The University of Hong Kong |
D016: School Library Automation Instructor: Mr. K.T. Lam (lblkt@ust.hk) |
Note: Some of the URLs below points to PDF documents. You need to use Acrobat Reader to read it. Since they are photocopies from publications, they are restricted for class uses. You need to obtain a user name and password in order to be able to access these documents.
Text books:
Automating media centers and small libraries: a microcomputer-based approach / Dania Bilal Meghabghab. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1997. [Publisher's Catalog]
Planning for automation : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians /John M. Cohn, Ann L. Kelsey, Keith Michael Fiels. 2nd ed. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1997. [Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction]
Readings:
L. Anne Clyde. "School library automation : is it an option". School libraries in Canada. Vol. 20, No.1. 2000. p.2-4.
"Chapter 23: Technological change". In Human aspects of
library automation / Anne Morris and Hilary Dyer.
2nd. ed. Aldershot, Eng. : Gower, 1998. pp. 297-324. [Table
of Contents of the book]
LibraryHQ.com. "Sample Request for Proposal for a client/server integrated library system". Available: http://www.libraryhq.com/rfp.doc.
Hong Kong Education Department. 香港學校圖書館自動化軟件建議功能參考. 2000. Available: http://cd.ed.gov.hk/lib/tl/libitauto_test.htm.
Elaine Anderson. "The future of library automation for schools". School libraries in Canada. Vol. 20, No. 1. 2000. pp.9-10.
Barry, Jeff. "Closing in on content: automated systems marketplace 2001". Library Journal. 2001 Apr. 1; 126(6):46-58.
International Association of School Librarianship. "School library automation : resources on the Internet". Available: http://www.iasl-slo.org/libaut.html.
Readings:
Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland. "Introduction to metadata : pathways to digital information". Available: http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/.
Visual Resources Association. Metadata. Available: http://www.vraweb.org/metadata.html
Albert P. Calame. "Hitting the MARC: database structure for library automation". School libraries in Canada. Vol. 20, No. 1. 2000.pp.5-6.
Understanding MARC bibliographic: machine-readable cataloging / Betty Furrie. Available: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/.
IFLA. UNIMARC Manual. Available: http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/sec-uni.htm.
ISO 2709 : Information and documentation - format for information exchange. 3rd ed. 1996.
Norm Medeiros. "Liberating online catalog records". OCLC systems & services. Vol. 16, No. 3. 2000. pp.100-101.
K.T. Lam. "Moving from MARC to XML". Available: http://ihome.ust.hk/~lblkt/xml/marc2xml.html.
The ABCs of XML : the librarian's guide to the extensible markup language/ by Norman Desmarais. Houston : New Technology Press, 2000. [Table of Contents, Introduction, Chapter 1, and Appendices]
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative web site. Available: http://dublincore.org/.
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) official web site. Available: http://www.loc.gov/ead/.
Readings:
Joyce Kasman Valenza. "School libraries meet the tornadoes : the transformational impact of school reform and the web". In The evolving virtual library II : practical and philosophical perspectives/ edited by Laverna M. Saunders. Medford, NJ : Information Today, Inc.,1999.
University at Albany Libraries. Internet tutorials. Available: http://library.albany.edu/internet/.
World Wide Web Consortium. "A little history of the World Wide Web". Available: http://www.w3.org/History.html.
Using the World Wide Web and creating home pages : a how to do it manual / Ray E. Metz and Gail Junion-Metz. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.,1996. [Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction]
Walter Minkel. "Web of Deceit". School Library Journal Online. 4/1/2002. Available: http://slj.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA202848&publication=slj
Delivering Web reference services to young people / Walter Minkel and Roxanne Hsu Feldman. Chicago : American Library Association, 1999. Accompany web site: http://www.igloopress.com/webreference/index.html
HKUST Library. "Searching Web Resources Efficiently: Quality Directories and Powerful Search Engines". Available: http://library.ust.hk/serv/lin/effective-web.html
Steven E. Arnold. "Guest editorial : search-and-frustrate : pseudofinding information online 2000". The electronic library. Vol.18, No. 1. 2000. pp. 6-11.
Ann Clyde. "Search engines : an overview". Teacher Librarian. Vol. 27, No. 4. March-April, 2000. pp.22-28. Available: http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/pages/27_4_feature.html.
Bibliofuture : electronic book readers and libraries. Available: http://www.geocities.com/bibliofuture/ebooks/.
Readings:
Digital libraries / William Y. Arms. Cambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press, 2000. [Table of Contents, Preface, and Chapter 1]
Donald J. Walters. "What are Digital Libraries?". CLIR issues, No. 4, July/August 1998 . Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues04.html#dlf.
Creating a virtual library : a how to do it manual for librarians /edited by Frederick Stielow. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.,1999. [Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction]
The evolving virtual library II : practical and philosophical perspectives/ edited by Laverna M. Saunders. Medford, NJ : Information Today, Inc.,1999. [Table of Contents, Preface, and Chapter 1]
Practical digital libraries : books, bytes, and bucks / Michael Lesk. San Francisco, California : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997. [Table of Contents and Preface]
Stephen J. Gilheany. The document management continuum. ArchiveBuilders.com. Seventh Edition, Second Printing. April 2002. Available: http://archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/22922v001p.pdf.
Last update: 4 May 2002