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Hurd, Paul M. "An investigation of video usage by the National Basketball Association." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1991. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1991.<br>Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2711. Abstract precedes thesis as 2 preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 31-32).
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Alharbi, Awadh. "The relationship between academic library usage and perceived personal performance in Kuwait." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/53122/1/Awadh_Alharbi_Thesis.pdf.
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Academic libraries around the world often have to justify high maintenance costs. High maintenance costs of university libraries are often justified by the belief that regular use of an academic library improves the grades of students. However, this is a difficult statement to support, therefore demonstrating the link between library use and student outcomes is critical to ensuring that library investment continues.
Questionnaires and interviews were conducted and the findings were analysed to derive users’ perceptions. The findings revealed interesting results regarding how users make use of the library and how users feel the library improves their personal performance. Overall, the perception of all three groups of the academic libraries within Kuwait is positive, however many users are dissatisfied with some academic library services. Students answered positively regarding their grades and use of the academic library. Academics and administrators were generally positive and offered an experienced insight into the quality of the library. This study offers the first perception based results in Kuwait. The inclusion of administrators’ perceptions is also novel in terms of the Gulf States. A refined model was designed based on the overall findings within the study. This model can be applied to any academic library, regardless of size or collection type.
Based on findings, the researcher recommends taking the following points into consideration in order to improve library services and facilities for all users. Improvements could be made in the structure of library training courses and academic libraries should be providing flexible spaces for individuals and group study as well as social activities.
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Haynes, Dorothy Elizabeth. "The Texas Library Connection network : usage by school library media specialists related to the stages of concern /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Palmer, Bart C. "Web Usage Mining: Application To An Online Educational Digital Library Service." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1215.
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This dissertation was situated in the crossroads of educational data mining (EDM), educational digital libraries (such as the National Science Digital Library; http://nsdl.org), and examination of teacher behaviors while creating online learning resources in an end-user authoring system, the Instructional Architect (IA; http://ia.usu.edu). The knowledge from data/database (KDD) framework for preparing data and finding patterns in large amounts of data served as the process framework in which a latent class analysis (LCA) was applied to IA user data. Details of preprocessing challenges for web usage data are included. A meaningful IA activity framework provided four general areas of user behavior features that assisted in the interpretation of the LCA results: registration and usage, resource collection, project authoring, and project usage. Four clusters were produced on two samples (users with 5–90 logins and those with 10–90 logins) from 22 months of data collection. The analyses produced nearly identical models with both samples. The clusters were named according to their usage behaviors: one-hit wonders who came, did, and left and we are left to wonder where they went; focused functionaries who appeared to produce some content, but in only small numbers and they did not share many of their projects; popular producers who produced small but very public projects that received a lot of visitors; and prolific producers who were very verbose, created many projects, and published a lot to their students with many hits, but they did not publish much for the public. Information about EDM within the context of digital libraries is discussed and implications for the IA, its professional development workshop, and the larger context of educational digital libraries are presented.
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Woodward, Nakia J., Rachel R. Walden, and Rick L. Wallace. "Determining the Mosaic of Information Usage Habits of Faculty and Staff." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8707.
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the actual information usage habits of faculty and staff at **** versus librarians perceptions and opinions.
Methods: A prevalidated pilot tested survey will be conducted of the faculty and staff of the ***** College of Medicine and ****College of Pharmacy. The survey will examine what are the most useful resources, specifically databases and journals, for their research and work. The results of the survey will be compared to the library's current collection and the research results will help serve as a basis for future collection development decisions. Library staff will also be surveyed to allow for a comparison between library staff perceptions and actual utility of the collection.
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Németh, Norrby Otto. "Exploring mobile device usage patterns by using the FANN neural network library." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-12590.
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Security awareness is becoming an increasingly valuable characteristic due to the increased digitization of society. The commonality of constantly connected devices, such as smartphones and tablets, along with the threat of malware and cyber-attacks has sparked an interest in creating a system with the purpose of training people in security awareness. This thesis aims to show the presence of patterns in mobile device usage, and explore the possibility of using pattern detection as a means to predict riskful actions on mobile devices as a step to evaluate the prediction approach for use in the training system.A survey has been conducted by gathering usage data from a number of participants through the use of a logging application. This data was then analyzed using artificial neural networks provided by the open source FANN library in search for patterns preluding certain events. The results lend support to the claim that patterns exist in the way mobile devices are used, but the usefulness of FANN as a tool for finding these patterns was shown to be questionable.
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Mandani, Yasmin. "The Linnean Society in London and its Library. Evaluating a Library Usage Questionnaire through the IFLA Guidelines and other Methods." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101681.
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Keegan, Te Taka Adrian Gregory. "Indigenous language usage in a digital library he hautoa kia ora tonu ai /." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2534.
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The research described in this thesis examines indigenous language usage in a digital library environment that has been accessed via the Internet. By examining discretionary use of the Māori Niupepa and Hawaiian Nūpepa digital libraries this research investigates how indigenous languages were used in these electronic environments in 2005. The results provide encouragement and optimism to people who are striving to retain, revitalise and develop the use of indigenous languages in information technologies. The Transaction Log Analysis (TLA) methods used in this research serve as an example of how web logs can be used to provide significant information about language usage in a bilingual online information system. Combining the TLA with user feedback has provided insights into how and why clients use indigenous languages in their information retrieval activities. These insights in turn, show good practice that is relevant not only to those working with indigenous languages, indigenous peoples or multilingual environments, but to all information technology designers who strive for universal usability. This thesis begins by describing the importance of using indigenous languages in electronic environments and suggests that digital libraries can provide an environment to support and encourage the use of such languages. TLA is explained in the context of this study and is then used to analyse aspects of te reo Māori usage in the Niupepa digital library environment in 2005. TLA also indicates that te reo Māori was used by international clients and this usage differed to te reo Māori usage by national (Aotearoa) clients. Findings further reveal that the default language setting of the Niupepa digital library had a considerable impact on te reo Māori usage. When the default language was set to te reo Māori not only were there more requests in te reo Māori but there was also a higher usage of te reo Māori in the information retrieval activities. TLA of the Hawaiian Nūpepa digital library indicated that the Hawaiian language was also used in a digital library. These results confirm that indigenous languages were used in digital library environments. Feedback from clients suggests reasons why indigenous languages were used in this environment. These reasons include the indigenous language content of the digital library, the indigenous language default language setting of the digital library and a stated desire by the clients to use the indigenous language. The key findings raise some interface design issues and support the claim that digital libraries can provide an environment to support the use of indigenous languages.
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Walsh, John Barry. "The Effects Of Targeted, Connectivism-Based Information Literacy Instruction On Latino Students Information Literacy Skills And Library Usage Behavior." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/312502.
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The United States is experiencing a socio-demographic shift in population and education. Latinos are the fastest growing segment of the population on the national level and in higher education. The Latino student population growth rate and Latino college completion rate are not reciprocal. While Latino students are the fastest growing demographic group in higher education, they continue to have the lowest persistence and retention rates. Latino students are more at risk for dropping out of college than any other ethnic group. Latinos decreasing persistence rates have caused an academic achievement gap in higher education (Long, 2011). Literature has correlated the gap with Latinos limited IL competency and low library usage (Long, 2011).This quasi-experimental research examined the effects of a targeted information literacy (IL) instructional method on Latino community college students IL skills and library usage. The study also introduced the idea of using a connectivism based targeted instruction to influence Latinos IL skills and library usage. The intent of the study was to investigate the development of information literacy instruction (ILI) which targets Latino students and uses the principles of connectivism. Connectivism posits that students' learn by connecting to information along their personal learning networks (Siemens, 2005). Connectivism helps position the library within Latino students' personal learning networks. This positioning may increase their library usage and by extension their IL skills. Specifically, this quantitative study assessed the effect of the instruction on IL skills and library usage behavior of Latino community college students. A pretest/posttest control group design was used for this study. A sample of 92 Latino male and female students completed the pretest and posttest. They were recruited from a diverse population of community college students who were registered for Introductory English classes. Data was collected through instrumentation that included an Information Literacy Rubric, an Information Literacy Skills Test, a Library Usage Survey/Demographic Identification Form, and a Citation Analysis Form. Though two of the hypotheses were not supported, the data collected allowed the researcher to accomplish two of the purposes of this study, to design and assess a targeted ILI that increases Latino students' IL skills and library usage, and to advance the research that grounds the emerging learning theory of connectivism. The more connections students made to information sources the higher their overall IL skill score were. This data suggests that as students make connections to information resources they are learning IL skills and the more sources they connect to, the more they learn. Though TI did not emerge as the more effective method, it is effective at increasing library usage and IL skills in Latino community college students'. The results of this study may lead to a better understanding of how students acquire IL skills. Instruction has become increasingly important in librarianship and recently has even eclipsed traditional reference service. (Grassian & Kaplowitz, xix, 2009). More and more academic libraries are being held accountable for their contribution to student learning. The findings of this study provide evidence that the instructional efforts of the library are influencing student learning outcomes.
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Carter, Nakia J., Rick L. Wallace, and Kefeng (Maylene) Qiu. "Blending Phone Contacts and Site Visits to Promote Rural Outreach Services: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess Usage." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8750.
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Objective: The East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine Library (ETSUQCOML) wanted to determine if the introduction of phone calls to an existing outreach visit increased the usage of the ETSUQCOML’s services.
Methods: Eight hospitals and sixteen clinics were chosen to participate. Two site visits were made a month to each participating institution. A total of two phone calls and two emails a month were given to multiple contacts in the hospital or clinic. The hospitals and clinics were randomized to determine which received the phone call intervention. Interlibrary loan statistics and reference search statistics were then analyzed to determine if there was a statistically significant difference. The data were also analyzed to determine if the intervention was more successful in hospitals or clinics.
