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Dhamdhere, Sangeeta. "Comparative study of Web-based Services and Best Practices offered by top World University libraries and "A" grade accredited University libraries in India." Diss., Ess Ess Publication, New Delhi, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102771.
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In this study 64 web based services (bibliographical, patron education, patron communication and patron publication services) and best practices offered by the 70 top world university libraries and 39 top Indian University libraries were studied using different data analysis techniques like cross-tabulating for average scores and Pearson correlation coefficient and tests like Chi-Square Test and T-Test were applied to the raw data collected for final results. The library rankings as per their web-based services were correlated with their university rankings as per Webometric rankings and found that library web-based services rankings are correlating with their university rankings. Therefore, developing countries like India should improve their library web-based services rankings to improve their rankings at global level.Doctor of Philosophy
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Golsch, Michael. "Money makes the world go round." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-32955.
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Das SMWK muss in diesem Jahr 24 Millionen EUR einsparen und auch in den nächsten wird die Haushaltslage des Freistaats Sachsen angespannt und auf Konsolidierung angelegt bleiben. Auch die Bibliotheken bleiben von Kürzungen nicht verschont und dies, obwohl sie zu den bestbesuchtesten Kultureinrichtungen überhaupt gehören. So haben die sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken 2008 über 6,6 Millionen Medien ausgeliehen. Angesichts der Personal- und Sachkürzungen werden in den folgenden Jahren innovative Wege zur Steigerung der Ausleihzahlen sowohl absolut als auch pro investierten EURO und die zunehmende Einbindung von ehrenamtlich Tätigen beschritten werden müssen.
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Hicklin, R. Austin. "A consignment library of reusable software components for use over the World-Wide Web." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01202010-020317/.
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Becker, Patti Clayton. "Books and libraries in American society during World War II : weapons in the war of ideas /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40149147k.
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Texte remanié de: Doctoral dissertation--Madison (Wis.)--University of Wisconsin, 2002. Titre de soutenance : Up the hill of opportunity: American public libraries and ALA during World War II.Bibliogr. p. 267-281. Notes bibliogr. p. 219-266.
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Dervos, Dimitris A., Nikolaos Samaras, Georgios Evangelidis, Jaakko Hyvärinen, and Ypatios Asmanidis. "The Universal Author Identifier System (UAI_Sys)." TEI of Pireaeus, Greece, and the University of Paisley, UK, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105755.
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One common problem in the scientific research literature is that each one author cannot easily be identified uniquely. The problem arises when there are authors with identical names, authors who have changed their name(s) in the course of time, and authors whose names appear in alternative versions (for example: Jaakko Hyvärinen, and J. P. Hyvärinen) across the publications they have (co-) authored. The issue becomes more of a problem when data analysis utilizing author names is to be conducted, for example: in citation analysis.
In this paper we introduce the Universal Author Identifier system, codenamed UAI_Sys. The system is web based and publicly available, enabling each one author to register/update his/her own metadata, plus acquire a unique identifier (UAI code), ensuring name disambiguation. As soon as UAI_Sys becomes accepted and enjoys worldwide use, selected author metadata will become globally available to all interested parties. Care is taken so that UAI_Sys comprises more than just a database for storing and handling author identifiers. Provision is taken for the system to incorporate web services facilitating communication with third party applications, thus expanding the possibilities for web based co-functionality. Last but not least, the system supports role-based access and management (i.e. different user roles for authors, librarians, publishers, and administrators) for efficient and effective information dissemination and management, promoting research and collaboration.
UAI_Sys is being designed/developed along the lines of the Cascading Citations Analysis Project (C-CAP) which is co-funded by the Alexander Technology Educational Institute (ATEI), and the University of Macedonia (UoM).
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Dillon, Martin. "Metadata for Web Resources: How Metadata Works on the Web." the Library of Congress, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105769.
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This paper begins by discussing the various meanings of metadata both on and off the Web, and the various uses to which metadata has been put. The body of the paper focuses on the Web and the roles that metadata has in that environment. More specifically, the primary concern here is for metadata used in resource discovery, broadly considered. Metadata for resource discovery is on an evolutionary path with bibliographic description as an immediate predecessor. Its chief exemplar is the Dublin Core and its origins, nature and current status will be briefly discussed. From this starting point, the paper then considers the uses of such metadata in the Web context, both currently and those that are planned for. The critical issues that need addressing are its weaknesses for achieving its purposes and alternatives. Finally, the role of libraries in creating systems for resource discovery is considered, from the perspective of the gains made to date with the Dublin Core, the difficulties of merging this effort with traditional bibliographic description (aka MARC and AACRII), and what can be done about the gap between the two.
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Shachaf, Pnina, and Sarah Horowitz. "Are virtual reference services color blind?" Elsevier, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106524.
