Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground: Serials Vision and Common Sense is a compilation of presentations from the proceedings of the 13th annual North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. Conference held June 18-21, 1998, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From this informative book, you will discover technology trends that will impact the relationship among authors, publishers, and libraries including the shift to digital masters; the rising importance of the web and its impact on the economics, manufacturing, and distribution of publishing; and the growth of the World Wide Web as the gateway to what people get from libraries. Through Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground, you will also find guidance in good design principals for your libraries Web page or Web site.Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground will help you discover why planning is the first step in web design as your consideration of your target audience as well as their preferences and technical level are very important to your design. Also discussed are such important issues as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), designing interactive forms, pages with or without frames, and graphics animation. From Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground, you will gain valuable insight into many unique areas, such as:
Neodata--the world's largest magazine fulfillment center
the astronomy World Wide Web infrastructure named Urania
the current and future pricing of Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) information distribution
how to use project teams to evaluate and implement new services for electronic serials
discovering what you can do to help better prepare your library for the inevitable disaster
learning how the steps your institution takes now can make the difference between prompt, effective action or unnecessary collection and equipment loss
examining four issues raised by library consortia regarding electronic journals: pricing, authorization systems, integration, and permanent digital archives to help you meet the changing needs of your patrons
the successes and failures that well-known print newspapers who have launched successful Web versions encountered along the wayThrough Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground you will find vision as well as common sense advice and practical methods to help you get your job done. You'll discover many practical insights on information delivery and use trends that will effect higher education, libraries, and publishing and examine evaluative criteria for online resources as well as other new library services. You will find each section of Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground practical and informative and discover that each idea or piece of advice can be incorporated into your own area of expertise. It is the editors hope that you gain vision and common sense from every word.
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Contents Introduction
PRECONFERENCE PROGRAMS
Preconference I: Leading From Any Position: An Enneagram Workshop Preparing Leaders for the 21st. Century
Leading from Any Position: An Enneagram Workshop Preparing Leaders for the 21st. Century
Preconference II: HTML from the Ground Up: Spinning Webs in the Clouds
HTML for Beginners
HTML for Beginners (Public Services Emphasis)
Web Design-Effective and Aesthetic
Graphics Animation
Netscape vs. Internet Explorer
Designing Pages with Frames
Designing Interactive Forms
HTML Standards-History and Future
Imagemaps
Web Editors: Means to an End
PLENARY SESSIONS
Internet Publishing Update: Assessing the Impact of Changes in Publishing Technology on Libraries
Publishing in the New World
It's Personal, It's Digital and It's Serial: Trends That may Affect Higher Education, Publishing and Libraries
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
How I learned to Love Neodata
How I learned to Love Neodata
Consortial Acquisitions of Shared Electronic Journals
Consortial Acquisitions of Shared Electronic Journals
Coping with the Digital Shift: Archiving and Other Issues to Consider
Coping with the Digital Shift: Archival Purpose and Responsibility
Coping with the Digital Shift: Four of the Thorniest Issues
Emerging Trends in Journal Publishing
Emerging Trends in Journal Publishing
STM X-REF: A Link Service for Publishers and Readers
Scholarly Journals in the Electronic World
Evaluating Online Resources: Now That You've Got Them, What do You Do With Them?
Measures of Cost Effectiveness in Electronic Resources
Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Resources
Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure in the Delivery of Electronic Information
Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure in the Delivery of Electronic Information
You May Already Know the Answer
You may Already Know the Answer
Meeting End User Needs in the Electronic Universe: A Dialogue
Meeting End User Needs in the Electronic Universe: A Dialogue
Pricing of Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) Publications
Serials Pricing-An Agent's View: Trends and Characteristics of Higher Education Funding and STM Journal Pricing
Electronic Publishing in Academia: An Economic Perspective
Pricing Models: Past, Present, and Future?
Using Teams to Evaluate and Implement New Services for Electronic Serials
The Team Approach in Building Electronic Collections and Services
Using Teams to Evaluate and Implement New Services for Electronic Serials
When Disaster Strikes: First Steps in Disaster Preparedness
When Disaster Strikes: A Case Study: Colorado State University Libraries, July 28, 1997
What if Gutenberg had a T-1 Connection? 8 What if Gutenberg had a T-1 Connection?
WORKSHOPS
What happened to the Serials Cataloger: Copy Cataloging of Serials
With Feet Planted Firmly in Mid-Air: Staff training for Automation System Migration
Getting to the Summit: How Do You Get There from Here?: A Climber's Guide to Consortium Formation
Building an Electronic Journal Collection from the Ground up
The Development and Use of a Genre Statement for Electronic Journals
Electronic Publishing: The High Wire Experience
Access to Government Serial Information in a Digital Environment
Successful Web Journals: The Wall Street Journal and the Chronicle of Higher Education: Two Live Case Studies
The Real World of Integrating Electronic Resources into a Web OPAC
Digital Information: The Library Director as Collection Development Officer and Head of technical Services
Eeee!-Serials: Providing Access to Online Serials
Turning Our World Upside Down: Will Technology Change Pricing?
The Latest on the Late (Entry) and Other Hot News Seriality
E-Journals, Kansas Style