Results: Librarians learned to what degree email and phone calls could be substituted for personal visits in an outreach service as a means of maintaining it and not experiencing a decline in service requests.
Conclusions: In today’s economic times, it is important to maintain services to underserved health care providers but to do it in the most cost effective manner. This study has provided helpful data as to the possibility of substituting less expensive contacts such as emails or phone calls for more expensive ones such as face-to-face visits in order to sustain an outreach service. The authors are looking to extend this project to multiple end-points such as six months, nine months, and one year to determine sustainability.
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Xu, Beijie. "Clustering Educational Digital Library Usage Data: Comparisons of Latent Class Analysis and K-Means Algorithms." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/954.
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There are common pitfalls and neglected areas when using clustering approaches to solve educational problems. A clustering algorithm is often used without the choice being justified. Few comparisons between a selected algorithm and a competing algorithm are presented, and results are presented without validation. Lastly, few studies fully utilize data provided in an educational environment to evaluate their findings. In response to these problems, this thesis describes a rigorous study comparing two clustering algorithms in the context of an educational digital library service, called the Instructional Architect. First, a detailed description of the chosen clustering algorithm, namely, latent class analysis (LCA), is presented. Second, three kinds of preprocessed data are separately applied to both the selected algorithm and a competing algorithm, namely, K-means algorithm. Third, a series of comprehensive evaluations on four aspects of each clustering result, i.e., intra-cluster and inter-cluster distances, Davies-Bouldin index, users' demographic profile, and cluster evolution, are conducted to compare the clustering results of LCA and K-means algorithms. Evaluation results show that LCA outperforms K-means in producing consistent clustering results at different settings, finding compact clusters, and finding connections between users' teaching experience and their effectiveness in using the IA. The implication, contributions, and limitation of this research are discussed.
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Krikorian, Margaret. "Factors influencing academics' usage of electronic journals." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/786.
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Through a survey of academics at Edith Cowan University, Australia, this study explored their usage of and attitudes towards academic electronic journals (EJs). The data provided insights into the way academics were using EJs at the time of the study and their thoughts on how they will use them in the future. The emergence of academics publishing their work in EJs is a fairly recent phenomenon compared to the established tradition of publishing in paper-based journals. Many publishers have also begun to replace paper journals with electronic ones and many librarians have begun incorporating EJs into their resource collections. Librarians need to know their clients' attitudes towards new service delivery mechanisms and/or formats, such as replacing paper-based journals with EJs. The study's findings supported the earlier work of previous authors, indicating that while some academics were adapting EJs into their work practices, there remained a significant number who were strongly opposed to them. The study drew the following conclusions: I. At the time of the survey EJs were not wholly accepted by academics; 2. A group of committed enthusiasts existed who advocate EJs; 3. There was almost an equal number of academics who avidly preferred print journals, and were unlikely to change their preferences for the foreseeable future, perhaps for the rest of their career; 4. Most academics were not submitting articles to EJs, although more were open to doing so in the future; 5. Academics believe that publishing in EJs is given lower respect than publishing in paper-based journals; 6. Academics are troubled about historical access to EJ articles; 7. While academics are not using EJs fully they are normally aware of them; 8. Academics appear to have no time to obtain new skills such as using EJs, although there is a willingness to do so; 9. Academics are not inclined to have personal subscriptions to EJs; and 10. A minor number of academics cited EJs in their research however, a larger number thought their usage of them would increase in the future. Whatever the future of print journals or EJs may be, academic librarians need to continually assess how their clients will be able to gain access to archival information. Short-term access to bundled EJ titles may seem to be a panacea for stagnant or shrinking library budgets unable to keep up with escalating journal costs; however the true cost of abandoning paper journals in favour of EJs needs to be fully considered if the library is unable to maintain the future licensing costs of EJs.
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Wilkin, Shelley. "E-book usage in academic libraries: does the research indicate it is a tame solution or wicked problem ?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12997.
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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Many academic libraries around the world are allocating large portions of their budget to the provision of electronic books (e-books). While circulation statistics provided by the e-book vendors indicate that the e-books are being used, they do not inform the libraries of the reasons behind use, how they are being perceived and user satisfaction. In recent years, academics and researchers have been investigating e-book usage and user satisfaction at their respective institutions. This dissertation looks at e-book usage in academic libraries through a systematic review of the literature on research about e-books. Journal articles with subject matter concerning ebook usage in academic libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom were collected. Due to technological advances, only articles which had been published from 2004 to 2014 were collected. Other limitations of the study included language, solely using the literature to conduct research and the internet as a research tool.
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Hashim, Laili. "A study on the perceptions of library services and usage in selected higher education institutions in Malaysia." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7370.
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The study examines the perception of faculty members and students towards library services and usage in three selected Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia. It attempts to find out how academic users felt towards library staff/library services, their actual needs, library usage and their expectations of the library. It also looks closely at the feasibility and possible impact of the library/information skills course as part of the Higher Education Institutions' Curriculum. An extensive review of related and relevant literature that includes previous and present studies is also discussed. In addition, a profile of Malaysia, its educational system and the development of academic libraries are also presented in the study. The population studied was drawn from faculty members and students of three selected Higher Education Institutions. Data was collected using selfadministered questionnaires, personal interview, group interviews/ discussions with focus groups and a short skill test. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the data collected from the questionnaires and the short skill test. As for the interviews, important and relevant comments or suggestions were collated and incorporated in the research. The study concludes that users are not really getting the full benefit of the library services and some of the services are under-utilised. The major causes or reasons for this problem are the lack of knowledge and the low state of awareness of certain services, attitude of staff, inadequate training to use the services and the lack of computer facilities. Finally. the idea of having an in-class library/information skills course for students is well received by users of the three Higher Education Institutions.
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Andrews, Mark. "Analysis of bulletin board usage within the School of Computing /." Leeds : University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies, 2003. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/library/compst.pl?CAT=BSC&FILE=200304/andrews.pdf.
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Morrison, Heather. "The implications of usage statistics as an economic factor in scholarly communications." Haworth Press, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/954.
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Usage statistics for electronic resources are needed, and highly desirable, for many reasons. It is encouraging to see the beginnings of quality, reliable usage data. This data can form the basis of economic decisions (selection and cancellation) that make a great deal of sense in the context of the individual library. However, the cumulative effects of such decisions could have serious implications for scholarly communications. For example, the journals of small research communities could easily be vulnerable to mass cancellations, and might fold. Fortunately, open access provides an alternative. The question of whether the impact of local decisions on scholarly communications as a whole should be taken into account in collection development policies is raised. The possibility that usage statistics could form the basis for a usage-based pricing system is discussed, and found to be highly inadvisable, as usage-based pricing tends to discourage usage.
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Lo, Pak Cheun. "Effects of online audio-book resources on library usage and reading preferences and practices of young learners in an elementary school library setting in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/17867f48-b678-495d-9776-7498a042eebb.
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The purpose of this research study is to measure and assess the potentials and effects of online audio-book resources in fostering young children's motivation to read. The research study involved two groups of 5`h- and 6`h-grade elementary-school students in Hong Kong - measuring their reading motivation, and learning from an online audio-book resource, Naxos Spoken Word Library (NSWL) in the context of a school-library setting in Hong Kong. A total number of 292 participants (students from two different international elementary schools (Bradbury and Kingston International Elementary School) in Hong Kong were invited to take part in this study. Students' library usage, reading habits, and their attitudes and ratings on the chosen audio-book resource were recorded, measured and evaluated through the use of a set of self-completed questionnaires. The data sources included questionnaire surveys on students, classroom teachers, school-library staff, and parents, as well as focus group interviews on NS WL student users. The duration of this research study was five months, whilst data collection was conducted between October 2006 and March 2007. The major findings were that out of all 260 respondents, 52% indicated they had used NSWL. Amongst these 136 NSWL users: 33.3% said "Yes", they did enjoy using NSWL; 37.2% said they "Sometimes" enjoyed it; while only 29.5% said they did not enjoy using this online audio resource as they thought its contents not interesting. The chosen online audio resource seemed to have very little influence in enhancing the students' reading motivation in general. In fact, the school librarians witnessed a decrease (10.4 percentage points) in the number of students who visited the school library on a daily basis, and a small decline in the number of students using the school library for "fun". In other words, the availability of audio-books is not necessarily a motivator to read, or to read more amongst the student population under study. Other data collected from the questionnaires and focus groups also indicated girls were more likely than boys to regularly and voluntarily visit and borrow books from the school library, to use the school library for fun, to enjoy reading poetry, and to use NSWL. In order to appeal to a wider audience and enhance motivation to read, the content of audio-books will need to be expanded to include more genres and more diverse content.
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Foudray, Rita Catherine Schoch. "An Investigation of Differences in Public Library Usage Patterns Between Gifted Adults and Members of the General Public." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935588/.
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The purpose of this research was to isolate the variable giftedness in a pipulation and determine whether that variable could be used as a predictor of public library use. The analysis of data indicated that public library use was higher for the general public than for the gifted adults. There was less variation among the factors of age, level of education, and public library use for the gifted adults than for the general public. Books as a resource for information were mentioned by the general adults public more frequently than by the gifted adults. Friends were listed more often as an information resource by the gifted population than by the public. Gifted adults both read and owned more books than did the general public. There was no correlation between amount of reading and number of library visits in either sample. 35 of the general public has a Library Usage Index Value of less than 4, 97 of the gifted adults did. There was almost no difference between the first ten information sources listen by both samples.
