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Ninsiima, Clare, and Patricia Kyomugisha. "E-Book Mobile Application: A Case of Kabale University Mukombe Library, Uganda." East African Journal of Information Technology 5, no. 1 (September 30, 2022): 131–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajit.5.1.867.
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Globally, many academic e-books are available in user-friendly forms like PDF and HTML that can be accessed on laptops, iPads, and smartphones, even though some e-books require a special e-book reader. However, university students find it difficult to access e-books because some of the university libraries have few computers that hold the downloaded e-books, which are stored in a folder, and little effort has been made as a result; there is low usage of e-books. The project’s goal was to investigate how e-book applications work and how students at Kabale University can access e-books via mobile phone or tablet. The objectives of the project were to investigate the existing e-books application, design and develop the e-books application, and test and validate the developed application that enables students at Kabale University to access e-books simultaneously. The literature review helped me read a number of pieces of literature about e-book applications. They were information sources about the E-books application such as the internet, books, journals, and newspapers, among others. The use of existing information from the library helped to develop a model to predict the E-book application and testing of the application using Android smartphones. It was concluded that the implementation of the e-book’s application was done using Android to enable users to access the books on their mobile phones or tablets. The study recommends that the administrator of the system should be taken through the tasks in order to be able to upload books ready for the application
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Fergina, Ana. "EVALUATION OF THE BOOK "UNSKILLED JOBS IN WEST KALIMANTAN" AS AN EXTENSIVE READING MATERIAL FOR TANJUNGPURA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS." Jurnal Visi Ilmu Pendidikan 16, no. 1 (May 29, 2024): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/jvip.v16i1.70089.
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The use of books by students needs to be checked and evaluated periodically to see the book's quality. The book "Unskilled Jobs in West Kalimantan" was assessed to catch readers' responses in the context of the physical appearance of the book and its content. The research was carried out by distributing a mixed questionnaire containing book evaluation and understanding of the books read. Based on the research results, readers responded positively to the book's physical aspects, including layout, design, and cover. Apart from that, the assessment of the book's contents in terms of diction also received a positive response. Readers understand the reading in the book more quickly in a short time. This book is designed for intermediate-level readers. It can be concluded that the book Unskilled Jobs in West Kalimantan meets readers' expectations at the intermediate level.
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Watts, James W. "Scriptures' Indexical Touch." Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 8, no. 1-2 (August 19, 2017): 173–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/post.32671.
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Touching and holding books does not usually evoke the language of sensation. Touching a book indexes the reader in relationship to the book. Holding a book of scripture indexes a person as faithful to the beliefs and practices that are commonly associated with that scripture. In portraiture, the direction of a book’s indexical function is usually clear. Scribes, professors, lawyers and politicians pose in their libraries, often with book in hand, to depict themselves as scholars. The fact that scriptures are books makes a vocabulary of textual agency available for describing their symbolic function. The indexical link between book and person gains force from the fact that books and people share the quality of interiority. We think of both books and people as material containers of immaterial ideas. Therefore, images of people with books invite viewers to consider the relationship between their invisible ideas. However, art that portrays a god or goddess holding a scripture conveys a tighter indexical relationship, often to the point of collapsing any distinction between them.
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Mirza, Nouman. "The Sciences of the Qur’an Readings According to Al-Dhahabi through His Mention of Issues and Benefits in the Biographies of the Qur’an Reciters A Comparative Applied Study." Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Sharia'h Sciences and Islamic Studies, no. 95 (December 19, 2023): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.54940/si41780961.
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I meant to highlight examples of issues in the sciences of Qur'anic readings and their benefits found in the biographies of Qur'anic readers in Al-Dhahabi's -(died 748 AH)- biographies books, especially his book: (Quranic Biographies Readers). The most important research objectives are to highlight the aspects of the science of Quranic recitations from Al-Dhahabi's book (Quranic Biographies Readers), refer to his efforts, show the book's importance, and compare it with similar books. Following the descriptive methods, I described the aspects of the science of Quranic recitations from Al-Dhahabi's biographies books of readers and compared them with similar books. The essential results are Al-Dhahabi's position in Quran readings, the position of his books, and highlighting the manifestations of his interest in the science of Quran readings. The most important recommendations: Highlight the essential manifestations of the sciences of Quran reading from various biographies and books and show the efforts of their authors.
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Subextyo, Ixnu, Ahmad Subhan Yazid, and Bambang Sugiantoro. "Library Application and Book Return Schedule Reminder using Short Message Service (SMS) at State Vocational School of Jenawi." IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) 4, no. 1 (May 26, 2015): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ijid.2015.04104.
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The Library of the State Vocational School of Jenawi implements a manual database system where the transaction process is slow and inefficient. The frequent delay in returning books also adds to the problems. This study aims to build a library application that manages library data, including member data, borrowing-returning books data, calculating fines for returning books, and book searches. The method used is SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) which consists of the analysis, design, implementation and testing. The application built with Delphi can manage library data, handle book circulation, and automatically send Short Message Service (SMS) to the borrower as a reminder of the book's return schedule.
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Wang, Danrui, Bowen Tan, Muchen Wei, Xuhao Cui, and Xingru Huang. "Using natural language processing and machine learning algorithm for book categorization." Applied and Computational Engineering 2, no. 1 (March 22, 2023): 856–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/2/20220551.
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This research analyzed the relationship between multiple elements of a book's classifica-tion through natural language processing and machine learning. This paper used SVM and KNN to classify books according to the titles and author respectively. Also, books are categorized by summary through Decision Tree, Nave Bayes and BERT. In the end, this work compared effects of these methods. Our findings show that 1) books have different levels of categorical characteristics in various parts of the book 2) through combining the title, author, and summary of the book, more accurate classification results were obtained 3) BERT achieved more accurate recognition compared to a variety of other algorithms used.
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Tomizawa, Tetsuo, Akihisa Ohya, and Shin’ichi Yuta. "Book Extraction for Remote Book Browsing Robot." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 16, no. 3 (June 20, 2004): 264–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2004.p0264.
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Our purpose is the realization of a system able to access objects at remote sites by integrating Internet technologies and robotic engineering developments such as mobile robots. Concretely, we are developing a system that uses a robot for browsing remote books via the Internet. To extract books, the robot must recognize the book’s pose-feature (position, angle, and thickness). This paper describes the sensor developed for recognizing the position of books and planning book extraction in a general library environment, and reviews experimental results.
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Gomm, Jeff, Melissa Allen Heath, and Pat Mora. "Analysis of Latino award winning children’s literature." School Psychology International 38, no. 5 (September 25, 2017): 507–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143034317713349.
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In this article, we offer information about the specific challenges US Latino immigrant children face. We then determine which of these challenges are included in 72 award winning children’s picture books, specifically created for and/or about Latino children. Our analysis offers information to assist school-based mental health professionals, children’s librarians, educators, and parents in prescriptively selecting books that align with Latino children’s social emotional needs. Additionally, we analysed each book’s proportion of Spanish/English text and described the book’s targeted age level and Horn Book Guide rating. From our perspective, books containing colorful illustrations that include Latino children, realistic situations, familiar Spanish words and phrases, and true-to-life characters help Latino children engage and identify with these stories. Children’s book author Pat Mora also explains her perceptions of quality children’s literature. Although this article is specific to Latino children’s literature, implications are offered that generalize to other ethnic and cultural groups that are typically underrepresented in children’s literature.
