Dissertations / Theses: 'Computers in libraries'

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Morgan, Rozas Milagros. "Computers in libraries 2010: informe de participación." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/272383.

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Informe de asistencia en el evento anual llamado Computers in libraries que se realiza en la ciudad de Washington DC Contiene apuntes de las ponencias seleccionadas por la autora del informe Los agrupa por los siguientes temas: tendencias en el diseño de páginas web, catálogos sociales, las bibliotecas y la web 20,libros digitales,

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Willard, Patricia School of Librarianship UNSW. "THE PERSONAL COMPUTER AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY: A STUDY OF THE ABSORPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY AND AN ANALYSIS OF LIBRARIAN'S OPINIONS ABOUT THE PRESENT AND FUTURE IMPACT ON AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Librarianship, 1989. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17102.

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The social impacts of new information technology have attracted much attention in recent years. This study looked at the personal computer's impact on the public library's services and functions. Particular attention was paid to the public access personal computer. The method involved a Baseline survey to establish the availability and use of public access personal computers in Australian public libraries and a Delphi survey to consider possible futures. The researcher's framework was drawn from reviews of the literatures on futures research; new information technology and its social impacts; the development and current situation of the public library; and innovation research. The Baseline survey revealed that public access personal computers were becoming increasingly common in public libraries, though their provision was not yet widespread. Existing and planned uses included games, literacy and various other educational activities. Overall the public access personal computer was viewed as a favourable innovation with the part it could play in developing community computer literacy receiving particular attention. The Delphi panel was comprised of 25 public librarians selected on the basis of their knowledge about computers in public libraries. The 41 Event Statements postulated a wide range of changes in - (1) the nature and method of service provision; (2) the patterns of client demand and use; and, (3) financial allocations. The results revealed greater variability of opinion about the likely time of occurrence of the Events than about their desirability. A high level of opinion change between the two Rounds did not produce much movement toward consensus - indicating that the panel had varied views of the future. Comment on both surveys indicated that the librarians were keen to develop services relevant to their communities and if public access personal computers were such a service they would strive to provide them. The Delphi survey proved a good vehicle for encouraging consideration of the future and further research using the method seems warranted.

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Alhagi, Nouraddin. "Synthesis of Reversible Functions Using Various Gate Libraries and Design Specifications." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/366.

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This dissertation is devoted to efficient automated logic synthesis of reversible circuits using various gate types and initial specifications. These Reversible circuits are of interest to several modern technologies, including Nanotechnology, Quantum computing, Quantum Dot Cellular Automata, Optical computing and low power adiabatic CMOS, but so far the most important practical application of reversible circuits is in quantum computing. Logic synthesis methodologies for reversible circuits are very different than those for classical CMOS or other technologies. The focus of this dissertation is on synthesis of reversible (permutative) binary circuits. It is not related to general unitary circuits that are used in quantum computing and which exhibit quantum mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement. The interest in this dissertation is only in logic synthesis aspects and not in physical (technological) design aspects of reversible circuits. Permutative quantum circuits are important because they include the class of oracles and blocks that are parts of oracles, such as comparators or arithmetic blocks, counters of ones, etc. Every practical quantum algorithm, such as the Grover Algorithm, has many permutative circuits. These circuits are also used in Shor Algorithm (integer factorization), simulation of quantum systems, communication and many other quantum algorithms. Designing permutative circuits is therefore the major engineering task that must be solved to practically realize a quantum algorithm. The dissertation presents the theory that leads to MP (Multi-Path) algorithm, which is currently the top minimizer of reversible circuits with no ancilla bits. Comparison of MP with other 2 leading software tools is done. This software allows to minimize functions of more variables and with smaller quantum cost that other CAD tools. Other software developed in this dissertation allows to synthesize reversible circuits for functions with "don't cares" in their initial specifications. Theory to realize functions from relational representations is also given. Our yet other software tool allows to synthesize reversible circuits for new types of reversible logic, for which no algorithm was ever created, using the so-called "pseudo-reversible" gates called Y-switches.

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Velasquez, Diane L. "The impact of technology on organizational change in public libraries a qualitative study /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4668.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 3, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Bean, Carol. "Meeting the Challenge: Training an Aging Population to Use Computers." Southeastern Library Association, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106048.

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Older adults present a special challenge to libraries offering computer training. Many of those seeking training have little, if any, prior experience with the concepts and skills necessary to use computers, yet their ability to learn those concepts and skills is hampered by the aging process. This article summarizes the factors in aging which most affect learning computer skills, and how those factors can be mitigated.

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Yirci, Murat. "A Comparative Study On Polygonal Mesh Simplification Algorithms." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610074/index.pdf.

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Polygonal meshes are a common way of representing 3D surface models in many different areas of computer graphics and geometry processing. However, these models are becoming more and more complex which increases the cost of processing these models. In order to reduce this cost, mesh simplification algorithms are developed. Another important property of a polygonal mesh model is that whether it is regular or not. Regular meshes have many advantages over the irregular ones in terms of memory requirements, efficient processing, rendering etc. In this thesis work, both mesh simplification and regular remeshing algorithms are studied. Moreover, some of the popular mesh libraries are compared with respect to their approaches and performance to the mesh simplification. In addition, mesh models with disk topology are remeshed and converted to regular ones.

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Poulo, Lebeko Bernard Nkoebele. "Cloud computing for digital libraries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14036.