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Stange, Kari. "Electronic journals in Swedish academic institutions : a usage study of Project MUSE and IDEAL full-text databases. WRITTEN IN ENGLISH." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101502.
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Manandhar, Sachit. "A behavioral analysis of two spaces in Kansas State University's Hale Library based on psychologist Roger Barker's behavior setting theory." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17918.
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Master of Science<br>Department of Architecture<br>David Seamon<br>This thesis uses behavioral mapping to analyze two contrasting spaces in Kansas State University’s Hale Library. One of the spaces is meant for computer use; and the other for general library use, including study-group work. The conceptual approach chosen to describe and analyze these two library spaces is the behavior-setting theory developed by psychologist Roger Barker, who defines behavior settings as independent units of space, with temporal and spatial boundaries, that have “great coercive power over the behaviors that occur within them” (Barker, 1968, p. 17). The behavioral observations for the two Hale Library spaces were analyzed and compared with findings from other studies of library usage and behaviors.
In the first chapter of the thesis, I introduce my study topic and discuss recent developments in libraries. In the second chapter, I provide a broad overview of library history and library use. I also overview behavior-setting theory and present examples of research on behavior settings and libraries. In the third chapter, I discuss research methods for this thesis, starting with how library spaces can be described as behavior settings. I then discuss specific methodological procedures involved in the behavioral study of activities in the two library spaces. In the fourth chapter, I discuss the two spaces studied in Hale Library, first, describing their physical features and then discussing their behavior-setting attributes. In the fifth chapter, I present my behavioral observations and compare and contrast the two Hale Library spaces in terms of user behaviors and as behavior settings. In the sixth and final chapter of this thesis, I compare my research results with other library research and offer my speculative ideas on the future of the academic library.
The overarching theme of this thesis is evaluating how recent digital technologies have affected libraries, and how traditional library spaces and spaces designated for digital technology can be integrated in future libraries.
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Kim, Seonho. "Visualizing Users, User Communities, and Usage Trends in Complex Information Systems Using Implicit Rating Data." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27286.
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Research on personalization, including recommender systems, focuses on applications such as in online shopping malls and simple information systems. These systems consider user profile and item information obtained from data explicitly entered by users. There it is possible to classify items involved and to personalize based on a direct mapping from user or user group to item or item group. However, in complex, dynamic, and professional information systems, such as digital libraries, additional capabilities are needed to achieve personalization to support their distinctive features: large numbers of digital objects, dynamic updates, sparse rating data, biased rating data on specific items, and challenges in getting explicit rating data from users. For this reason, more research on implicit rating data is recommended, because it is easy to obtain, suffers less from terminology issues, is more informative, and contains more user-centered information. In previous reports on my doctoral work, I discussed collecting, storing, processing, and utilizing implicit rating data of digital libraries for analysis and decision support. This dissertation presents a visualization tool, VUDM (Visual User-model Data Mining tool), utilizing implicit rating data, to demonstrate the effectiveness of implicit rating data in characterizing users, user communities, and usage trends of digital libraries. The results of user studies, performed both with typical end-users and with library experts, to test the usefulness of VUDM, support that implicit rating data is useful and can be utilized for digital library analysis software, so that both end users and experts can benefit.<br>Ph. D.
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Ledo, Wietske, and n/a. "Information needs of external students: a survey of the information needs of external students enrolled at the South Australian College of Advanced Education and resident in Whyalla, South Australia." University of Canberra. Library and Information Management, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050629.113625.
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The main purpose of the study was to investigate the library needs
and library usage of external students in remote areas. The study emphasised
external students' perception of their own library needs. Four distinct areas
of research evolved from the purpose of the study: to identify the library
service needs of external students; to identify library use by external
students; to identify external students' perceptions of library needs; and to
identify student status in relation to library use.
Information was collected by an interview with former external
students, a questionnaire to the libraries involved in the study and by
Nominal Group Technique (NGT) sessions with external students. The
primary instrument was a questionnaire to the external students in the
population under investigation requesting information of their library
usage and needs.
The population under investigation were external students enrolledin the South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE) and
resident in Whyalla, South Australia. It was decided to survey the total
population rather than a sample because of the small numbers involved.
Thirty-five responses were received out of a population of 52, representing a
response rate of 69 percent.
The results of the survey were analysed using a Statview SE statistical
package and a spreadsheet and graphics package, Excel. Frequency
distributions were computed to determine the number of respondents who
selected each option.
The study found that the external students who used libraries tended
to use a variety of libraries. Students used not only their own institution's
library, but the a range of libraries accessible to them in Whyalla.
The study concludes by identifying issues, recommending possible
solutions, and identifying areas for further research.
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Davis, Jonathon Clay. "Web 2.0 definition, usage, and self-efficacy a study of graduate library school students and academic librarians at colleges and universities with ALA accredited degree programs /." Thesis, [Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Libraries], 2009. http://purl.lib.ua.edu/44.
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Loree, S. "Is Citation Analysis Worth It: A Comparison of the Usefulness of Local Citation Analysis, Interlibrary Loan Records and Usage Statistics for Collection Development Purposes in a Special Library." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/369.
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This study evaluates local citation analysis in comparison to interlibrary loan records and usage statistics as indicators for collection evaluation and development purposes in a special library setting as evidenced through a case study at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Main Library in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. More specifically, it examines how data gathered from these three tools compare as predictors for future trends in use of journals and as tools for developing parameters and guidelines for anticipatory collection development decisions in a scientific research library. Ultimately, citation analysis is the most successful in predicting the following year’s usage.
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Felio, Cindy. "Pratiques communicationnelles des cadres : usage intensif des TIC et enjeux psychosociaux." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00990957.
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Les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) font désormais partie du quotidien de travail de la plupart des salariés. L'activité des cadres, salariés les plus équipés en TIC mobiles par l'employeur, est majoritairement réalisée à partir de la médiation de dispositifs communicationnels. Cet équipement leur octroie de nouvelles possibilités : en particulier celle qui consiste à s'affranchir de la dimension spatio-temporelle en restant connectés en permanence avec le travail, et celle qui autorise une plus large modulation de leur emploi du temps. Face à la reconfiguration de leur activité professionnelle, comment les cadres, salariés résolument autonomes, réagissent-ils ? L'objectif principal de cette recherche doctorale vise à accompagner la verbalisation des pratiques quotidiennes des TIC afin d'appréhender l'enjeu psychosocial de cet équipement et d'identifier les éventuelles ressources pour y pallier. Convoquant une approche croisée entre les Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication et la Psychologie du Travail, nous nous intéressons à l'expérience vécue des cadres quant à la médiation technique de leur activité. La méthodologie utilisée est à la fois qualitative et longitudinale. Privilégiant une approche biographique, des entretiens approfondis agrémentés de la Technique des Incidents Critiques ont été menés auprès d'un échantillon de 62 cadres exerçant leurs fonctions en Aquitaine (T0) ; puis réitérés un an plus tard (T1). Les principaux résultats de nos analyses mettent en évidence : le rôle de médiateur des TIC vis-à-vis des risques psychosociaux au travail ; le déploiement volontaire de stratégies de connexion / déconnexion visant à optimiser non seulement l'usage des TIC mais aussi la qualité de vie des sujets ; le caractère discontinu de l'appropriation des TIC attesté par l'expérience d'événements marquants ; mais encore un effet de réflexivité des pratiques amorcé lors du premier entretien.
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Shepheard-Walwyn, Emma Jane. "Usage and impact factor correlations in electronic journals submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1265.
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Domin, Annika. "Konzeption eines RDF-Vokabulars für die Darstellung von COUNTER-Nutzungsstatistiken." Master's thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-179416.
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Die vorliegende Masterarbeit dokumentiert die Erstellung eines RDF-basierten Vokabulars zur Darstellung von Nutzungsstatistiken elektronischer Ressourcen, die nach dem COUNTER-Standard erstellt wurden. Die konkrete Anwendung dieses Vokabulars bildet das Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS), welches momentan von der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig im Rahmen des kooperativen Projektes AMSL entwickelt wird. Dieses basiert auf Linked Data, soll die veränderten Verwaltungsprozesse elektronischer Ressourcen abbilden können und gleichzeitig anbieterunabhängig und flexibel sein. Das COUNTER-Vokabular soll aber auch über diese Anwendung hinaus einsetzbar sein.
Die Arbeit gliedert sich in die beiden Teile Grundlagen und Modellierung. Im ersten Teil wird zu nächst die bibliothekarische Notwendigkeit von ERM-Systemen herausgestellt und der Fokus der Betrachtung auf das Teilgebiet der Nutzungsstatistiken und die COUNTER-Standardisierung gelenkt. Anschließend werden die technischen Grundlagen der Modellierung betrachtet, um die Arbeit auch für nicht mit Linked Data vertraute Leser verständlich zu machen. Darauf folgt der Modellierungsteil, der mit einer Anforderungsanalyse sowie der Analyse des den COUNTER-Dateien zugrunde liegenden XML-Schemas beginnt. Daran schließt sich die Modellierung des Vokabulars mit Hilfe von RDFS und OWL an. Aufbauend auf angestellten Überlegungen zur Übertragung von XML-Statistiken nach RDF und der Vergabe von URIs werden anschließend reale Beispieldateien manuell konvertiert und in einem kurzen Test erfolgreich überprüft. Den Abschluss bilden ein Fazit der Arbeit sowie ein Ausblick auf das weitere Verfahren mit den Ergebnissen.
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Pibulsilp, Thanawadee. "An investigation of cultural influence on academic library usage and experience of international medical students from Asian countries a case study of students at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch : submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1273.