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Tomsu, Lindsey. "Book Review: Intellectual Freedom for Teens: A Practical Guide for Young Adult and School Librarians." Reference & User Services Quarterly 55, no. 1 (September 25, 2015): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n1.67a.
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Intellectual Freedom for Teens is a short, easy-to-read introduction to the topic of intellectual freedom (IF). The book’s raison d’être is the fact that many young adult (YA) librarians deal with unexpected book challenges because a large proportion of the titles on ALA’s annual Frequently Challenged Books list are YA books that are popular among teens, used in classrooms, or both. The book aims to introduce librarians to the issues involved in championing for teens’ intellectual freedom rights, specifically the right to read.
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Patterson, Jordan. "Print Book Circulation Longevity Dropping at a Small Canadian University Library." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 17, no. 3 (September 19, 2022): 144–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/eblip30181.
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A Review of: Belvadi, M. (2021). Longevity of print book use at a small public university: A 30-year longitudinal study. Insights, 34(1), 26. http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.562 Abstract Objective – To inform future collecting decisions by ascertaining the circulation longevity of print books within an academic library. Design – Longitudinal data analysis of two circulation datasets. Setting – Library catalogue of a small public university in Canada. Subjects – 10,002 print books acquired between 1991 and 1996 with a first circulation year between 1991 and 2000 (part 1); 4,060 print books acquired and with a first circulation year between 2008 and 2011 (part 2A); 35,860 print books acquired since 1991 with a first circulation year between 2008 and 2011 (parts 2B). Methods – The researcher established two datasets by selecting books with viable circulation data from the institution’s holdings. Using each book’s Library of Congress classification number, the researcher mapped each book to three other categorization schemes. The first scheme, Becher-Biglan topology, categorizes books as belonging to either applied or hard and pure or soft fields of study. The second scheme, called in the paper “major subjects,” uses a traditional broad subject categorization (e.g. arts, sciences, health, etc.), and the third scheme categorizes books by the academic programs at the researcher’s institution. The researcher then analyzed the circulation data through the lens of these three categorization schemes. Main Results – Part 1, which considered the collection’s older circulated books, found that books had an average circulation longevity of 10 years. About 14% of books circulated for only one year, and about 24% of books circulated for less than five years. Among the newer books considered in Part 2, 37% circulated for just one year and 64% had a circulation longevity of four years. Conclusion – Books in applied and hard fields generally have greater longevity compared to pure and soft fields. Books in professional and STEM fields generally have greater longevity than books in the humanities and arts, contrary to conventional library wisdom. Print book circulation longevity appears to be dropping. Subscription and on-demand acquisitions options may prove to be a more efficacious use of resources than ‘just-in-case’ print collecting.
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Clément, Catherine. "The Weary Sons of Freud." Feminist Review 26, no. 1 (July 1987): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1987.19.
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This article brings together two excerpts from the forthcoming book, The Weary Sons of Freud (Verso/New Left Books, 1987) by Catherine Clément, translated from the French by Nicole Ball. It also includes an edited version of the book's Introduction by Ann Rosalind Jones. Feminist Review would like to thank her for her help in editing this piece, and also Verso/New Left Books for permission to reproduce these extracts.
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Haugland, Ann. "Books as Culture/Books as Commerce." Journalism Quarterly 71, no. 4 (December 1994): 787–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909407100403.
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The book industry historically has been characterized as caught between two seemingly conflicting goals: to contribute to the cultural life of the society and to make a profit. As the most influential medium for information about books, the text of the New York Times Book Review reflects that conflict and marks the boundary between books as culture and books as commerce in a way that maintains an artificial distinction between high and low culture.
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Maulina, Dina, Median Agus Priadi, Dewi Lengkana, Tri Jalmo, Ave Suakanila Fauzisar, and Mohamad Amin. "Book of insects’ immune system: development and implementation with pbl in increasing students’ learning outcome." Biosfer 13, no. 1 (May 14, 2020): 42–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/biosferjpb.v13n1.42-58.
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The purpose of this research was to develop a research-based reference book and applied it through the problem-based learning (PBL) using reference books in learning activities. The method for the reference book used the ADDIE development models. The reference book's effectiveness test results were conducted using a purposive sampling technique, with a total sample of 55 students and analyzed by t-test. The research results showed that the reference books of the development results were validated by media experts and material experts. The integration of the development of reference books in learning activities has an impact on increasing student understanding as demonstrated through the pre-test and post-test scores that differ significantly with t-value> t-table (4.149> 2.045) at p <0.05. Therefore, the development of the insect's immune system book with the PBL model increasthe student learning outcomes significantly. Also, this research has been able to improve students' ability and competence in solving problems in insects' immune system subject matter.
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Bunyard, Daniel. "Why We Buy Books." Logos 31, no. 2 (September 4, 2020): 28–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03102004.
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Publishing is often characterized by instinctive decision-making with little attempt to apply a scientific methodology to an obvious question: why does one book sell and another not? The thesis of this paper is that, although there are aspects of a book’s publication history that one cannot predict in advance, one can know what these aspects are. A simple syllogism underlies the argument: if human behaviour can be understood through psychology and if book-buying is a form of behaviour, the motivations for book-buying can also be understood through psychology. This approach can be applied historically, through recourse to sales data, to trace the fossils of books published long ago and so discover the type and strength of the motivations that once drove people to buy them. History demonstrates that these motivations, once properly framed, can be understood to be influenced by context. Book-buying motivations also appear cyclically. This leads to a discussion of why it is that one book rather than another may satisfy a motivation and therefore sell better than another. Using the concept of prisms combining to reflect a motivational ‘light’, we see that books exist as constructs of a finite range of elements that cohere (or not) in a multiplicative way to enhance or diminish their effectiveness. Evidence is also given for what appears to be a universal ratio that dictates a natural entropy in the effectiveness of these prismatic elements.
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Ahn, Hyun Woo. "A Study on the Satisfaction and Reuse Intention of E-books·Audio-books·Chat-books : Focusing on the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory." Korean Publishing Science Society 111 (June 30, 2023): 53–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.21732/skps.2023.111.53.
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This study starts with the premise that changes in consumption methods, production of various digital contents, the emergence of new generations, and the spread of new media inevitably change the publishing industry amid the advancement of the digital age, and starts with a question of how e-books, audio-books, and chat-books are accepted by users. The conclusions of this study are as follows. First, it was found that expectations for service quality had a positive (+) effect on service quality performance in all e-book, audio-book, and chat-book platforms. Second, in the case of e-books and audio-books, service quality expectations had a negative (-) effect on the expected mismatch, while chat-books did not show a significant influence relationship. Third, it was found that service quality performance had a positive (+) effect on expectation mismatch in all e-book, audio-book, and chat-book platforms. Fourth, in the case of audio-books and chat-books, service quality performance had a positive (+) effect on platform satisfaction, while e-books did not show a significant influence relationship. Fifth, in the case of e-books and audio-books, expectation mismatch had a positive (+) effect on platform satisfaction, while chat-books did not show a significant influence relationship. Finally, it was found that platform satisfaction had a positive (+) effect on reuse intention in all e-books, audio-books, and chat-books. It is expected that this study will be used as an initial data comparing and analyzing the satisfaction and reuse intention of e-book, audio-book, and chat-book platforms based on the expectancy disconfirmation theory, and will serve as a meaningful stepping stone for future research.
