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Anghelescu, Hermina G. B. "Public libraries in modern and contemporary Romania legacy of French patterns and Soviet influences, 1830-1990 /." Digital version:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992743.
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Tang, Jinhong. "Educational reform and the emergence of modern libraries in China with special reference to the Metropolitan Library of Beijing, 1909-1937." Thesis, View thesis, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/23658.
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This thesis examines the rise of modern Chinese libraries between the1840s and the 1930s in the context of educational reform, intellectual development, national regeneration and state building. It focuses on how educational reform and other factors influenced the way in which modern libraries came into being in China. It argues that the establishment of modern libraries in China was a complicated and long process, as China followed neither the “industrialisation and democracy” model of the United States nor the “modernisation” model of Meiji Japan. Modern libraries were introduced into China in the closing years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) to facilitate educational reform and national regeneration. The Nationalist government, established in 1928, further stimulated the expansion of Chinese libraries as part of the government’s state building efforts. This thesis examines the Chinese case in the emergence of modern libraries: the case of “underdevelopment” with distinctive Chinese characteristics. To explore the factors that contributed to the underdevelopment of modern Chinese libraries as they emerged, this thesis employs a case study of the Metropolitan Library of Beijing—the predecessor of the National Library of China—between 1909 and 1937 in terms of its formation, early development, and problems. This analysis reveals that both the macro and micro factors conducive to library development were not present in China before the 1920s. Even when the conditions improved during the 1920s and the 1930s, especially during the Nanjing Decade, the development of modern Chinese libraries was far from satisfactory for various reasons, with low library consciousness being an important one. The Conclusion of this thesis outlines the continuing impediment of low library consciousness in China today.
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Tang, Jinhong. "Educational reform and the emergence of modern libraries in China with special reference to the Metropolitan Library of Beijing, 1909-1937." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20051102.152412/index.html.
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Nordström, Daniel. "Applicability of modern graphics libraries in web development : How may current graphics APIs that allow GPU-rendered web content be better inorporated for use in modern web application production?" Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75813.
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This thesis presents an exploration into current web browser technologies for graphicsdevelopment, and offers a framework-like solution to integrate WebGL basedgraphical features into any web application based on those findings. It is builtlargely of the 2017 investigative graduate work done at Explizit Solutions (an ITfirm based in Skellefteå, Sweden), where the goal was to discover how 3D graphicstechnology in web browsers could be incorporated into and improve the front-endof their booking system services. A refined version of the solution produced in thatwork is presented, discussed and evaluated in this dissertation along with the investigativework done to produce it.
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Axelsson, Fredrica Hedge. "In the event of a zombie apocalypse : An investigation into policies of long-term preservation of digital media in the modern world of Open Access institutional repositories." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-178979.
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With the purpose to investigate policies within long-term preservation of digital media in the modern world of Open Access institutional repository, this two year's master thesis was conducted through a qualitative study with quantitative overtures. The main objectives of this thesis centre on the criteria for long-term digital preservation, preservation in relation to institutional repositories, the issues cropping up within the field of institutional repositories, and the essential components of a preservation policy. The theoretical framework is constructed around a model based upon scholarly communication, with its aspects of dissemination, acquisition, preservation, discovery and access, and with the facet of preservation at its centre. The methodology of this study is cued to content analysis and its in-depth investigative process, which was conducted on a sample of ten preservation policies within Open Access institutional repositories that were compared to a standardised expert set of policy categorisation. The results show that a perfect preservation policy does not appear to exist in the current world, based exclusively on the selected sample. This gives a strong indication of a need for further research within the field of Open Access institutional repositories preservation policies.<br>I syfte att undersöka policyer inom långsiktigt bevarande av digitala medier i den moderna världen av Open Access institutionella arkiv, genomfördes denna tvååriga masteruppsats genom en kvalitativ studie med kvantitativa uvertyrer. De huvudsakliga frågeställningarna i denna uppsats är centrerade kring kriterierna för långsiktigt digitalt bevarande, bevarandet i förhållande till institutionella arkiv, problem som dyker upp inom fältet för institutionella arkiv, och de essentiella komponenterna för en långtidsbevarande policy. Det teoretiska ramverket är uppbyggt runt en modell som utgår ifrån vetenskaplig kommunikation, med dess aspekter av spridning, förvärv, bevarande, upptäckt och tillgänglighet, med bevarande aspekten i centrum. Metoden för denna studie är centrerad till innehållsanalys och dess fördjupande undersökningsprocess, och som applicerades på tio utvalda Open Access institutionella arkivs bevarande-policyer, som sedan jämfördes med enuppsättning standardiserade kategorier, utvalda av experter, för en sådan policy. Resultaten visade att en perfekt långtidsbevarande policy inte existerar i dagens verklighet, om man utgår från studiens urval. Detta ger en stark indikation på att det finns ett behov av att göra ytterligare forskning inom området för institutionella arkivs bevarande policy inom Open Access-världen
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McKeogh, Katie. "Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605) and early modern Catholic culture and identity, 1580-1610." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c6d9ffcd-570e-4334-acd4-735c656c0a1f.