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Hamdi, Marwa. "Modélisation des processus utilisateurs à partir des traces d’exécution, application aux systèmes d’information faiblement structurés." Electronic Thesis or Diss., La Rochelle, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022LAROS036.
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Ce travail porte sur l’analyse des parcours utilisateurs dans les bibliothèques numériques qui se caractérisent par des processus métier faiblement structurés. Nous allons avoir recours à la fouille de processus afin d’extraire les modèles à partir de ces parcours. Les modèles découverts permettront aux concepteurs de ces systèmes de répondre d’une manière plus efficace aux besoins des utilisateurs et à leurs présenter un ensemble de recommandations. Dans cette thèse, nous avons généré des modèles à partir des traces de navigation des utilisateurs du portail web de la bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica. Dans un premier temps, nous avons adapté ces traces sous un format compatible avec les algorithmes de fouille de processus. Dans un second temps, nous avons regroupé ces traces. L’originalité de notre apport porte sur le regroupement des parcours similaires, en tenant compte des caractéristiques existantes dans les traces, afin d’éviter la génération des modèles complexes, souvent non exploitables, à partir de telles traces volumineuse set non structurées. Enfin, nous avons validé notre méthode sur deux jeux de données simulé et réel. Nous avons comparé notre méthode à deux méthodes inspirées des travaux existants et les résultats montrent que notre méthode surpasse celles existantes sur les deux jeux de données à la fois dans le regroupement et la modélisation<br>This research focuses on extracting users’ journeys in a digital library characterized by weakly structured business processes. In this thesis, we investigate whether it is possible to model user journeys using process mining. The discovered models allow system designers to respond more efficiently to users’ needs and to present them with a set of recommendations. For our study, we have chosen to extract the users’ journey models of the digital library Gallica, based on real traces generated by their users. First, we adapt these browsing traces in a well-defined format compatible with process mining techniques. The originality of our contribution concerns the grouping of similar paths, considering the existing characteristics in the traces, to avoid the generation of complex models, often not exploitable, from such voluminous and unstructured traces. Finally, we validate our method on two simulated and real data sets. We compare our method to two other methods inspired by existing works. The results show that our method outper forms the existing ones on both datasets in clustering and modeling
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Beldi, Ariane. "Le DVD et la transformation des séries TV en œuvres : Le cas de la réception des séries TV d'animation japonaise en Europe." Phd thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00942910.
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Depuis la fin des années 90, la plupart des animes n'arrivent en Europe qu'en DVD, alors qu'ils ont occupé largement les programmes pour enfants, il y a 30 ans. Rompant avec le circuit marketing habituel qui impose un passage à la télévision avant d'être distribués sur le marché de la vidéo, les animes édités en DVD illustrent une forme de " démédiation " des séries TV. De rendez-vous télévisuels, ils sont "re-conditionnés" en œuvres vendues directement au public pour qu'il les collectionne. Cette thèse étudie la manière dont les amateurs d'animes acceptent d'entrer dans cette logique de collection. L'hypothèse suivie a été celle de la ciné-vidéophilie qui postule une convergence entre des pratiques autrefois distinctes de cinéphiles et de vidéophiles. Cette recherche combine les études de réception et la sociologie des usages, permettant d'éclairer sous cet angle spécifique le développement des stratégies transmédia à l'œuvre dans les industries du divertissement audiovisuel.
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Siciliano, Angela. "La bibliothèque de Giorgio Bassani : origines, transformations, usages, intertextualités." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022GRALL015.
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Cette recherche est une étude monographique consacrée à la bibliothèque personnelle de Giorgio Bassani, une riche collection de livres aujourd'hui conservée à Ferrare, à la Maison de l’Arioste. L'ouvrage ne se limite pas à établir le catalogue de la bibliothèque et l'édition des volumes annotés par l'écrivain, mais se présente comme une étude analytique qui combine philologie et critique.Le chapitre I reconstitue d'abord l'histoire matérielle de la collection : sa formation, son démembrement à l'automne 1943 et son réassemblage final après la mort de l'écrivain en 2000.Le chapitre II, en revanche, traite des liens entre les livres et la biographie humaine et artistique de Bassani, qui est reconstruite en cinq sections : les années universitaires (1934-1939), les années racontées dans Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1938-1939), les années durant lesquelles Bassani traverse une grave crise stylistique après la publication de Una città di pianura (1940-1944), la période de son militantisme antifasciste (1937-1944) et la maturité de l'écrivain (après 1948).Plus strictement philologique, mais également attentif aux implications critiques, le chapitre III reconstruit la méthode de lecture et d'annotation de Bassani en commentant des exemples significatifs, utiles pour révéler des aspects inédits de la poétique et de la pensée de l'écrivain, notamment dans ses années de formation.La recherche a également été l'occasion de réfléchir aux méthodologies d'édition des livres annotés et aux problèmes rencontrés par le philologue-éditeur, face auxquels la philologie numérique présente des avantages considérables. Ce point est développé dans le chapitre IV, dans lequel nous examinons les caractéristiques et le potentiel du prototype d'édition numérique qui a été réalisé sur les annotations écrites par Bassani en marge du volume La scuola dell'uomo de Guido Calogero<br>This research is a monographic study dedicated to Giorgio Bassani's library, a rich collection of books now preserved in Ferrara, at Casa Ariosto. The work is not limited to providing a catalogue of the library and a critical edition of its annotations but is presented as an analytical study that combines philology and criticism.Chapter I reconstructs the material history of the collection: its formation, its dismemberment in the autumn of 1943 and its final reassembly after the writer's death in 2000.Chapter II, on the other hand, discusses the links between the books and Bassani's human and artistic biography, which is reconstructed in five sections: the university years (1934-1939), the years recounted in Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1938-1939), the years in which Bassani went through a serious stylistic crisis after the publication of Una città di pianura (1940-1944), the period of his militancy in anti-fascism (1937), and the writer's maturity (after 1948).More strictly philological in approach, but also attentive to critical implications, is Chapter III, which reconstructs Bassani's method of reading and annotation by commenting on significant examples, useful for revealing previously unseen aspects of the writer's poetics and thought, particularly in his formative years.The research also offered the opportunity to reflect on the methodologies of editing annotated books and on the problems faced by the philologist, in the face of which digital philology shows considerable advantages. This point is developed in chapter IV, in which we examine the characteristics and potential of the digital edition prototype that was created on the annotations written by Bassani on the margins of La scuola dell'uomo by Guido Calogero
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Kane, Khardiatou. "Documentation numérique en Afrique francophone subsaharienne : évaluation de l'offre et des usages en sciences humaines à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CNAM1185/document.
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Les bibliothèques universitaires des pays d’Afrique francophone sont confrontées à un défi en matière d’offre documentaire dans un contexte marqué par un manque de moyens financiers, une augmentation des coûts de la documentation, et certaines formes organisationnelles peu efficientes. Cette thèse vise dans un premier temps, à partir d’enquêtes et de recueils de données diversifiées, à dresser l’état de l’offre documentaire papier et numérique à l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, en Sciences humaines et sociales (SHS), tout en soulignant des points de comparaison avec d’autres universités francophones subsahariennes. Les résultats visent à quantifier et à qualifier cette offre, à pointer les nouvelles dynamiques dans le cadre de la documentation numérique avec différents types d’acteurs. Par ailleurs, les bibliothécaires cherchent à s’appuyer pleinement sur l’Open Access tant au niveau de l’accès à des ressources qu’au niveau de la valorisation des fonds locaux. L’information numérique est de plus en plus perçue comme le meilleur moyen de satisfaire les besoins en information de la communauté universitaire de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) de Dakar. Néanmoins, elle est souvent confrontée à des problèmes d’accès à l’information mais également d’usage des ressources documentaires. Cette recherche s’intéresse, dans une seconde partie, à l’appréciation de l’usage des ressources numériques, une appréciation qui se fera comparativement entre plusieurs disciplines de l’UCAD et entre enseignants et étudiants de ladite université. Des recommandations sont formulées dans la troisième partie pour tenter d’y améliorer les services documentaires<br>University libraries in French-speaking African countries face a documentary supply challenge in a context of a lack of financial resources, an increase in the cost of documentation, and some inefficient organizational forms. This thesis aims at first, from surveys and collections of diverse data, to establish the state of the paper and digital documentary offer at the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, in SHS, highlighting points comparison with other Sub-Saharan Francophone Universities. The results are intended to quantify and qualify this offer, to point out new dynamics in the context of digital documentation with different types of actors. In addition, librarians seek to rely fully on Open Access, both in terms of access to resources and the value of local funds. Digital information is increasingly seen as the best way to meet the information needs of the university community at Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD). Nevertheless, it is often confronted with problems of access to information but also of use of documentary resources. This research focuses, in a second part, to appreciate the uses of digital resources, in a comparative way between several disciplines at UCAD and between teachers and students. Recommendations are made to try to improve the documentary services in this University
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Sidibé, Amadou Békaye. "Usages d'Internet et services d'Internet au Mali : rôle et positionnement des bibliothèques." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAL003/document.