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Gusti, Laylia Selsi Qodri, Elsy Renie, Zainuddin Zainuddin, and Siska Elasta Putri. "PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP HAK WARGA NEGARA DALAM KARYA BUKU ELEKTRONIK (E-Book)." JISRAH: Jurnal Integrasi Ilmu Syariah 4, no. 1 (April 29, 2023): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.31958/jisrah.v4i1.9353.
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This study examines the legal protection of citizens' rights in electronic book works (e-books), there are still many violations of citizens' rights in the form of piracy of electronic book works (e-books). The problem is the regulation given by the state to the legal protection of citizens' rights in electronic book works (e-books) so that electronic books (e-books) are perfectly protected and the government's role in the legal protection of citizens' rights in electronic book works (e-books). This research is library research. Data and materials are obtained through reading, citing books, researching, analyzing documents, news on the internet and laws related to discussion. After the data / material is collected, it is processed in a descriptive qualitative way and analyzed in a deductive. This study found that existing laws and regulations have not protected electronic books (E-books) as a whole, so changes are needed so that electronic books (e-books) can be perfectly protected.
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Zielonka, Katarzyna. "Noty proweniencyjne i właściciele ksiąg biblioteki klasztoru cysterek w Trzebnicy w świetle inwentarza Heleny Szwejkowskiej." Saeculum Christianum 25 (April 25, 2019): 206–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/sc.2018.25.17.
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Many of the marks of ownership were included in the inventory of the Library of the Cistercian Monastery in Trzebnica. Owners and history of individual book are known to us thanks to the provenience notes which Helena Szwejkowska recorded in her catalogue. The author of the abovementioned work gathered all provenience notes into a few groups, which allowed us to see how the book collection was growing.That was possible because of buying books and people who decided to give their books to the monastery library. Although it was forbidden, a lot of nuns were in private possession of books and when they died their books become part of library in Trzebnica. Abbesses of the monastery in Trzebnica were also listed in Szwejkowska’s catalogue as book’s owners.By provenience notes we can also see the connections between the monastery in Trzebnica and other Cistercian monasteries in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth eg. Lubiąż, Jemielnica, Przemęt. Also there was an exchange of books between Trzebnica and it’s branch in Owińska.Many of the books were brought to Trzebnica by priests who were confessors and sermonizers to Cistercian nuns. There are evidences that some of the books were brought to the monastery in Trzebnica by Eugeniusz Lenga (who later was an abbot in Jemielnica) and Benedykt Cieszkont (who used to be the confessor in Trzebnica). Kasper from Przemęt has to be mentioned as the one who brought some of the manuscripts.A lot of highly valuable information can be read by historians from margin notes and other marks that were written on the pages of books in the library in Trzebnica. Especially important are provenience marks from the period of the dissolution of the monastery when all the precious books were removed from Trzebnica by Johann Gustaw Büsching.
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Aldisa, Rima Tamara, and Mohammad Aldinugroho Abdullah. "Penerapan Agile Development Methodology dalam Sistem Penjualan Buku dengan Fitur Kategori dan Pencarian." Building of Informatics, Technology and Science (BITS) 3, no. 4 (March 31, 2022): 547–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.47065/bits.v3i4.1434.
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In the current digital era, it is very important that business people need a website to make it easier to make sales online, buyers can search for goods without having to come to the store. Books are windows of knowledge. The Bookstore sells various types of best-selling book categories, latest books, school textbooks, cooking books, internet computer books, internet computer books, comics and novels, religious books, self-development books. The problem is that the bookstore owner has difficulty in knowing sales reports, difficulties in the number of available or empty book stocks, types or categories of books that cannot be separated. Designing a book sales information system and software developed using the Agile Development Methodology. The purpose of this study is that bookstores can have a website that attracts buyers, is easy to use and access, has a book category and search for books to make it easier for buyers to find the books they want and also make it easier for owners to manage book stock and reports
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Syska, Rafał. "Comics in museums. Paradoxes of the presence and absence of comics in museum exhibition practices." Kultura Popularna 60, no. 2 (January 31, 2020): 148–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7341.
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The article analyzes the phenomenon of exhibitions dedicated to comic books, which are displayed in museum and gallery spaces. It presents the theory of contemporary narrative exhibitions. Using some tools of the latest research on the art of exhibition, the author analyzes the status of a comic book in a museum landscape. He reflects on the diversity of the comic book’s presence in everyday practices, the other nature of comic's experience by a visitor, and a link between comic books and other media, especially film. He describes the role of the viewer, who becomes the object in relations with a comic book transformed into a subject as a museum artifact.
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Wachsmann, Melanie. "Book Review: Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens." Reference & User Services Quarterly 55, no. 1 (September 25, 2015): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n1.70.
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This book should be required reading for anyone working with teens. Cart and Jenkins have compiled a list of LGBTQ-themed books comprising fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and professional resources. Both the fiction and graphic novel sections include codes to indicate whether the book’s themes include “homosexual visibility,” “gay assimilation,” and/or “queer consciousness.” Additional information about the meaning and use of these codes is presented in the appendix.
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Sun, Xinyi. "Design and Construction of University Book Layout Based on Text Image Preprocessing Algorithm in Education Metaverse Environment." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (September 25, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6219401.
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Books have a significant role in the diffusion of cultural information since they not only carry the weight of cultural inheritance but also serve to preserve historical culture. The major goals of contemporary book layout design are to establish harmony and coherence; maintain overall coordination between the internal and external; and have distinctive, inventive, and modern aesthetic impacts in the context of the educational metacosmos. It is important to emphasize the artistic value and beauty of contemporary books using proper creative language design strategies. The discussion of contemporary book layout design therefore helps to increase understanding of contemporary book layout design. This essay briefly addresses book layout design and examines how books are constructed in colleges and universities. Based on the educational metauniverse environment, it outlines a number of issues that should be taken into account when designing the book’s layout. Layout analysis and text image preparation methods are used in modelling. The experimental findings indicate that this algorithm can recognise text regions with an accuracy of 94.8% and a recognition rate of 94.5%, respectively. It is concluded that the method suggested in this work has some reference value for the advancement of university book layout design and can be applied effectively in layout analysis and text typesetting.
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Panchenko, Lesya. "Viktor Petrovych Andruschenko’s "Phenomenon of Education"." Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education 27, no. 1 (August 11, 2021): 272–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.31874/2309-1606-2021-27-1-16.
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Review of the monograph of Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Viktor Petrovich Andrushchenko, made in 5 books:
Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 1. The concept of education: content and subject field. Sumy: University book. 452 s.
Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 2. Structural and functional analysis of education. Sumy: University book. 592 s.
Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 3. Existential space of education. Sumy: University book. 500 s.
Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 4. Ukrainian education: history of formation, development, modernization. Sumy: University book. 560 s.
Andrushchenko, V. P. (2020) The phenomenon of education: in 5 books. Book 5. Articles and interviews. Sumy: University book. 536 s.
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Watts, James W. "The Fear of Inspirational Books." Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 14, no. 2 (December 15, 2023): 196–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/post.26651.