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This study reports an experiment that examines whether librarians provide equitable virtual reference services to diverse user groups. The relative absence of social cues in the virtual environment may mean greater equality of services though at the same time greater inequalities may arise as librarians can become less self-aware online. Findings indicate that the quality of service librarians provide to African Americans and Arabs is lower than the quality of service they provide to Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, and Jewish students. This study adds to the knowledge of subjective bias in the virtual environment by specifying those that are discriminated against online, identifying the kinds of discriminatory actions of virtual reference librarians, and identifying the type of queries that more frequently result in unbiased service.
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Dulaymi, Sawsan Taha. "Towards management information systems for strategic periodicals collection management for Saudi Academic Libraries in the world of electronic journals." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425236.
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Metz, Rosalyn. "Conducting Online Research Undergraduate Preferences of Sources." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/289.
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When students write research papers they use a variety of sources in their paper. These sources range from web pages to research articles. The purpose of this study was to decide whether or not undergraduate students would choose to use scholarly or non-scholarly sources when presented with both types of sources in a set of search results. Twenty Duke University students were recruited for the study. They were given a research topic and asked to perform a search. Both the search results and interface were fabricated by the researcher in order to control the experimental environment. The students were asked to rate the sources found in the results, choose four sources to use for their research scenario, and finally, were asked to explain reasoning behind their choices. The findings concluded that the students in this study were more likely to choose scholarly sources over non-scholarly sources and give these scholarly sources higher ratings.
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Ruppelt, Niels. "The development of the notion of libraries in the ancient world with special reference to the Middle East, the Roman Republic and the Royal Alexandrian Library." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13399.
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Bibliography: leaves 252-256.The Royal Alexandrian Library (RAL) is considered by modern scholarship to represent the epitome of the development of ancient librarianship. Its extensive holdings imply the application of modern organizational procedures such as collection development, information retrieval and promotion of use - terms identifiable as elements embodied in the conceptual framework of librarianship (for the purposes of this study the latter two concepts - information retrieval and promotion of use - are combined into the simplified general concept of "collection accessibility"). The RAL therefore constitutes a key development phase in the evolution of modern librarianship. However, scholars have disputed the origins of the RAL and Mouseion or university it was attached to. The socalled "Greek thesis" emphasizes the purely Greek origins of both the Mouseion and the RAL. Conversely, the "Ptolemaic thesis", while acknowledging the Greek origins of the Mouseion, argues that the RAL (as an independent institution distinguishable from the Mouseion proper) is derived from Middle Eastern institutions. This study traces the origins of the RAL from the textual collections of the early Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, through the period of Greek and the subsequent Hellenistic cultural dominance - culminating in the legacy of Hellenistic librarianship as inherited by the Roman Republic, since the newly emerging Roman empire was to exert a deciding influence upon the historical development of the RAL. Within these civilizations and regions a brief overview is undertaken to gauge the extent of literacy and literary output prevalent in each as well as a general assessment of librarianship and library practices. The major and most noteworthy archival and book collections are then analysed according to the organizational procedures identified in the outlined conceptual framework of librarianship. For this purpose sufficient information has been obtained from archaeological evidence and primary and secondary sources to allow for the analysis of forty-three libraries throughout the ancient world. In this way predominantly Middle Eastern as well as Greek elements have been identified as contributing to the creation, organization and functioning of the RAL.
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Dillon, Andrew, and Charles Watson. "User analysis in HCI: the historical lesson from individual differences research." Elsevier, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105824.
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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A. and Watson, C. (1996) User analysis HCI-the historical lessons from individual differences research. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 45(6), 619-638.
Abstract: User analysis is a crucial aspect of user-centered systems design, yet Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has yet to formulate reliable and valid characterizations of users beyond gross distinctions based on task and experience. Individual differences research from mainstream psychology has identified a stable set of characteristics that would appear to offer potential application in the HCI arena. Furthermore, in its evolution over the last 100 years, research on individual differences has faced many of the problems of theoretical status and applicability that are common to HCI. In the present paper the relationship between work in cognitive and differential psychology and current analyses of users in HCI is examined. It is concluded that HCI could gain significant predictive power if individual differences research was related to the analysis of users in contemporary systems design.
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Vaughan, Misha, and Andrew Dillon. "Why structure and genre matter to users of digital information: a longitudinal study with readers of a web-based newspaper." Elsevier, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105924.
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In an effort to understand the impact of designing for digital genres on usersâ mental representations of structure, a two-phase study was conducted. In phase 1, six expert news readers and a panel of HCI experts were solicited for input regarding genre-conforming and
genre-violating web news page design, navigation, and story categorization. In phase 2, a longitudinal experiment with a group of 25 novice web news readers who were exposed to one of the two designs over 5 sessions is reported. During these sessions a variety of user data were captured, including: comprehension (recall, recognition), usability (time on task, accuracy, user satisfaction), and navigation
(path length, category node hits).
The between-group difference of web site design was signiï¬ cant for comprehension, usability, and navigation with the users of the
genre-conforming design demonstrating better performance. The within-group difference of time was signiï¬ cant across these three
measures as well, with performance improving over time. No interaction effect was found between web site design and time on
comprehension or usability. However, a surprising interaction effect was found on navigation; speciï¬ cally the breadth of navigation (i.e.
the number of nodes visited for two classes of tasks) increased over time more dramatically for the genre-violating group than for the
genre-conforming group. By examining the changes in these data over time and between the two designs, evidence for the development of
usersâ mental representations of structure was captured.
