Table of contents - Special Issue: Green libraries
Guest Editors: Kathrin Ambrozic
Green publishing with green technologies
Katja Metz, Michael SeadleIf libraries truly want to be ecologically responsible, they need also to consider the impact of book and journal production on the environment. This paper seeks to address this…
Research on energy savings opportunities in university libraries
Jeremy Linden, James Reilly, Peter HerzogMechanical systems in library environments are typically designed to run continuously in order to maintain the desired environmental conditions for preservation purposes, often…
Green buildings as sustainability education tools
Laura L. BarnesThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of green building technologies and practices and illustrate how public libraries can use them as tools to teach their…
Reuse, recycle … reduce: a greener library with print management
Megan E. Dempsey, Alex PalilonisThe purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of a print management system to control costs and reduce waste associated with printing practices.
Avoiding the death zone: choosing and running a library project in the cloud
Denis Galvin, Mang SunThe purpose of this paper is to explore the evolving field of cloud computing and its usefulness for library technology departments. It seeks to consider what types of projects…
A call for libraries to go green: An information behaviour perspective to draw interest from twenty‐first century librarians
Ina FourieWhen confronted with a problem where the solution is not clear or obvious, a first step would be to search for more information, trying to make sense of the problem. The intention…
EconBiz to go: Mobile search options for business and economics – developing a library app for researchers
Tamara PianosThe author developed a specialized app to cater to the needs of researchers in business and economics. At the same time the number of library apps in general increased…
Digital preservation ingest can be a “CINCH”
Amy RudersdorfThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the “Capture, Ingest, and Checksum” (CINCH) tool, developed by the State Library of North Carolina with funding from a 2011 IMLS Sparks…
Accessibility of digital special collections using screen readers
Kristina L. Southwell, Jacquelyn SlaterThe purpose of this paper is to discover whether digitized materials from special collections libraries can be accessed using screen reader technology.
A holistic approach to bit preservation
Eld Maj‐Britt Olmütz ZierauThe purpose of this paper is to point out the importance of taking a holistic approach to bit preservation when setting out to find an optimal bit preservation solution for…
PIKIPDL: A personalized information and knowledge integration platform for DL service
Shu‐Chen Kao, ChienHsing WuThe purpose of the paper is to conduct an exploratory study that proposes a personalized knowledge integration platform for digital libraries which can provide users with…
Preparing for the age of the digital palimpsest
Jason BengtsonThe purpose of this paper is to define and stimulate interest in a potential new specialty within the information science field.
A study of relevance feedback techniques in interactive multilingual information access
Dan Wu, Daqing He, Xiaomei XuWith the vast amount of multilingual information available online, it becomes increasingly critical for libraries to use various multilingual information access techniques in…
Archiving in the networked world: authenticity and integrity
Michael SeadleThis article aims to discuss how concepts from the analog world apply to a purely digital environment, and look in particular at how authenticity needs to be viewed in the digital…