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Banning books from public and school libraries has sharply increased in the USA in recent years. I analyze the phenomenon of book banning from the theoretical perspective of how books get ritualized in different textual dimensions. Book bans have a long cultural history in shaping literary and religious canons. Comparison with book burning shows some similar and some distinctive strategies behind book banning. Like book burning, book banning aims to draw public attention and to offend political opponents. In contrast to ritualized destruction of iconic books, however, book banning attacks the expressive dimension of reading texts by trying to prevent access to them. Whereas book burnings aim to offend opponents’ sensibilities, book bans aim to prevent inspiration to imagine different social arrangements and personal identities. That goal is apparent from the disproportionate focus on banning books with multi-cultural and LGBTQIA+ themes. The ban acts as a warning against embracing certain opinions and identities. However, analyzing book banning as ritual also draws attention to well-developed, ongoing traditions of counter-ritualizing by many libraries. They publicize banned book lists and encourage reading them during “Banned Books Week” and similar events. Through this ritual analysis of iconic and expressive texts, book banning emerges as a traditional site of cultural conflict over the means and goals of textual inspiration.
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Magi. "Painting a Bibliography: Excerpts from SPEECH." Humanities 8, no. 2 (April 17, 2019): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020079.
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The following excerpts—rearranged especially for this condensed reading space—are from a project entitled SPEECH (Nightboat Books 2019): a book of poetry, prose, and images from an archive of paintings that were made by the author during the time of the book’s writing [...]
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Fang, Jian Jun, Qiang Qiang Zhao, and Ming Fang Du. "Extraction and Segmentation of Books Call Number Image for Books on the Shelves of Library." Applied Mechanics and Materials 614 (September 2014): 374–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.614.374.
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It is a key technology that extract and segment book call number from books’ backbone images for book retrieval and return robot to take an operation of sending and withdrawing books to or from the shelves of library. This paper presents an image extraction and segmentation method using color feature and edge information to segment adjacent book call number with similar background. Take thick, thicker, medium thick, thin, little thin and hybrid books’ backbone images as experiment samples, and the results show that this method effectively extracts and segments adjacent book call number. The segmentation approach provides a technical support for book retrieval and return robot to carry out automatic books’ retrieval and return operation.
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Shamir, Adina, and Rotem Maor. "E-Books for Promoting Vocabulary Among Students With Intellectual Disability as Opposed to Children With Learning Disability: Can Repeated Reading Make a Difference?" Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology 17, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 164–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1945-8959.17.2.164.
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Despite young children's increasing access to electronic books (e-books) and the evidence indicating their effectiveness for promoting language and literacy, no study has yet explored the e-book's effect in this area among students with intellectual disability (ID). Motivated by this challenge, the current study sought to investigate the effect of an educational e-book on vocabulary acquisition among students with ID. The effect on vocabulary of five repeated readings of an e-book among students with ID was measured and compared with that of children with learning disability (LD). The findings indicate that whereas two independent rereadings with the e-book were enough to promote vocabulary acquisition among the students with LD, at least five rereadings were required to make a difference in the group with ID. Explanations and implications of the findings are discussed.
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Aston, Margaret. "Lap Books and Lectern Books: The Revelatory Book in the Reformation." Studies in Church History 38 (2004): 163–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400015801.
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The size of books has always mattered – for manuscript books as well as printed books. It makes a great difference to the fate of its contents and eventual influence whether the page is in a heavy folio or a portable pamphlet. Differences of format affected authority and influence and had a direct bearing on the circulation of ideas, the critical lift-off that could take place when vocalization took the silent word into mouths and minds away from the lettered page. This may seem self-evident, but even so, given the recognized role of the book in the Reformation (or reformations) of the sixteenth century, some reflections on this aspect seem worthwhile. The revelatory quality of the book in this period is here approached first by looking at the role of small lap books, and then by considering the challenge in England to the accepted order of books, when the great lectern book of Scripture was first laid open for general reading in church naves.
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Liddicoat, Anthony. "Reading picture books on television." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 14, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 91–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.14.1.05lid.
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Abstract Television plays a major role in the lives of children. This studies examines one aspect of children’s television – the reading of picture books. Interaction centred around picture books has been shown to be an important element in the acquisition of literacy. Mediated picture books and “live” picture books encourage different patterns of interaction between reader and child. The reading of a television picture book, unlike that of a live picture book, is a text, not an interaction centred about a text. Such texts can form the basis of useful interactions between children and others, but exposure to mediated picture books alone does not appear to replace the function of “live” picture book reading in the acquisition of literacy.
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Farrell, Thomas. "Books, Books, Books!" Archives of Ophthalmology 113, no. 2 (February 1, 1995): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1995.01100020026023.
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Lempert, Philip. "Books, Books, Books." Archives of Ophthalmology 113, no. 12 (December 1, 1995): 1582. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1995.01100120114033.
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Tracy, Daniel G. "Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment." Reference & User Services Quarterly 58, no. 1 (October 10, 2018): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.1.6839.
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This article seeks to understand information behavior in the context of the academic e-book user experience, shaped by a disparate set of vendor platforms licensed by libraries. These platforms vary in design and affordances, yet studies of e-book use in an academic context often treat e-books as a unified phenomenon in opposition to print books. Based on participant diaries tracking e-book information behavior and follow-up interviews and focus groups on troubleshooting and format shifting behaviors, this study seeks to provide a deep qualitative look at decisions that academic users make about formats when encountering e-books. It identifies reasons for noted disparities between stated user preferences for print books while often using e-books instead. It also demonstrates the importance of considering e-books as a set of formats, rather than a unified experience, when evaluating e-book platforms or providing information services around a set of platforms. While e-book studies often point to a distinction between “use” of e-books and “reading” of print books by users, this study shows much more willingness to both use and read e-books for some tasks if platforms allow for offloading reading of content to preferred reading devices and apps. This has implications for collection development, advocacy with vendors, and for marketing to or consulting with users about e-book access and use options.
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Fitriani, Erni. "“EF” Method for Determination Books Inventory Number on Book Acquisition at Library Of Lampung University Case Study : Acquisition Book At 2012 And 2013." Record and Library Journal 2, no. 1 (July 25, 2016): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/rlj.v1i3.2122.
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Inventory is an activity of book registration or recording bibliographic data collection into the main book or book inventory in accordance with the type of collection. Before September 2012, the inventory of books, especially in determining books inventory number, have been done by manual counting, so it often goes wrong in the book inventory. In November 2012 at the Library of Lampung University, Acquisition Book Division received 1473 titles/7357 copies. In 2013, the Library have received 1684 titles/16.870 copies. The books that received from the publishers was composed in a box in random order. The aims of “EF” method are: 1) to determine books inventory number easier, more effective, and faster; 2) to minimize the error in determining books inventory number. The method used is descriptive quantitative which consists of making a description, an image or picture in a systematic and factual from the existing problems which is to determine the books inventory number: a case study in acquisition books in 2012 and 2013. The results and conclusion are “EF” method in determining the books inventory number in 2012 and 2013 is easier, more effective, and faster, and “EF’ method can minimize errors in determining the books inventory number.
