African e-government service websites
(Elsevier, 2010)In most African countries, compared to any other part of the world, the use of information and communication technologies such as those necessary to provide e-Government services is minimal. The continent was once labeled ... -
Mold in the Library: Prevention and Response
(2013-11-19)The risks of mold to collections and people, identifying mold, prevention and and response to mold in libraries are covered in this introductory workshop. -
Collection Management as Risk Management
(Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services, 2004)Risk and technological changes are inexorably linked, and librarians, as experts, must communicate these risks to lay persons and develop appropriate risk management strategies. This paper identifies some of the risks to ... -
Web Citation Availability: Analysis and Implications for Scholarship
(College & Research Libraries, 2003-07)Five hundred citations to Internet resources from articles published in library and information science journals in 1999 and 2000 were profiled and searched on the Web. The majority contained partial bibliographic information ... -
Web Citation Availability: A Follow-up Study
(Library Resources & Technical Services, 2008-01)The researchers report on a study to examine the persistence of Web-based content. In 2002, a sample of 500 citations to Internet resources from articles published in library and information science journals in 1999 and ... -
Helping International Students Succeed Academically through Research Process and Plagiarism Workshops
(College & Research Libraries, 2011)Workshops on the research process and plagiarism were designed to meet the needs of international students at the University at Albany. The research process workshop covered formulating research questions, as well as ... -
Executions in the United States, 1608-2002
(2013-11-13)This collection furnishes data on executions performed under civil authority in the United States between 1608 and 2002. The dataset describes each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which ...