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Information management systems (digital libraries/repositories, learning management systems, content management systems) provide key technologies for the storage, preservation and dissemination of knowledge in its various forms, such as research documents, theses and dissertations, cultural heritage documents and audio files. These systems can make use of cloud computing to achieve high levels of scalability, while making services accessible to all at reasonable infrastructure costs and on-demand. This research aims to develop techniques for building scalable digital information management systems based on efficient and on-demand use of generic grid-based technologies such as cloud computing. In particular, this study explores the use of existing cloud computing resources offered by some popular cloud computing vendors such as Amazon Web Services. This involves making use of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store large and increasing volumes of data, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to provide the required computational power and Amazon SimpleDB for querying and data indexing on Amazon S3. A proof-of-concept application comprising typical digital library services was developed and deployed in the cloud environment and evaluated for scalability when the demand for more data and services increases. The results from the evaluation show that it is possible to adopt cloud computing for digital libraries in addressing issues of massive data handling and dealing with large numbers of concurrent requests. Existing digital library systems could be migrated and deployed into the cloud.

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Caroline, Millgårdh. "Comparing Software Libraries." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-40544.

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When building an application, native or web-based, you can be faced with the dilemma of finding an external library that will fit your needs. This thesis investigates the problem from a commercial viability standpoint. A new Compliance Reporting System needed a chart library to create appealing dashboards and reports. The aim of the thesis was to develop a generic method for finding, comparing and testing software libraries. The method was developed making use of multiple phases which were then applied to different chart libraries for the Compliance Reporting System. The devised method did not result in the desired outcome of finding a library for the Compliance Reporting System. It did, however, contain a number of successful steps. The first set of prerequisites was used to define relevant search terms. The second set of prerequisites reduced the selection of libraries. The adaptability tests examined the APIs. It was also found that the quality of documentation and public interface of the library can influence the possibility of successful utilization. Testing the extendibility would also have been beneficial. As for chart libraries in general, a lexicon of standardized terminology would be of great benefit.

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Feng, Fu-Yao Kevin. "Customisable abstract representation layer for digital libraries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6397.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82).
The user interface is a very important component in a piece of software as it is the layer which allows user interaction with the underlying functionality. Within the domain of digital libraries modification to the interface layer, to make it more appropriate for target users, requires substantial programming skill. This research studies the possibility of making a user customisable interface system by using HeI methodologies for user requirements identification and evaluation, as well as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) for design and development. The final prototype allows users to directly design pages by adding, deleting, dragging and dropping elements in a Web browser. The research ends with an expert evaluation of such a system where satisfactory results were shown.

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Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Seungwon Yang, and Edward A. Fox. "Curriculum Development for Digital Libraries." Association for Computing Machinery, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106056.

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The Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science (VT CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS) have launched a curriculum development project in the area of digital libraries. Educational resources will be developed based on the Computing Curriculum 2001. Lesson plans and modules will be developed in a variety of areas (that cover the topics of papers and conference sessions in the field), evaluated by experts in those areas, and then pilot tested in CS and LIS courses. The authors are seeking instructors, schools, and departments interested in developing, implementing, and/or evaluating these educational materials.

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Saraiva, Paula Cristina Sousa. "Implementação de Serviços de Referência para Assistentes Digitais Pessoais (PDA's) nas Bibliotecas de Saúde em Portugal." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10863.

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A necessidade por parte dos utilizadores das Bibliotecas de Saúde, de possuir informação com evidência científica, concisa e móvel no decorrer da sua prática clínica e académica diária, por forma a minimizar os erros de diagnóstico, tem constituído um grave problema para estes profissionais de saúde, que necessitam de ter junto de si uma biblioteca portátil 24 horas por dia. Os PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), pela sua portabilidade e acessibilidade, poderão solucionar este problema, tendo vindo a ser introduzidos com êxito, os serviços para PDAs nas Bibliotecas de Saúde. São objectivos deste estudo, contribuir para a implementação de novos serviços de referência de apoio à decisão dos utilizadores das Bibliotecas de Saúde em Portugal, com recurso aos PDAs, por forma a garantir-lhes autonomia e mobilidade nos seus locais de trabalho, indagando as bibliotecas de saúde portuguesas e europeias, sobre esta nova oportunidade de intervir no apoio aos seus utilizadores e averiguando que tipo de serviços estão dispostas a oferecer. A metodologia utilizada foi o inquérito por questionário, às Bibliotecas de Saúde Portuguesas e Europeias, assim como, entrevistas a utilizadores de PDAs em medicina. Concluiu-se, que a utilização de PDAs em medicina é já um processo irreversível, sendo missão das Bibliotecas de Saúde Portuguesas, acompanhar a evolução destas tecnologias móveis, por forma a introduzi-las gradualmente, nos futuros serviços prestados aos seus utilizadores. BSTRACT, Implementation of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) reference services in portuguesa health libraries There is an increasing need felt by the health library users for obtaining accurate, up to date, evidence-based and mobile scientific information in their daily clinica) practice. This need to reduto diagnostic errors, save time and achieve the best decision-making for their patients, has became a serious problem to this group of health professionals, claiming more often to have next to itself, a portable library open 24 hours a day. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have been successfully introduced finto the health libraries environment and give the users the opportunity to have the most recent and scientific information In the palm of their hands". The main objective is to contributo to the implementation of user reference services based in PDAs, in Portuguese Health Libraries in order to guarantee our health professional users, autonomy and mobility in their work placas near the patients. We afim to know, if the Portugese and European Health Libraries, are fully aware of the strengths and power of these new kinds of services based on PDAs, giving them the chance to offer the adjusted help to this new user needs. The methodology used is based on online surveys, submitted to Portuguese and European Health Libraries, and by interviews conducted with a group of selected expert health users of PDAs, in medicine. We concluded that using PDAs, is the future in Medicine and the mission of health libraries is to offer services based on mobile technologies such as PDAs, if they want to serve their users with excelente

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Coleman, Anita Sundaram, and Maliaca Oxnam. "Interactional Digital Libraries: introduction to a special issue on Interactivity in Digital Libraries." IAM Research Group, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105812.