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Depuis l’époque sumérienne (4ème – 3ème millénaire avant J.-C.), les bibliothèques ont su traiter les documents pour les mettre à la disposition des populations pour leur développement intellectuel, culturel, économique … Pour répondre aux besoins informationnels de toutes les couches socioprofessionnelles, elles ont pris diverses formes : nationale, publique, spécialisée, scolaire, universitaire … et cela, à travers tous les pays du monde.Avec la naissance du web et l’accès progressif des populations aux ressources en ligne, les partenaires techniques et financiers des pays africains ont commencé à aider ces derniers, dans la seconde moitié des années 90, à se connecter à Internet. Ce fut aussi le début de divers projets de création de télécentres en vue de vulgariser Internet et permettre l’accès des populations africaines à l’information pour leur développement. Ces nouvelles structures (communautaires ou privées) ont paru pour beaucoup comme la source d’accès à l’information. Dans ce contexte, les bibliothèques, aux ressources déjà maigres dans nos pays, ont paru comme des structures démodées, voire inutiles. Les professionnels de l’information documentaire ont alors commencé à s’interroger sur l’avenir de leur profession et des bibliothèques. Dans leur réflexion, Internet a été perçu tantôt comme une menace pour les bibliothèques, une technologie comme les autres, ou encore comme une opportunité à saisir pour valoriser leurs ressources et leur savoir-faire.Considérer Internet comme une opportunité exige cependant des bibliothécaires une nouvelle perception de leur mission, une nouvelle organisation du travail, de nouveaux produits et services, une nouvelle vision des relations avec le public. Cela exige surtout l’appropriation d’Internet et un rôle actif dans son usage afin de diffuser ses ressources, faciliter l’accès à celles des autres, promouvoir ses produits et services, diversifier, fidéliser et rendre autonomes ses utilisateurs dans la recherche et l’exploitation des ressources … Ainsi, se pose la question du rôle des bibliothèques dans le développement des usages et services Internet.Notre étude cherche dans le contexte malien, marqué par l’extrême pauvreté des bibliothèques, par l’échec quasi-total des télécentres, mais par un léger dynamise d’autres modes d’accès à Internet (connexion au bureau, à domicile, sur les appareils mobiles …) de déterminer, analyser et comprendre le rôle des bibliothèques maliennes dans le développement des usages et services Internet. Conduite auprès de 39 unités documentaires connectées à Internet, elle expose Internet au Mali (historique, stratégies, représentations, usages), analyse le rôle et le positionnement des bibliothèques dans la démocratisation de l’accès des usagers à Internet et aux ressources informationnelles. Elle essaie, enfin, de comprendre si les actions des bibliothèques en lien avec Internet s’inscrivent dans une stratégie claire et mûrie<br>Since the Sumerian period (4th - 3rd millennium BC), libraries have been able to process documents in order to make them available to the population for their intellectual, cultural and economic development ... ¶ To meet the information needs of all the socio-professionnal strata, they have taken various forms: national, public, specialized, scolarly, academic ... and this, in all the countries of the world.¶¶ With the rise of the web and the progressive access of people to online resources, the technical and financial partners of African countries began to help them, in the second half of the 1990s, to connect to the Internet. ¶This was also the beginning of various projects to create telecentres in order to popularize the Internet and to enable African populations to access information for their development. ¶These new structures (community or private) have been seen by many as the only source of access to information. In this context, libraries, with already meager resources in our countries, have appeared as obsolete, even useless structures. ¶ Documentary information professionals then began to question the future of their profession and libraries. ¶ In their reflection, the Internet has sometimes been perceived as a threat to libraries, as a technology like any other, or as an opportunity to seize in order to develop their resources and their know-how.¶Considering the Internet as an opportunity, however, requires librarians a new perception of their mission, a new organization of work, new products and services, and a new vision of relations with the public. ¶ This requires especially the appropriation of Internet and an active role in its use in order to disseminate your resources, facilitate access to those of others, promote your products and services, diversify, retain and empower your users in research and exploitation of resources ... ¶ Thus, the question arises of the role of libraries in the development of Internet uses and services.¶ Our study seeks, in the Malian context, marked by the extreme poverty of libraries, by the almost total failure of telecentres, but by a slight dynamism of other modes of access to the Internet (connection at the office, home connection, connection on mobile devices ...) to determine, analyze and understand the role of Malian libraries in the development of Internet usage and services. Realized in 39 Internet-related documentary units, it exposes Internet Mali (history, strategies, representations, uses), analyzes the role and positioning of libraries in the democratization of Internet and information resources access. Finally, it tries to understand whether the actions of libraries in bond with Internet are part of a clear and mature strategy
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Viana, Manuela Maria Cyrino. "Libras e Português como L2: a escrita dos surdos nas redes sociais." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2017. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/1416.
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Previous issue date: 2017-04-24<br>The paper shows the analysis writing result in Portuguese as Second Language, performed by
the deaf in Brazilian sign language as First Language in networks. The aim was to analyse the
verb usage in Portuguese phrasal writing structure as the deaf Second Language in networks.
Take as a guideline: How do the Deaf who have Brazilian sign language as First Language
employ the verb in Portuguese writing in networks? To answer this question, we go first to
theorists whose work deal with Brazilian sign language, Portuguese, Portuguese writing,
Portuguese as Second Language, verb, networks, writings and deafness, highlighting authors
as Almeida (2007), Bagno (2011), Felipe (2013), Peixoto (2004), Quadros (2004, 2006),
Recuero (2011), Zeni (2010), among others who discuss about the theme. In the second place,
we gathered together a group in the net WhatsApp of about 20 deaf users of Brazilian sign
language as First Language. That group took part in ―daily chats‖ about ordinary subjects in
the network WhatsApp. Those ―chats‖ written in Portuguese were picked up from the above
mentioned network and established the research corpus that was analysed under the
Phenomenology standard experienced in two moments: graphic idea analysis and nomothetics
analysis (abstract and unrelated ideas. From those processes arose five different rates of
analysis: Verb in the Infinitive, Auxiliar Followed by main Verb, Verb with Oral sign, Unfit
Verb and Unfit Usage and Inflection Verb. The analysed results showed: the network
WhatsApp is considered a tool to help the acquisition of Portuguese as Second language, the
deaf acquire Portuguese language as Second Language when they use the web, having in their
writing a suitable verb inflection to understand the sentence and in their writings in spoken
Portuguese as oral signifying. Starting from the understanding\interpretation that the
inflection and finding attitude brought us, we suggest new studies in order to make closer the
relation between. Brazilian sign language as First Language and Portuguese as Second
Language so that the deaf can establish an interactive linking more proficient in the society
that has Portuguese as First Language.<br>O trabalho apresenta a análise da produção escrita em Língua Portuguesa como L2
desenvolvida por surdos usuários da Língua Brasileira de Sinais- LIBRAS como L1, nas redes
sociais. O objetivo foi analisar o emprego do verbo na estrutura frasal do português escrito
como segunda língua dos surdos usuários das redes sociais. Partimos da seguinte questão
norteadora: De que modo os surdos que têm a LIBRAS como sua primeira língua empregam
o verbo no português escrito nas redes sociais? Para responder à questão norteadora,
recorremos, primeiramente, aos teóricos cujos trabalhos versavam sobre LIBRAS, língua
portuguesa, português escrito, português como segunda língua, verbo, redes sociais, escrita e
surdez, destacando-se autores como: Almeida (2007), Bagno (2011); Felipe (2013), Peixoto
(2004), Quadros (2004, 2006), Recuero (2011), Zeni (2010), dentre outros teóricos que
discutem o tema em destaque. Num segundo momento, realizamos a criação de um grupo na
rede social WhatsApp composto por 20 (vinte) surdos usuários de LIBRAS como L1. Os
componentes do grupo participavam de ―conversas diárias‖ sobre temas do cotidiano na rede
social WhatsApp. Essas ―conversas‖, escritas em português, foram capturadas da referida rede
social e constituíram o corpus da pesquisa, o qual foi analisado à luz da Fenomenologia,
vivenciando dois momentos: o da análise ideográfica e o da análise nomotética. Nesse
processo, emergiram das ―conversas‖ dos componentes do grupo 5 (cinco) categorias de
análise: verbo no infinitivo, verbo auxiliar acompanhado de principal, verbo com marca de
oralidade, verbo com emprego inadequado e verbo com flexão adequada. Os dados analisados
revelam os seguintes resultados: a rede social WhatsApp é uma ferramenta a ser considerada
para auxiliar na aquisição do português como L2; os surdos se apropriam do português como
L2, quando usam a rede social da web, adquirindo na escrita uma flexão verbal adequada para
a compreensão da sentença e se valendo, em seus escritos, até de registros próprios do
português falado, como as marcas de oralidade. A partir da compreensão/interpretação que a
atitude de reflexão e de desvelamento nos proporcionou, sugerimos novos estudos, no sentido
de estreitar os laços entre a LIBRAS como L1 e o português como L2, para que o surdo possa
estabelecer uma relação interativa mais proficiente na sociedade que tem o português como
L1.
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Bonjour, Audrey. "Usages et pratiques socio-(ré)éducommunicationnels pour personnes handicapées mentales. Outils informatiques et média Internet." Phd thesis, Université de Metz, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00738077.
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L'utilisation croissante de l'informatique et de l'Internet ne cesse de se démentir. Si des études d'usage(s) se multiplient en France, elles sont très inégales selon les publics. Notre recherche interroge les usages et les pratiques d'interventions spécialisées avec les outils informatiques et le média Internet pour des personnes handicapées mentales en institution. Pour ce faire, nous déployons une méthodologie mixte combinant une enquête par questionnaires, des entretiens et des observations in situ. Avant de traiter de la problématique transversale des usages et pratiques, nous menons une méta-réflexion sur le " comment faire " de la recherche sur et pour le handicap mental. Notre description des usages apporte un éclairage sur les logiques organisationnelles, sociales et économiques (offre commerciale et industrielle). Elle nous amène à reconsidérer ces usages et pratiques à l'aune de leur hybridité. Marqués par un brouillage disciplinaire, nous les (re)qualifions de socio-(ré)éducommunicationnels pour rendre compte d'une tension entre interventions sociales, rééducatives, éducatives et communicationnelles. Des logiques d'usages, émerge aussi la question de la " médiatisation des instances de médiation " selon un processus de construction et de changement des pratiques (actualisation, régularité et cristallisation). In fine, ces outils et/ou médias condensent des tensions tout en révélant des enjeux : transformation des formes organisationnelles du " milieu clos " à l'" auto-éco-organisation ", " mutation des postures, compétences et légitimités professionnelles " ainsi qu'amélioration des situations de vie des personnes handicapées (énovation et " processus de personnalisation ").
