September 2006
The information world has gone through tremendous changes in the past decade and is continuing to change at a rapid pace. Long established boundaries and definitions have shifted as organizations of all types take on new roles in the development, delivery, dissemination, and retention of information. Organizations are interacting to find solutions—particularly in the area of standards—in new ways and in new partnerships. One such partnership between DLF and OCLC is highlighted below. Like so many others, NISO is shifting with these environmental changes. Over the past several years, much of the groundwork for a transition at NISO has been laid, through the work of the Blue Ribbon Commission, the Board of Directors, and the many volunteers who participate on various committees.
This month provides a number of stories relating to NISO initiatives and activities that draw out this point. The story on implementation of ERMS systems, “Findability Enabled”, highlights an important technology many libraries are implementing to enhance information discoverability. It also touches on the critical role that standards play in making these systems functional. Along these same lines, NISO will be hosting several educational opportunities this fall. This November 2-3, a seminar in Washington, DC will cover discovery and delivery that addresses these very issues.
NISO will also host the Managing Electronic Collections seminar, which will be held in Denver from September 28–30. Many of the industry’s thought leaders will come together to discuss key aspects of digital library collections, including gathering and analyzing usage statistics, managing rights and licenses information, tracking article versions, and structuring repositories.
In the coming months, I look forward to working with you and other members of the community to build on the frame that has been outlined. We will be undertaking many new initiatives that will realign NISO to this new environment and I encourage all of you—both NISO’s current members and those of you who are not yet members of NISO—to engage in this transition process. Hopefully, I will see many of you at the upcoming seminars or at other events this fall.
Todd Carpenter, Managing Director
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NISO Reports |
"NISO Board Appoints Todd Carpenter to Lead Organization" |
"New Edition of Metasearch XML Gateway Guide Published" |
"Web Services & Practices WG Recommends Best Practices" |
"Special Session and New Experts Added to Managing Electronic Collections Workshop" |
"Registration Now Open for Discovery to Delivery Workshop; Followed by NISO Annual Meeting" |
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Specs and Standards |
"ISO/IEC 13250-2:2006, Information technology – Topic Maps – Part 2: Data model" |
"Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Identifier (Public comment on proposed changes)" |
"DCMI Type Vocabulary Identifier (Final changes)" |
"IMS Global Learning Consortium, IMS Meta-data Best Practice Guide for IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata , Version 1.3 Final Specification" |
"World Wide Web Consortium, New Editions of Four Core XML Standards" |
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Media Stories |
"Findability Enabled" |
"Building a Distributed, Standards-Based Repository Federation" |
"DLF and OCLC Launch Registry of Digital Masters Public Interface" |
"Moving Towards Shareable Metadata" |
"The Semantic Logger: Supporting Service Building From Personal Context" |
"Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from the Past" |
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NISO Reports
- "NISO Board Appoints Todd Carpenter to Lead Organization"
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced that Todd Carpenter will take over as Managing Director, effective September 1, 2006. Carpenter steps into NISO's leadership position at a time when the Board of Directors has begun implementing a strategic plan designed to improve constituency relationships, standards development, and operational procedures.
"NISO's new strategic plan calls for a new leader with a deep understanding of our members' needs as well as their existing practices and priorities," said Carl Grant, President and COO of VTLS and NISO's Board Chair. "We believe Todd has the acumen we need and the vision to ensure that NISO's contributions to the NISO community remain valuable."
Leadership in collaborative initiatives and partnerships among libraries and publishers has been a key aspect of Carpenter's career. As Director of Business Development with BioOne, a not-for-profit online journal aggregator, he has served the goals of both constituencies by enhancing the products, services and distribution that BioOne provides to participant publishers and subscribers. Among Carpenter's successes at BioOne was the development and execution of a multi-faceted business model realignment, which balances library fiscal constraints with publisher's revenue needs as institutions transition from print to electronic subscription models.
Previously, Carpenter was at the Johns Hopkins University Press, where he directed the marketing of their 60 academic journals and was closely involved in the growth of Project MUSE, JHUP's online aggregation of humanities and social science journals. He also held marketing and business development positions at the Energy Intelligence Group, a news service covering the oil and natural gas industries, and the Haworth Press, an academic and professional publisher. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, earned a masters degree in marketing from The Johns Hopkins University, and is an active member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
"This is an incredible opportunity at a key juncture in NISO's evolution," said Carpenter. "Standards development is the single best example of where cooperation serves the interests of the library, publishers, and technical-provider communities. I am excited about implementing NISO's strategic plan, which is focused on improving the efficiency of information standards development, expanding the scope of NISO's services, and enhancing involvement of each of NISO's key constituencies."
