More on the Haworth Press situation

I saw this further information about the Haworth Press situation on SERIALST, the primary discussion list for those who work with serials.  I’ve provided embedded links to two of the archiving initiatives to which Chuck Hamaker refers, fyi.  We will talk a bit about them later in the course because they are very important (and relatively recent) initiatives:

I’ve had a note from Bill Cohen, publisher of Haworth Press Inc. indicating their offices in Binghamton are very close to the river, and as a result the basement of the building was flooded. The power grid was turned off  and phone service collapsed. The servers are safe, on the second floor, and as power went off, they went on battery back-up and are now working on restoring access.The content of the server is duplicated elsewhere, and there are multiple back-ups. Haworth is considering both Portico and CLOCKSS, for permanent archiving.  I’ll pass on any updates I receive.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian
Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825

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Citations mentioned at end of class today

At the end of class today, I highlighted a couple of the required readings for today’s class that should be “bookmarked” or kept in mind for the serials & electronic resources section as well. These citations are included here as per your request:

Cyzyk, Mark and Nathan D. M. Robertson “HERMES: The Hopkins Electronic Resource Management System” Information Technology and Libraries 22(1): 12-17 (March 2003)

Jewell, Timothy D. Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices. Washington, DC, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, July 2001 (Strategies and Tools for the Digital Library) [Available online in PDF at <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub99/pub99.pdf>