[Web4lib] RE: Web4lib Digest, Vol 29,
Issue 19 Can libraries be the source of contamination
Stephen Barnett
Stephen.Barnett at cdu.edu.au
Wed Aug 22 19:52:10 EDT 2007
I already posted an item on this topic on one of my blogs last year:
http://digitaldamage.blogspot.com/2006/11/times-past-or-have-you-washed-
your.html
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:11:23 +0100
From: saleem akhtar<saltar at btinternet.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] CAN LIBRARIES BE SOURCE OF CONTIMINATION?
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Hi collective wisdom
Can libraries become source of contamination? Many people borrow books
from
library and they all have different hygiene levels. For instance they
may
not wash their hands, after nature's call, and with same dirty hands
flip
through library books.
Some people carelessly/intentionally can leave all sorts of dirt or
germs on
library books, do we have or can we think of any safeguard against this
health hazard to library staff and other patrons, who may borrow the
same
books later? Can this be reason why medical professionals don't visit
libraries often?
Further, please read following article written by an ENT specialist on
WEB
MD, which started me thinking on these lines.
http://blogs.webmd.com/all-ears/2006/06/dirty-places-part-3-your-doctors
.htm
l
Please press ctrl and click and not enter key. Or paste the link in your
browser's window.
The doctor concerned in this article recommends avoiding reading
magazines
etc. in doctor's waiting room, because of possible contamination and
hence
advice people to bring their own reading material and toys for children,
etc.
By this standard the libraries should be extinct? This doctor has
counted
"dirty dozen", the dozen dirty places to be careful about for possible
disease catching places. Most of these places are public, why then, he
did
not mention libraries?
What do you think about this article/matter?
Regards
Saleem
Glasgow, Scotland
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:17:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anthony Troncale <atroncale at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Digital Library educational programs at METRO
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I recently organized a series of digital library
educational programs for METRO NY.
You can register for these programs at the METRO site:
www.metro.org
If you have an interest in staging similar programs at
your institution please contact me at:
Anthony Troncale, Digital Library Consulting
140 Seventh Avenue Suite #3C
New York, NY 10011
212-463-7947 office, 646-645-7947 cell
atroncale at yahoo.com
http://home.nyc.rr.com/atron/ATConsulting.html
I want to thank all those instructors and presenters
for their cooperation in agreeing to the below
programs.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Greenstone 1:
Introduction To Greenstone Open Source Digital Library
Software (10:00AM - 1:00PM)
Presented by Ian Witten, professor of Computer Science
at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
This workshop is designed for those who want an
introduction to building a digital library using an
open source software program. The Greenstone Librarian
Interface is designed for end users who may not have
any programming expertise. It allows users to gather
sets of documents, import or assign metadata, build
them into a Greenstone collection, and display it on
their web site. Collections can include text
(including PDFs), pictures, audio and video.
Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with HTML
and the Web, and be aware of representation standards
such as Unicode and Dublin Core.
Registration fees: $75 members; $100 non-members
Thursday, September 20, 2007 Greenstone 2: Advanced
Course On The Greenstone Open Source Digital Library
Software (10:00AM - 4:00PM)
Presented by Ian Witten, professor of Computer Science
at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
This advanced workshop is designed for those who
already have digital collections and metadata ready
for import and wish to move towards implementing a
full open source digital library program. In this
workshop participants will install the software and
perform activities demonstrated in the introductory
course. Then they will work through a series of
practical exercises that involve designing, building,
and customizing collections. The workshop will end
with a brief discussion of the upcoming Greenstone3
product. Prerequisites: Participants are assumed to be
broadly familiar with the basic functionality of the
Greenstone system as described in the introductory
course. Equipment: Windows laptops will be provided.
Participants may bring their own if they wish; the
Greenstone software will be installed as part of the
lab. Participants who prefer to use a Mac or Unix
laptop will have to pre-install Greenstone before
coming to the lab.
Registration fees: $200 members; $250 non-members
Thursday, October 04, 2007 Advanced Digital Capture
Systems And Imaging Techniques, Part I (10:00AM -
4:00PM)
Presented by Peter Siegel, Director of the Cultural
Heritage Division of Digital Transitions, Inc.
This advanced workshop is designed for those who are
familiar with, but want to learn more about, current
digital capture technologies and techniques for making
high-quality, high-resolution digital images. Digital
library administrators, digital librarians,
photographers, and department heads of imaging labs
for museums and cultural institutions will find this
workshop useful.
Topics covered include optical systems (cameras) and
optics, lighting types and techniques, digital color
management (including policies and best practices),
quality control measures, and the interpretation of
targets. The final portion of the session will cover
how to prepare an image for high-quality publication,
including proofing, screen matching and press
matching.
Registration fees for Parts I and II: $200 members;
$250 non-members
Friday, October 05, 2007 Advanced Digital Capture
Systems And Imaging Techniques, Part II (10:00AM -
12:30PM)
Site Visit to Digital Transitions, Inc.
Part II of the course is an on-site visit to the
offices of Digital Transitions, Inc. at 35 West 35th
Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10001.
On the visit participants will get to see
demonstrations of a large array of state-of-the-art
digital capture equipment and lighting systems.