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Axelsson, Fredrica Hedge. "In the event of a zombie apocalypse : An investigation into policies of long-term preservation of digital media in the modern world of Open Access institutional repositories." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-178979.
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With the purpose to investigate policies within long-term preservation of digital media in the modern world of Open Access institutional repository, this two year's master thesis was conducted through a qualitative study with quantitative overtures. The main objectives of this thesis centre on the criteria for long-term digital preservation, preservation in relation to institutional repositories, the issues cropping up within the field of institutional repositories, and the essential components of a preservation policy. The theoretical framework is constructed around a model based upon scholarly communication, with its aspects of dissemination, acquisition, preservation, discovery and access, and with the facet of preservation at its centre. The methodology of this study is cued to content analysis and its in-depth investigative process, which was conducted on a sample of ten preservation policies within Open Access institutional repositories that were compared to a standardised expert set of policy categorisation. The results show that a perfect preservation policy does not appear to exist in the current world, based exclusively on the selected sample. This gives a strong indication of a need for further research within the field of Open Access institutional repositories preservation policies.I syfte att undersöka policyer inom långsiktigt bevarande av digitala medier i den moderna världen av Open Access institutionella arkiv, genomfördes denna tvååriga masteruppsats genom en kvalitativ studie med kvantitativa uvertyrer. De huvudsakliga frågeställningarna i denna uppsats är centrerade kring kriterierna för långsiktigt digitalt bevarande, bevarandet i förhållande till institutionella arkiv, problem som dyker upp inom fältet för institutionella arkiv, och de essentiella komponenterna för en långtidsbevarande policy. Det teoretiska ramverket är uppbyggt runt en modell som utgår ifrån vetenskaplig kommunikation, med dess aspekter av spridning, förvärv, bevarande, upptäckt och tillgänglighet, med bevarande aspekten i centrum. Metoden för denna studie är centrerad till innehållsanalys och dess fördjupande undersökningsprocess, och som applicerades på tio utvalda Open Access institutionella arkivs bevarande-policyer, som sedan jämfördes med enuppsättning standardiserade kategorier, utvalda av experter, för en sådan policy. Resultaten visade att en perfekt långtidsbevarande policy inte existerar i dagens verklighet, om man utgår från studiens urval. Detta ger en stark indikation på att det finns ett behov av att göra ytterligare forskning inom området för institutionella arkivs bevarande policy inom Open Access-världen
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Chandra, Smita, and Vivek Patkar. "ICTS: A catalyst for enriching the learning process and library services in India." Elsevier, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106060.
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The advances in ICTs have decisively changed the library and learning environment. On the one hand, ICTs have enhanced the variety and accessibility to library collections and services to break the barriers of location and time. On the other, the e-Learning has emerged as an additional medium for imparting education in many disciplines to overcome the constraint of physical capacity associated with the traditional classroom methods. For a vast developing country like India, this provides an immense opportunity to provide even higher education to remote places besides extending the library services through networking. Thanks to the recent initiatives by the public and private institutions in this direction, a few web-based instruction courses are now running in the country. This paper reviews different aspects of e-Learning and emerging learning landscapes. It further presents the
library scene and new opportunities for its participation in the e-Learning process. How these ICTs driven advances can contribute to the comprehensive learning process in India is highlighted.
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Garcia, Sarah C. "We Are Individuals: Librarians’ Demonstration of Individuality on the World Wide Web." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/271.
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This study examines a sample of websites created by librarians on the World Wide Web. The websites were analyzed to see how librarians are discussing and presenting themselves on the World Wide Web in the attempt to escape the traditional stereotype. An analysis of these websites revealed that librarians are not trying to completely escape the stereotype but rather to prove that all librarians are individuals outside of their profession.
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Administrato. "Microsoft Word - mp_final-1.do." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/314.
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The purpose of this research was to analyze the periodical collections of public libraries in the Triangle region of North Carolina in terms of young adult titles. Research questions targeted how public librarians provide their young adult patrons with access to periodical collections, address acess to periodicals available through the Internet and develop periodical collections in response to research findings on young adult reading. Collections were evaluated in terms of collection policies, placement, reference to other collections, and content. While the research revealed that collections varied in terms of responses to several of the research concerns, the collections showed some consistency in terms of collection policy and response to research findings.
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Lussky, Joan. "The Index Catalogue and Historical Shifts in Medical Knowledge, & Word Usage Patterns." dLIST, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106349.
