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The article features the Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies, also known as Browne Pop Culture Library (BPCL), located on the main campus of Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green, Ohio. Topics include the creation of the BPCL in 1969 to support the study of popular culture at BGSU, collections available at the library, and databases that are invaluable when describing rather uncommon materials such as Grand Comics Database, Fanlore, and Romance Wiki.

The article offers tips to libraries on making their collections and programs more visible and available on the web through the use of search engines. Libraries are advised to adopt preferred methods for allowing their data to be consumed by search engines and ranked in search results, including keeping websites unblocked from crawlers and providing updates. Following the rules of the semantic web is also suggested.

The article offers information on the controlled digital lending (CDL), ebook model by which libraries digitize materials in their collection and make them available for lending. It further discusses that the largest CDL projects was developed by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization most widely known for the Wayback Machin; the National Emergency Library during COVID-19 by the Internet Archive; and impact of CDL model on publishers' markets.

Discusses compact discs (CDs) and how to successfully integrate them into a library collection. Sources and tools available in selection of CDs; "Schwann CD"; "CD Guide"; CD reviews; Indexes to CD reviews; Alternatives to CDs; Lists resources for the CD collection builder.

The article reports that the collections of the New York State Library in Albany will be available to all New York residents. In a six-month pilot project, all residents of New York State will now have access to the collections of the New York State Library in Albany. Previously, access was available only to state officials and employees, legislators, members of the state bar, state licensed physicians, and local government historians. With the project, announced by New York education commissioner Richard Mills, all New Yorkers 18 and older can borrow directly from the library's circulating collection, as well as getting remote access to the library's NOVEL online databases, New York's statewide virtual library. NOVEL includes a range of resources, including full-text electronic-collections of national and international newspapers and magazines. The policy addresses a 2000 New York State Regents Commission on Library Services report that outlined ten recommendations to improve library services in New York State, which included improving access to the collections of the state library.

Suggests how a library might approach building a collection of books on wildlife gardening. The common features of the books available; Why books published ten years prior to 1996 can be useful; Discarding of titles that promote the use of biocides and other chemicals; Listing of recommended books. INSET: The developing schedule..

The article discusses the findings of the Lilead Project survey, which researched the conditions facing U.S. school libraries. Topics discussed include the lack of resources available to district school library supervisors, the professional development, technology support, and collection development responsibilities held by school library supervisors, and the stress experienced by school library supervisors. Charts and graphs illustrating the findings of the survey are also provided.

Discusses a trend in United States librarianship toward collecting, preserving and making so-called zine publications available for researchers. A definition of zines; The `Factsheet Five' collection at the New York State Library, which was donated by former editor Mike Gunderloy; Other libraries at which zines collections are available, including DePaul University, Bowling Green State University and Michigan State University; The value of zines

The article presents information on eBooks and discusses why it is important to have them in the library. The author states that eBooks are books or other forms of text in digital form. At little to no cost, using technologies that are already available at most schools, it is possible to expand the library media center's collection of books, at the same time making many books more accessible to students. An additional benefit is that books that have passed into the public domain can be given to students at no cost.

This article reports on the projects of The British Library in London, England as of June 2004 that make material from the library and other collections available to researcher and user around the world. The Turning the Pages project is an exhibit which makes images of some of the world's great treasures available to the public with technology that allows visitors to turn the pages of a digital document on a touch-screen display. Ten manuscripts are featured in the collection. The oldest is the Lindisfarne Gospels, a work that dates to the early eight century. On April 7, 2004, The British Library announced the Endangered Archives Programme, an $18 million project to preserve threatened records around the world. The project hopes to counter threats to historical and cultural records form wars, natural disasters, ignorance and neglect. A new Web site was launched in April 2004 that charts the life and voyages of Captain James Cook. It display material from the British Library, the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum and other archives in England's North East. In May 2004, The British Library announced the Archival Sound Recordings project. This project aims to digitize 12,000 items of sound recordings from The British Library's Sound Archive.

The article reports that an alumnus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has sued the university over an old article that has been made available in the university library's digital collections. According to the "Cornell Daily Sun," Kevin Vanginderen filed a $1 million libel suit against the university.

Describes how the Saint Louis Municipal Library Cooperative employed an integrated computer package for the Missouri library. Courses and workshops attended by library staff and officers; Barcoding the collection; Effort to make computer available by appointment for use by individuals of the community; Vendor support for the Book Trak program; Funding for the computers.

The article discusses the use of data-driven decisions in the collection development of libraries and the data tools available to make such decisions as of May 2014. Topics include the need for human review of circulation data to determine whether a title should be remove or promoted in a new way, the data collection tool collectionHQ from Baker & Taylor, and the use of supplemental information-gathering techniques to reflect the needs of a library's community.

The article outlines a series of events in 2005 ensuring that information switched its dominant format from analog to digital. Inspired by Project Gutenberg, Hugh McGuire created LibriVox, a project whereby volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain then transfer those recordings into MP3 files that are available for free on the www.librivox.org. Last November, the Library of Congress announced its creation of the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials that will be freely available for viewing by anyone, anywhere, with Internet access. Each of the events affects libraries in significant ways. From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship.

