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Mitchell, Erik – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
In mid-April, Amazon EC2 services had a small problem. Apparently, a large swath of its cloud computing environment had such substantial trouble that a number of customers had server issues. A number of high-profile sites, including Reddit, Evite, and Foursquare, went down when Amazon experienced issues in their US East 1a region (Justinb 2011).…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Computer System Design, Online Systems, Gateway Systems
Verbit, Daniel; Kline, Vickie L. – Computers in Libraries, 2011
One of the toughest challenges in an academic library systems office is how to manage and present the extensive selection of electronic resources from a variety of vendors. At York College of Pennsylvania, the authors participated in an admissions-driven web revision cycle and used a campus-provided CMS for 8 years. During this time, they tried…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Online Vendors, Library Administration, Library Automation
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Gierlowski, Krzysztof; Nowicki, Krzysztof – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2009
In this article we propose a novel e-learning system, dedicated strictly to knowledge assessment tasks. In its functioning it utilizes web-based technologies, but its design differs radically from currently popular e-learning solutions which rely mostly on thin-client architecture. Our research proved that such architecture, while well suited for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Client Server Architecture, Computer System Design, Courseware
Chiang, Belinda – 1991
Originally written for use by Queens College Library (New York) Technical Services staff members, this manual is designed to increase efficiency and accuracy through the programming of function keys to execute commonly used NOTIS acquisitions and cataloging functions. The manual provides suggestions for expediting NOTIS operations based on IBM…
Descriptors: Coding, Database Management Systems, Information Technology, Integrated Library Systems