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Faithful aggregated accounts of the advancement of science are invaluable for those setting scientific policy as well as scholars of the history of science. As science develops the scholarly communityiÌ s determination of the accepted knowledge undergoes shifts. Within medicine these shifts include our understanding of what can cause disease and what defines specific disease entities. Shifts in accepted medical knowledge are captured in the medical literature. The Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon GeneraliÌ s Office, United States Army, published from 1880 -1961, is an extremely large index to medical literature. The newly digitized form of this index, referred to as the IndexCat, allows us a way to generate faithful accounts of the development of medical science during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. My data looks at shifts within the IndexCat surrounding three disease entities: syphilis, Huntington's chorea, and beriberi, and their interactions with two disease causation theories: germ and hereditary, from 1880-1930. Temporal changes in the prominent subject heading words and title words within the literature of these diseases and disease theories corroborate qualitative accounts of this same literature, which reports the complex and sometimes oblique process of knowledge accretion. Although preliminary, my results indicate that the IndexCat is a valuable tool for studying the development of medical knowledge.
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au, C. Kilpin@murdoch edu, and Carrie Kilpin. "Beyond the Digital Diva: Women on the World Wide Web." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20041001.92507.
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In the year 2000, American researchers reported that women constituted 51 percent of Internet users. This was a significant discovery, as throughout the mediums history, women were outnumbered by men as both users and builders of sites. This thesis probes not only this historical moment of change, but how women are mobilising the World Wide Web in their work, leisure and lives.
Not considered in the 51% of American women now online headline is the lack of women engaged in Web building rather than Web shopping. In technical fields relating to the Web, women are outnumbered and marginalized, being poorly represented in computer-related college and university courses, in careers in computer science and computer programming, and also in digital policy. This thesis identifies the causes for the low number of women in these spheres. I consider the social and cultural reasons for their exclusion and explore the discourses which operate to discourage womens participation.
My original contribution to knowledge is forged as much through how this thesis is written as by the words and footnotes that graze these pages. With strong attention to methodology in Web-based research, I gather a plurality of womens voices and experiences of under-confidence, humiliation and fear. Continuing the initiatives of Dale Spenders Nattering on the Net, I research womens use of the Web in placing a voice behind the statistics. I also offer strategies for digital intervention, without easy platitudes to the potential for women in the knowledge economy or through Creative Industries strategies.
The chapters of this thesis examine the contexts in which exclusionary attitudes are created and perpetuated. No technology is self-standing: we gain information about new technologies from the old. I investigate representations and mediations of womens relationship to the Web in fields including the media, the workplace, fiction, the Creative Industries and educational institutions. For example, the media is complicit in causing women to doubt their technological capabilities. The images and ideologies of women in film, newspapers and magazines that present computer and Web usage are often discriminatory and derogatory. I also found in educational institutions that patriarchal attitudes privilege men, and discourage female students interest in digital technologies. I interviewed high school and university students and found that the cultural values embedded within curricula discriminate against women. Limitations in Web-based learning were also discovered.
In discussing the cultural and social foundations for womens absence or under-confidence in technological fields, I engage with many theories from a prominent digital academic: Dale Spender. In her book Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace, Spenders outlook is admonitory. She believes that unless women acquire a level of technological capital equal to their male counterparts, women will continue to be marginalised as new political and social ideologies develop. She believes womens digital education must occur as soon as possible. While I welcome her arguments, I also found that Spender did not address the confluence between the analogue and the digital. She did not explore how the old media is shaping the new. While Spenders research focused on the Internet, I ponder her theses in the context of the World Wide Web.
In order to intervene in the patriarchal paradigm, to move women beyond digital shoppers and into builders of the digital world, I have created a website (included on CD-ROM) to accompany this thesiss arguments. It presents links to many sites on the Web to demonstrate how women are challenging the masculine inscriptions of digital technology. Although the website is created to interact directly with Chapter Three, its content is applicable to all parts of the thesis.
This thesis is situated between cultural studies and internet studies. This interdisciplinary dialogue has proved beneficial, allowing socio-technical research to resonate with wider political applications. The importance of intervention - and the need for change - has guided my words. Throughout the research and writing process of this thesis, organisations have released reports claiming gender equity on the Web. My task is to capture the voice, views and fears of the women behind these statistics.
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Käck, Camilla. "Pop-up-bibliotek : På gränsen mellan uppsökande verksamhet och PR." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-308426.
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This master’s thesis in Library and Information Science examines the phenomenon ”pop up library” and how public libraries are working with projects within this area. The method to collecting data is qualitative interviews with represents from five libraries in Sweden. The theoretical framework mainly consists of theories from mar- keting management especially adapted for non-profit organizations and libraries. The main results of the study shows that the purpose of why the libraries are using this method is to attract new users, make the library more available, marketing the library, work with reading promotion, start up and/or develop cooperation’s with other organizations or units within the municipality. One desire with the pop up libraries is to attract people to also visit the physical main library but there is also a fear among the informants that some people will think that the pop up library is the only library in the community. Common factors seen in my informants view of pop-up library are: temporary, unexpected and adapted for the target audience and the environment. Pop up libraries is much about relationships, to build and develop relationships with both partners and prospective users. Pop up libraries can be seen as buzz marketing, an effective way to advertise with small means. By making them into "a hot topic" it generates a buzz and publicity in local media. The pop up libraries in this study are primarily implemented as projects, funded by external project funding. They do not require as much resources to implement but is more difficult to engage in regular activities. The opportunities that libraries see with the pop up library concept is to continue to reach out to new audiences by using new creative ways. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.
