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Fu, Shunkai; Zhang, Yao; Seinminn – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Libraries are important to universities, and they have two primary features: readers as well as collections are highly professional. In this study, based on the experimental study with five millions of users' borrowing records, our discussion covers: (1) the necessity of recommender system for university libraries; (2) collaborative filtering (CF)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Automation, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Wilson, Patrick – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Discusses the goals of library catalogs, how and to what extent these goals are achieved, and differences which exist among online, card, book, and microform catalogs. Access and display of information are noted, highlighting form of entries (main entries, corporate authorship, subject description) and search strategies. Seven references are…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Library Automation, Library Catalogs
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Born, Kathleen – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Presents the vendor's perspective on how libraries choose and evaluate a vendor's performance. Characteristics of vendors are described, including being profit-oriented, market-driven, and highly competitive; issues in the three basic areas of service, price, and automation are discussed; and the influence of personality is considered. (LRW)
Descriptors: Competition, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Library Acquisition
Witkovski, Ruth; Bedrosky, Nannette – 1997
This paper discusses how the Creighton University Health Sciences Library Serial Department has updated their process of claiming and replacing missing journal issues. The paper is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses the changes in the claiming procedure. The second part discusses how the claims are reported to vendors. Future…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Automation, Library Circulation
Travica, Bob – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
From an organizational approach to virtual or digital libraries (V/DL), this study places V/DL in the context of the academic library, focusing on relevant opinions of library heads. Findings suggest that the library heads typically understand V/DL as digital materials, are mainly supportive of V/DL understood in this way, and demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Information Services, Information Technology
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Natrona County Public Library, Casper, WY. – 1974
To keep up with the tempo of the 20th century and to further its plans for service in 1980, the Natrona County Public Library initiated full time, regular use of a cable television channel in 1971. The instantaneous character of televised communication provided a stimulant for developing rapid information retrieval techniques covering broad bases…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Storage
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Hanson, Roger K; And Others – Journal of Library Administration, 1991
This theme issue contains eight papers that were originally presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries on library acquisitions. Highlights include budgeting problems in academic libraries; maintaining research library collections; monograph collections in scientific libraries; vendors' perspectives; electronic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
A seminar which considered problems and solutions regarding automated systems for access to multilingual and multiscript library materials was held as a pre-session before the IFLA general conference in 1986. Papers presented include: (1) "Romanized and Transliterated Databases of Asian Language Materials--History, Problems, and…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Databases, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
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Barker, Joseph W. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discusses budgets for library materials and how to select and evaluate book and serial vendors. Trends in automation, publishing, and economics that affect both libraries and vendors are discussed; and examples from the University of California at Berkeley that include serials service charges and approval plan discounts are presented. (six…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
The eight papers in this collection were presented at the meetings of three sections of the Division of Management and Technology: (1) "Distributed Intelligence in Library Systems: Prospects and Problems" (S. Michael Malinconico); (2) "Library Cooperation Based on Information Technology Networks: A Vision for a European Library Future" (Morten…
Descriptors: Archives, Audiovisual Aids, Computer Networks, Data Collection
Snyder, Richard L. – 1983
This paper examines the likely effects of technological developments on the planning of American academic library buildings during the 1980's and shares Richard Snyder's experiences in the design and construction of a new library building at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. Descriptions of general, economic, policy, psychological, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Building Design, Facility Planning, Facility Requirements
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
Four papers on information technology were presented at the 1986 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference. In the paper "Optical Disc Technology Used for Large-Scale Data Base," Naoto Nakayama (Japan) considers the rapid development of optical technology and the role of applications such as optical discs,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries
Randall, G. E. – 1975
Empirically and rationally derived bases for determining the costs for industrial libraries are suggested. Taken into consideration is the fact that recent accounting procedures and the advent of new technologies have introduced costs into the library budget so that literature and personnel costs may now account for only 75-80 percent of the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Costs, Data Processing
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Steele, Colin; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1986
Five brief articles examine new library technologies and physical problems; potential health hazards posed by frequent use of photocopiers; psychological deterrence of electronic security systems; quality control of cooperative cataloging in a library network; and the billing system designed and programed for a medical library. Two articles…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accounting, Alarm Systems, Bibliographic Utilities
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
The six papers in this collection were presented at three sessions. The three presented to the Division of Management and Technology are listed first: (1) "The RLG (Research Libraries Group) Preservation Program and RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) System Support" (Patricia McClung and John Haeger, United States); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administration, Centralization, Developed Nations
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