Papers by Cecile Jagodzinski
College & Research Libraries, Mar 1, 2001
Yearbook of English studies, 2001
At a time when university studies are undergoing considerable change, and our very concept of edu... more At a time when university studies are undergoing considerable change, and our very concept of education and its value is in the melting pot, this impressive work on seeds of knowledge and virtue has implications beyond its immediate historical argument.
College & Research Libraries, Nov 1, 2010
College & Research Libraries, Nov 1, 2005
Subject analysis and indexing: Theoretical foundation and practical advice
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Nov 1, 1994
Cataloging unpublished nonprint materials: A manual of suggestions, comments, and examples
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 1, 1993
The subject approach to information
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1997
against the grain, Sep 1, 2006
At over eight million words, it would take almost 14,000 large-format pages to do a traditional p... more At over eight million words, it would take almost 14,000 large-format pages to do a traditional printing of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 this summer. Wait a year, and you'd probably need about 15,500 pages. And that's just the current contents. Each quarter, all the entries are archived to provide a complete snapshot for scholarly citation and reference. The dynamic nature of the SEP means that revisions can be made anywhere in any entry, affecting many more pages than looking at the numerical growth alone would suggest. The SEP's current growth spurt will eventually settle down, but even when it does, the SEP is designed to keep growing and responding to new scholarly developments. Authors edit their entries through a Web interface on the server and submit the changes for editorial review. Every addition and change is reviewed by one or more subject editors before the entry is published. A traditional print edition is not in the SEP's plans, but maintaining open access is. The encyclopedia has been built with major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. These grants have covered basic operating expenses as well as the design and implementation of software that allows a principal editor, an assistant editor, and a copyediting assistant, all working part time, to oversee over a thousand authors and over a hundred subject editors. Authors and subject editors volunteer their time and efforts because they see the value of the SEP for teaching and research and because of the prestige it brings to be associated with the project. But the principal editor and assistants have demands on their time and energy going far beyond reasonable volunteerism. Plus the server and software have to be monitored, kept running, and improved, adding to the basic costs of operation-currently about $200,000/year.
Sillars, Stuart. The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875. Reviewed by Cecile M. Jagodzinski
College & Research Libraries, Jul 1, 2009
College & Research Libraries, Mar 1, 2002
College & Research Libraries, Mar 1, 2008
College & Research Libraries, Sep 1, 2002
Cooperative Web Weaving
Journal Of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, Oct 31, 1997
The authors, members of the Gopher/Web editorial board, describe in this article the technical an... more The authors, members of the Gopher/Web editorial board, describe in this article the technical and practical issues encountered in developing the library web site, as well as the larger philosophical questions that arose during the process.
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Oct 1, 2008
This article traces the history of university presses in North America, from the founding of the ... more This article traces the history of university presses in North America, from the founding of the first presses at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The growth of colleges and universities and new imperatives that faculty engage in productive research helped shape the function of the modern university press. In the twentieth century, smaller subsidies from parent institutions, new developments in technology, and the erosion of library budgets affected the stability of many presses and forced many to revise both their editorial goals and their business and management practices. Faced with new modes of scholarly communication, the explosion of digital publishing, and the open-access movement, university presses will need to continue to adapt and to assert their proper role in the scholarly community.
College & Research Libraries, 2002
Library & Information Science Research, 1994
Perhaps it is a sign of the variety of activities subsumed under the name of "indexing" that each... more Perhaps it is a sign of the variety of activities subsumed under the name of "indexing" that each of the several textbooks published in the past few years takes a dramatically different approach to the issues. For example, Wellisch's (1991) Zndtingfrom A to 2 is organized by topics and emphasizes back-of-the-book and periodical indexes, whereas Lancaster's (1991) Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice focuses on database indexing. The present work takes yet another approach, focusing on increasing the "survival power" of information systems by attending to both good system design and quality of indexing. Because the only reason for undertaking the costly operations of indexing is to enhance retrievability of information, this emphasis is to be commended. Although the book grew out of a series of lectures given by Fugmann at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science in the summers of 1992 and 1993, it has been refined into a connected text showing no sign of a lecture or lessonplan format. Fugmann begins with a redefinition of "information" as "any kind of message which is of interest to the receiver" (p. 2). Thii user-oriented definition seems more useful to study of storage and retrieval problems than the conventional communication theory definitions. A discussion of the need to design information systems for long-run survival, that is, usefulness, follows, together with a description contrasting ephemeral and enduring information systems. The next two sections form the main body of the work. The section on theoretical considerations in information storage and retrieval is built around Fugmann's liveaxiom theory of indexing and information supply: definability, order, sufficient degree of order for collection size and use frequency, predictability, and fidelity (p. 39). In the following section on practical aspects of indexing, comprising about half of the total length of the work, he expounds on the need for human indexing using a controlled vocabulary, including syntax, and for application of the most precise term available in the vocabulary, whether it appears in the document or not. Use of syntactic devices such as roles and links is strongly recommended, with graphical displays as an aid to vocabulary development and use. A highly postcoordinate vocabulary is proposed, with much more postcoordination than is recommended by the forthcoming ANSI/NISO standard for thesauri. (Unfortunately, only the old, 1980 standard is referenced, even though drafts of the new standard have been widely available for several years and will be published in 1994.) An example is the division of automatic transmission fluids into automatic transmissions and transmission jluicis, even though a document on these fluids is not necessarily about the transmissions. The final brief section is on the technology of information supply, including index language syntax, boolean logic, weighting, and expert systems. There is a glossary of some of the terms used in the text and a brief bibliography. Fugmann contributes a number of useful insights that depart from conventional wisdom. For instance, he points out that, to the extent to which a system facilitates
College & Research Libraries, 2009
Cataloging unpublished nonprint materials: A manual of suggestions, comments, and examplesby Verna Urbanski with Bao Chu Chang and Bernard L. Karon, edited by Edward Swanson. Lake Crystal, MN: Soldier Creek Press, 1992. 129p. $22.50 (paper) ISBN 0-936996-61-7. LC 92-9470
J Acad Libr, 1993
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