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Advances in Internet technologies have made it seemingly possible and easy to create digital collections, repositories and libraries. However, supporting diverse information uses that facilitate interaction beyond searching and browsing is in the early stages. Interactive digital libraries, or interactional digital libraries as we prefer to call them, are still evolving. This special issue tries to bring together work that is being done to incorporate interactivity in digital libraries.

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Donovan, Alan A. A. 1976. "Converting Java programs to use generic libraries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28727.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-127).
Java 1.5 will include a type system (called JSR-14) that supports parametric polymorphism, or generic classes. This will bring many benefits to Java programmers, not least because current Java practise makes heavy use of logically-generic classes, including container classes. Translation of Java source code into semantically equivalent JSR-14 source code requires two steps: parameterisation (adding type parameters to class definitions) and instantiation (adding the type arguments at each use of a parameterised class). Parameterisation need be done only once for a class, whereas instantiation must be performed for each client, of which there are potentially many more. Therefore, this work focuses on the instantiation problem. We present a technique to determine sound and precise JSR-14 types at each use of a class for which a generic type specification is available. Our approach uses a precise and context-sensitive pointer analysis to determine possible types at allocation sites, and a set-constraint-based analysis (that incorporates guarded, or conditional, constraints) to choose consistent types for both allocation and declaration sites. The technique safely handles all features of the JSR-14 type system, notably the raw types (which provide backward compatibility) and 'unchecked' operations on them. We have implemented our analysis in a tool that automatically inserts type arguments into Java code, and we report its performance when applied to a number of real-world Java programs.
by Alan A.A. Donovan.
S.M.

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Williams, Amy Lynne Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Static detection of deadlock for Java libraries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87909.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-66).
Library writers wish to provide a guarantee not only that each procedure in the library performs correctly in isolation, but also that the procedures perform correctly when run in conjunction. To this end, we propose a method for static detection of deadlock in Java libraries. Our goal is to determine whether client code exists that may deadlock a library, and, if so, to enable the library writer to discover the calling patterns that can lead to deadlock. Our flow-sensitive, context-sensitive analysis determines possible deadlock configurations using a lock-order graph. This graph represents the order in which locks are acquired by the library. Cycles in the graph indicate deadlock possibilities, and our tool reports all such possibilities. We implemented our analysis and evaluated it on 18 libraries comprising 1245 kLOC. We verified 13 libraries to be free from deadlock, and found -14 distinct deadlocks in 3 libraries.
by Amy Lynne Williams.
S.M.

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Wyatt, Douglas Karl. "Shared libraries in an exokernel operating system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42736.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47).
by Douglas Karl Wyatt.
M.Eng.

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Holeman, Ryan N. "Identifying Programming Idioms in C++ Generic Libraries." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1259116053.

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Cubberley, Carol W. "Organization For Collection Development in Medium-sized Academic Libraries." NSUWorks, 1987. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/473.

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At the University of Central Florida Library, the librarians with collection development assignments, and the Head of Collection Development, were frustrated in their attempts to fulfill their responsibilities. Those librarians did not report to the Department Head, but to other departments, and only a small percentage of their time was set aside for collection development. This meant that collection development duties frequently were deferred to other duties. There also was uncertainty about what duties could be expected of these librarians. Some functioned only as liaisons to academic departments, while others did extensive selection of material, wrote collection development policies, and evaluated collections and their use. A survey of medium-sized academic libraries was conducted to ascertain their organizational structure for collection development, and what effect that structure has on the activities performed. Two survey instruments were developed. One was sent to chief collection development officers. That survey asked questions about organizational type, time spent on collection development, patterns of fund allocation, and staff size. The other survey was for completion by collection development librarians, or librarians with collection development responsibilities. Five copies of that survey were sent to each selected institution. Librarians were asked about their job assignments, time spent on collection development, their qualifications, faculty participation, and priorities. Both questionnaires included a list of sixteen collection development activities. Respondents were asked to indicate which activities were desirable, and which ones they had done. Responses were received from 46 of 71 libraries surveyed. The study revealed that librarians defer collection development to other responsibilities and perform few of the activities they feel are desirable for collection development. Many are selecting materials for the collection without having collection development policies or collection evaluations to refer to. Most feel adequately well prepared to do collection development, but many felt they did not have sufficient time for it. Although few libraries of the size studied had separate collection development departments, the librarians in those that did spend more time on collection development, were less likely to defer collection development to other activities, and performed more collection development activities than their colleagues in other types of libraries. It was recommended that a library of this size that is serious about collection development locate librarians with primary assignments in collection development in departments established for that purpose. These librarians should have subject expertise, and sufficient time to write collection development policies, evaluate collections, and conduct circulation studies and user surveys. Further study of the results of the various types of organization for collection development are needed.

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Enoch, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Mark). "Librarians' attitudes toward computers, desktop publishing systems and expert systems." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332747/.

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In this study a Q-sort was used to measure differences in academic and public librarian attitudes toward computers, desktop publishing systems and expert systems. Fifty-two academic and sixty-two public librarians responded. The responses were sorted into groups based on the type of library and whether or not the respondent followed the stated Q-sort distribution.

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Sutton, Andrew. "Understanding and Maintaining C++ Generic Libraries." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1278453450.

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Weber, Łukasz Andrzej 1976. "Generation of unique chemical libraries by combinatorial means." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86559.

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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-71).
by Łukasz Andrzej Weber.
M.Eng.

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Mlynarski, Angela, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Automatic text summarization in digital libraries." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2006, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/270.

