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Digital library use

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Ariadne: A print and Web magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists. Aims to describe and evaluate sources and services on the Internet relevant to the LIS profession, and report on progress and developments within the Electronic Libraries Programme. Back issues available online from 1996.
Author: UKOLN and University of Bath
Subjects: digital library research, digital library use, electronic publishing, internet resource evaluation, library and information science news, library internet use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: magazine
Bits and Bytes and Still a Lot of Paper: Astronomy Libraries and Librarians in the Age of Electronic Publishing: Article documenting the benefits and drawbacks of digital libraries. Electronic publications and their impact on libraries are discussed, along with the role of librarians in an electronic environment is evaluated.
Author: Grothkopf, Uta
Subjects: digital library use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Cross-Searching Subject Gateways: The Query Routing and Forward Knowledge Approach: Collection of Welsh language resources catering for learners of all abilities. Information includes a bibliography, software packages, magazines, grammar guides, and spelling and vocabulary checkers.
Author: Kirriemuir, John et al
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Digital Libraries and Special Libraries: Initial Concerns of Special Libraries in the Social Welfare Sector: Report from a project investigating the impact of digital libraries and the Internet on special libraries. The project also addressed the extent to which practitioners working in local government or voluntary social service agencies are being prevented from accessing digital library developments through lack of access to the UK Higher Education network, the digital resources academic libraries provide themselves and various collaborative schemes which offer access to digital resources across the academic network as a whole.
Author: Watson, Mark & Streatfield, David
Subjects: digital library philosophy, digital library use, special libraries
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
D-lib: Full text magazine with stories, commentary, briefings and a collection of resources for digital library research.
Author: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Subjects: digital library design, digital library research, digital library use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: magazine
Internet, Interoperability and Standards Filling the Gaps: The main focus of standardisation in the library arena has moved from that of supporting efficiency to allowing library users to access external resources and facilitating remote access to library resources. The potential of full interoperability in the field is examined along with its likely impact. Some of the gaps in current standards are examined, with a focus on information retrieval.
Author: Gatenby, Janifer
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval, internet culture, library resource sharing, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.02
Resource type: article
Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation and British Library funded study into the nature, manifestations, and behaviour of successive searching by users in digital environments, and an attempt to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behaviour.
Author: Spink, Amanda et al
Subjects: digital library use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Multimedia Document Retrieval Technique in Digital Libraries: Article describing Korean document retrieval techniques and assessing a novel approach for retrieving SGML / HyTime documents from large document databases.
Author: Jongpil Yoon; Sung-Hyuk Kim & Sang-Wan Han
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval, korean, sgml
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: article
Online Books at Columbia: Measurement and Early Results on Use, Satisfaction, and Effect: The Columbia Online Books Evaluation Project is designed to learn about the scholarly community's enthusiasm for the online format. The paper focuses on user response and reports on the methodology for measuring adoption of online books by the Columbia community, current findings on relevant environmental factors, including access to online resources, current findings on use of online books and other online resources and current findings on attitudes toward online books.
Author: Mandel, Carol; Summerfield, Mary & Kantor, Paul
Subjects: digital library use
DeweyClass: 070.5
Resource type: article
Previewing Video Data: Browsing Key Frames at High Rates Using a Video Slide Show Interface: Article introducing a rapid access method to video data in digital libraries via a video browsing interface prototype with a slide show style presentation of video frames with adjustable display rates. The success of the application is assessed, and full details of experimental methodology and findings are provided.
Author: Ding, Wei; Marchionini, Gary & Tse, Tony
Subjects: digital library use, digital video
DeweyClass: 004.77
Resource type: article
Safeguarding Digital Library Contents: Charging for Online Content: Investigates the need for charging mechanisms, in particular for micropayments, charging for small amounts, and discusses the requirements for successful charging mechanisms.
Author: Herzberg, Amir
Subjects: digital library use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Selecting Libraries, Selecting Documents, Selecting Data: Paper examining the selection of information within a digital library environment at three levels: selecting which library (repository) to look in, selecting which document(s) within a library to look at, and selecting fragments of data (text, numeric data, images) from within a document. Similarities and differences between these three levels are discussed.
Author: Buckland, Michael & Plaunt, Christian
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Survey on Attitudes to the Pricing of JISC-Funded Databases: This report presents the result of a survey concerning seven priced online services that are available to the academic community as a result of JISC initiatives. Compiled on behalf of the Database Resources Research Group (DRRG).
Author: East, Harry & Leach, Kathryn
Subjects: digital library use, higher education research data, online bibliographic searching
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article