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Fitriani, Erni. "“EF” Method for Determination Books Inventory Number on Book Acquisition at Library of Lampung Unversity case study : acquisition book at 2012 and 2013." Record and Library Journal 2, no. 1 (January 5, 2018): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/rlj.v2-i1.2016.35-42.
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Inventory is an activity of book registration or recording bibliographic data collection into the main book or book inventory in accordance with the type of collection. Before September 2012, the inventory of books, especially in determining books inventory number, have been done by manual counting, so it often goes wrong in the book inventory. In November 2012 at the Library of Lampung University, Acquisition Book Division received 1473 titles/7357 copies. In 2013, the Library have received 1684 titles/16.870 copies. The books that received from the publishers was composed in a box in random order. The aims of “EF” method are: 1) to determine books inventory number easier, more effective, and faster; 2) to minimize the error in determining books inventory number. The method used is descriptive quantitative which consists of making a description, an image or picture in a systematic and factual from the existing problems which is to determine the books inventory number: a case study in acquisition books in 2012 and 2013 The results and conclusion are “EF” method in determining the books inventory number in 2012 and 2013 is easier, more effective, and faster, and “EF’ method can minimize errors in determining the books inventory number.
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Thoburn, Nicholas. "Twitter, Book, Riot: Post-Digital Publishing against Race." Theory, Culture & Society 37, no. 3 (January 16, 2020): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276419891573.
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This article considers today’s ‘post-digital’ political publishing through the material forms of an experimental book, The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary. Anonymously published and devoid of all editorial text, the book is comprised entirely of some 650 screen-grabbed tweets, tweets posted by black Baltimore youth during the riots that ensued on the police killing of Freddie Gray. It is a crisis-ridden book, bearing the wrenching anti-black terror and rebellion of Baltimore 2015 into the horizon of publishing. Drawing on critical theories of books and digital media, and bringing Saidiya Hartman and Frank Wilderson to bear on issues of publishing, the article appraises seven aspects of this book’s materiality: its epistolary structure and rupture with the book-as-closure; its undoing of the commodity form of books; the ‘poor image’ of its visual scene; its recourse to facial redaction and voiding of narrative progression; and its destabilization of readers’ empathy.
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Rachmawati, Rachmawati, Niran Khumbangly, and Do Thi Ha. "Development of an English Narrative Writing Book for Class XI Students." Tekno - Pedagogi : Jurnal Teknologi Pendidikan 13, no. 2 (October 20, 2023): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22437/teknopedagogi.v13i2.32515.
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This research aims to develop an English narrative writing book for class XI students using a structured development model. Through the stages of need identification, analysis, development and product evaluation, the book is prepared taking into account quality standards and student learning needs. Book validation is carried out by subject experts, design experts, teachers and students, who state that the book is content valid and suitable for use in learning. The results of product trials showed positive responses from various parties, confirming the book's effectiveness in improving students' English narrative writing skills. The novelty of this research lies in the systematic approach in developing English narrative writing books for class XI students, which pays attention to various aspects of learning and ensures relevance to students' needs. The implication of this research is that it contributes to enriching learning resources in English subjects at the secondary school level, as well as providing meaningful guidance for the development of English learning books in the future.
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Ng, Ashton. "Bibliophilia: the Passion of Ming Dynasty Private Book Collectors." Ming Qing Yanjiu 24, no. 2 (October 13, 2020): 279–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340051.
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Abstract In the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), book collecting evolved from an elite pastime into a widespread obsession. ‘Bibliophilia’—the passionate love for books—drove many book collectors to exhaust their fortunes or even trade their concubines for books. As books became indispensable towards gaining respectability in Chinese society, scholars, merchants, and landowners ensured that their residences were thoroughly infused with the prestigious “fragrance of books”. Some literati even regarded book collecting as a man’s most important undertaking in life. Ming private book collectors broke away from tradition and made their private collections available for others to view, exchange, or copy, greatly promoting the circulation of books. Through their incredible attention to the collection, classification, storage, and proofreading of books, Ming bibliophiles contributed enormously to the preservation and transmission of Chinese culture.
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Kumbhar, Rajendra. "Trends in E-book Research." DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 38, no. 3 (May 4, 2018): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.38.3.12382.
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<p>The research intended to identify current trends in research on e-books. Specifically it aimed to know the facets of e-books attended to by the research published during 2016. It also intended to review significant results and their supportive or contradictory nature with reference to each other.</p><p>For this review research literature on e-books was searched from LISA, Emerald, Ebsco, Google Scholar and other databases using the statement ‘e-books OR ebooks’. The query was restricted to journal articles published in English language during January to December 2016. The review finds that the focus of current research on e-books is clearly on usage of e-books. Themes such as e-book collection development and management; search and discovery are also paid more attention to. Usage of e-books by children is emerging as a prominent area of e-book research. Designing of e-books and e-book reading devices are also topics of interest to e-book researchers. Many non-LIS disciplines and professions have interest in researching e-books. </p><p> </p>
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Lim, Bibiana Chiu Yiong, Llewellyn Wee Ling Liu, and Choo Chian Hou. "Investigating the Effects of Interactive E-Book towards Academic Achievement." Asian Journal of University Education 16, no. 3 (October 19, 2020): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v16i3.10272.
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Universities are trending towards electronic books (e-books) as instructional materials, displacing traditional printed books. The rapid acquisition of e-books has changed the way information is presented and one of the improvements is to make e-books interactive. However, there is an incomplete body of knowledge on how interactive e-books affect students, particularly in the learning of statistics. This paper aims to examine the effects of interactive e-books on academic achievement. This paper adopted an experimental approach to test the causal effect of two types of e-books, namely Traditional E-book (TE) and Interactive E-book (IE) on a sample of undergraduates enrolled in an introductory statistics unit. The experimental results indicated that students who learn statistics through IE produced higher scores in academic achievement than students who learn through TE. The findings of the study first extend the existing theory by showing that TE and IE can account for the variations in academic achievement. The study implied that e-books should not be static and e-book publishers and educators can choose to design their e-books using interactive formats with animation components depending on available resources. The study offers new insights on how academic achievement of students can be better managed through the design of e-book types.
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Roscoe, Lucy. "A thing to hold: The visual language of the book form." Journal of Illustration 6, no. 1 (August 1, 2019): 77–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jill_00005_1.
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This article considers the book form itself as an ornamental object. The binding, paper and ink appeal to the senses and all add to experience of the reader. The future is a place of e-books, online publications and Instagram posts, and yet this arguably makes the carefully considered design of the book form even more important in the physical books that we do chose to view. The study examines a series of examples, drawing from artists' books, pop-up books and mainstream publishing. The work draws strongly on the collection of pop-up books at the National Library of Scotland and the artists' book collection at Edinburgh College of Art, looking at both historical and contemporary works. Initially exploring how the form of the book itself can visually communicate a narrative, the study goes on reflect on the emotion associated with opening a pop-up book, as if in the presence of a theatrical production, made more extreme by the embellishments employed. The place of the book form within a digital world is considered and, finally, the emergence of decorative books in the form of colouring books related to mindfulness.
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Nurjannah, Suci Nurjannah, Husnarika Febriani, and Rohani Rohani. "ANALISIS KESESUAIAN KONTEN BUKU TEKS BIOLOGI KELAS XI SMA TERHADAP KURIKULUM 2013." BIOEDUKASI (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi) 14, no. 1 (May 22, 2023): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.24127/bioedukasi.v14i1.7775.