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A digital library is a collection of services and information objects for storing, accessing, and retrieving digital objects. Automatic text summarization presents salient information in a condensed form suitable for user needs. This thesis amalgamates digital libraries and automatic text summarization by extending the Greenstone Digital Library software suite to include the University of Lethbridge Summarizer. The tool generates summaries, nouns, and non phrases for use as metadata for searching and browsing digital collections. Digital collections of newspapers, PDFs, and eBooks were created with summary metadata. PDF documents were processed the fastest at 1.8 MB/hr, followed by the newspapers at 1.3 MB/hr, with eBooks being the slowest at 0.9 MV/hr. Qualitative analysis on four genres: newspaper, M.Sc. thesis, novel, and poetry, revealed narrative newspapers were most suitable for automatically generated summarization. The other genres suffered from incoherence and information loss. Overall, summaries for digital collections are suitable when used with newspaper documents and unsuitable for other genres.
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Aalberg, Trond. "Supporting Relationships in Digital Libraries." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-116.

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The motivation for this work is based on two recognized research issues for digital libraries. One is the need for interlinked and semantically rich information spaces where relationship information is of particular importance. The other is the serviceoriented architecture of digital libraries. The digital libraries of the future will consist of smaller and independent systems that each will provide different functionality and access to different contents.

This work defines and explores a service for managing and using explicit relationships – the Digital Library Link Service. The service implements an instance-oriented approach to relationships that enables any kind of typed relationship to be created among the information objects of digital libraries. The service can be used to create consistent information spaces on top of digital library repositories and enables an associative organization and retrieval of information objects.

This work shows that the use of a fine-grained relationship model implemented as distributed objects enables distribution of the relationship network while still being able to support constraints and maintain consistency. The cost of this, however, is a complexity that can reduce performance and scalability due to the call latency of network communication. A prototype is developed that utilizes caching in order to solve this. Tests conducted show that this technique significantly contributes to the scalability and efficiency. This is particularly important when the relationship information is distributed across different processes with high calllatency in between.

The work further presents a prototype application for enhancing bibliographic catalogues with the rich set of relationship types defined in the bibliographic information model proposed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – the FRBR model. The Digital Library Link Service is used to implement an index that facilitates the navigation of bibliographic relationships in order to explore bibliographic entities along the paths laid out by the FRBR model. This demonstrates the applicability of the service as a flexible tool for associative organization of information objects.

The main applications of the service are limited to systems with a relaxed requirement in terms of automatic processing of larger sets of relationships. The main access paradigm explored for interacting with relationships is by navigation. The need for automatic and efficient processing of a large relationship network, e.g. for the purpose of indexing, can be supported by extending the system with additional functionality. Another recognized problem is that the use of CORBA references to address long-term persistent information can cause referential integrity problems. One possible way to solve this is to assigning objects globally unique identifiers that later can be used to recover from referential integrity problems.

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Tew, Parker Allen. "An investigation of sparse tensor formats for tensor libraries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113496.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-53).
Tensors provide a generalized structure to store arbitrary indexable data, which is applicable in fields such as chemometrics, physics simulations, signal processing and lies at the heart of machine learning. Many naturally occurring tensors are considered sparse as they contain mostly zero values. As with sparse matrices, various techniques can be employed to more efficiently store and compute on these sparse tensors. This work explores several sparse tensor formats while ultimately evaluating two implementations; one based on explicitly storing coordinates and one that compresses these coordinates. The two formats, Coordinate and CSF2, were evaluated by comparing their execution time of tensor-matrix products and the MTTKRP operation on several datasets. We find that the Coordinate format is superior for uniformly distributed sparse tensors or when used in computation that emits a sparse tensor via a mode dependent operation. In all other considered cases for large sparse tensors, the storage savings of the compressed format provide the best results.
by Parker Allen Tew.
M. Eng.

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Majumdar, Anirudha. "Funnel libraries for real-time robust feedback motion planning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106033.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-136).
We consider the problem of generating motion plans for a robot that are guaranteed to succeed despite uncertainty in the environment, parametric model uncertainty, and disturbances. Furthermore, we consider scenarios where these plans must be generated in real-time, because constraints such as obstacles in the environment may not be known until they are perceived (with a noisy sensor) at runtime. Our approach is to pre-compute a library of "funnels" along dierent maneuvers of the system that the state is guaranteed to remain within (despite bounded disturbances) when the feedback controller corresponding to the maneuver is executed. The resulting funnel library is then used to sequentially compose motion plans at runtime while ensuring the safety of the robot. A major advantage of the work presented here is that by explicitly taking into account the eect of uncertainty, the robot can evaluate motion plans based on how vulnerable they are to disturbances. We demonstrate and validate our method using extensive hardware experiments on a small fixed-wing airplane avoiding obstacles at high speed (~12 mph), along with thorough simulation experiments of ground vehicle and quadrotor models navigating through cluttered environments. To our knowledge, the resulting hardware demonstrations on a fixed-wing airplane constitute one of the first examples of provably safe and robust control for robotic systems with complex nonlinear dynamics that need to plan in realtime in environments with complex geometric constraints. The key computational engine we leverage is sums-of-squares (SOS) programming. While SOS programming allows us to apply our approach to systems of relatively high dimensionality (up to approximately 10-15 dimensional state spaces), scaling our approach to higher dimensional systems such as humanoid robots requires a dierent set of computational tools. In this thesis, we demonstrate how DSOS and SDSOS programming, which are recently introduced alternatives to SOS programming, can be employed to achieve this improved scalability and handle control systems with as many as 30-50 state dimensions.
by Anirudha Majumdar.
Ph. D.

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Chen, Zhezhe. "System Support for Improving the Reliability of MPI Applications and Libraries." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1375880144.

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Hakvoort, Gido Albert. "Multi-touch and mobile technologies for galleries, libraries, archives and museums." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6901/.