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Jankeviciute, Laura. "Internet et les préadolescents : quels usages ? : approche visuelle et participative." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00995069.
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Notre thèse évoque les usages d'Internet des préadolescents âgés de 11 à 14 ans, dans toute leur complexité d'une manière anthropologique et ethno-qualitative. D'une part, elle présente une démarche scientifique appliquée et ses principes en se focalisant sur le courant méthodologique des Visual Methodologies, et plus particulièrement sur les méthodes visuelles participatives utilisées durant l'étude dans deux collèges publics bordelais. Et d'autre part, elle fournit l'analyse des résultats de cette étude afin de démontrer comment, grâce à la création de collages et de dessins et aux entretiens menés avec la technique " dessin/collage-élicitation ", les préadolescents ont pu construire un modèle métaphorique de leur lien avec Internet. Notre thèse contribue à la compréhension des dynamiques sociales, culturelles et identitaires qui se créent à travers les dispositifs en ligne et se manifestent chez le public des préadolescents. Nous examinons la façon dont le public en question, à travers ses interactions numériques, comportements, routines, jeux, construit un espace culturel en ligne et comment, à leur tour, les différentes formes d'activités et d'expression influencent leur monde : leurs relations, leur identité et leur quotidien.
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Diouf, François Malik. "Les ressources numériques dans l'enseignement supérieur sénégalais : état des lieux et étude prospective." Thesis, Dijon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014DIJOL042/document.
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C’est dans un contexte de pauvreté ou d’exclusion informationnelle, que la diffusion massive des outils informatiques et technologiques dans les bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur sénégalais, répond à un urgent besoin de transformation et d’amélioration des modes de fonctionnement et de modernisation des services offerts aux différents publics, notamment les étudiants. Actuellement, dans la quasi-totalité des bibliothèques de recherche et d’étude des universités du Sénégal, se développent des activités de numérisation qui ont culminé avec l’essor de l’Internet. Cette situation a engendré un véritable effet amplificateur des ressources numériques, par la mise en place de moyens de création, un accroissement des accès et le partage de l’information scientifique et technique dans les établissements d’enseignement supérieur. En tant que véritables vecteurs de transformation des usages et des pratiques documentaires des usagers dans les bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur du Sénégal, le développement des technologies de l’information et de communication, et la croissance des ressources numériques, vont inévitablement bouleverser les rapports traditionnels des étudiants aux bibliothèques. L’objectif de la présente thèse, est, dès lors, d’étudier la transformation de la professionnalité des bibliothécaires, la culture informationnelle des étudiants, et les usages qu’ils font réellement des ressources numériques, au regard des contextes socioculturel, politique, économique et sociotechnique du Sénégal, dans un contexte de société de l’information en construction. Ainsi, pourrons-nous, à travers cette étude, arriver à faire une analyse prospective consacrée au développement et à l’émergence des bibliothèques<br>It is in the context of poverty or information exclusion that the massive dissemination of information and technology tools in Senegalese academic libraries responds to an urgent need for transformation and improvement of operational modes as well as modernization of services for different audiences, in particular students. Currently, in almost all academic and research libraries of Senegal digitization activities that crossed the rise of the Internet are being developed. This has created a real increasing effect of digital resources, by the establishment of means of creation and by expansion of access and of sharing of scientific and technical information in higher education institutions. The development of information technology and communication - the true vectors of documentary practices among Senegalese academic libraries users – together with the growth of digital resources, will inevitably turn the traditional relationship between students and libraries upside down. The objective of this thesis is, therefore, to study the transformation of the librarians’ profession, information culture of students, and their use of digital resources, with regard to sociocultural, political, economic, and sociotechnical contexts of Senegal; and in the context of the information society under construction. Thus, through this study, a prospective analysis devoted to the development and the emergence of libraries can be constructed
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Pierre, Julien. "Le cadre privatif : des données aux contextes : approche interdimensionnelle des enjeux de médiation de la vie privée." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00825826.
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Nous construisons une analyse des dispositifs identitaires contemporains (dont les réseaux socionumériques) sur plusieurs niveaux : au niveau informatique (modèle conceptuel clôturant représentations sociales et sociabilités) ; au niveau microsocial (négociation des singularités subjectives et ancrage des normes sociales) ; au niveau économique (stratégies hégémoniques et partenariat avec les industries culturelles) ; au niveau sociopolitique (expérimentation de postures individuelles sur la base d'expériences affectives et dans un cercle privé rendant possible l'engagement dans les processus délibératifs constituant le sens commun). Pour appréhender ces enjeux, nous avons mis en œuvre une méthodologie immersive et multi-située en compagnie d'une population composée de figures du sujet contemporain : des apprentis en BTS dans le secteur du Tertiaire, soumis à un complexe de contraintes, et engagés au niveau personnel et socioprofessionnel dans divers dispositifs identitaires. Il ressort de ces analyses plusieurs propositions théoriques, dont celle du cadre privatif présenté comme ensemble de contraintes identitaires définies ou négociées par les interactants et resitué au niveau informatique (ingénierie de la vie privée médiatisée), microsocial (veille mutuelle), économique (modèle socioéconomique du salon), sociopolitique (espace anecdotique), et méthodologique (immersion auprès des usagers).
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Palmieri, Joelle. "Genre et société numérique colonialitaire : effets politiques des usages de l'internet par des organisation de femmes ou féministes en contexte de domination masculine et colonialitaire : les cas de l'Afrique du Sud et du Sénégal." Phd thesis, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00881026.
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Partant de la volonté de nous libérer de définitions techniques, technicistes ou produites dans la sociologie de l'appropriation sociale des usages des TIC afin de qualifier les usages de l'Internet par des organisations de femmes ou féministes en Afrique, nous avons privilégié dans cette thèse les travaux théoriques portant sur le patriarcat et sur la colonialité du pouvoir (ensemble des relations sociales caractérisées par la subalternité -hiérarchisation entre dominants et dominés - produite par l'expansion du capitalisme). Ce parti pris nous a permis de poser un cadre d'analyse opératoire ne plaquant pas des analyses théoriques occidentales, sudaméricainesou asiatiques sur l'Afrique. Il a facilité la façon dont nous avons problématisé la relation entre domination masculine et domination liée à la colonialité de pouvoir, que nous avons nommée colonialitaire, dans un contexte de mondialisation et d'hypermodernité. Les manifestations différenciées de cette relation en Afrique du Sud et au Sénégal nous ont aidé à circonscrire le terrain et le contexte à partir desquels les organisations de femmes et féministes locales utilisent ou non l'Internet. La confrontation de leurs représentations avec le cadre conceptuel est devenue informative et s'est avérée indispensable afin de qualifier la politisation de leurs usages. Il nous est ainsi apparu que l'Internet cristallise parmi les technologies de l'information et de la communication un moyen par lequel la " société de l'information " est le produit comme la production d'une mondialisation hypermoderne où la colonialité du pouvoir et le patriarcat, en tant que systèmes, s'exercent conjointement. Cette conjonction s'exprime par les biais théorique autant qu'empirique.Notamment nous avons observé que l'épistémologie utilisée dans ce cadre renoue avec des constructions traditionnalistes, nationalistes, paternalistes et masculinistes des savoirs en écho à ce que permet cet outil : l'accélération de l'appropriation du corps des femmes, la surenchère rhétorique et politique des dominants,l'institutionnalisation des concepts, l'occidentalisation des pensées, les privatisations en tous secteurs, les concurrences croisées de l'Occident, l'Extrême et le Moyen-Orient sur les terrains tant économique, politique que socioculturel, religieux. Il est alors apparu que les inégalités de genre s'aggravent en même temps que les identités sexuelles à tous les niveaux (État, institutions, population) deviennent souterraines et que les rapports différenciés de " race " et de classe se creusent. Fort de ce constat, nos analyses nous ont mené à réaliser que les femmes de " la base " se retrouvent en situation d'accentuer la prise en charge immédiate de la gestion de l'urgence (augmentation de la pauvreté, des violences, diminution de l'accès aux ressources, à la santé, à l'éducation...), parfois d'accepter leur subalternité tout en la négociant auprès des dominants.
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Palmieri, Joelle. "Genre et société numérique colonialitaire - Effets politiques des usages de l'Internet par des organisations de femmes ou féministes en contexte de domination masculine et colonialitaire : les cas de l'Afrique du Sud et du Sénégal." Phd thesis, Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00709266.