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This study aims to determine the suitability of the content of biology textbooks for class XI SMA to the curriculum 2013. The type of research used is descriptive research with a qualitative approach and uses content/document analysis methods. The subject of this research is a biology textbook for class XI high school with cell material consisting of 3 books to be analyzed by researchers, namely the book publisher Bumi Aksara, the book publisher Erlangga, and the book publisher Grafindo Media Pratama. The research instrument used was an analysis sheet of student books based on the Curriculum 2013 Implementation Assistance Activity Guidelines. The results showed that the level of conformity of the content of biology textbooks based on: (1) SKL aspects in books A and B was 93% (very appropriate), and book C was 87% (very suitable). (2) Aspects of Core Competence for book A are 92% (very suitable), and books B and C are 83% (appropriate). (3) Aspects of Basic Competence for Book A 96% (very suitable), book B 85% (very suitable), book C 89% (very suitable). (4) Aspects of Sufficiency of Material for book A 67% (appropriate), books B and C for 50% (not appropriate). (5) Aspect of Material Depth of Book A 75% (appropriate), book B 68% (appropriate), and Book C 71% (appropriate). (6) Aspects of the Scientific Approach of books A, B, and C by 100% (very appropriate). (7) The authentic assessment aspect of Book A is 57% (quite appropriate), book B is 54% (not suitable) and C is 59% (quite appropriate). The average agreement coefficient of the three books is 0.94% (very good). The data illustrates that the three books can be recommended by the 2013 curriculum formulation. Kata kunci: Analisis Kesesuaian Konten, Buku Teks Biologi, Kurikulum 2013
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Lim, Chan Shik, Jung Hoon Shin, and Sang Jun Lee. "Efficient Book Recommendation System Based on a MapReduce Model." Applied Mechanics and Materials 284-287 (January 2013): 3405–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.284-287.3405.
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Today it's been getting hard to find books suitable for the purpose among a lot of books published every day. There are so many kinds of books which are more than one hundred million and huge amounts of books are published every day. Therefore, readers are getting hard to find the suitable books for them. In this paper, we propose a book recommendation system that recommends the suitable books for readers. In addition, we introduce finding relation between books in a way of looking for other titles of books mentioned in a book. The titles of books are regarded as relation data. It is used for building relation database using the MapReduce model and it will be served to readers.
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Florjanič, Maša Manca, and Klementina Možina. "GRAPHIC ARTS TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS VARIOUS MEDIA OF E-BOOKS IN SLOVENIA." Knjižnica: revija za področje bibliotekarstva in informacijske znanosti 59, no. 1-2 (September 15, 2015): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.55741/knj.59.1-2.13909.
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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the results of a survey on the usage of e-books and enhanced e-books among students in Slovenia. The main research objective was to determine factors influencing students’ perception of e-books and enhanced e-books. Methodology/approach: Quantitative methods were used to explore the e-book usage among students. The units of analysis were Slovenian students of graphic arts technology (N = 230, 18 % men, 82 % women) at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering aged between 18 and 30. The research was conducted during the first semester of the 2014/2015 academic year. ANOVA and t-tests were used to determine statistically significant differences. Results: The analysis showed that printed books were preferred for learning, even by e-book users. E-book users are more familiar with enhanced e-books and have higher intentions to use them in the future. Practicality of e-books positively influences the frequency of e-book usage, while problems with focus and concentration when reading on the screen affect it negatively. Research restrictions: The research explores students’ attitude to e-books in general. No particular field of e-books is emphasized. The originality: This research is one of the first to study the e-books usage in relation to students’ attitude towards enhanced e-books. Contribution: This paper gives an insight on the receptiveness of students to e-books and enhanced e-books and can serve as the basis for future researches.
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Newton Miller, Laura. "Demand-Driven Acquisition E-books Have Equal Cost Per Use as Print, but DDA Has Much More Active Use Overall." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 10, no. 1 (March 6, 2015): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8cc9c.
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Downey, K., Zhang, Y., Urbano, C., & Klinger, T. (2014). A comparative study of print book and DDA e-book acquisition and use. Technical Services Quarterly, 31 (2), 139-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2014.875379
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Objective – To compare usage of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) e-books with print books to help determine if one acquisition model better serves the needs of library users and return on investment.
Design – Case study.
Setting – Library system of a large American public university.
Subjects – 22,018 DDA e-book discovery records, 456 purchased e-book records, and 20,030 print item records were examined.
Method – The researchers examined usage statistics, circulation statistics, and cost measures of DDA e-books and print books. E-books were purchased in 2012 and print books were purchased by the start of the DDA project (January 2012).
Main Results – All but one of the 456 DDA-triggered e-books had repeated use within the first year, totalling 2,484 user sessions. 90% of the triggered e-books had 2-9 user sessions, and over half had at least 4 user sessions. E-books were most used in classes N (fine arts), P (Language and Literature), and R (Medicine). E-books in T (Technology) had a lower percentage of user sessions compared to other subject areas. 712 (3.2%) of the e-books in the discovery pool were used without triggering a purchase. Usage of e-books in the discovery pool (those used but not triggering a purchase) showed a consistent use of e-books by subject. E-books in Class B (Philosophy, Psychology, Religion) were used more in the discovery pool without actually being purchased, suggesting a light use of a wide range of books in this subject area. In contrast, Class R (Medicine) saw less use in the discovery pool than what was actually purchased, suggesting heavier and more focused use of triggered e-books in this area. Only 62.5% of the 20,030 purchased print books included in the study were used in the first 1 to 2.5 years they were added to the collection (i.e., 37.5% were not used in that time period). Half of the print books were used no more than once (once or no use), and more than 90% were used fewer than 10 times. Print books in Class Q (Science) contributed to only 7.5% of the total circulations, suggesting print books are underused in this subject area. 10.2% of total circulation of print books in Class R (Medicine) suggests print books are better used in this area. Print acquisition and use occur more often in classes N (Fine Arts) and P (Language and Literature). The average cost for DDA e-books was of $98.52 per book. The average price per print book was $59.53. The unit cost per print book was $17.73 per use. Depending on various measures, cost per use for e-books ranged from $17.73 to $29.15 per use. (If the measurement included the free use of non-triggered DDA books, the cost per use was $18.07, essentially the same as the print cost).
Conclusion – Both print books and DDA e-books are proportionately distributed across most subject areas. Although DDA and print cost per use are equal, DDA leads to much more active use overall.
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Nizaela F, Al Fiyan, Teguh Susyanto, and Retno Tri Vulandari. "Implementasi Algoritma Apriori pada Tata Letak Kategori Buku di Perpustakaan." Jurnal Ilmiah SINUS 20, no. 1 (January 14, 2022): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.30646/sinus.v20i1.566.
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The library is a collection place of various kinds of books. Arrangement of books by category called book shelving makes easier for customers to choose and find books. However, the location and arrangement of book categories becomes a problem in a library. Based on the book borrowing data, data mining was carried out to find out a book borrowed simultaneously by library visitor in one transaction. This can be solved by using the association rule technique and a priori algorithm. Possible combinations of borrowed books were based on certain rules and then tested whether the combination of items meets the minimum support requirements to create eligible rules. The results of this study were in the form of information about a combination of borrowed books for libraries to arrange the location of books according to categories that are often borrowed together.