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Technological developments open new opportunities to meet the increasing expectations of visitors to galleries, libraries, archives or museums. Although these technologies provide many new possibilities, individual challenges and limitations are rife. Galleries, libraries, archives and museums should aim to unify many such technologies in order to capture visitor attention, engage interaction and facilitate both personal and social experiences. By incorporating objects, devices and people into a network of interconnected systems, new patterns, interaction types and social relations are expected to emerge. This thesis explores the unification of these technologies, identifies behavioural patterns emerging from visitor interactions and examines how combining these technologies can contribute to engaging visitor interactions and the effects they have on both individuals and groups. The thesis states that combining mobile devices and interactive displays will offer new engaging interactions for museum visitors. This will allow them to spread their interactions throughout the museum and easily switch between private and social experiences. Museums should therefore adopt combinations of mobile devices and interactive displays to meet the increasing expectations of their visitors and offer both private and social experiences.

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Sharp, Mariana L. "Static analyses for java in the presence of distributed components and large libraries." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1186064822.

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Valunas, Madelyn F. "A Study of Organizational Climate in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education Libraries." NSUWorks, 1987. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/895.

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The Work Group Survey (Bare, 1976) was adapted to investigate organizational climate in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (SSHE) libraries. The goal was to determine whether or not the APSCUF (Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties) collective bargaining agreement was perceived by the work groups as a cause of dysfunction. The Work Group Survey measured member characteristics, task dimensions, group structure and process, group effectiveness, and leadership. Seven items relating to the faculty union contract (CBA) were added to diagnose the effect of collective bargaining. Authorization to survey each work group was sought from the university administrator to whom the library director reported. Questionnaires, introductory letters, instructions, and stamped, self-addressed, return envelopes were then mailed to non-temporary librarians and library directors. Thirteen of the fourteen administrators gave authorization to send questionnaires. Of the one hundred forty-four questionnaires mailed, ninety-two (63.9%) or 58. 6 percent of the total population (N=157) were returned from twelve campuses. Ten of the twelve groups had greater than a 66 percent response rate and six (54.5%) of the eleven directors who were surveyed participated. Responses from ten groups were analyzed using SPSSx. Analysis to test Scheffe's, were used of variance at .05 level of significance was used the hypothesis of no difference between groups. Tukey's HSD, and LSD multiple comparison tests in follow-up analysis when the F ratio was significant. Homogeneity with Bartlett's Box F. of group variances was tested. No significant difference exists between groups on the CBA, polarization, autonomy, and initiation of structure criteria. Significant difference does exist for other criteria: task, group, leader, member, effectiveness, stratification, communication, team building, and boundary spanning. On the whole, the results are in accord with the hypothesis that the faculty contract is not a major cause of conflict within the work groups. Collective bargaining issues are symptoms of undeveloped or unrefined skills in communication, interpersonal or human relations, resolution, and leadership. Recommendations conflictto the Chancellor, the authorizing administrators, and to the work groups are: (1) to support and encourage growth and development in these areas, (2) for the director to be more aware of how others perceive his or her behavior, (3) for the group to consider themselves as a team and develop a shared view of their goals, and (4) that no change be made to the faculty contract without examining the survey results. The study supports earlier research conclusions that the Work Group Survey is a useful diagnostic tool.

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Garrido, Piedad, Jesús Tramullas, Manuel Coll, Francisco Martínez, and Inmaculada Plaza. "XTM-DITA structure at Human-Computer Interaction Service." Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106152.

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This work describes a software engine which works with textual documents containing historical information. The purpose of this work three-fold: firstly to show the validity of the developed engine to correctly identify and label the entities of the universe of discourse with a labelled-combined XTM-DITA model. Secondly to analyze the improvements achieved in the interaction between people (users) and computers with a practical application of the designed methodology to a real-world problem in the semantic web area and thirdly to plan its future integration into a traceability system.

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Ratprasartporn, Nattakarn. "CONTEXT-BASED PUBLICATION SEARCH PARADIGM IN LITERATURE DIGITAL LIBRARIES." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1193158452.

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Dillon, Andrew. "TIME - A Multi-levelled framework for evaluating and designing digital libraries." Springer, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105587.

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This is a preprint of a paper published (with a slighlty different title: TIME - A multi-level framework for the design and evaluation of digital libraries) in the International Journal of Digital Libraries 2(2/3), 170-177. Abstract: Digital libraries promise benefits for all stakeholders in the information usage community which almost certainly will be matched by commensurate shortcomings that are as yet unforeseen. Even though these are very early days for digital libraries, three decades of research on human-computer interaction in general, and the recent history of hypermedia research in particular, indicate that whatever else occurs, the usability of digital library applications will prove crucial to widespread acceptance. In the present paper an evaluation framework (termed TIME) is outlined. TIME offers designers and implementers of digital libraries a framework to address key human factors in a usercentered manner. Bridging all levels of human factors, from the ergomonic to the user goal, TIME is a socio-cognitive framework that highlights the interplay of multiple issues affecting user response to digital documents.

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Ellett, Robert O. Jr. "An Evaluation of Program for Cooperative Cataloging(PCC) Records Used in Non-PCC Libraries." NSUWorks, 2005. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/501.

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The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), created in 1992 under the auspices of the Library of Congress (LC), provides bibliographic and authority records intended to meet the cataloging needs of all libraries. The number of institutions participating in the BIBCO or Bibliographic Cooperative component of the PCC remains limited to 46 institutions. The PCC introduced a bibliographic record standard, the core level record, which emphasized a dependable description with full authority control, while providing timely access. Time savings and efficiency have been results observed for PCC libraries creating core level records. The PCC libraries are thus able to devote more resources to cataloging difficult foreign language or esoteric material often needed by library users but previously unavailable and unknown because it was in the cataloging arrearage or backlog. However, no studies examined whether non-PCC libraries accepted PCC records as readily as they accepted LC cataloging records in the OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) database. This study analyzed the acceptability of PCC records by examining how 72 various academic, public, and special libraries edited them during a two-month study period. Findings pointed to the participants' inability to identify PCC records correctly. There was also some indication that editing of notes and non-access point fields in bibliographic records continue to be a priority for some institutions. The most frequent significant change to the PCC records was the addition of Dewey decimal classification (DDC) numbers by public library participants and the addition of LC classification numbers for academic and special library participants. This modification was observed as the main difference between LC and PCC records. Overall, 65.3% of PCC records were used with no editing changes and 97.4% of MARC fields examined were not edited. Results revealed a correlation between the absence of a needed classification number and personnel level handling copy cataloging. An analysis of editing changes in full versus core PCC records was presented. Recommendations for library administrators, cataloging managers, OCLC, and the PCC Policy Operations Committee concerning authority verification, classification number verification, PCC record identification and cataloging record source field, and monitoring copy cataloging work to promote efficiency were provided.