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Edwards, Sylvia L. "Fee based information services for business : an investigation of requirements." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36840/1/36840_Edwards_1998.pdf.
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This thesis reports findings from a survey comparing the use of internal and external information services by business persons in the City of Brisbane. The Business Information: an investigation of its sources and use survey was undertaken on behalf of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library's Expert Information Service. The study made steps towards the understanding of
not only where information is currently sourced, but also why business people prefer the services they currently use to source their information needs. The study has corroborated previous studies into business people's use of information resources and has achieved a better understanding of information use patterns and the potential future role of libraries and library based Fee Based Information Service (FBIS) units. Comparative case
studies were undertaken to understand the Australian FBIS environment. FBIS's have developed within the Australian library environment to serve the information needs of business people. They have also developed out of a drive to provide income generation, independent of government
funding, for the library that establishes the FBIS.
Libraries and FBIS units have resources and expertise of potential value to business people; however, business people still lack an awareness of available information services and resources
in general, and specifically in libraries or FBIS units.
The main findings of this survey are that: (1) Architects and Small Business Managers are primary markets for FBIS units; (2) The main sources of information currently accessed to make business decisions are internal information services and professional associations; (3) External information service units are favoured for their ability to provide information searching and patents
& standards access; (4) The Internet is currently used more than any other electronic form of information resource and an increase is expected in daily and weekly use; (5) Information
overload and a lack of time to search for information are major concerns to business people; (6)
The majority of respondents have never used a library based FBIS; and (7) Almost 50% of business people report that they have difficulty with not having a budget to acquire information and approximately 35% have no authority to purchase information. Overall the findings suggest that FBIS units should aim to understand the commercial paradigm, providing accurate, timely and up-to-date information for their clients in the most convenient and specific manner possible. The research findings suggest a number of implications for practice for FBIS units, as well as for libraries in Australia.
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Smith, Christina Catharina. "An analysis of the e-research needs of postgraduate students at higher education institutions." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01162007-153836/.
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McLean, Michelle A. "Library 2.0 and libraries building community initiatives in Australia." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105429.
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Hotta, Ann Miyoko. "Children, books, and children's bunko a study of an art world in the Japanese context /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/35155503.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California at Berkeley, 1995.eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-278).
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Wertheimer, Andrew B. Wiegand Wayne A. "Japanese American community libraries in America's concentration camps, 1942-1946 /." 2004. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.
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Wimberley, Laura. "Open Access Journals in the Developing World." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105541.
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This paper examines the use of open access journals by academic libraries in the developing world: are open source journals a good choice for universities in the developing world, and to what extent are they currently being used? So far, the developing world has been held back from participating in that flow by three blockages: the costs of purchasing journals to read, the costs of publishing researching in journals, and censorship. I argue that truly open access requires removing all three blocks, for the sake of human development.
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McLean, Michelle A. "Serving the sphere: public libraries serving their virtual users." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106371.
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Report on a study tour of public library services in the US who are providing first class, cutting edge service to their virtual clients. The study tour was made possible by the award of a Ramsay Reid scholarship from the State Library of Victoria in 2006.
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Schallier, Wouter. "Why organize information if you can find it? UDC and libraries in an Internet world." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106485.
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The Belgians Otlet en La Fontaine created the Universal Decimal Classification in order to collect and organize the world's knowledge. This happened in an age when information was almost exclusively made available by libraries. Since the internet, the quantity of information outside libraries is enormous and keeps growing every day. The internet is accessible to anybody, it is fundamentally unorganized and its content changes constantly. Collecting and organizing the world's knowledge seem to have become an impossible ambition. Perhaps it is even unnecessary, since search engines make information retrievable now. And why would we organize information if we can find it? So what will be the role of UDC and libraries in this internet environment? Libraries can still play a role as a major information provider, if they adapt fully to the expectations of a modern end user. The design and the functionalities of online catalogues should allow maximal accessibility, usability and active participation of the end user in the internet environment. Metadata, like UDC, should maximize the visibility of information, enrich it and invite the end user to assign metadata himself.
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Moulaison, Heather Lea. "A framework for cultural heritage digital libraries in the developing world access to non-textual information for non-literate people in Morocco /." 2010. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000052139.
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Alsbjer, Peter. "Interaction: Anything goes 2.0." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105184.
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The interactive society is characterized
by a desire for participation
that involves, on the one hand, citizens,
workers and customers and on the
other, politicians, decision makers and
entrepreneurs â irrespective of whether
this occurs in the public or the private
sectors.
Another way of explaining the interactive
society can be found in the concept
of 2.0. Libraries must relate to web 2.0 in the
same way they related to web 1.0. The
key is to identify the possibilities that
the new techniques offer.