- "New Edition of Metasearch XML Gateway Guide Published"
An updated edition of the NISO Metasearch XML Gateway (MXG) Implementers Guide was published in August. The previous edition focused on the nuts and bolts of the MXG protocol. The new edition adds key information needed by implementers on prerequisites and decision points and further explains the three levels of implementation.
The NISO Metasearch XML Gateway (MXG) is a low-barrier-to-entry method to expose content to metasearch services and more effectively interoperate with metasearching applications. The MXG protocol defines a simple message and response which allows a metasearch service to query a content database and receive a standardized XML response.
The MXG Implementers Guide is primarily directed to Content Providers who wish to expose their resources to one or more metasearch providers without expending substantial development resources. Metasearch Providers who will be using a Content Provider's MXG to access resources will also find this guide useful.
Visit the Metasearch Initiative webpage for this guide and other related Metasearch recommended practices.
- "Web Services & Practices WG Recommends Best Practices"
The NISO Web Services and Practices working group has completed their charge with the issuance of NISO RP 2006-01, Best Practices for Designing Web Services in the Library Context.
Included in this document is a discussion of the document service interface, looking at four model types: information model, behavior model, action model and process model. Best practices are explained in the areas of HTTP caching, filtering of user input, reuse of output formats, security, and throttling. Typical output formats used in web services—DTD, XML schema, RDF, Relax NG, and DSD—are described.
An appendix provides an overview, for those new to web services, of the typical types of services used in a library context: discover, locate, request, deliver, and common services. The appendix also includes a brief introduction to interoperability issues.
With the issuance of this Recommended Practice, the Web Services and Practices working group will be disbanding. They have determined that while there are future opportunities for standards efforts in web services for library applications, the current landscape is still too early in its development to narrow the focus. Areas the group highlighted to watch for developments are the e-learning environment or the connection infrastructure area (such as how to discover existing services and how to connect services to servers and to each other).
There was a strong consensus in the group that NISO would benefit from working with existing efforts (such as the UK-based e-learning effort) and also for using the NISO vantage point in the standards world to identify areas where a broader set of standards might bring wider usage and constituency.
Visit the committee webpage for a summary of the WG's work, a list of members, and related references.
- "Special Session and New Experts Added to Managing Electronic Collections Workshop"
There's still time to register for NISO's Managing Electronic Collections workshop to be held September 28-30 in Denver, Colorado.
Newly added sessions:
- Herbert Van de Sompel will share research that can help you use item level usage information to build better collections and improve your recommender systems-and that can help us all assess the relative value of scholarly research.
- Marshall Breeding will help you understand how technology is reshaping the way your users find, access, use and even create information. He will also help you understand how you need to think about shaping your collections in response to these changes.
- Peter McCracken, Co-founder and Director of Electronic Content Management of Serials Solutions can help you understand the lifecycle of today's journal article and how this impacts the use of your publications or collections.
- Find out what you can learn about making your publications or collections visible on the Web from OCLC's Open WorldCat experience from Mike Teets, Vice President, OCLC Global Product Architecture.
Members of PALINET, BCR, and Amigos, the co-sponsors, can register at the NISO member rate.
Solutions Forum Sponsors: Ex Libris, Swets, and Thomson Scientific
Reception/Break Sponsors: Copyright Clearance Center, EBSCO, Innovative Interfaces
- "Registration Now Open for Discovery to Delivery Workshop; Followed by NISO Annual Meeting"
NISO's second fall workshop will be on the topic of Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are.
Users are increasingly demanding an integrated process for finding, identifying, locating, and retrieving information from their desktop. Learn from other librarians, publishers, and service providers how to use technology and standards to achieve this vision of seamless discovery to delivery. You will hear about solutions you can implement to:
- make your content more accessible beyond your traditional user base
- integrate or enhance your content with that of other content providers
- utilize the latest in search and metasearch techniques
- provide users with choices in delivery of discovered content
- deliver information to users wherever they may be
The workshop will be held on November 2-3 at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland. Register before October 9 and receive the early bird discount.
Immediately following the workshop, on November 3 at 1:30 pm, NISO will hold its annual meeting. Todd Carpenter, NISO's Managing Director, and NISO Board members will discuss NISO's strategic direction. The annual meeting is free and attendance is open to the public, however, interested attendees are requested to email their intention to attend to nisohq@niso.org.
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Specs and Standards
- ISO/IEC 13250-2:2006, Information technology – Topic Maps – Part 2: Data model
Specifies the Topic Maps data model. Defines the abstract structure and interpretation of topic maps, the rules for merging topic maps, and a set of fundamental subject identifiers.