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Thacker, Jason Curtis. "Barriers to Initiation of Open Source Software Projects in Research Libraries." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5879.

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Libraries share a number of core values with the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, suggesting there should be a natural tendency toward library participation in OSS projects. However, Dale Askey's 2008 Code4Lib column entitled We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can't Have Our Code, claims that while libraries are strong proponents of OSS, they are unlikely to actually contribute to OSS projects. He identifies, but does not empirically substantiate, six barriers that he believes contribute to this apparent inconsistency. The goal of this thesis is to empirically investigate not only Askey's central claim but also the six barriers he proposes. Additionally, we will utilize statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to identify barriers encountered by libraries as they grapple with whether or not to release their code as open source. We will offer insights into possible correlations between a library's engineering, talent management and innovation policies and practices and its propensity to initiate open source software projects.

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le, Clercq Anton, and Kristoffer Almroth. "Comparison of Rendering Performance Between Multimedia Libraries Allegro, SDL and SFML." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-259756.

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In this report the rendering performances of the multimedia libraries Allegro, SDL and SFML have been compared. Highest performance is achieved by writing code directly to the low level graphical APIs, though it requires much more work than using the multimedia libraries graphical functions built on one of these graphical APIs. Thus it is common to use a multimedia library or similar for visualization tasks. The total number of frames rendered in one second was counted for static, alpha blended, rotating, and moving images in each library. Every test was run with few to very many images, and the programs were tested on six different computers: three laptops with integrated GPUs and low power dual core CPUs, and three desktop computers with external GPUs and quad core CPUs with unlocked clock rate. Allegro performed best of the three on laptops when the image load was very high, but fell behind by up to 50% in all other cases. SDL had the strongest performance on desktop computers, especially when rendering very many images, making it a prime candidate for high load graphical applications on desktops. SFML performed best overall, making it the best choice when targeting a wide range of different machines.
I denna rapport jämförs renderingsprestandan mellan multimediabiblioteken Allegro, SDL och SFML. Den högsta prestandan uppnås genom att skriva kod direkt till en lågnivå-API för grafik, men det kräver mycket mer kod än att använda ett multimediabibliotek. Därför är det vanligt att använda ett multimediabibliotek eller något med liknande funktioner för visualiseringsarbeten. Jämförelsen bestod av att räkna det totala antalet skärmbilder som renderades under en sekund för statiska, semitransparanta, rotarande och rörliga bilder. Varje test kördes med 50 till 10 000 bilder som renderades samtidigt, och programmen testades på sex olika datorer, tre bärbara med integrerade GPUs och tvåkärniga energieffektiva CPUs, och tre stationära med externa GPUs och fyrkärniga CPUs med upplåst klockfrekvens. Allegro presterade bäst på bärbara datorer under en hög belastning, men var upp till 50% sämre i alla övriga tester. SDL presterade bäst på stationära datorer, därför är det ett bra val för krävande grafiska program på stationära datorer. SFML presterade bäst överlag, vilket gör det till det bästa valet för att skapa grafiska program som är tänkta att köras på olika starka datorer.

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Bani-Ahmad, Sulieman Ahmad. "RESEARCH-PYRAMID BASED SEARCH TOOLS FOR ONLINE DIGITAL LIBRARIES." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207228115.

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Karlsson, Alex. "Evaluating the State of Accessibility in React UI Component Libraries." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104959.

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This work examined the state of accessibility in React UI component libraries. The accessibility of these libraries is essential since they are used to create the frontend of hundreds of thousands of projects. We conducted a controlled experiment to evaluate the accessibility of six open source libraries. We selected libraries based on GitHub dependents intervals to include libraries with varied use. In the experiment, we implemented a UI for each library with a few standard components. We then tested these UI implementations based on WCAG 2.1 and WAI-ARIA 1.1 with automated testing using Axe and manual test cases. We also used exploratory testing with the screen reader NVDA to detect issues based on actual use with an assistive device. We also conducted a literature review to support the experiment and the following discussion and conclusions of its results. We detected 50 accessibility issues in total and all libraries had one or more issues. Also, that there was a significant difference in the accessibility of libraries. The second interval had the least number of issues and was closely followed by the first interval with the most dependents. The two libraries selected from the interval with the least dependents had the most issues. We recommend developers not using libraries from the interval with the least dependents for public web products. Since all libraries had one or more issues, we also recommend developers choose libraries with care to ensure accessibility, WCAG 2.1 compliance, and follow WAI-ARIA 1.1. This work was limited to six libraries and a few components; there are many more of both. Another limitation was that the testing was limited to a desktop resolution and did not include mobile testing. Also, the work used the free version of Axe, and a paid version could potentially detect more accessibility issues.

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Bean, Carol, and Michael Laven. "Adapting to Seniors: Computer Training for Older Adults." Florida Library Association, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105698.

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Teaching older adults to use computers requires taking into account the effects of the aging process. Techniques which work for a younger generation will not necessarily be successful with older novices, but modifications which improve the outcome for older students also work well with younger learners. This article explains how computer trainers at the Palm Beach County Library System's North County Regional Library created a mousing class and modified existing classes to create a series of four classes designed specifically for older adults who have never used a computer before. The article also summarizes the difficulties older adults face in learning to use computers, and ways to improve the learning outcome.

