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The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Coalition for Networked Information commissioned Jennifer Trant to write a report based on the discussions of several meeting exploring the feasibility and problems of establishing a benchmark image retrieval service. Miss Trant’s (Archives & Museum Informatics) draft report of January 2004 entitled: Image Retrieval Benchmark Database Service: A Needs Assessment and Preliminary Development Plan was published online at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/trant04.html
The report provides a thorough examination of assessing and going forth with digitizing images and the issues associated with retrieving them electronically via meta-data or content-based. A benchmark database service for image retrieval would give librarians a controlled context to test and evaluate various scenarios.The 61 page report is available in two sections: the full report and the references. Both sections are available in either HTML format and PDF format.
CLIR invites comments on this report; please forward them to ksmith@clir.org.
-- Adapted from CLIR’s press release and report by QBNews Editor, June 2004
CLIR Study Cites Long Term Savings From Electronic Journals
The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats. The report was written by Roger Schonfeld, of Ithaka; Donald King, of the University of Pittsburgh; Anne Okerson, of Yale; and Eileen Gifford Fenton, of Ithaka, and is available on CLIR’s (Council on Library and Information Resources) Web site at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub127abst.html. It will soon be available for ordering through CLIR's Web site, for $20 per copy plus shipping and handling.
The authors studied what effect the transition from print to electronic journals are having on academic and research libraries operational and nonsubscription expenditures. The authors studied the costs of managing journal collections at 11 institutions of varying sizes. The authors found that on a per title basis the non-subcription costs are lower. The authors wrote "The failure to resolve the issue of responsibility for archiving has hindered the transition to electronic journals,", and they did not factor this cost into their study, as it is not clear as to where this responsibility will ultimately fall. The authors suggest that the cost savings of making the transition to electronic format may be applied to the cost of archiving the electronic journals.
To order:
pub127 The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats by Roger C. Schonfeld, Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, Eileen Gifford Fenton
(6/04, 66 pp.) $20
ISBN 1-932326-10-3
Online: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub127abst.html
--Adapted from a June 22, 2004 press release by the QBNews Editor, June 27, 2004
Nancy Davenport named President of CLIR.
The Council on Library and Information Sources (CLIR) Board Chairman, Stanley Chodorow was quoted in announcing the Ms. Davenport’s appointment, “The Board is very pleased to have Nancy Davenport as the new president of CLIR. We look forward to working with her to develop CLIR's agenda of programs and projects and to her leadership of this important organization." Ms. Davenport assumes the role of President on July 5, 2004.
Ms. Davenport has served twenty-six years in the Library of Congress, where currently she is the Director of Acquisitions at the Library. She has several leadership positions at the Library of Congress and has a long list of activities and accomplishments in a variety of professional organizations. From 1990 to 1997, Ms. Davenport directed a training program, sponsored Congress, and carried out by the Library of Congress, for librarians in the new democratic states of Central and Eastern Europe.
For further information see: http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/04davenportpr.html
--Adapted by QBNews Editor, June 2004
