| FEATURES |
Castles
Made of Sand: Building Sustainable Digitized
Collections Using XML
When he began to use XML, this author visualized the items in his
collections as grains of sand that could be used and reused, shaped,
and restructured. That way, his data would be usable in the future, even
when technological changes wash over the digital landscape.
by Bart Ragon |
Page 10 |
Preserving
the 'Athens of Indiana' Through Digitization 
A Midwestern town's aging historical records
and images faced ruin. To save its crumbling
past, this library dedicated time and money
to excavating its records and scanning its
books and historical documents, preserving
them through digitization.
by Bill Helling |
Page 14 |
Military Medical History
Is Being Saved in a Digital Archive
Talk about special collections! These military medical history documents
from wars past needed to be preserved, and careful digitization was
the answer.
by Karen Caron |
Page 20 |
Your Collection Is
Online and the Honeymoon's Over: Now What?
If you think your job is done once you've scanned your stuff and
built a nice digital collection, think again. You still have users,
and they still need your help. Here's how one group chose to deal with
this permanent relationship.
by Anna Maria Mihalega and Edward A. Galloway |
Page 26 |
Migrating
Records from Proprietary Software to RTF, HTML,
and XML
When a vendor of proprietary software decided it would no longer
support its old product, it was a wake-up call for the Australian governmental
librarians who relied on it to keep some of their most important records.
They managed the conversion just in time.
by Elizabeth Reuben |
Page 30 |
| COLUMNS |
The View from the
Top Left Corner
C3PO Returns; World Rejoices: Kitsap's
Getting a New System
by Michael Schuyler |
Page 32 |
Online Treasures
Technology Wish List: I Want the Computer
from Star Trek
by Janet L. Balas |
Page 44 |
The Systems Librarian
Building a Digital Library of Television
News
by Marshall Breeding |
Page 47 |
Coming Full Circle
Digital Distraction
by Andrew K. Pace |
Page 50 |
Digital Librarianship
Create
Digitally
Enhanced
Bibliographies
with
Public
Domain
Databases
by Péter Jacsó |
Page 52 |
| DEPARTMENTS |
Editor's Notes
Do More than Just Scan
This Issue
by Kathy Dempsey |
Page 6 |
Newsline |
Page 8 |
| People & Places |
Page 42 |
| SPECIAL
SECTION |
ILS Marketplace: CIL's
Quarterly Series on Library Automation Markets
June 2003: School Libraries
by Pamela Cibbarelli |
Page 35 |
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