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Identifier
(Public comment on proposed changes)
The DCMI Usage Board has proposed changes of wording to labels, definitions, and comments of terms for public comment from August 28 to September 25, 2006. This term set is the basis for the standards ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001 and ISO 15836-2003.
- DCMI Type Vocabulary Identifier (Final changes)
The DCMI Usage Board discussed changes to the Definitions and Comments of terms in the DCMI Type Vocabulary at two Usage Board meetings and held a public comment period on the proposed changes from December 8 to January 31, 2006. Decisions on these changes are recorded in this document.
- IMS Global Learning Consortium, IMS Meta-data Best Practice Guide for IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata , Version 1.3 Final Specification
Resolves the drift between the IMS Meta-data and the IEEE LOM standard, which began as a combination of IMS Meta-data and ARIADNE collaboration.
- World Wide Web Consortium, New Editions of Four Core XML Standards
The W3C published on August 16 the fourth edition of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 and second editions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1.
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Media Stories
"Findability Enabled"
Library Journal (08/15/06) P. 30 ; Ownes, Dodie
Using the same search terms, library patrons often find that the results
from catalog searches differ widely from their electronic counterparts. To
address that disparity, the Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS),
now independent from the integrated library system, has the potential to
integrate and search a library's entire collection. This will have the
dual advantages of streamlining both the acquisition process for new
journals and the queries about licensing by eliminating redundancy and
improving findability. Significant improvements have been made to ERMS in
recent years, and organizations such as Serials Solutions are beginning to
bring together separate collections of MARC resources and electronic
resources. An ERMS incorporated into a knowledge base will give many
public libraries their first clear view of the owned and licensed
electronic content in its entirety. Though many institutions purchase
their ERMS solutions from vendors, others have elected to develop their
own, sometimes including commercial components such as link resolvers.
With the introduction of the NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative (SUSHI) to dovetail with the COUNTER Code of Practice for
Journals and Databases, libraries can no longer plead ignorance about
usage. Indeed, EBSCO has already incorporated SUSHI into its Electronic
Journals Service, and libraries are now able to automate it to work with
their own ERMS.
(Link to Web Source)
NISO Note: For more on SUSHI, visit the committee webpage. A session on SUSHI will be included in the September Managing Electronic Collections workshop.
NISO voting members mentioned in this article: ALA, EBSCO, Endeavor, Ex Libris, Innovative Interfaces, Serials Solutions, Sirsi/Dynix, and VTLS.
"Building a Distributed, Standards-Based
Repository Federation"
D-Lib Magazine (08/06) Vol. 12, No. 8, ; Tansley, Robert
In an effort to enhance access to the multiple museums that many
universities maintain in China, Hewlett-Packard partnered with the Chinese
Ministry of Education and several Chinese universities in the China Digital
Museum Project, which sought to create a DSpace-based infrastructure
capable of storing, preserving, and distributing digital versions of the
museums' artifacts. When the project concludes, there will be around 100
institutional repositories contributing to federated DSpace
implementations. Two centralized data centers will store replicated copies
of all the digital content and metadata from the universities, and each
university will maintain its own local version of DSpace to store its own
digital collections. The general architecture of the system consists of
numerous repository nodes, each with the ability to provide an OAI-PMH data
provider interface that allows appropriate repositories to harvest METS
Dissemination Information Packages. When an institution introduces an item
into a repository within the federation, it is assigned a CNRI-Handle, and
the record is stored in the federation's local handle service. Once an
item is entered into the source repository, the replicating repository
harvests it using a basic XML scheme as part of a preset harvesting
schedule. Once the item is successfully ingested, the replicating
repository updates the handle record, augmenting the item with information
about its own copy. In addition to ensuring that objects have persistent,
globally unique identifiers, the handle system also tracks items'
locations. The system has a central registry that maintains a list of all
possible source repositories, as well as providing an interface to all the
metadata stored in the repository list and an interface that attempts to
resolve handles, presenting users with a list or repositories containing
the object. When an item is deleted, the owning repository records its
date of deletion, and replicating repositories will know to flag the item
for deletion through their automatic harvests. While the project is a
significant step toward realizing the DSpace vision of creating a federated
system of repositories that come together in a distributed "digital space,"
there is still work to be done in areas such as security and
scalability.
(Link to Web Source)
NISO Note: METS is a NISO registered specification.
