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International federation of library associations and institutions

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Perceptions of libraries and information resources: a report to the OCLC membership

The Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services

Institutional repositories are a relatively new activity for higher education They are defined most often as a set of services that are offered by an institution for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the members of the institution or scholarly community This article will describe the challenges institutions are facing in creating repositories, will explore the economics of managing repositories, and will offer a model for creating a successful set of service

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Institutional Repositories: Keys to Success

Professional development programs include short courses, certificates and license reviews, with some leading to the award of continuing education units (CEUs). The CEU is used nationally to document the type, quality and duration of study. In general, a CEU is defined as being equal to classroom hours. All professional development courses can be adapted to meet a particular organization’s needs and conducted as a custom-designed training program at a company site. For more than 50 years, NJIT has been designing and conducting high-quality professional development programs that meet organizations’ business needs. Since 1990, NJIT has trained over 63,000 professionals as part of over 550 training initiatives for 300 different companies conducting business in New Jersey.

Continuing professional education

This study is a part of the larger project that develops a sustainable digital repository of professional development resources on emerging data standards and technologies for data organization and management in libraries. Toward that end, the project team developed an automated workflow to crawl for, monitor, and classify relevant web objects into searchable professional development categories. In this study we present the rapid prototyping approach and the iteration and ranking processes used to develop the automatic crawling system. In its final form, the repository will constitute self-sustaining continuing education resources for the cataloging and metadata community.

Developing an automatic crawling system for populating a digital repository of professional development resources: A pilot study

The speakers discussed practical steps that smaller institutions could take to develop their own institutional repositories (IRs) from scratch using local resources. Yuji Tosaka spoke about the overall context and problems that IRs can present for smaller institutions; Cathy Weng then gave an overview of The College of New Jersey's efforts to develop an IR and discussed the college's MUSE project, a college-wide mini-grant program for working with selected undergraduate students on research and creative activity, and how this internal opportunity led to an IR pilot project. Tosaka ended by speaking about life after MUSE and the still-ongoing IR development.

Exercising Creativity to Implement an Institutional Repository with Limited Resources

Based on a set of web survey data, this study examines cataloging and metadata professionals' perspectives on issues surrounding continuing education. The results show that emerging data standards such as the Semantic Web and BIBFRAME, as well as metadata and digital library-related topics, are subject areas currently central to their professional concerns, in addition to RDA, for professional development. Topics such as ontologies, social tagging, and automatic metadata generation were rarely reported. Meaningful interactions were often found to be lacking in online education. The results provide evidence of the need to expand the pool of shared expertise to meet our collective needs for continuing education in the cataloging and metadata community.

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Advancing Professional Learning in Libraries: An Exploratory Study of Cataloging and Metadata Professionals' Experiences and Perspectives on Continuing Education Issues

OCLC Online Computer Library Center In interwar Japan, urban middle-class audiences patronized Hollywood movies rather than domestic native films that should have appealed to them as native and culturally familiar. The rise of militant nationalism and cultural nativism fueled the growth of official movements that celebrated an indigenous Japanese essence and eschewed allegedly foreign, modern “contamination.” The alleged Americanizing influence of Hollywood cinema became an increasingly worrisome problem for Japanese officials beginning in the early 1930s. This article examines Japan's efforts to impose tighter restrictions on American films during the 1930s, culminating in a total ban on film imports following the onset of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

The Discourse of Anti-Americanism and Hollywood Movies: Film Import Controls in Japan, 1937–1941

RDA: Resource Description and Access is the first new library cataloging code to be implemented in English-speaking countries in the 21st century. Since the 1990s, there has been increasing discussion about making fundamental revisions to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition (AACR2), prompted by fast-paced changes and trends in information resources and technology. This eventually led to a 2004 decision by the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) to initiate the comprehensive rule revision process and prepare a new edition under the working title “AACR3: Resource Description and Access.” In 2005, however, the JSC concluded that a change of direction was needed after reviewing the constituency responses to the draft of part 1 of the proposed new edition, and it decided to develop a new cataloging code with a new working title: “RDA: Resource Description and Access.” The full draft of RDA was made available in 2008, and the official RDA text was then published online in 2010. In the U.S. library community, following the 2010–2011 U.S. National Libraries RDA Test, the Library of Congress decided to move forward with full implementation of RDA on March 31, 2013. A number of key design elements have underscored the development of RDA, including its alignment with the new international conceptual models for bibliographic and authority data. While RDA is built on the AACR2 foundations and most of its instructions are compatible with the old AACR2 rules, RDA is intended to provide a principles-based framework for resource description and access based on the new Statement of International Cataloguing Principles developed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, an extension of the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) models. As such, RDA is designed to provide a flexible and

Yuji Tosaka

Papers

Developing an automatic crawling system for populating a digital repository of professional development resources: A pilot study

Exercising Creativity to Implement an Institutional Repository with Limited Resources

Advancing Professional Learning in Libraries: An Exploratory Study of Cataloging and Metadata Professionals' Experiences and Perspectives on Continuing Education Issues

The Discourse of Anti-Americanism and Hollywood Movies: Film Import Controls in Japan, 1937–1941

RDA: Resource Description & Access—Reports from the Field