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Newton Miller, Laura. "Preference for Print or Electronic Book Depends on User’s Purpose for Consulting." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 9, no. 3 (September 9, 2014): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8b891.
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Rod-Welch, L.J., Weeg, B.E., Caswell, J.V., & Kessler, T.L. (2013). Relative preferences for paper and for electronic books: Implications for reference services, library instruction, and collection management. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 18(3-4), 281-303.
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Objective – To determine patron format preference, perceived usability and frequency of e-book usage, and to study use and preference of e-reading devices.
Design – Survey questionnaire.
Setting – Large public research university in the United States of America.
Subjects – 339 students, faculty, and staff members
Methods – An anonymous 23-item survey was available in online and print formats. Print surveys were distributed in the lobby of the library and throughout various buildings on campus. A direct link to the online version of the survey was included in e-newsletters, on the library homepage, and on the library’s Facebook site. A definition of e-book was placed prominently at the beginning of the survey. Questions included information on preference of format (11), experiences using e-books (3), ownership of particular devices for reading e-books (1), attitudes regarding library purchase of e-books and readers (3), demographic information (4), and additional comments (1).
Main Results – Of the 339 completed surveys, 79 were completed online and 260 in print. When asked about preference in format for reading, 79.6% of respondents preferred print books compared to 20.4% choosing e-books. If the library was purchasing a book to support class research and projects, 53.9% preferred print and 46.1% preferred electronic, but if the library purchased a book for leisure reading, 76% preferred print and 24% preferred electronic. In response to the question about how often they used e-books from the library, 50.1% of respondents never used library e-books, 21.1% used once per year, 20.8% monthly, 7.4% weekly and 0.6% daily. Of those who used e-books, 38.1% read only sections they needed, 31% searched keywords, 24.2% downloaded and printed pages to read later, 21.8% read the most relevant chapters, 17.1% skimmed the entire book and 14.2% read the entire book. If both formats were available, 25.1% felt that the library should purchase the print book, 16.7% the e-book, and 58.2% chose both formats. When asked about downloading e-books, 51.1% of respondents would use an e-book only if they could download it to a hand-held device. A majority of the respondents, 81.7%, felt that the library should provide e-readers for checkout if the library purchased e-books instead of print books. When asked which types of books they preferred to read in electronic format in an open-ended question, 22% preferred textbooks, 21% leisure reading, 18% research books, 15% other types, 6% journals, 5% reference books, and 3% anything. Regarding which types of books were preferred in print format, 42% preferred leisure reading, 21% other, 14% all, 11% textbooks, 6% research books, 2% no e-books, 2% journals and 2% reference books.
Conclusion – Preference for book format (electronic or print) depends on the users’ purpose for reading the text. This will likely change over time, as users gain more familiarity and experience with e-books, and better support is provided from the library.
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Li, Yan, and Nan Liu. "Pricing Models of e-Books When Competing with p-Books." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2013 (2013): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/369214.
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With the rise in popularity of e-books, there is a growing need to reexamine the pricing strategy in the e-book supply chain. In this paper, we study two forms of pricing models widely used in the book industry: wholesale and agency pricing models. We first assume a stylized deterministic demand model in which the demand depends on the price, the degree of substitution, and the overall market potential. Subsequently, we employ the game theory to determine the price equilibriums and profit distribution under different pricing models. Finally, we explore the behavior of the publisher and the retailer under different preferences and degrees of substitution through a computational study. Our findings indicate that the e-book price will be lower under the agency pricing model than under the wholesale pricing model, which is counterintuitive. The publishers have higher incentives to adopt the agency pricing model than the wholesale pricing model. The agency pricing model benefits the whole system and can provide readers with books at lower prices. The degree of substitution between the two forms of books and the readers’ preference toward e-book will affect the books’ price and the profit distribution between the publisher and the retailers.
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Zaveri, Smit. "The Power of Open." Logos 33, no. 2-3 (December 29, 2022): 94–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03104045.
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Abstract Pratham Books is a not-for-profit children’s picture book publisher headquartered in Bangalore, India, with a mission to see ‘a book in every child’s hand’. Pratham Books has been addressing the book famine in India and by extension the world through its low-cost, high-volume, multilingual publishing since 2004. But upon realizing the limitations of print, they moved towards something more audacious – adopting an open licence to create an innovative digital platform, StoryWeaver, that not only housed Pratham Books’ titles but empowered users to use, adapt, download, and translate books as they saw fit to address the gaps in their own spheres and help put books in children’s hands. In just seven years, StoryWeaver has grown 50 times in size and scope, from a repository of 800 books in 24 languages to over 45 000 books in 314 languages. By disrupting traditional publishing models, Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver has shown us what the future of publishing and reading looks like.
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Donelson, Ken. "Books about Book Collecting for English Teachers." English Journal 88, no. 5 (May 1, 1999): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej1999449.
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Offers comments from collectors and dealers on the wonders and all-around fun of collecting books. Presents a short annotated list of books about book collecting and notes one book that will make readers want to collect books. Lists a baker’s dozen of other sources on book collecting and presents three quotations to end the matter.
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Melssen, Maria. "Low Response Rate and Other Factors Render Academic Health Science Library System Study Ungeneralizable." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 7, no. 2 (June 11, 2012): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8131g.
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Objective – To determine the factors, barriers and facilitators, preference, and intended use of e-book compared to print book usage by all patrons in a health science library system, which serves a university with health science degree programs and a hospital system.
Design – Two online surveys.
Setting – University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System, which includes the University of Pittsburgh’s six schools of health sciences (medicine, dental medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and rehabilitation) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals and programs.
Subjects – All health sciences library system users, including faculty, researchers, clinicians, residents, fellows, employees, and students.
Methods – Two versions of the survey were deployed in 2009 using Opinio. There were 46 questions for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) survey and 47 questions for the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) survey. The surveys were pilot tested by Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) librarians and graduate students in a survey methods class. The survey was edited based on the feedback provided and received institutional review board approval as an exempt study.
A total of 5,292 email addresses were randomly selected by SPSS from a pool of 9,472 UPMC and Pitt patrons registered with a HSLS remote access password; 2,684 patrons from UPMC and 2,608 patrons from Pitt were selected. HSLS librarians were excluded from the survey. Participants were emailed a link to the survey in March of 2009. Three email reminders were sent at five day intervals. Data was collected for 22 days and exported from Opinio to SPSS statistics software. Survey results were analyzed using basic descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations.
Main Results – Of the 5,292 emails sent, 979 surveys were submitted and 871 were completed fully. The 108 partially completed the surveys were analyzed using pair wise deletion. All HSLS user groups were represented and all rated their confidence in computer skills high. The mean age of respondents was 39.9 with the majority of respondents being female.
Of the 871 completed surveys, over half (55.4%) of the respondents reported using HSLS e-books: 66.7% men and 54.9% women. HSLS e-books were used for in-depth reading by 53.4% of men and 36.8% of women. At UPMC, 70% of attending physicians, interns, residents, fellows, and Pitt postdoctoral/fellows use HSLS e-books. The primary use of the e-books was for clinical care, by 75.3% of attending physicians; 86% of interns, residents, and fellows; and 38.9% of nurses. HSLS e-books are also used by 61.8% of respiratory care and physical therapists, 28.6% of administrators, and 56.8% of researchers.