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Kilfoil, Jessica. "Projecting the map collection academic map Libraries and communicating the value of services on the World Wide Web /." 2002. http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2797.pdf.
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Richter, Stefan [Verfasser]. "World libraries : towards efficiently sharing large data volumes in open untrusted environments while preserving privacy / vorgelegt von Stefan Richter." 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000139689/34.
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Lin, Chi-Shiou. "Examining the Conceptualization of Government Publications on the World Wide Web: A Genre Theory Inspired Conceptual Framework." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105703.
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Buchel, Olha, and Linda L. Hill. "Treatment of Georeferencing in Knowledge Organization Systems: North American Contributions to Integrated Georeferencing." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105729.
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Recent research projects in North America that have advanced the integration of formal mathematical georeferencing and informal placename georeferencing in knowledge organization systems are described and related to visualization applications.
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Tramullas, Jesús. "Open Source Tools for Content Management." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106328.
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This paper revises different tools developed to manage digital information resources. First, it revises relations between information management and content management. Second, the paper analyses content management software componentes. Last, it proposes a practical classification of the tools.
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Johnson, J. K. "Reworking Myth: Casting Lots for the Future of Library Workplaces." Thesis, 2009. http://eprints.rclis.org/19168/1/JohnsonJ0509.pdf.
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The purpose of this work is to provide understanding regarding the future of library workplaces by, first, establishing the relationship between Joseph Campbell's functions of mythology in traditional cultures and workplace texts, and then showing libraries as workplaces with such texts. With this framework in place, it is possible to pick-out the fundamental cycle inherent in library workplace cosmology, highlight pedagogical cycles inherent in library texts, and generate an informed understanding of future cosmological and pedagogical trends using educated extrapolation of such cycles. These steps all serve to lay further groundwork in understanding library workplace mythology and its sociological effects, and, using the relationship between ever-moving cosmological and pedagogical cycles, it becomes possible to form an educated picture of future library sociology. In the end, library workplace mythology has no new revelations about the direction of library workplace sociology, only new ways of dispelling predictions often made about the future of libraries and their workplaces. By looking at library workplaces as sites of mythology, this work offers expectations that the same cycles inherent in past and present library workplaces will continue to overcome changes in the technological, political, and social constructs of future library workplaces.
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Dillon, Andrew, and Misha Vaughan. "â Itâ s the journey and the destinationâ : Shape and the emergent property of genre in evaluating digital documents." 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106489.
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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon and Vaughan (1997) It's the journey and the destination: Shape and the emergent property of genre in digital documents. New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia, 3, 91-106. Introduction: To anyone versed in the literature on hypermedia, it is clear that the last 10 yearsâ worth of research on usability since Conklinâ s (1987) seminal article has largely been ignored by web designers. Surfing web sites even casually will likely expose a user to screens of
badly formatted text, superfluous graphics, mixed fonts, unreadable color combinations, and dangling or dead links. While the issue of knowledge transfer between research
disciplines and design practice is fraught with problems and is a fascinating topic in and of itself (see e.g., Klein and Eason, 1993), this is not the focus of the present paper.
Instead we wish to extend work that started with the birth of hypertext systems and continues to demand attention in these days of free-for-all web design: the evaluation of
user behaviour in electronic space. Specifically, this paper will extend the analysis of â user navigationâ to the evaluation of user behaviour in web environments.
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Trillo, Flor. "La presencia de las mujeres en la Internet." Thesis, 2004. http://eprints.rclis.org/13925/1/Tesis_completa_ultima_version.PDF.
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Patkar, Vivek, and Smita Chandra. "e-Research and the Ubiquitious Open Grid Digital Libraries of the Future." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105624.
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Libraries have traditionally facilitated each of the following elements of research: production of new knowledge, its preservation and its organization to make it accessible for use over the generations. In modern times, the library is constantly required to meet the challenges of information explosion. Assimilating resources and restructuring practices to process the large data volumes both in the print and digital form held across the globe, therefore, becomes very important. A recourse by the libraries to application of successive forms of what can be called as Digital Library Technologies (DLT) has been the imperative. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is one recent development that is expected to assist the libraries to partner in setting up virtual learning environment and integrating research on a near universal scale. Future extension of this concept is envisaged to be that of Grid Computing. The technologies driving the â Gridâ would let people share computing power, databases, and other on-line tools securely across institutional and geographic boundaries without sacrificing the local autonomy. Ushering an era of the ubiquitous library helping the e-research is thus on the card. This paper reviews the emerging technological changes and charts the future role for the libraries with special reference to India.
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Mendez, Alexandra Vialla. "Curating the Americas: Library Practices and Early Histories of the New World Between Spain and Venice." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-y1qd-fg42.
