<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7036.0"> <TITLE>Reading recommendation</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  See the attachment, which accurately describes the article it cites. The article brims with opportunities and issues, mostly related to how archives/archivists might serve their clients. Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <A HREF="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</A> ======================= First Monday, Volume 12 Number 11 - 5 November 2007 <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#author">Machines in the archives: Technology and the coming transformation of archival reference by Richard J. Cox and the University of Pittsburgh archives students</A> <A HREF="http://journals.uic.edu/fm/manager/files/img/a.gif">Abstract</A>: Technology is transforming the way in which researchers gain access to archives, not only in the choices archivists make about their uses of technology but in the portable technologies researchers bring with them to the archives. This essay reviews the implications of electronic mail, instant messaging and chat, digital reference services, Web sites, scanners, digital cameras, folksonomies, and various adaptive technologies in facilitating archival access. The new machines represent greater, even unprecedented, opportunities for archivists to support one of the main elements of their professional mission, namely, getting archival records used. Contents <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c1">Introduction</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c2">Settling the first fear: The loss of documents</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c3">Electronic mail and virtual reference</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c4">E–mail is for the old folks: What about IM and chat?</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c5">The new virtual reference</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c6">A Web presence</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c7">Scanning the archives</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c8">Click, click, click: Digital cameras in archives</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c9">Archival folksonomies</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c10">Adaptive technologies: Reaching and empowering new researchers</A> <A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894#c11">Conclusion</A> </BODY> </HTML>