Briefly Noted

Media Map: Charting A Media Relations Strategy for Libraries and Library Organizations, Association of Research Libraries and SPARC. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001. 23 p. free, text (PDF) available <http://www.arl.org/mediamap.pdf - [PDF]>

Handy guide to getting good press. This is Media Basics 101 with role-playing practice, tips on building relationships, crisis communication, and hints on avoiding common pitfalls. (S.H.)

Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art, OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. [Dublin, OH]: OCLC/RLG, 2001. 50 p. text (PDF) available at <http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/>

White paper on the development of a comprehensive metadata framework for digital preservation, including definition and illustration of metadata; the Open Archival Information System (OAIS); and a synthesis of existing metadata approaches, with points of divergence/convergence. This paper represents the starting point for the Working Group's future activity. (S.H.)

A Collaborative Approach to Collection Storage: the Five-College Library Depository, Willis E. Bridegam. (CLIR Publication #97) Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. 38 p. $15 (ISBN 1-887334-81-5) Text (html and PDF) available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub97abst.html

Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and U. Mass. at Amherst agreed in 1999 to establish a shared storage facility and to cooperate more closely in collection development. This case study by Amherst's library director illustrates the practical and political issues at stake and examines the effect of increasingly available electronic copies on the storage of paper publications. (S.H.)