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This dissertation investigates how a network of Venetian and Spanish scholars placed ancient texts and new geographic information about the Americas in dialogue to create new histories of the modern world, from the 1510s to the 1550s. I focus in particular on the print production and manuscript exchanges of Venetian state officials Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Pietro Bembo, and Andrea Navagero, and Spanish state officials Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Under the custodianship of Navagero, Bembo, and Ramusio, the Library of St. Mark, donated to the Republic of Venice by the Greek cardinal Bessarion in 1468, functioned as a site of knowledge production. The gatekeeping and information management practices that these men carried out as caretakers of this politically charged library of Greek and Latin books informed their manuscript exchanges and print production.
Geographic news from the Americas in the form of letters, accounts, maps, and printed works posed a particular challenge to classical understandings of the globe, and the Spanish and Venetian intellectuals examined here together faced the challenge of apprehending the new and determining the role and relevance of ancient texts such as those of Ptolemy, Plato, Pliny, and Strabo in the contemporary world.
Through their histories, summaries, anthologies, and commentaries, they made news into history, curating the presentation of the Americas for their reading publics. Their published works fixed in print the fluid correspondence networks and manuscript exchanges that enabled their creation, making the private public with a great deal of mediation, selection, and suppression or selective acknowledgment of sources and dialogues. By reading the printed works together with the manuscript backstory, I reveal how these scholars pushed at the boundaries of what was expected of them as Spanish or Venetian state agents. Their curated presentation of information about the Americas obscured the porosity of intellectual exchange among Spanish and Venetian intellectuals at the time, and the extent to which the production of Americana in Venice is not just a Venetian story, but also a Spanish one.
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Hsieh, Tsai-Yu, and 謝采妤. "Differences between Movie and Real World Librarian Image." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20575937550378108709.
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The aims of this study are to reveal the differences of media and real world librarian image, and the factors influence constructing librarian image. In this study, the author applies the image theory to construct librarian image by appearance, personality, professional competences and behavior. Survey approach is taken in this study, and the author adopts document analysis, questionnaire and interview for data collection. Twenty one movies that contain segments of librarians are included in this study as tokens for media librarian image, and users from five chosen public libraries located in Taichung Metropolitan area are sampled as informants for real world librarian image. The results show that there is similarity of media and real world librarian image, low profile, middle-aged female; no particular professional competences required for this profession, gentle, kind and nice are common characters of librarian; library use experience, personal contact and familiarity have major impact on librarian image construction. The more library use experience the users have, and more personal contacts the users encounter, the higher favorable librarian image the users will have. It is found that the users tend to project the personal cognition and experience onto librarian image. For example, the female user assumes the librarians are gentle, nice and helpful since librarian are female dominant profession and the overall assumptions about female are used to label librarians. The findings also indicate that factors and constructed images are interchangeable, such as aging. Even librarians have been around for a long time, the users still have very vague impression about what librarians do. Check-in and check-out materials, stamping and shelfing are the main tasks of librarians’ daily work, no specific training is needed. Although appearance is only skin deep, the first impression is essential in image construction. Well dressed, mature age, and smiling face do let users think the librarian is professional, knowledgeable and willing to help. How to present what librarians really do on the job is crucial for librarian image constructing.
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Håklev, Stian. "Mencerdaskan Bangsa : an inquiry into the phenomenon of Taman Bacaan in Indonesia." Thesis, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/12294/1/Mencerdaskan_Bangsa_-_Stian_Haklev.pdf.
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The thesis is originally written in English, and a full translated version in Indonesian is also available.
Since 2001, a movement of individuals, neighbourhood and community organizations and NGOs starting and running their own libraries has emerged in Indonesia. Called Taman Bacaans (TBs) - reading gardens - these simple libraries, often hosted in somebody’s house, or in a community building, provide easy and informal access to books, as well as frequent literacy programming. This thesis traces the historical heritage of these TBs back to the early renting libraries of peranakan Chinese in the 19th century, through Balai Pustaka and the public library movement under Sukarno. The modern TB emerges in the 1980s, the government attempts a wide-scale implementation of TBs in the 1990s, and a community movement finally emerges in 2001.
Using interviews with informants and newspaper articles, blogs, mailing lists, and NGO and government reports, I describe the process of how the TB movement emerges in Bandung and Yogyakarta. I also identify a number of factors that enabled and supported the movement: inspiring individual role-models, “best-case” libraries, networks and the roles of Islam and nationalism. Finally I provide an overview of the situation today, combining government statistics with the results of a survey conducted in Jakarta, and show that there are three kinds of TBs: those set-up by national, regional or local government (TBMs), those funded by large-scale donors, and independent TBs grounded in the local communities. I conclude with a number of recommendations for government and donors.
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Schnell, Eric H. "Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105715.
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The most time consuming aspects of managing a library Web service are the creation and maintenance of site documents and assets. Although the organizational structure and contents of a Web site varies from library to library, participants in all library Web projects need to be familiar with the concepts and terminology associated with creating documents and resources for the Web.
This document is not an in-depth HTML guide, but is instead a general introduction to Web content creation. Newer technologies are briefly described and references to other resources are provided. This is also an interactive document and provides the reader access to associated resources.
