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Watkins, Sean; Battles, Jason; Vacek, Rachel – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
Smartphone users expect the presentation of Web sites on their mobile browsers to look and feel like native applications. With the pressure on library Web developers to produce app-like mobile sites, there is often a rush to get a site up without considering the importance of reusing or even restructuring the data driving the Web sites. An…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Libraries, Information Systems, Online Systems
Porter, Brandi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Millennial students make up a large portion of undergraduate students attending colleges and universities, and they have a variety of online resources available to them to complete academically related information searches, primarily Web based and library-based online information retrieval systems. The content, ease of use, and required search…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Investigations, Familiarity, Search Strategies
Nickerson, Gord – Computers in Libraries, 1992
Describes Gopher, a distributed document delivery service for electronic publishing across a computer network that allows a user to access data using a client-server communications model. The use of Gopher in campuswide information systems is described, and its use in libraries with electronic journals and multimedia documents is discussed. (three…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Granger, Stewart; Dekkers, Makx; Weibel, Stuart L.; Kirriemuir, John; Lensch, Hendrik P. A.; Goesele, Michael; Seidel, Hans-Peter; Birmingham, William; Pardo, Bryan; Meek, Colin; Shifrin, Jonah; Goodvin, Renee; Lippy, Brooke – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
One opinion piece and five articles in this issue discuss: digital preservation infrastructure; accomplishments and changes in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative in 2001 and plans for 2002; video gaming and how it relates to digital libraries and learning technologies; overview of a music retrieval system; and the online version of the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
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Bates, Marcia J. – Information Processing & Management, 2002
Presents a model of some of the typical important layers in the design of information systems, and shows how those layers interact in operation. Suggests that these layers are in the way of a cascade of each layer affecting the next. Presents a model of this cascade of interactions in information systems. Provides examples from networked…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Databases, Electronic Libraries
Strunz, Bob; Waters, Mairead – 1999
This paper describes the progress made under the ELISE II electronic image library project from a technical standpoint. The ELISE II project is a European-wide initiative that aims to provide a comprehensive electronic image library service for Europe. It is funded under the European Commission, DG XIII-E, Telematics for Libraries Initiative. The…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Harum, Susan, Ed.; Twidale, Michael, Ed. – 2000
This clinic's goal was to address questions arising during the process of transition from theory and research development to deployed useful and usable (and used) digital library systems. The idea was to use the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and entering its final year, as a detailed…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Systems
Helal, Ahmed H., Ed.; Weiss, Joachim W., Ed. – 1984
This symposium examined issues in the planning, development, and implementation of library automation and the effects of electronic publishing. The following presentations are included in this collection: (1) "Will There Be Electronic Anarchy?" (Helen Henderson); (2) "Ergonomics in the Electronic Era" (Andrew Torok); (3)…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Developed Nations, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Hill, Linda L.; Zheng, Qi – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Describes the development by the Alexandria Digital Library of a gazetteer (dictionary of geographic names) composed of a Gazetteer Content Standard, a Feature Type Thesaurus, and an operational interactive gazetteer service. Illustrates the use of this tool in a georeferenced digital library and relates progress in working with Federal agencies…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries, Geographic Location
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Wiggin, Kendall F. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Reviews statewide multitype library automation and connectivity initiatives in New Hampshire. Topics include an information system incorporating a union catalog, interlibrary loan, electronic mail, CD-ROM databases, and Internet access; state government information on the World Wide Web through the state library; OCLC FirstSearch access; and a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Mail
Fenn, B.; Lennon, J. – 1998
There has been increasing interest over the past few years in systems that help users exchange recommendations about World Wide Web documents. Programs have ranged from those that rely totally on user pre-selection, to others that are based on artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a system that falls between these two extremes, providing…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Cooperation
Cochrane, Pauline Atherton, Ed.; Johnson, Eric H., Ed. – 1998
This proceedings represents and documents in part the 16 presentations made at the 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. World Wide Web URLs that provide insight into each presentation are included. Presentations include: (1) "Hypostatizing Data Collections, Especially Bibliographic: Abstractions, Representations,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Classification, Data Processing