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Ding, Hao. "A Semantic Search Framework in Peer-to-Peer based Digital Libraries." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-893.

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Advances in peer-to-peer overlay networks and Semantic Web technology will have a substantial influence on the design and implementation of future digital libraries. However, it remains unclear how best to combine their advantages in constructing digital library systems. This thesis is devoted for investigating, proposing and evaluating possible solutions to advance developments in this field.

The main research goal of this work is to combine the strengths of both peer-to-peer overlay networks and Semantic Web for facilitating semantic searches in large-scale distributed digital library systems. The approach has been conducted in a sequential and progressive manner. Firstly, we recognize system infrastructure and metadata heterogeneity as two major challenges in conducting semantic searching across distributed digital libraries. Next, we investigate the strengths and weaknesses of both peer-to-peer and Semantic Web technology and justify that these two fields are complementary and can be combined in conducting semantic searches in a large-scale distributed environment. Thirdly, due to various topologies, functionalities and limitations different peer-to-peer infrastructures may possess, we survey current classical peer-to-peer systems so as to facilitate determinating appropriate infrastructure for specific application scenario. Fourthly, we probe into approaches in generating ontology-enriched metadata records for semantic search purpose. Finally and most importantly, we will propose a semantic search process for interoperation among heterogeneous resources, basing on ontology mapping mechanism.

A major contribution expected in our work is, in a broader term, proposing and investigating possible solutions in combining the strengths of both peer-to-peer overlay networks and Semantic Web for facilitating semantic search among highly distributed digital libraries. From a specific perspective, we provide an appropriate benchmark for facilitating decision making in choosing appropriate peer-to-peer networks for digital library construction; especially, we consider in this work no global schema exists and further justify the feasibility and advantages of ontology engineering method in semantic enriched metadata management; to support federated search in such a distributed environment, we also propose an extended super-peer network model, emphasizing in load-balancing and self-organizing capabilities; Based on semantic enriched metadata management, we propose also direct ontology mapping method to enable runtime semantic search process. Evaluation results have illustrated the feasibility and robustness of our approaches.

The future direction of this work includes studies on user authentication,efficient ontology parsing and real-life applications.

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Al-Khulaifi, Mohammed. "An automated bibliographic network for the libraries of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia : a feasibility study." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267733.

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McConnell, Karen S. "A Model for Identifying Serial Collection Overlap in a Union List of Serials For Public Utility Libraries." NSUWorks, 1988. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/712.

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Utility company libraries are scattered geographically, but serve a specific information clientele. These libraries are supported by parent companies or government entities that provide electrical, gas, and/or telephone services. In this era of increased regulation, and financial difficulties for all types of utilities, their respective library budgets are shrinking. Thus reliance on each other for interlibrary lending is increasing; but there is no ILL network, formal or informal, and no organization that would various types of utilities other than the represent the Public Utility Division (PUD) of the Special Libraries Association. The PUD decided to create a Union List of Serials for the libraries of those members wishing to participate in the study. This investigation involved gathering the data for that list, and providing the Union List itself to the PUD. The library holdings were then analyzed to determine the resource capacity in terms of title diversity and collection overlap. The potential contributions to an interlibrary loan network were examined for the entire group, between various segments of the list, and between the trade association libraries and their individual constituents. The existing interlibrary loan policies of the participating libraries were also examined and included in the Union List of Serials provided to the Division. Other studies have shown the relationship between collection size and overlap is linear and positively correlated, but have not dealt specifically with overlap in serial collections. This study tried to determine whether this relationship also existed for this group and for serial collections.

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Ozdogru, Ebru. "A Gis Domain Framework Utilizing Jar Libraries As Components." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606111/index.pdf.

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A Component Oriented Software Engineering (COSE) modeling environment is enhanced with the capability to import executable components and deliver applications through their composition. For this purpose, an interface layer that utilizes JAR libraries as components has been developed. Also, Domain Engineering process has been applied to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) domain and utilized towards converting the environment to a development framework. The interface layer imports JAR libraries into the COSECASE tool, which is a graphical tool supporting COSE approach and COSE Modeling Language (COSEML). As a result, systems can be designed using abstractions and then implemented by corresponding deployed components. Imported code is made available to the COSECASE environment through this interface layer. Also, Domain Analysis, Domain Design, and Domain Implementation phases of Domain Engineering process have been applied to the GIS domain. Components developed in this Domain Implementation phase have been imported into COSECASE. A simple GIS application has been designed and generated through the interface layer of COSECASE for demonstration purposes.

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Burström, Markus, and Mikael Zingmark. "How to provide a user friendly search interface based upon a libraries Open Public Access Catalogue." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-44362.

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Today many libraries offer their services via Internet and reach billions of visitors in different ages. The problem is that most of these library web sites are not customized for the users and they don’t deliver a good user experience. In this thesis we have studied both the interface and the users of an Open Public Access Catalog called CS Library. We found out how the users use the current system and how they want to use it. To achieve this we gathered data with different user studies at the Ume°a city library. A new interface was developed from the outcome of our user study. We created a set of guidelines that were followed when a new user customized design was developed for CS Library. The new design offers a better user experience and is customized by the users needs, desires and thoughts. The new design has been implemented as an interactive prototype with HTML, CSS, Javascript and Actionscript to convey a better feeling of the interface.

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Dillon, Andrew. "New technology and the reading process." Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106359.

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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A. (1991) New technology and the reading process. Computers in Libraries, 11(6) 23-26. Abstract: The present paper discusses some the important issues involved in presenting text on screen. It is argued that reading is a complex cognitive and physical skill that requires careful analysis if technology is going to support rather than hinder the user. The need to consider texts individually in terms of how and why they are read as well as the type of information they contain is discussed. On the basis of a study of journal usage the implications of this approach for the presentation of electronic journals is described.