Registration fees for Parts I and II: $200 members;
$250 non-members
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Understanding And
Implementing EAD (10:00AM - 4:00PM)
Presented by Tom Frusciano, University Archivist for
Rutgers University.
This workshop is designed for those who want to learn
the basics of how to develop electronic finding aids
for archival collections. Participants will get an
introduction to the history and development of Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) and will have the
opportunity to create a finding aid using authoring
tools and software. The course will touch upon the
development of the EAD DTD, SGML/XLM vs. HTML, EAD
structure and encoding issues, EAD-XML to HTML using
XSLT and search and retrieval methods.
Registration fees: $150 members; $200 non-members
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Community Forum:
Introduction To OpenCollection (1:00PM - 4:00PM)
Presented by Seth Kaufman, founder of Whirl-i-Gig, and
Megan Forbes, Manager of Collection Information and
Access at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
This presentation is for those who are interested in
collections management systems that are open sourced,
thus freely available for download and implementation.
OpenCollection is the product of collaboration between
the Museum of the Moving Image and Whirl-I-Gig to
produce a full-featured collections management and
access application for museums, photo and moving-image
archives and digital collections. It is designed to
handle large, heterogeneous collections that have
complex cataloguing requirements and require support
for a range of metadata and media formats.
Unlike other collections management applications, Open
Collection is a true web-application. All cataloging,
search and administrative functions are accessible via
the Internet using common web-browser software, making
cataloguing by distributed teams and online access to
collections information simple, efficient and
inexpensive.
Support for the development of Open Collection has
been provided by the Institute of Museum and Library
Services and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Registration fees: $10 member & nonmembers
Friday, November 09, 2007 Digital Imaging For
Libraries: Capture, Analysis And Quality Control
(10:00AM - 4:00PM)
Presented by Ray Murray, the Digital Conversion
Specialist at the Library of Congress.
Participants will be provided with an overview of how
to determine what digital capture and conversion
requirements are necessary and then be shown how to
best describe proper capture specifications in a
Request for Proposals or to instruct in-house scanning
technicians on how to proceed.
Participants will have a walk through on how to
analyze and review digital images produced by vendors
or by in-house staff using specific examples. The use
of targets for determining tonal distribution, color
accuracy, resolution and noise levels will be
discussed. Other areas covered will be creating and
managing administrative metadata, proper documentation
of the conversion process, and establishment of a
quality control workflow.
Registration fees: $150 members; $200 non-members
Wednesday, November 14, 2007Basic Color Management In
Practice: Calibration, Configuration And Control
(10:00AM - 4:00PM)
Presented by Michael Bevans, partner and digital image
software developer for Tribeca Imaging Labs, Inc., New
York.
The emphasis in this course will be on basic color
management of computer and imaging equipment. The
principles of color and color space in a digital
environment will be discussed. Software used for
calibrating and creating profiles for monitors and
scanners will be demonstrated. Scanning targets for
capture accuracy and evaluation will be displayed and
discussed. Putting color management to practice will
follow, including imbedding color profiles, white
point and color temperature settings. Ambient light
levels and other environmental workspace factors
related to ISO 3664:2000 will be detailed so that
participants may judge and color accuracy of image
files by matching them with the original materials.
Registration fees: $150 members; $200 non-members
Friday, December 07, 2007 Teaching And Learning With
Digital Images (10:00AM - 4:00PM)
Presented by Elisa Lanzi, Director of the Imaging
Center at Smith College.
This workshop offers an opportunity for participants
to examine issues and practices surrounding digital
image use in teaching and learning. Focus will be on
the pedagogical application of images in humanities
teaching at colleges and universities. Issues related
to image services for patrons, collaboration among
disciplines and administrative units, and copyright
will also be discussed. The workshop will include
real-life examples, presentations, exercises, and
moderated group discussions.
Registration fees: $150 members; $200 non-members
Anthony Troncale, Digital Library Consulting
140 Seventh Avenue Suite #3C
New York, NY 10011
212-463-7947 office, 646-645-7947 cell
atroncale at yahoo.com
http://home.nyc.rr.com/atron/ATConsulting.html
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:14:23 -0700
From: "Walt Crawford" <waltcrawford at gmail.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Cites & Insights 7:10 available
To: publib at webjunction.org, web4lib at webjunction.org, "Michelle
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<michelle.manafy at infotoday.com>, PACS-L
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Cites & Insights 7:10, September 2007, is now available for downloading
at http://citesandinsights.info/civ7i10.pdf
The 26-page issue, PDF as usual with most essays also available in HTML
form from http://citesandinsights.info/, includes:
* Bibs & Blather - A new book is on its way, Public Library Blogs: 252
examples.
* Making it Work - Successes and failures in changing libraries
* Following Up and Feedback - Extending the conversation for eight or
nine previous essays, including substantial new sections adding to "On
the Literature" and "On Authority, Worth and Linkbaiting."
* Net Media: Wikipedia and Other Wiki Notes
* Trends & Quick Takes - Four trends (including notes on Second Life)
and seven quicker takes
* Interesting & Peculiar Products - Two products and seven editors'
choice/roundup notes.
* My Back Pages - six mini-rants.
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