Day 2 of NISO's Managing Electronic Collections workshop will discuss Collection and repository Management. NISO voting members mentioned in this article: Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"DLF and OCLC Launch Registry of Digital Masters
Public Interface"
CLIR Issues (08/06)No. 52, ; Howard, Barrie
Digitizing materials is an expensive proposition, and, in an attempt to
avoid duplication, libraries often struggle to determine which items in
their collections might exist in digital format elsewhere. To address this
problem, the Digital Library Foundation (DLF) and OCLC have partnered to
create the Registry of Digital Masters. The registry provides a reliable
service that facilitates the discovery of master copies and provides
information about the availability of use copies. Items that were born
digital or reformatted are both included in the registry, which is hosted
by OCLC. Developed in accordance with the recommendations of the DLF
Registry of Digital Masters Working Group, the registry uses MARC records
to describe digital items and furnish information about the responsible
institutions' preservation plans. The registry also contains bibliographic
and publication information about the digital surrogate, as well as
information about the existence of a use copy, including a working URL. It
contains more than 3,500 records of digital masters, denoted by a MARC code
and stored in the WorldCat database. Any librarian who subscribes to
OCLC's Connexion can contribute records to the registry, extract records,
and make comments. Experts from multiple universities, institutions, and
other organizations have been working on the Registry of Digital Masters
for more than five years. Library professionals in Europe are working on a
similar initiative, as they have now expanded the scope of the European
Register of Microform Masters and Digital Surrogates (EROMM) to include
digital masters. EROMM already holds more than 10,000 records. In May,
the DLF hosted a meeting where representatives from each group attempted to
synchronize the two registration techniques. Also in attendance at that
meeting were representatives from the Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes
de Recherche (LIBER). Last month, LIBER, OCLC, and EROMM formally agreed
to ensure the free exchange of records between Europe and North America.
(Link to Web Source)
NISO Note: A session on how to expose your library collection and maximize their use based on the OCLC WorldCat experience
will be held on Day 3 of NISO's Managing Electronic Collections workshop
NISO voting members mentioned in this article: OCLC, Library of Congress, RLG. NISO LSA members mentioned: Harvard University
"Moving Towards Shareable Metadata"
First Monday (08/06) Vol. 11, No. 8, ; Shreeves, Sarah L.; Riley, Jenn;
Milewicz, Liz
As search engines such as Google and Yahoo become increasingly adept at
mining data from deep within institutional repositories, and the Open
Archives Initiative data provider makes metadata readily available for the
searching, cultural institutions are seeing their metadata migrate steadily
away from its original context. The evolution of digital libraries over
the past six years has had a strong focus on making metadata available and
aggregating it from a diverse group of providers with several goals in
mind, including "one-stop" search and retrieval, collecting materials of
similar formats, and providing a group of focused services for targeted
audiences. The process of pooling together metadata is facilitated by
encoding techniques such as Dublin Core and protocols such as the Open
Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). In
addition to helping users in their searches, these aggregations are also
beneficial to the institutions because they broaden the reach of their
collections. Current metadata aggregations still suffer from a lack of
consistency, too much information, and the absence of contextual
information. Shareable, interoperable metadata is the key to making these
aggregations useful. For metadata to be truly shareable it must be
adaptable, meaning that it can change depending on its audience or context.
Shareable metadata would ideally be both machine processable and human
understandable, and would also support search interoperability. Quality
metadata describes content that is coherent, consistent, and optimized for
sharing, in addition to providing appropriate context. But the most
important function of metadata is to ensure that the content of the records
that it describes is searchable. Finally, it is critical that the metadata
conforms to recognized standards. Though the roadmap to shareable metadata
may seem clear enough, implementation is fraught with obstacles. Larger,
well-established institutions already have systems in place that would
require significant effort to overhaul, while smaller institutions may not
have the technical expertise to implement technical standards such as
XML.
(Link to Web Source)
NISO Note: For more on metadata, download NISO's fee publication on Understanding Metadata. SRU and MODS are NISO registrations. Z39.50 and Dublin Core are NISO standards.
"The Semantic Logger: Supporting Service Building
From Personal Context"
University of Southampton (ECS) (08/11/06) ; Tuffield, Mischa M.;
Loizou, Antonis; Dupplaw, David
The Semantic Logger presented by a team of University of Southampton
researchers is software that supports the importing, storage, and
exploitation of personal information (metadata) through the use of Semantic
Web-enabling technologies and in compliance with as many World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) recommendations as possible. The Semantic Logger was
designed to offer users both a public and a private knowledge base for the
purpose of determining whether any information logged was to be posted for
public consumption. The researchers report that the logger's development
was largely fueled by people's willingness to post personal information
online. The Semantic Logger system allows new services to join on an
ad-hoc basis through the virtue of its service-based architecture.