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Partant de la volonté de nous libérer de définitions techniques, technicistes ou produites dans la sociologie de l'appropriation sociale des usages des TIC afin de qualifier les usages de l'Internet par des organisations de femmes ou féministes en Afrique, nous avons privilégié dans cette thèse les travaux théoriques portant sur le patriarcat et sur la colonialité du pouvoir (ensemble des relations sociales caractérisées par la subalternité - hiérarchisation entre dominants et dominés - produite par l'expansion du capitalisme). Ce parti pris nous a permis de poser un cadre d'analyse opératoire ne plaquant pas des analyses théoriques occidentales, sud-américaines ou asiatiques sur l'Afrique. Il a facilité la façon dont nous avons problématisé la relation entre domination masculine et domination liée à la colonialité de pouvoir, que nous avons nommée colonialitaire, dans un contexte de mondialisation et d'hypermodernité. Les manifestations différenciées de cette relation en Afrique du Sud et au Sénégal nous ont aidé à circonscrire le terrain et le contexte à partir desquels les organisations de femmes et féministes locales utilisent ou non l'Internet. La confrontation de leurs représentations avec le cadre conceptuel est devenue informative et s'est avérée indispensable afin de qualifier la politisation de leurs usages. Il nous est ainsi apparu que l'Internet cristallise parmi les technologies de l'information et de la communication un moyen par lequel la " société de l'information " est le produit comme la production d'une mondialisation hypermoderne où la colonialité du pouvoir et le patriarcat, en tant que systèmes, s'exercent conjointement. Cette conjonction s'exprime par les biais théorique autant qu'empirique. Notamment nous avons observé que l'épistémologie utilisée dans ce cadre renoue avec des constructions traditionnalistes, nationalistes, paternalistes et masculinistes des savoirs en écho à ce que permet cet outil : l'accélération de l'appropriation du corps des femmes, la surenchère rhétorique et politique des dominants, l'institutionnalisation des concepts, l'occidentalisation des pensées, les privatisations en tous secteurs, les concurrences croisées de l'Occident, l'Extrême et le Moyen-Orient sur les terrains tant économique, politique que socioculturel, religieux. Il est alors apparu que les inégalités de genre s'aggravent en même temps que les identités sexuelles à tous les niveaux (État, institutions, population) deviennent souterraines et que les rapports différenciés de " race " et de classe se creusent. Fort de ce constat, nos analyses nous ont mené à réaliser que les femmes de " la base " se retrouvent en situation d'accentuer la prise en charge immédiate de la gestion de l'urgence (augmentation de la pauvreté, des violences, diminution de l'accès aux ressources, à la santé, à l'éducation...), parfois d'accepter leur subalternité tout en la négociant auprès des dominants. Aussi, peu à peu, les nouvelles modalités d'action politique des organisations de femmes ou féministes se sont affinées. Faisant face à une régression multiforme, ces organisations doivent modifier leur approche. L'heure est davantage à la préservation des droits des femmes qu'à leur conquête, à la défensive qu'à la subversion. Souhaitant sortir de ce constat alarmiste ou pessimiste, nous avons cherché à nuancer les manifestations de cette double domination sur le réel et avons opté pour une analyste réflexive des représentations de ces organisations sur le virtuel. Ainsi, des pistes d'innovation dans les usages de l'Internet, en marge d'une vision de la communication principalement en termes de marketing et corporate, ont été mises en lumière. Elles privilégient la visibilité de savoirs non savants de femmes ou de jeunes, dans le but de créer les bases d'une citoyenneté féministe. L'étincelle épistémique provoquée par ce choix nous conduit à la conclusion que ses effets politiques interrogent la démocratie et détrône l'injonction à " être connecté " par l'informalité qui caractérise ce parti pris.
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Gaye, Doudou Sall. "Les impacts des Tics dans la formation aux métiers de l'information en Afrique de l'Ouest." Thesis, Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA080041.
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Ce travail de recherche repose sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle les TICE (Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’Éducation), Internet et d’autres développements de systèmes d’information, modifient fondamentalement et en profondeur, l’approche du contexte du management des archives et de la documentation en Afrique. Notre étude porte sur le développement en cours des technologies de l'information en général et sur l’usage des TICE en particulier dans l’enseignement supérieur africain tout en mettant l'emphase sur les dispositifs sénégalais mis en œuvre à l'EBAD (École de bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes de Dakar, Sénégal) et leur réception chez les professionnels africains. Un tel bouleversement numérique implique nécessairement de nouvelles méthodologies pensées pour l' « action informationnelle », les pratiques à distance, et de nouveaux savoir-faire dans le traitement, la gestion, la recherche et la diffusion de l’information. C'est pourquoi les professionnels africains de l’information-documentation sont conduits aujourd’hui à s’impliquer et à s'adapter dans un nouveau rôle de médiateurs de l’information, qui suppose l’acquisition et la maîtrise de nouvelles compétences éducatives, informationnelles, documentaires et sociotechniques. Rôle des professionnels africains d’autant plus indispensable que la majeure partie de nos concitoyens sont analphabètes, à plus de 60%, notamment dans les langues où les ressources du Nord sont écrites.Or, il est admis que ces compétences ne peuvent être acquises que par la formation, et c’est la raison pour laquelle nous nous sommes fixé comme objectifs, à travers nos trois études empiriques, de dresser dans un premier temps l’état des lieux de la formation dans les LIS africaines, puis en interrogeant des professionnels de l'information, d’analyser leurs pratiques et leurs usages de l'information et des dispositifs de formation à distance, leurs besoins propres en formation et enfin nous esquissons les bases d’une réflexion prospective sur les perspectives d’avenir des métiers de l'information documentation en Afrique, dans des environnements complexes et en perpétuel mouvement<br>This research work is based upon the assumption that the ICTEs (Information and Communication Technologies for Education), Internet and other Information systems developments bring about a deep and fundamental change to the approach of the overall context of archive and documentation management in Africa. Our survey concerns the current development of information technologies in general and particularly the use of ICTEs in higher education in Africa, focussing on the mechanisms implemented at the School for Librarians in Dakar, Senegal, “EBAD” (École des bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes de Dakar) and the way they are received by the African specialists. Such a significant digital upheaval necessarily implies new methodologies devised for “informational activities”, remote work and new know-hows in the processing, management, research and sharing of information. For that reason, African information and documentation specialists are now led to get involved and adapt to their new role of information mediators, which implies that they acquire and master new educational, informational, documentary and sociotechnical capabilities.This new role of African specialists is all the more necessary as the vast majority of our fellow citizens are illiterate (more than 60%, particularly in languages used by northern countries for the exchange of cultural resources and information).Now these capabilities can admittedly be acquired only by training; this is why we have set our goals through our three empirical studies: firstly, to review the current state of training in the African LIS, secondly by asking the specialists questions, to assess their practice of information and distance learning methods and to identify their own training needs. Thirdly, we are laying the base for the reflection on future prospects of jobs in the field of information / documentation in Africa, in complex and ever-changing environments
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Beust, Pierre. "Pour une démarche centrée sur l'utilisateur dans les ENT. Apport au Traitement Automatique des Langues." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université de Caen, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01070522.
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Notre problématique de recherche est ancrée en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL). Au sein du TAL, nous nous intéressons à la conception centrée-utilisateur d'environnements où les ressources et les processus mobilisés sont avant tout construits autour et en fonction des attentes et capacités interprétatives de l'utilisateur. La conception centrée-utilisateur n'est pas une posture théorique mais c'est déjà une réalité dans des applications utilisées quotidiennement. C'est le cas des architectures Web 2.0 comme c'est également le cas des Environnements Numériques de Travail (ENT). Notre recherche vise à analyser, concevoir et expérimenter des applications centrées-utilisateur dans les ENT où les capacités interprétatives s'enrichissent des éléments d'interaction dans l'environnement. Ce faisant nous cherchons à faire enrichir le TAL d'interconnexions avec les Interactions Homme-Machine et les EIAH (Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain). La problématique de l'interprétation est ici omniprésente et elle nous incite à tirer des ponts entre disciplines : entre l'informatique et la linguistique, plus précisément le courant de la sémantique interprétative et entre l'informatique et les sciences cognitives, plus précisément le courant de l'énaction. L'interprétation dans un environnement numérique n'est pas dissociable d'un couplage personne-système et de l'action de l'utilisateur dans cet environnement. Il en découle que nos objets d'étude sont principalement des usages et même des contournements d'usages vertueux par sérendipité. Les perspectives de recherche ouvertes s'orientent donc naturellement vers une mise en valeur de " l'agir interprétatif " dans les environnements numériques.
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Gaye, Doudou Sall. "Les impacts des Tics dans la formation aux métiers de l'information en Afrique de l'Ouest." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA080041.