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Addo, Hillar Gbagidi Komla. "An investigation of the role of microcomputers as information retrieval tools in the greater Pietermaritzburg schools' water audit projects." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5748.
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In South Africa, government (Mbeki 1996:37) and educators (SAIDE Report 1998:9) have expressed concern over the provision of microcomputers for learners. Their provision to schools would allow their effective use across the curriculum and enhance education. This study investigated the role of microcomputers as information retrieval tools in the 1997 schools' Water Audit projects in the greater Pietermaritzburg area. The study considered, firstly, a discussion of environmental education with emphasis on water conservation, and secondly the Water Audit projects. An overview of issues
relating to microcomputer systems as information retrieval tools in education was presented. A descriptive survey method was employed for the study, with questionnaires as the data collection technique. Thirty out of 40 teachers/school project co-ordinators were sampled, with a 24 (80%) response. Twenty percent of 550 pupils who participated in the projects also responded. Data was presented by the use of tables. The study revealed an unequal availability of microcomputers among the schools in
the departments of education, as they existed prior to 1994, that participated in the projects. Findings also revealed that only a minority of pupils used the microcomputer system for information retrieval during the projects. The use of hard copy sources was significantly high within the departments. A high number of pupils who used the microcomputer found it useful. A higher number that used hard copy sources found them useful. Training of pupils to acquire computer and information skills was inadequate. Major problems encountered during the projects included
congestion, lack of computer skills on the part of both teachers and pupils and inadequate training of participants. The study found infrastructural backlogs and logistical problems as hindrances to the delivery of education in South Africa using microcomputers. Non-involvement of media teachers negatively impacted on the results of the projects. It was recommended that schools without microcomputers liaise with donor agencies to acquire microcomputers, while government initiates policies to address the issue
of equity. Educators and media teachers should be given concerted training in computer and information skills, as training underpins the use of microcomputers in an information age school.Thesis (MIS)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.
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Garcia-Marques, Leonel. "The importance of being incongruent : how memorable would an uncultured librarian be : towards a resolution of the apparent discrepancy between expectancy-based illusory correlations and incongruency effects." Doctoral thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/42327.
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Tese de doutoramento em Psicologia (Psicologia Social), apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa através da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 1993Even with the benefit of hindsight and after more than 10 years, Hastie and Kumar's results (Hastie & Kumar, 1979) can still strike us as unexpected. And given the state of the art in cognitive and social psychology at that time, they must have seemed then even more surprising. It is little wonder, thus, the sheer amount of relevant research and ideas they triggered. The above mentioned results are, of course, the "incongruency effect," that is, information incongruent with an expectancy is better recalled than congruent information. The reasons for the unexpectedness of this effect lie in the convergent support that had been accumulating for the view of the social perceiver as someone with a very distinct aversion for dissonance (Festinger, 1957; but see also Pina Prata, 1976), belief or stereotype change (Allport, 1954; Hamilton & Rose, 1980), impression revision (Anderson & Hubert, 1963; Asch, 1946), hypothesis disconfirmation (Bruner & Potter, 1964; Mynatt, Doherty & Tweeney, 1977; Wason & Johnson-Laird, 1972) or information unrelated to an activated schema (Rummelhart & Ortony, 1977) . Nevertheless, expected or not, the incongruency effect is now quite respectable, robust, reasonably well documented and delimited (for reviews see Higgins & Bargh, 1987; Rojahn & Pettigrew, 1992; Srull & Wyer, 1989; Stangor & McMillan, 1992; Wyer, 1989; Wyer & Srull, 1986, 1989). This fact alone made conceptual attempts to reconcile the incongruency effect with the several "congruency biases" just referred to (e.g., belief perseverance, confirmation bias or schema filter) almost unavoidable. Unfortunately there are reasons to believe that these efforts have not been completely successful in achieving the desired reconciliation. A more detailed discussion of them will be provided in a later section. In this dissertation a new attempt to develop a satisfactory solution for the dilemma at hand will be made. The solution will be specifically targeted at one of the effects apparently incompatible with the incongruency effect - the expectancy-based illusory correlation, that is, the tendency to overestimate the frequency of occurrences that are congruent with a previously held expectancy (Hamilton & Rose, 1980; see also Chapman & Chapman, 1967, 1969, 1971). The reasons for focusing on a specific effect and for choosing this particular one, are: i) the fact the illusory correlation effect, like the incongruency effect, is very robust; ii) the similarity of the Hamilton and Rose (1980) experimental paradigm with the one used by Hastie and Kumar (1979) ; and iii) the belief that attempting the integration will provide a deeper understanding of both effects. This introduction will first briefly present the Hastie-Srull experimental paradigm, the typical pattern of results and the basic characteristics of the Hastie-Srull model.Then, a section of the dissertation will deal with previous attempts to reconcile the incongruency effect with discrepant results and another section to the related topic of the interconnections between memory and judgment. Next, the illusory correlation effect will be presented succinctly, a new conceptual integration will be attempted and finally four experiments targeted at this integration will be reported.