Gerrit Gragert - Magister Artium der Bibliothekswissenschaft und der Informatik, Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Nothing is more practical than a good theory. A banal statement, considering that a theory should always enable its users to easily derive the statements they need for practice.
But a theory for catalogs or cataloging? Is that really necessary? A question anyone is likely to ask who has never been confronted with the matter nor considered it with any seriousness.
Using Internet search engines, and knowing their operation is fully automated, people tend to view with skepticism all practical and theoretical effort invested in catalogs. Any good search engine, however, has to be be based on a good theory - though that one may differ quite a bit from a catalog theory.
This bibliography has been compiled by Brenda Chawner, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, as part of her Ph.D. studies. It includes announcements, journal articles, and web documents that are about open source software development in libraries. It also includes articles that describe specific open source applications used in libraries, in particular dSpace, Koha, Greenstone, and MyLibrary.
Imagine a future when you go to the library with a 5 minute video you've just made about last night's Presidential debates and that librarian says to you:
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.
A. Genest, and L. Heller. Kooperation versus Eigenprofil? 31. Arbeits- und Fortbildungstagung der ASpB e.V., Sektion 5 im Deutschen Bibliotheksverband, 25. bis 28. September 2007 in der Technischen Universität Berlin, page 137--146. Karlsruhe, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken, Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe, (2009)