Archiving in the networked world: authenticity and integrity
AbstractPurpose – This article aims to discuss how concepts from the analog world apply to a purely digital environment, and look in particular at how authenticity needs to be viewed in the digital...
View ArticleA study of relevance feedback techniques in interactive multilingual...
AbstractPurpose – With the vast amount of multilingual information available online, it becomes increasingly critical for libraries to use various multilingual information access techniques in order to...
View ArticlePreparing for the age of the digital palimpsest
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to define and stimulate interest in a potential new specialty within the information science field. Design/methodology/approach – Sources on digital...
View ArticlePIKIPDL: A personalized information and knowledge integration platform for DL...
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of the paper is to conduct an exploratory study that proposes a personalized knowledge integration platform for digital libraries which can provide users with personalized...
View ArticleA holistic approach to bit preservation
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to point out the importance of taking a holistic approach to bit preservation when setting out to find an optimal bit preservation solution for specific...
View ArticleAccessibility of digital special collections using screen readers
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover whether digitized materials from special collections libraries can be accessed using screen reader technology. Design/methodology/approach –...
View ArticleDigital preservation ingest can be a “CINCH”
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the “Capture, Ingest, and Checksum” (CINCH) tool, developed by the State Library of North Carolina with funding from a 2011 IMLS Sparks!...
View ArticleEconBiz to go: Mobile search options for business and economics – developing...
AbstractPurpose – The author developed a specialized app to cater to the needs of researchers in business and economics. At the same time the number of library apps in general increased dramatically....
View ArticleA call for libraries to go green: An information behaviour perspective to...
AbstractPurpose – When confronted with a problem where the solution is not clear or obvious, a first step would be to search for more information, trying to make sense of the problem. The intention of...
View ArticleAvoiding the death zone: choosing and running a library project in the cloud
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolving field of cloud computing and its usefulness for library technology departments. It seeks to consider what types of projects are...
View ArticleReuse, recycle … reduce: a greener library with print management
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of a print management system to control costs and reduce waste associated with printing practices....
View ArticleGreen buildings as sustainability education tools
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of green building technologies and practices and illustrate how public libraries can use them as tools to teach their communities...
View ArticleResearch on energy savings opportunities in university libraries
AbstractPurpose – Mechanical systems in library environments are typically designed to run continuously in order to maintain the desired environmental conditions for preservation purposes, often...
View ArticleGreen publishing with green technologies
AbstractPurpose – If libraries truly want to be ecologically responsible, they need also to consider the impact of book and journal production on the environment. This paper seeks to address this...
View ArticlePromotional strategies for information products and services – aligning with...
AbstractPurpose - Libraries are subscribing to many expensive information products/services available through information aggregator/provider services. It is a concern for them, as well as these...
View ArticleFrom Static to Dynamic: Using the OPAC to Generate Real-Time Lists of...
AbstractPurpose - Reports on a successful implementation of a current awareness service designed to inform teaching faculty and liaison librarians as to the status of library materials they have...
View ArticleWebsites for booklovers as meeting places
AbstractPurpose - The study aims to report on a research project that analyzed social websites for booklovers. These sites represent a service that is promising for public libraries in their efforts to...
View ArticleTIIARA: The "making of" a bilingual taxonomy for retrieval of digital images
AbstractPurpose - This paper presents the results of the second phase of a research project aiming to develop a bilingual taxonomy for the description of digital images. The objective of this second...
View ArticleThe First Thirty Years of the Internet Through the Lens of An Academic...
AbstractPurpose - This paper examines how the Internet both precipitated and facilitated significant shifts for academic libraries in the kinds of services they provide, and the ways in which they...
View ArticleThe Rise of Digital Curation and Cyberinfrastructure: From Experimentation to...
AbstractPurpose - The terms "digital curation" and "cyberinfrastructure" have been coined in the last decade to describe distinct but related concepts of how data can be managed, preserved, manipulated...
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