At Pitt, 73% of postdoctoral students or fellows and 64.7% of faculty used HSLS e-books. The primary use of the e-books was to support research. 76.5% of postdoctoral students and fellows and 54.1% of faculty used e-books for this purpose. Only 21.3% of faculty assigned e-books for class readings. Though 14% of undergraduate and 33.5% of medical students responded that they had been assigned readings from e-books, 51% of undergraduates and 62.1% of graduate and medical students used an e-book to complete an assignment.
Over half (65.5%) of respondents saw information about HSLS e-books on the HSLS website and 55.4% of respondents used an HSLS e-book. When using an e-book, 56.6% look up brief, factual information while 41.9% use e-books for in-depth study.
Uses of HSLS e-book search tools were rated: the federated full text search tool was used by 67.2% of respondents and 74.3% of those who use this tool rated it as moderately to extremely useful. Google books and the library catalog were also rated moderately to extremely useful by respondents. The catalog received the lowest rating of the HSLS e-book search tools.
More respondents (95.4%) use the library’s website than come to the physical library (63.8%); however, 66.9% say they use both the website and physical library. Of the 63.8% of respondents who came to one of the HSLS libraries, 67.2% borrowed or used a HSLS print book. When using a book at the library, 23.4% only use print, 14.8% only use e-books, 44.7% use both, and 17.1% use neither. Fewer respondents (46.4%) agreed or completely agreed they could locate an e-book compared to those who agreed or completely agreed they could locate a print book (66.7%).
Nearly half (45.3%) agreed that both HSLS e-books and print books were accessible where they needed to use them; however, only 27.9% agreed or completely agreed that they had time to go to the library and use a print book when they needed it. The closer a respondent worked to the library the more likely they used the physical library. Those also within one block of the library were greater users of HSLS e-books (67% of respondents) than those who worked more than two blocks from the library (52.3% of respondents). When respondents did come to the library, 84.3% used a HSLS print book in the past year and 64.7% used an HSLS e-book. Of the respondents who did not have time to come to the library, 55.3% used a HSLS print book and 55.3% used a HSLS e-book.
When using e-books, respondents preferred such features as printing, saving, and searching over features such as bookmarking, highlighting, and annotating. Respondents also preferred e-books for general reference and pharmaceutical reference, and print books for textbooks and handbooks. A finding of significance is that “those preferring print were more flexible about using e-books than those preferring e-books were about using print” (p. 224).
Conclusion – HSLS e-book use varied depending on the respondent’s role at their institution (e.g., clinical physician, researcher) and type of book (e.g., reference book) they used. The heaviest HSLS e-book users were students, postdoctoral fellows, researchers, and clinical physicians. Respondents who used HSLS e-books most often were also those who used print books most often, and respondents within one block of the library were some of the heaviest HSLS e-book users. Respondents felt that reference and pharmaceutical books were more suitable as e-books. Also of note was that though faculty were not using e-books heavily for assigned readings, students were using HSLS e-books to complete assignments.
The greatest drive to choosing between a print and e-book was the respondent’s information need and which book format was most convenient to access at that time. Respondents were flexible in their use of print books and e-books: respondents “would be willing to use a less preferred format if it were more convenient at the time of need” (p.226). In light of respondents’ flexibility between e-book and print book usage, the authors suggest that collection development librarians could reduce the duplication of book formats.
Regarding awareness of e-books, survey results from this study were comparable to that of other studies. Also, the respondent’s comments indicate that the survey itself prompted e-book awareness: respondents felt that more advertising of e-books should be done. Such responses show that passive advertisement of e-books though the library’s catalog and on the website are not enough. E-books should be advertised during library instructional sessions.
Respondents also prefer Web access to HSLS e-books as well as the HSLS federated e-book search rather than to access HSLS e-books from the library catalog. The authors’ recommendation is to make sure users can easily access e-book catalog records through the Web in order to best facilitate patrons’ use of e-books.
Despite the conclusions that were drawn, there were several limitations of this study. Though the sample size was large enough and all HSLS users were included, the response rate was very low. Bias could be an issue as well: non-response bias as well as an overestimation of the number of HSLS e-book users could be contributing factors to the low response rate. In addition to the small sample size and possible bias, the lack of completed responses (11%) was also a concern. Finally, respondents expressed confusion over how “e-books” were defined in the survey. Because of these issues, results of this survey may not be generalizable to other libraries.
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Carter, Christina E. "Undergraduate Science Students are Uncertain of How to Find Facts in E-books Compared to Print Books." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 6, no. 2 (June 24, 2011): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8hk89.
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Objective – To observe and compare the strategies that undergraduate science students use to perform information retrieval tasks in e-books and in print books.
Design – Qualitative analysis, employing a “prompted think-aloud” methodology and thematic analysis.
Setting – Taylor Library (serving the Faculty of Science), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Subjects – Twenty undergraduate science students (11 females, 9 males) who had completed at least two years of study in Faculty of Science programs at the University of Western Ontario.
Methods – Participants for the study were recruited through informational posters in Taylor Library, science departments, and in undergraduate science classes. Participants were assigned fact-finding tasks in e-book and print versions of eight health, computer science, and engineering textbooks and handbooks available in the Taylor Library. Book titles and tasks are included in a table in the study. Each student completed four tasks using e-books and four tasks using print books. Half of the participants performed tasks in print books first, and half began with tasks in e-books. Print books were “pre-selected” for each participant. The e-books were all from the same platform: Electronic Book Library. Participants were provided with a laptop computer to access the e-book versions, and a list of questions or facts to locate within each book. Following the methodology of Cotton & Gresty (2006), one researcher prompted students to verbalize actions while performing assigned tasks. A second researcher captured audio and video of the laptop screen as students individually conducted their e-book searches. A third researcher took notes on each session. An exit survey was given to each participant, asking about previous use, knowledge, and attitudes towards e-books. Thematic analysis was then used to examine the collected data.
Main Results – Researchers identified four major themes from the data with regard to use of print versus e-books: linear/non-linear strategies; tangible/intangible aspects of books; met/unmet expectations; and transferable/non-transferable behaviours. Researchers found that participants tended to search print books in a linear fashion, whereas they approached e-books non-linearly. Physicality and familiarity with print books helped participants more readily find answers, compared to e-books, where students tried less successfully to mimic techniques used in print books to locate requested information. Participants used indexes in print books, versus e-books where they did not quickly identify the e-books as having them. The students expected that the e-books would behave as other web-based/online sources or search engines would (such as Google books), and commented that they did not. Transferable actions between print and e-books included developing and using keywords for searching.
Conclusion – The authors of this study found that student participants did not know how to navigate the e-books presented to them compared with their print counterparts. There was a lack of awareness on the part of participants about e-books in general: the students were unaware that e-books were available through the library catalogue; they did not know that e-books have indexes as print books do; and did not know the differences among platforms offered by the library. All of these facts point to the importance of user education. The authors note the importance of testing of e-book platforms by students, faculty, and librarians prior to committing to purchase particular platforms. The authors note that more research is needed on user interaction with e-books, how e-books are used to assimilate information, and how groups other than undergraduates search e-books.