John Richardson
Welcome to my new website, where I am pioneering advanced studies in genetic genealogy and family history, when I am not out looking for the lost ship of California’s Colorado Desert. In particular, I specialize in early 19th to mid-20th century Ohio, especially Belmont, Guernsey, Jefferson, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, and Washington counties as well as earlier 19th century emigration from Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia to Ohio.My latest published work—Die Weber Familie: The Weber, Wollenschläger, Habermann, and Kempf Families in Early 19th Century Palatine Germany, Brazil and the United States of America—was just published by ITA Press. My prior academic work has been recognized with numerous awards and honors including the Newberry Library fellowship, best Information Science Book award from ASIS
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Phone: (310) 994-9494 (cell)
Address: 204 GSE&IS Building
Box 951250
300 Charles E. Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
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Papers by John Richardson
Design/methodology/approach – The websites of 100 member academic libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (USA) were surveyed.
Findings – All libraries were found to be using various tools of Web 2.0. Blogs, microblogs, RSS, instant messaging, social networking sites, mashups, podcasts, and vodcasts were widely adopted, while wikis, photo sharing, presentation sharing, virtual worlds, customized webpage and vertical search engines were used less. Libraries were using these tools for sharing news, marketing their services, providing information literacy instruction, providing information about print and digital resources, and soliciting feedback of users.
Originality/value – The paper is useful for future planning of Web 2.0 use in academic libraries.
early development of the discipline of library science in the United States (and perhaps North America
more generally, but certainly not Europe, much less India, other than to mention its origins in Germany);
2) to describe the intellectual foundations and history for the discipline of library science as developed at
the University of Chicago’s GLS; and 3) to briefly identify the knowledge and skills as well as values
associated with this emergent field. Strictly speaking, therefore, it is not a discourse on computer science,
informatics, information science, information studies, or for that matter, the history of librarianship nor
books and libraries; neither is it a history of literary endeavors, printing, writing, or scholarly communication
per se, but rather it is an introductory orientation to a highly specialized field of knowledge
Teaching Documents by John Richardson
Design/methodology/approach – The websites of 100 member academic libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (USA) were surveyed.
Findings – All libraries were found to be using various tools of Web 2.0. Blogs, microblogs, RSS, instant messaging, social networking sites, mashups, podcasts, and vodcasts were widely adopted, while wikis, photo sharing, presentation sharing, virtual worlds, customized webpage and vertical search engines were used less. Libraries were using these tools for sharing news, marketing their services, providing information literacy instruction, providing information about print and digital resources, and soliciting feedback of users.
Originality/value – The paper is useful for future planning of Web 2.0 use in academic libraries.
early development of the discipline of library science in the United States (and perhaps North America
more generally, but certainly not Europe, much less India, other than to mention its origins in Germany);
2) to describe the intellectual foundations and history for the discipline of library science as developed at
the University of Chicago’s GLS; and 3) to briefly identify the knowledge and skills as well as values
associated with this emergent field. Strictly speaking, therefore, it is not a discourse on computer science,
informatics, information science, information studies, or for that matter, the history of librarianship nor
books and libraries; neither is it a history of literary endeavors, printing, writing, or scholarly communication
per se, but rather it is an introductory orientation to a highly specialized field of knowledge