The article reports that Columbia University has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to digitize books from Columbia University Libraries. Under the agreement, Microsoft will digitize some of the libraries' public domain collections in U.S. history, literature, and the humanities. Columbia's collections will be available through Microsoft's Live Search Books.

This article profiles Chip Nilges, an executive director at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Nilges has been creating change at OCLC since he arrived in 1994. Every innovation OCLC has introduced in the past few years has his fingerprints all over it. At first Nilges was somewhat embarrassed about not being a librarian (though he now feels like he's earned an honorary MLS). But he felt very good bringing business acumen and an entrepreneurial drive to an organization that needed both. Watching people flock to search engines for information, he realized libraries had to offer equally seamless, convenient access to their specialized information. One of his first projects at OCLC was linking FirstSearch databases with full-text articles in its Electronic Collections Online. Nilges understood that if libraries were to compete, they needed to be available wherever people were. That led to QuestionPoint, which took librarians to the researchers. But library content also needed to be searchable. Nilges knew that one library couldn't go to Google and make the case. "But libraries, with a capital L, could." He convinced Google and Yahoo!, which feed on content, that OCLC offered a wealth of it. In return, Yahoo! and Google offered its users a way to find that content in libraries near them.

Replies to reader inquiries on library automation. Audio-visual materials and computer programs for training staff in library automation; Regional libraries with collections of microcomputer software available for other libraries; Printers used to accommodate Gaylord non-jamming continuous fan-fed catalog cards.

Reports that the nation's major research libraries have until November 20, 1992 to apply for monies under the US Department of Education's (DOE) Strengthening Research Library Resources Program. Grants for research libraries; Maintaining and enhancing collections; Deadline dates; Award amounts available; Contact information.

This article discusses the factors which may contribute to campus literacy programs in the U.S. as of March 1, 1991. The Federal Student Literacy Corps provides funding over two years to institutions of higher learning for developing courses that address literacy and include a volunteer component for students to become involved in field service work. The second edition of the book Literacy Action: A Resource Book for Colleges and Universities written by Louisa B. Meacham, covers all the major issues involved in establishing and running a campus literacy program. College and university librarians support student literacy initiatives or the literacy efforts of their local public libraries by providing office/meeting space for student literacy coalitions, space for tutoring/student training sessions and access to bulletin boards and campuswide publications. They can also develop professional collections of literacy materials for program coordinators, tutors and trainers. Support may also be given through the creation of a demonstration collection for tutors to review literacy materials. If there are children's titles in education or library science collection, it should be made available to student tutors to use in family literacy activities.

This section presents information on several computer software and CD-ROM packages for U.S. libraries. Get-A-Ref version 4.0 is a tool for researchers, scientists, physicians, graduate students, or anyone else who must access and update personal libraries of reprints. The Third College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary database holds approximately 30 megabytes of standard dictionary data including 140,000 lexemes, 180,000 definitions, 51,000 etymologies, and 50,000 classification descriptors. Utlas International has released a CD-ROM containing over 460,000 full MARC serials records to complement its CD-CATSS cataloging system. The records consist of the pre-1987 authenticated CONSER files from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada as well as original serials records from selected Utlas customers. The Unisys Corp. has completed negotiations with the University of North Dakota for the implementation of a PALS Library Management system to serve libraries statewide. The network will allow the Grand Forks Public Library and the North Dakota State Library to make their combined 1.7 million-volume collection available to any library system.

The article presents several international initiatives that are making digital collections from libraries and cultural institutions available to researchers on the Internet. In September 2008, the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed to contribute materials to the U.S. Library of Congress' World Digital Library. The Wellcome Library is partnering with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to make available its collection of Egyptian and Arabic medical manuscripts. A pilot program, to be finished in late 2009 at the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library, will digitize medieval texts including early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John Wyclif's Latin to English translation of the New Testament.

The article offers updates on several digitization projects across the world. Europeana, the European Digital Library, is scheduled to become a reality in November 2008. In August 2008, the European Commission raised concerns that cultural institutions across Europe were not digitizing enough material. In a communication from the commission, allegations revealed that only one percent of archival material in the 2.5 billion book collections of Europe's libraries is available in digital form. Meanwhile, the National Library of Estonia will be canceling its plans to submit digitized materials to the Europeana project.

Announces that the Library of Congress has made its collection of Thomas Jefferson papers available online at the American Memory Web site. How the Jefferson papers include correspondence, memorandum, notes, and manuscript volumes; Consideration of how the local link resolver can link from the HLAS Online records to the Web resources.

Discusses how to create a career center in the library with available resources. Description of who the job seekers are as of August 2002; Topics of location for career materials and use of the three-year rule for thinning collections; Suggestion that libraries inform patrons about local resources, teach Internet tools, make available word processing stations, and offer job-seeking classes.

Reports on the announcement by Sagebrush Corp. of the release of a version of its library automation program, Athena v8.1. Features of the version; Add-on enhancements, including Athena WebLink, and Athena zMARC; Use of Athena Webserver v3.1 to make a library's collection available online; Abilities of users with Athena v8.1.

