The Virtual Library Analogies
This is an email messge from Stevan, formatted by Jonathan.
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:06:21 -0700 (MST)
From: Stevan Kalmon
To: Library Team -- Corrina Perrone ,
Jaye Zola , kalmon@bvsd.k12.co.us,
Michael Meloth , ostwald@cs.colorado.edu,
pfouts@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us, Tait Stangl
Subject: Analogies
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Status: RO
Team,
I finally got 'round to analogies Jonathan asked for. Sorry to paste them
below, but can't find Eudora on these computers. Anyway, they're below.
Andrew, Jaye, feel free to edit and add.
Michael, the first 30 minutes to an hour of our meeting on Thursday should
provide useful discussion re the overall plans and specific strategies.
So, 12:30, in Jonathan's 7th floor suite.
Virtual Library Analogies
VL Team/11.4.97
The Real Thing The Virtual Thang (i.e., the one that really matters)
Reference Room - Online sources for reference work (e.g., online access to
reference section of Electric Library, CD-Rom of an encyclopedia,
bookmarks for web sites that are referentially oriented)
Periodical Room - Online sources for magazines and newspapers (e.g., CD-ROM
disk of SIRS, online access to periodical section of Electric Library,
bookmarks for web sites that provide indexes for periodicals and/or texts
from periodicals)
Reserve Room - Collections created by teachers and students that are
organized around particular courses or curricular/content themes (e.g.,
Pfoots American Lit page). Collections could be Web sources or other
online or CD-ROM sources. Example of a theme = Water (which could be an
interdisciplinary course on water use, ecology, water politics, and
geographical patterns).
Stacks
- The general collection of every referenced thing in the
librarys collection (web site bookmarks, periodical title, books online,
reference sources,...)
- A way to find any of the collection (like a subject index).
Card Catalog - An index of everything in the collection. Probably
organized by subject, but ideally organized by author and date too.
Carrel - A private place for students to keep work in progress, including
writing, bookmarks, electronic copies of documents. (Private does not
mean no one can enter, although we could do that -- a student-level
password requirement and a teacher-level or librarian-level override.
There would also be something like a 30-day limit on carrel use.) A very
good feature for the carrel would be a way to take and store notes
electronically, while reading web sites or other docs. Maybe a simple
text thang suffices.)
