New D-Lib Magazine Issue Available

The March/April 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at

http://www.dlib.org/

This issue contains two commentaries (one of which has two parts), three articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the "The UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection" contributed by Lisa A. Mix.

The commentaries include:

*The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation
Brian F. Lavoie, OCLC Online Computer Library Center

*Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1: Four Challenges from the Field
Catherine C. Marshall, Microsoft Research

*Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2: Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions
Catherine C. Marshall, Microsoft Research

The articles include:

*Site Design Impact on Robots: An Examination of Search Engine Crawler Behavior at Deep and Wide Websites
Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University

*The Australian METS Profile - A Journey about Metadata
Judith Pearce, David Pearson, Megan Williams and Scott Yeadon, National Library of Australia

*Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface
Erik Mitchell and Kevin Gilbertson, Wake Forest University

(PACS-P e-list)