Details the issues discussed during the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Paper Preservation Symposium held on October 17-21, 1988. Usability of research library collections; Engineering answers to book preservation; Preservation technology choices available.

Replies to questions related to library science. Reading plans to expose elementary school students to various types of literature; Equipment and software for film collections; Resources available for libraries that want to sell or discard films. INSET: OVER TO YOU.

This article focuses on the preservation of British library newspapers that have been published during the 19th century. The British Library Newspapers Web site was created in partnership with Gale International, a part of Cengage Learning, with funding provided by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Free access will be provided to the database within the BL building and to all the Further and Higher Education communities in Great Britain. Fee-based services will be launched for the general public in 2008. The 19th-century British Library Newspapers add to a rich collection of other historical material that is already available from Cengage or has been funded by JISC.

The article reports on the plan of Springer to launch its eBook program at the American Library Association conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 21 to 24, 2006. The redesigned SpringerLink will give subscribers access to about 10,000 Springer eBooks. eBooks and eBook Series titles are available as searchable PDF documents, while eReference Works are available through HTML. Libraries can purchase a complete collection or one of the 12 topic categories. The program will also link to an OPAC system.

Presents news briefs related to libraries in Europe as of June 2006. Political leaders who supported France's call for the creation of a digital library; Response of French National Library President Jean-Noël Jeanneney to the announcement of Google that it would make books from the collections of major research libraries available online.

This article reports that netLibrary has teamed with Recorded Books LLC to create a new program for delivering audio books to libraries through the World Wide Web. Key elements of the program include an innovative pricing structure, unlimited access, the ability for patrons to download to a range of portable devices, and a technology solution that supports download via broadband or dial-up capabilities. Library users will be able to search for, preview, check out, and listen to audio books via the Internet and the netLibrary platform. They can focus their search on audio titles only or take advantage of search functionality that integrates audio titles with all electronic content their library may have in its netLibrary collection. Web-based collections of Recorded Books titles will be available for purchase through either Recorded Books or netLibrary and will be delivered via the netLibrary interface. Library patrons will be able to search for audio books just as they would for any type of electronic content in their library's netLibrary collection. In addition, libraries can view demonstrations of the program upon request, which will be formally lanced in December 2004.

Announces the launch of the LinkSolver universal link resolver from Ovid. Key features; Applications in the database library collection of Web-based content; Options available when used with the search engine of the company.

EBSCO Publishing has announced that, through EBSCO SmartLinks, it has made available to EBSCOhost database subscribers more than 100 million records with access to full text.EBSCO SmartLinks allows users to gain seamless access from a citation in an EBSCOhost proprietary or secondary database result list to the corresponding full text located in a variety of electronic resources. In addition to linking to the full text available within EBSCOhost databases, users may also link to their library's collection of electronic journals available through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals service and publishers that contribute to CrossRef.

knovel Corp., a Web-based reference publisher that delivers scientific and technical books and databases to engineers, scientists, and students, has released six new chemistry references from major publishers. MARC records are supplied by knovel and loaded by OCLC into WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog). The six titles added to knovel are 'International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology; knovel Critical Tables'; 'knovel Solvents--A Properties Database; Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances'; 'Smithsonian Physical Tables (ninth revised edition)'; and 'Yaws' Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds.' The MARC records are accessible via WorldCat and are also available through OCLC's WorldCat Collection Sets for libraries that are interested in loading the records into their local online catalogs. Source: knovel Corp., Norwich, NY, 607/648-4770; http://www.knovel.com. .

Mentions three books available from the American Library Association Order Fulfillment. 'Directory of Test Collections in Academic, Professional, and Research Libraries,' edited by Paul G. Fehrmann and Nancy Patricia O'Brien et al; 'Managing Electronic Reserves,' edited by Jeff Rosedale et al; 'Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-On Guide,' by Elaina Norlin and CM! Winters.

Reports that Follett Software Co. has expanded the functionality of its WebCollection Plus online library collection access software to make it available for Novell NetWare v5.1 users. How the system allows for library collections to be searched from any location; Intention to bring the system into a greater number of schools; Features.

Presents a checklist of recent announcements in regards to information and library science. Conversion of thousands of manuscript collection records to machine-readable form; Acceptance of a hundred thousand dollar bequest from Ethel M. Crate to the Tulsa Library in Oklahoma; Automation project to make Vermont's public and private library collections available to every citizen in the state; Other announcements.

Reports that the ethnographic field collection `Voices of the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection' from the Library of Congress is available from the American Memory Program at its web site address. Contents of the collection; Reference to the documentation of the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941; Contact point for source of the collection.

Reports on the Library of Congress's announcement that its National Digital Library Program has made three new collections of American historical materials from primary sources available on its World Wide Web site. Evolution of the Conservative Movement, 1805-1920; Gottscho-Schleisner Photographs, 1932-1960; Theodor Horydczak Photographs, 1920-150; Features of The Learning Page.