FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: JoDI (V5i3): Digital Libraries and User Needs Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:34:38 +0100 From: Steve Hitchcock <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: jisc development discussion forum <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future (Volume 5, issue 3, September 2004) Special issue Editors: Anita Coleman, University of Arizona, and Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado at Boulder From the special issue editorial: "Disciplinary communities such as earth science, biology, and neuroscience are focusing on the development of library collections and services aimed at providing real time and archival data to support the conduct of science and sharing of scientific results. Within the landscape of community-based digital libraries, an enduring challenge is 'negotiating the future' with diverse community members, i.e. establishing plans and strategies to guide future library technologies, collections, and services. In this context, design and planning requires organizations to take into account the day-to-day practices of individual users, and the needs and desires of the larger community as the library strives to reflect the values and long-term vision that the participants have for their community or academic discipline as a whole. "The purpose of this special issue is to consider the spectrum of approaches being used by different libraries and service providers as they negotiate the future with their user communities. At a time when a digital information future is increasingly certain, the news about users and their consumption of information in this digital future is troubling. Statistics for the past eight years show that even while the information supply is growing, the amount consumed is barely changing, and is in fact becoming a smaller fraction of what is produced. Digital library research, HCI or information design research and individual digital library projects will all benefit from the broader theme that this special issue highlights: the building of digital libraries in cooperation with how users are affected and how their use of information can be improved and transformed by the increasing information supply that the digital library or repository makes possible. " http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: L. Bartolo, C. Lowe, L. Feng, B. Patten (August 2004) MatDL: Integrating Digital Libraries into Scientific Practice http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Bartolo/ A. Bishop, B. Bruce, K. Lunsford, M. Jones, M. Nazarova, D. Linderman, M. Won, P. Heidorn, R. Ramprakash, A. Brock (August 2004) Supporting Community Inquiry with Digital Resources http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Bishop/ K. Foulke, N. Milnor, M. Watterworth, T. Wilsted (September 2004) The Power of Partnering: The Cooperative Creation of Digital Collections http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Foulke/ M. Khoo (September 2004) The Use of Visual Artifacts in the User-Informed Development of an Educational Digital Library Collection http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Khoo/ F. McMartin (September 2004) Case study: MERLOT: A Model of User Involvement in Digital Library Design and Implementation http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/McMartin/ S. Shreeves, C. Kirkham (September 2004) Experiences of Educators Using a Portal of Aggregated Metadata http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Shreeves/ -- The Journal of Digital Information is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published only via the Web. JoDI is currently free to users thanks to support from the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Steve Hitchcock Web Development Editor, Journal of Digital Information IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865 ***************************************************** JoDI Web page http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ ***************************************************** -- Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser ICBL, School of Mathematics and Computer Science Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS Tel: work - 0131 451 3278 home - 0131 221 1352 Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/