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Item Using a Wiki to Enhance Library Instruction(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Matthies, Brad; Helmke, Jonathan; Slater, PaulA wiki is a type of social software that allows users to write, share, and edit content in real-time, with only rudimentary skills in Web page creation. Moreover it is safe to say that most of what is being written regarding wikis in librarianship tends to focus on wiki-based reference sources, their questionable credibility, and how this question of credibility may impact information literacy. Outside of this contentious topic are a wide range of multidisciplinary articles that focus on the collaborative uses of wikis. However, so far, the library literature appears to lack articles that discuss the application of wikis in library instruction. This article hopes to address this deficiency by chronicling Butler University Libraries' use of a wiki in librarian instruction.Item Liberty, Security, and Indiana Libraries(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Archer, J. DouglasUntil recently, most library literature on intellectual freedom and censorship focused on external efforts to restrict access to materials already owned or made accessible by libraries. With 9/11 and the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the defense of patron privacy and the confidentiality of patron records, long a growing concern, has jumped to the fore. Self-censorship by citizens afraid to exercise their freedom to read out of fear that someone may uncover their reading habits and subject them to social or state sanctions has become a major issue. ("Read" is used throughout this essay for "read, view, listen to, or access.") In legal terms such fears exert a "chilling effect" on the exercise of First Amendment liberties.Item Notes(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana LibrariesItem Library News From Around the State(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana State LibraryItem Blurring of Lines: Academic and Public Libraries Revisited(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Steele, Patricia AnnAmong the conclusions reached in Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership in 2005, was the following: "The similarity of perceptions about libraries and their resources across respondents from six countries is striking. It suggests that libraries are seen by information consumers as a common solution, a single organization - one entity with many outlets - constant, consistent, expected." Does this mean that many of the traditional differences between public and academic libraries also are blurring? In this pieces, I would like to explore that thought informally and then suggest some approaches libraries of all types need to take.Item Forthcoming Issues of Indiana Libraries(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana LibrariesItem In Step With Indiana Authors... Featuring an Interview With Tony Perona(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Wright, ElizabethAfter seeing the photos of Tony Perona at his website, tonyperona.com, which I perused in preparation for this interview, I wondered which man I would be meeting. Would it be the clean-cut businessman in a conservative suit, or the mysterious sword-wielding man with the wry grin who came through the door at Starbucks that afternoon? It was neither. The Tony Perona I had the pleasure of meeting drove up in a minivan and bounded through the door with a warm, friendly smile. He looked like any active dad out running errands in suburban Indianapolis on the weekend and, in fact, was fresh off the slopes from skiing the previous day with his church group.Item First Impression: An Interview With Author and Bibliophile Nicholas A. Basbanes(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Meehan, William F.Nicholas A. Basbanes did not publish his first book until he was 52 but, in the ten years since, the former literary editor at the Worcester Sunday Telegram has given bibliophiles and librarians five books about books. The first, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Holt, 1995), was a landmark commentary on book collecting that has sold 100,000 copies. The second, Patience & Fortitude (HarperCollins, 2001), named for the pair of lions that guard the entrance to the New York Public Library, explored the ways librarians and collectors have protected and housed their treasures throughout history, while describing libraries and book culture in general. Next came Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century (Holt, 2002), a spin-off book from the first book. Arriving after that was A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World (HarperCollins, 2003), an expanded section intended for Patience & Fortitude that looked at how books are preserved for succeeding generations. Borrowing from Ranganathan's third law of library science, Basbanes' recent book, Every Book Its Reader (HarperCollins, 2005), allowed him to draw on numerous taped interviews conducted for A Gentle Madness that were never used. His next work will be a centennial history of Yale University Press. The Lowell, Massachusetts, native spoke at Indiana University as a guest of its Medieval Studies Institute in October 2005, when William F. Meehan III sat down with the author at the Grant Street Inn in Bloomington.Item The Well-Read Librarian: NextGen Resources(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Priddis, MarissaItem A Collaborative Effort: Importance of the Relationship Between School Libraries and the University(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Young, RobynAlthough media specialists know that they will take additional classes to maintain their teacher certification, for many, there is never a second thought about a university once the graduation ceremony is complete. Most media specialists are too busy with day-to-day work to consider the ways in which a relationship with a university might be of benefit. This is unfortunate because a relationship between the school library program and a university can be beneficial to both parties. Universities are looking for a place to conduct action research and to apply the tools of the trade within a practical application. School library media specialists often need help with the research process to answer their questions. Taking these two different perspectives into consideration, the affiliation can be one of mutual benefit.
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