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Ce travail de recherche repose sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle les TICE (Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’Éducation), Internet et d’autres développements de systèmes d’information, modifient fondamentalement et en profondeur, l’approche du contexte du management des archives et de la documentation en Afrique. Notre étude porte sur le développement en cours des technologies de l'information en général et sur l’usage des TICE en particulier dans l’enseignement supérieur africain tout en mettant l'emphase sur les dispositifs sénégalais mis en œuvre à l'EBAD (École de bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes de Dakar, Sénégal) et leur réception chez les professionnels africains. Un tel bouleversement numérique implique nécessairement de nouvelles méthodologies pensées pour l' « action informationnelle », les pratiques à distance, et de nouveaux savoir-faire dans le traitement, la gestion, la recherche et la diffusion de l’information. C'est pourquoi les professionnels africains de l’information-documentation sont conduits aujourd’hui à s’impliquer et à s'adapter dans un nouveau rôle de médiateurs de l’information, qui suppose l’acquisition et la maîtrise de nouvelles compétences éducatives, informationnelles, documentaires et sociotechniques. Rôle des professionnels africains d’autant plus indispensable que la majeure partie de nos concitoyens sont analphabètes, à plus de 60%, notamment dans les langues où les ressources du Nord sont écrites.Or, il est admis que ces compétences ne peuvent être acquises que par la formation, et c’est la raison pour laquelle nous nous sommes fixé comme objectifs, à travers nos trois études empiriques, de dresser dans un premier temps l’état des lieux de la formation dans les LIS africaines, puis en interrogeant des professionnels de l'information, d’analyser leurs pratiques et leurs usages de l'information et des dispositifs de formation à distance, leurs besoins propres en formation et enfin nous esquissons les bases d’une réflexion prospective sur les perspectives d’avenir des métiers de l'information documentation en Afrique, dans des environnements complexes et en perpétuel mouvement<br>This research work is based upon the assumption that the ICTEs (Information and Communication Technologies for Education), Internet and other Information systems developments bring about a deep and fundamental change to the approach of the overall context of archive and documentation management in Africa. Our survey concerns the current development of information technologies in general and particularly the use of ICTEs in higher education in Africa, focussing on the mechanisms implemented at the School for Librarians in Dakar, Senegal, “EBAD” (École des bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes de Dakar) and the way they are received by the African specialists. Such a significant digital upheaval necessarily implies new methodologies devised for “informational activities”, remote work and new know-hows in the processing, management, research and sharing of information. For that reason, African information and documentation specialists are now led to get involved and adapt to their new role of information mediators, which implies that they acquire and master new educational, informational, documentary and sociotechnical capabilities.This new role of African specialists is all the more necessary as the vast majority of our fellow citizens are illiterate (more than 60%, particularly in languages used by northern countries for the exchange of cultural resources and information).Now these capabilities can admittedly be acquired only by training; this is why we have set our goals through our three empirical studies: firstly, to review the current state of training in the African LIS, secondly by asking the specialists questions, to assess their practice of information and distance learning methods and to identify their own training needs. Thirdly, we are laying the base for the reflection on future prospects of jobs in the field of information / documentation in Africa, in complex and ever-changing environments
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Mogase, Constance Refilwe. "Online library resources usage in higher institutions of learningUntitled." 2015. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001941.
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M.Tech. Informatics..<br>The increasing use of the internet in organizations and the abundance of information technology tools and applications are dramatically changing ways of doing business. In the education environment it is almost becoming impossible to activities including; research, teaching and learning as well as communication without the use of the network. Institutions of learning are increasingly changing academic resources and material into electronic form for the learners ease of access. These electronic resources (e-resources) have improved information retrieval and accessibility of quality academic material by both learners and their educators. As a result, academic institutions such as universities have invested vast amounts of money to make the best use of these e-resources. Notwithstanding these efforts, research shows that, students have made little effort to utilize these resources. The objective of this study therefore, was to identify factors that influence effective use of e-resources in higher institutions of learning. In order to achieve the set objective, a conceptual framework was developed from the identified factors which were considered to be influencing the effective use of e-resources. The study recommends that University administration should create effective awareness training programs that promote use of e-resources, provide sufficient internet connections, and design online library systems that are user-friendly to encourage user-interaction and effective usage.
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Chang, Jun-Jie, and 張竣傑. "Using Fourier Series to Predict Library Utility Usage at NYUST." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56731125402813354400.
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碩士<br>國立雲林科技大學<br>營建與物業管理研究所<br>97<br>Electricity expense is one of the fundamental tasks of property management. Activities, such as budget making and energy conservation programs, depend on the analysis on and estimate of electricity consumption. Most of the reference regarding the estimate of electricity consumption focuses more on the commercial and residential buildings than the other types of buildings. The traditional estimate method requires a large amount of historical data to construct the estimate model; also, it has to meet the correlation examine statistically. Therefore, the traditional estimate method has its limits.
In consideration of the periodicity of electricity consumption in educational institutions, this research focuses on the library of National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. Based on the collected historical records of monthly electricity consumption from 2004 to 2006, the monthly electricity consumption of 2007 is estimated by using the time series regression model in combination with the Fourier series model and the electricity consumption average method respectively. By comparing the estimate results to the real electricity consumption, the precision of different models can be identified.
This research uses sum of squares error (SSE) to determine the precision of models. The result indicates that Fourier series model (SSE=4.16×10^9) reaches a more precise estimate than the electricity consumption average method (SSE=5.15×10^9). Three data types (monthly electricity consumption during 2004-2006, 2006 and 2005-2006) are used to conduct the Fourier series estimate. The estimate based on the monthly electricity consumption during 2004-2006 is superior to the estimates based on the other two data types, which might resulted from a more accurate variation trend of electricity consumption reflected by historic data of a longer period. Also, the estimated optimized electricity consumption is used to calculate the floating electricity expense, which, compared with the real floating electricity expense, shows the error is 3.98%. The result could be a helpful reference for NYUST in budget making.
This research is based on the Fourier series model and a relatively small amount of data to estimate the electricity consumption. Further study is required to deal with the variation caused by the stochastic factors and limits caused by insufficient historical data. Also, the development of operating platforms, such as VB, is suggested to facilitate related estimate.
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Ting, Kang-Di, and 丁康迪. "Clustering Articles in a Literature Digital Library Based on Content and Usage." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21635162477974617535.
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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>資訊管理學系研究所<br>92<br>Literature digital library is one of the most important resources to preserve civilized asset. To provide more effective and efficient information search, many systems are equipped with a browsing interface that aims to ease the article searching task. A browsing interface is associated with a subject directory, which guides the users to identify articles that need their information need. A subject directory contains a set (or a hierarchy) of subject categories, each containing a number of similar articles. How to group articles in a literature digital library is the theme of this thesis.
Previous work used either document classification or document clustering approaches to dispatching articles into a set of article clusters based on their content. We observed that articles that meet a single user’s information need may not necessarily fall in a single cluster. In this thesis, we propose to make use of both Web log and article content is clustering articles. We proposed two hybrid approaches, namely document categorization based method and document clustering based method. These alternatives were compared to other content-based methods. It has been found that the document categorization based method effectively reduces the number of required click-through at the expense of slight increase of entropy that measures the content heterogeneity of each generated cluster.
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Kotzé, René. "Redesigning an art university library interior to increase student usage : a case study." 2014. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001488.
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M. Tech. Interior Design<br>The focus of this study was a small university library situated on the TUT Arts Campus in Pretoria. Since the library opened its doors nearly 20 years ago, little attention was paid to the interior and no alterations were implemented since then. Staff and students did not perceive the library as a positive asset due to the state of disrepair of its interior. As indicated by previous studies, redesigning a library interior has the potential to improve the learning environment it offers. It was hypothesised that the condition of the TUT Arts Campus library interior may have been a deterring factor causing students' reluctance to use it and that the redesign of the library's interior would have the potential to solve this real-life problem. This study involved itself with the process of redesigning the interior of the TUT Arts Campus library and the process of achieving the final design. The study dealt with answering the research question: How may one go about to redesign the interior of the TUT Arts Campus library, with the use of focus groups involving iterative cycles and user-based input, to increase student usage?
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Kramer, Stefan. "Pattern of online library resource usage per user in a distributed graduate education environment." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105849.
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The frequency distribution on online library resource usage by individual users (mostly students) at a distributed education graduate school is notably skewed, with a relatively small number of users showing frequent usage, and a large number of users showing infrequent usage.
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Chou, Shu-lai, and 周澍來. "A Study on Collection Security in University Library:the Usage Evaluation for Library Security Systems." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01434564872374960137.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>圖書資訊學研究所<br>93<br>The questionnaire and the follow-up interview were used to collect data in this thesis. After analyzing these data, this thesis discussed the findings in three aspects:
1.The current situation of collections security in university libraries.
2.The usage and evaluation of library security systems in university libraries.
3.The applicability of RFID technology in collections security.
The following shows suggestions based on the findings of this research:
1.The library should draw up a policy for collection security to build an integrated protection mechanism.
2.The library should establish the criteria to evaluate library security systems by writing a system requirement for proposal.
3.The training programs or courses of schools, organizations, and libraries should cover the issue on “collection security” to build up a fundamental cognition on it for librarians.
4.The libraries ought to keep the continuing interests in the researches and applications of RFID system and technology.
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Shu-Fan, Liu, and 劉淑芳. "Comparative research on different readers’ expectation for the roles and usage of Kaohsiung City Library." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67556482362172926269.
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碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>成人教育研究所在職專班<br>94<br>The subject of this research aims to explore different readers’ expectations for the roles and usage of Kaohsiung City Library. Major purposes of this research are as follow:
1. To explore different reader’s expectations for the role, function, library collection, services, and library staff of the City Library.
2. To understand readers’ usage frequency, purpose, services, information category, and expected improvements from the City Library.
3. To compare differences of expectations for its role, function, library collection, services, and library staff for the City Library from readers with different backgrounds.
4. To compare differences of usage frequency, purpose, services, information category, and expected improvements at the City Library among readers of different backgrounds.
With literature analysis and the characteristics of services provided by public library, a questionnaire of “Comparative research on different readers’ expectation for the roles and usage of Kaohsiung City Library” is produced and distributed to randomly selected respondents. Returned questionnaires are consolidated, analyzed, and statistically counted. With frequency distribution, t-test for independent sample, and one-way ANOVA statistic and analysis methods, the following conclusions are achieved:
1. General public is the subject for service that the City Library provides. Statistic result suggests that readers’ purposes of using library and needs for library are different depending on readers’ gender, age, occupation, and education level.
2. The functions of library mostly valued by readers are education and information.
3. Readers’ expectation and usage of City Library’s collection of information are not diversified enough.
4. Services provided by City Library are not commonly used by readers.
5. The concept of “public library should thoroughly uphold the rights of equal access to information among all citizens” is not commonly accepted by citizens.
6. The improvement priority for City Library expected by readers is library collection.
Based on the result of this Research, recommendations shall be made to and provided for the Ministry of Education, Council of Cultural Affairs, and public libraries of all levels as reference.