Five hundred citations to Internet resources from articles published in library and information science journals in 1999 and 2000 were profiled and searched on the Web. The majority contained partial bibliographic information and no date viewed. Most URLs pointed to content pages with “edu” or “org” domains and did not include a tilde. More than half (56.4%) were permanent, 81.4 percent were available on the Web, and searching the Internet Archive increased the availability rate to 89.2 percent. Content, domain, and directory depth were associated with availability. Few of the journals provided instruction on citing digital resources. Eight suggestions for improving scholarly communication citation conventions are presented.

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The author describes how the concept of collection, reflecting the profession's principles, values, and practices as they pertained to print-based (analog) information resources, developed in the pre-World Wide Web environment. She poses five questions related to goals and practices in the analog environment to help libraries develop a concept of the hybrid collection.

This article reports the findings of a study modeled after Saracevic, Shaw, and Kantor's efforts to identify and quantify the causes of users' failures to identify and locate library materials. The researchers analyzed patron-reported and librarian-observed subject and known-item searchesThe primary purpose of the study was to determine what needed to be done to improve library services. Several important ancillary benefits were anticipated; these included involving staff, particularly those new to the organization, in aspects of the library (and perhaps the college) that were unfamiliar to them and introclueing them to the techniques and complexities of evaluating library operations. The potential for a positive political impact, particularly in terms of funding, was also noted. A steering committee comprised of four staff members planned the study, analyzed the data, and prepared the following report. All staff, however, were involved in various aspects of the actual data collection.Four criteria were used to select a type of self-study that would (1) identify the impact of library weaknesses on users, (2) evaluate functions used by patrons, (3) be feasible, and (4) serve as a management tool, not as an academic exercise.The selection of a self-study model followed an intensive review of the advantages and disadvantages associated with various library research methodologies. User surveys, document availability tests,

Risk and technological changes are inexorably linked, and librarians, as experts, must communicate these risks to lay persons and develop appropriate risk management strategies. This paper identifies some of the risks to library primacy, library and professional values, collection integrity, and scholarly communication and the information marketplace that those involved in collection development and acquisition of library materials may encounter. The sources of these risks are briefly described, and the author suggests some risk management strategies.