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The Library in the Life of the User: Engaging with People Where They Live and Learn
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Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Comp. – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2015
The contributions in this volume represent a decade of OCLC's user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user. Highlights include: (1) People associate the library with books and do not consider the library in relation to online resources or reference services; (2) People…
Descriptors: Library Services, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information), Library Research
Responding to User's Expectation in the Library: Innovative Web 2.0 Applications at JUIT Library: A Case Study
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Ram, Shri; Anbu K., John Paul; Kataria, Sanjay – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: This paper seeks to provide an insight into the implementation of some of the innovative Web 2.0 applications at Jaypee University of Information Technology with the aim of exploring the expectations of the users and their awareness and usage of such applications. Design/methodology/approach: The study was undertaken at the Learning…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Electronic Reference Works and Library Budgeting Dilemma
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Lawal, Ibironke O. – Acquisitions Librarian, 2007
The number of electronic resources has climbed up steadily in recent times. Some of these e-resources are reference sources, mostly in Science, Technology and Medicine (STM), which publishers convert to electronic for obvious reasons. The library budgets for materials usually have two main lines, budget for one time purchase (monographs) and…
Descriptors: Libraries, Reference Materials, Reference Services, Electronic Libraries
A Retrospective and Prospective View of Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century.
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Garfield, Eugene – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Traces the development of information retrieval/services and suggests that the creation of large digital libraries seems inevitable. Examines possibilities for increasing electronic access and the role of artificial intelligence. Highlights include: searching full text; sending full texts; selective dissemination of information (SDI) profiling and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society)
The Virtual Library.
Cage, Mary Crystal – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Although making college libraries accessible by computer appears simple to laymen, developing a fully digitized library is not simple. Many technological and behavioral questions are unanswered, concerning copyrights, accuracy, and the issue of who will use the new technology and how. In addition, users' desire for hard copy persists. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Copyrights, Electronic Libraries
Transforming the Reference Collection: "The Electric Library" (TM).
Safford, Barbara Ripp – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1997
Describes "The Electric Library" (TM), a database (which can be searched via an Internet connection) designed to assist schools, librarians, and parents with information retrieval. Discusses technical and logistical benefits, the problem of selected and limited resources, and cost issues. Provides a sample debate topic exercise using "The Electric…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education