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Weatherley, John, Tamara Sumner, Michael Khoo, and Marcel Hoffmann. "Partnership Reviewing: A Cooperative Approach for Peer Review of Complex Educational Resources." ACM, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106387.

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Digital Library for Earth Science Education, DLESE
Review of digital educational resources, such as course modules, simulations, and data analysis tools, can differ from review of scholarly articles, in the heterogeneity and complexity of the resources themselves. The Partnership Review Model, as demonstrated in two cases, appears to promote cooperative interactions between distributed resource reviewers, enabling reviewers to effectively divide up the task of reviewing complex resources with little explicit coordination. The shared structural outline of the resource made visible in the review environment enables participants to monitor other reviewersâ actions and to thus target their efforts accordingly. This reviewing approach may be effective in educational digital libraries that depend on community volunteers for most of their reviewing.

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Gulbinowicz, Eva. "A Study To Determine The Feasibility Of Installing CD-ROM Technology In Ontario Government Libraries And Information Centers." NSUWorks, 1989. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/556.

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This study was designed to investigate both present and potential future applications and usage of CD - ROM technology within Ontario Government libraries and information centers. The author first reviewed the history of the Ontario Government Libraries Council, from the perspective of its mandate to provide a degree coordination between various government libraries of and improvement of library management in the Public Service, through cooperative activities. Acquisition and implementation of CD-ROM technology is a joint venture that can be undertaken for mutual benefit of Council members, and was the subject of the Feasibility Study carried out by the author. The researcher conducted a comprehensive literature review, examining many articles and the few available published studies covering a full spectrum of CD-ROM issues. This data, plus the researcher's exposure to four CD-ROM database systems, was employed to design a feasibility study, that follows the literature review The author formally collected information needed for study purposes via a questionnaire sent out to 76 Council libraries and information centers. This process was followed up by personal contact with concerned Library Managers, for data clarification. Subsequently, the researcher formulation documented the findings of specific solutions, recommendations, for accessing and that resulted in conclusions and implementing CD-ROM technology within the Ontario Government Libraries Council. The resulting document can be employed by the Ontario Government Libraries Council and the Ontario Government Management Board, as a policy planning and implementation instrument for development and installation of CD-ROM facilities

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Mhlongo, Siyabonga. "Flexible Packaging Methodologies for Rapid Deployment of Customisable Component-based Digital Libraries." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000320/.

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Software engineering is a discipline concerned with manufacturing or developing software. Software plays a pivotal role in everyday life, an absence of which will be devastating to a number of governmental, recreational and financial activities, amongst many others. One of the latest branches of software engineering, component-based software engineering, is concerned with the development of software systems using already existing components which speculatively will ensure rapid and inexpensive software development processes. Parallel with the advances in software engineering, the field of digital libraries — a field dealing with Web-based access to and management of structured digital content — has adopted this development model from software engineering to shift focus from developing and using traditionally monolithic software systems to developing and using more flexible component-oriented software systems. Since componentised development approaches are relatively recent, other areas such as packaging and managing component-based software systems still remain unattended to. This dissertation presents research on techniques and methodologies for packaging customisable component-based digital libraries such that deployment is rapid and flexibility is not compromised. Although the reference point of this research was that of component-based digital library systems, it is believed that this research can be generalised across the family of Web-based component-based software systems. An outcome of this research was a prototype packaging system consisting of a pair of tools: a package builder tool and a package installer tool. This packaging system was developed to model the ideas and methodologies that were identified as important to the processes of packaging and installing component-based digital library systems. These tools consequently underwent a user evaluation study whereby they were evaluated for understandability, usability and usefulness to the processes of packaging and installing component-based digital libraries. A key contribution of this research was identifying requirements for a generic component packaging framework. For a component to be seen as ”fit-to-package”, it must posses the following at the very least: the component must be configurable automatically; the component must have a formal description of its dependency software; there must be formal descriptions that describe individual components as well as systems composed of components; and there must be a way whereby installation questions are formally encoded such that components are able to correctly receive configuration information. In totality, this research has shown that component-oriented software development approaches can benefit from an infrastructure which allows for component-based software systems to be composed, distributed and installed effortlessly.

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Valenza, Joyce Kasman. "Discovering a Descriptive Taxonomy of Attributes of Exemplary School Library Websites." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3911/.

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This descriptive study examines effective online school library practice. A Delphi panel selected a sample of 10 exemplary sites and helped to create two research tools--taxonomies designed to analyze the features and characteristics of school library Websites. Using the expert-identified sites as a sample, a content analysis was conducted to systematically identify site features and characteristics. Anne Clyde's longitudinal content analysis of school library Websites was used as a baseline to examine trends in practice; in addition, the national guidelines document, Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, was examined to explore ways in which the traditional mission and roles of school library programs are currently translated online. Results indicated great variation in depth and coverage even among Websites considered exemplary. Sites in the sample are growing more interactive and student-centered, using blogs as supplemental communication strategies. Nevertheless, even these exemplary sites were slow to adopt the advances in technology to meet the learning needs and interests of young adult users. Ideally the study's findings will contribute to understanding of state-of-the-art and will serve to identify trends, as well as serving as a guide to practitioners in planning, developing, and maintaining school library Websites.

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Taole, Nthabiseng. "Evaluation of the INNOPAC Library System in selected consortia and libraries in the Southern African region implications for the Lesotho Library Consortium /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04082009-204135/.

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Mahood, Christian. "Data center design & enterprise networking /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8699.

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Low, Kian Wai. "Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant software defined radio design for IEEE 802.16 wirelessman-OFDMtm transceiver." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/06Dec%5FLow.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Frank Kragh. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72). Also available in print.

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