Important system components include the AKT Project's SPARQL-compliant
resource description framework (RDF) 3store, the mSpace interface, and the
Friend of a Friend (FOAF) model. The information stored in the Semantic
Logger is integrated in a pair of services outlined by the researchers: A
recommender system that creates recommendations by using any applicable
context stored in the logger, and Photocopain, a personal photo annotation
tool that blends content and context-based data. Among the information
sources tapped by Photocopain are global positioning data, camera metadata,
calendar data, image analysis, Flickr, and the Network Gazetteer. The
success of the Semantic Logger hinges on the provision of data by users.
(Link to Web Source)
NISO Note:Attend NISO's November workshop on Discovery to Delivery to learn more about ways to improve searchability.
"Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from
the Past"
Educause Review (08/06) Vol. 41, No. 4, P. 16 ; Roberts, Michael M.
First president and CEO of ICANN Michael Roberts outlines four stages of
the Internet's growth, noting the role that academic contributions have
played. The first stage was characterized by federally funded research and
the creation of NSFNet II, while the next stage saw enthusiastic academic
usage and further development of the Internet, which led to the foundation
of what would eventually be Internet2. The third stage of Internet growth
saw the Internet reach and exceed both international and domestic
saturation, and the U.S. government subsequently made ICANN responsible for
the network's technical administration; however, ICANN has for the most
part failed in its mission to function via broad consensus mechanisms,
owing to the growing politicization of the Web. The fourth stage of growth
involves the maturation of the Internet into a global and universal network
that reflects human society, and with it has come renewed national and
international concern over Internet policy, specifically the use of the
Internet to meet social objectives, the extent of governmental economic
Internet regulation, and the degree to which network users' expectations
for privacy should be preempted by national security priorities. The
existence of legislation dealing with each of these issues makes the
challenge to lawmakers twofold: They must determine the proper role for
governments to play as the Internet's growth and development continues, and
also how societies worldwide switch from antiquated technology and laws to
a new balance between society, technology, and politics. Roberts says the
academic community, on the strength of its open and collaborative nature,
can be a vital player in the Internet's continued evolution. The author
cites several areas where academic support and advocacy is critical,
including federal funding for university research into networking; the
provision of universal affordable broadband and middleware; the use of
academic network facilities as testbeds for advanced technologies, such as
converged voice, video, and data; and the preservation of the Internet
commons.
(Link to Web Source)
NISO Note: The structural changes to the Internet form some part of the backdrop for NISO's own strategic planning.
Efforts like Shibboleth that are part of the academic contribution to Internet development are finding their way into the information infrastructure.
Watch Newsline for information on the NISO Framework in the coming months.
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NISO Board of Directors Meeting
September 12-13, 2006
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Discovery to Delivery
Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are
November 2-3, 2006
National Agricultural Library
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BIC Posts Standards for the Electronic Expression of Licensing Terms—Seminar Presentations
MuseGlobal Inc. Names Frank Bilotto as Vice President, Publishing and Digital Media
Springer eBook Collection Now Available Through EBSCO Information Services
Frederick G. Kilgour, Founder of OCLC, Dies at 92
ACA's Millennium-Driven Catalog Adds Four New Institutions
[Innovative Interfaces]
Verona Public Library in New Jersey selects Auto-Graphics' AGent VERSO™ ILS system
SirsiDynix Horizon 8.0 Selected by Wichita Public Library
Ex Libris and MPS Technologies Perform SUSHI Usage Data Transfer for Yale University Library
EBSCO Expands Its Global Partnership with WebFeat™
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GPO Takes Major Step Toward Creating Digital Information Management System
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Elsevier MDL partners with SciQuest
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[OCLC]
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[DOE/OSTI]
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Coming Soon! Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus
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[OCLC PICA]
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Serials Solutions Announces Unicode Compliance
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[College Center for Library Automation]
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[EBSCO]
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[Ex Libris]
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[California Digital Library]
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[Elsevier]
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[Elsevier]
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[formerly Geac Library Solutions]
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[College Center for Library Automation]
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[Copyright Clearance Center]
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[Innovative Interfaces]
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[Special Libraries Association]
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[Thomson Scientific]
2006 August RLG Members Forum: More, Better, Faster, Cheaper
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[SirsiDynix]
Call for Review on DAISY OK Requirements for Reading Systems and Books
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H.W. Wilson Announces Jobs in America
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[Thomson Scientific]
Mike Dicus Promoted to Voyager Product Manager at Endeavor Information Systems
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[College Center for Library Automation]
AIIM Webinar: How to Write an Effective RFP, September 27
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