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What did it mean to be a Catholic elite in Protestant England? The relationship between the Protestant crown and its Catholic subjects may be examined fruitfully through a study of an individual and his world. This thesis examines this relationship through the example of Sir Thomas Tresham, who has often been seen as the archetypal Catholic loyalist. It is argued that the notion of Catholic loyalism must be reconfigured to account for the complexities inherent in the relationship between Catholics and the government. The duty to honour the monarch's authority was bound up with social and national sentiment, but it often accompanied criticisms of the practice of that authority, and the ways in which it encroached on personal experience. Intractable tensions lay behind expressions of loyalty, and this thesis travels in these undercurrents of cultural, social, religious, and political conflict to investigate the nuanced relationship between English Catholics and English society. Political resistance as classically understood - actions which directly opposed and undermined government policy - risks the exclusion of culture and identity, through which resistance was redefined. It is argued that Tresham's participation in elite activities became vehicles for resistance in the Catholic context. Book-collecting, reading, and the donation of books to an institutional library are framed as forms of resistance which countered the spirit of government legislation, and provided for the continuation of a robust tradition of Catholic scholarship on English soil. Through artistic and architectural projects, Tresham found ways to participate in elite culture which were not closed off to him, and in which Catholicism and gentility could sit side by side. These activities were also avenues for resistance, whereby the erection of stone testaments to Tresham's faith defied the government's attempts to redefine Englishness and gentility in Protestant terms, to the devastation of Catholicism. These artistic works combined piety, gentility, and resistance, and, together with Tresham's two Catholic libraries, they were to be his legacy.
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Jones, Marie F. "Academic Libraries as Feminine and Feminist Models of Organization." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1920.
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Because academic libraries are primarily staffed by women and are relatively autonomous entities in colleges and universities, they offer a unique model of workplace gendering and feminism. This qualitative, ethnographic study examined 3 small college libraries in 3 regions of the United States and explored issues of bureaucracy and gendering in these libraries. Feminist challenges to bureaucracy emerged in the areas of hierarchy, division of labor, competition and collaboration, decision-making, and communication. Feminine practice in the libraries reflected private sphere attitudes toward work (values of community, emotionality, and caring) and an affirmation of feminine roles in the workplace. The organizational cultures of these libraries affirmed flexible scheduling, emotions and friendship at work, and parenting talk and behaviors. The library workers also engaged in an ethic of care for library users and colleagues. Individuals in the organizations expressed motivations for work not based in monetary or status gain and endorsed women's power in leadership roles. The gendering of libraries also placed strong masculinity outside of the norm, creating expectations for men to engage in androgynous or feminine behavior. Overall, the study gives voice to feminine and feminist practice in the workplace.
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Chambert-Protat, Pierre. "Florus de Lyon, lecteur des Pères : documentation et travaux patristiques dans l'Eglise de Lyon au IXe siècle." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4052.
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On conserve un nombre inhabituellement élevé de manuscrits ayant appartenu à la bibliothèque du chapitre cathédral de Lyon au IXe siècle, dont bon nombre ont été personnellement utilisés ou produits par le principal acteur de la vie intellectuelle lyonnaise de l’époque, le diacre Florus (floruit v. 825–855). Comme on connaît par ailleurs plusieurs grandes compilations rassemblées également par lui, Florus représente pour nous une double occasion particulièrement rare d’étudier la bibliothèque d’une école cathédrale carolingienne et les méthodes de travail d’un intellectuel de ce temps. Les comparaisons et les nombreux recoupements que permet cette situation étayent et alimentent notre connaissance des livres qu’on utilisait et qui circulaient à l’époque, mais aussi des hommes qui les lisaient et les échangeaient, et des conditions dans lesquelles le travail de Florus a pu passer dans la tradition manuscrite des Pères (première partie). Ces analyses nous peignent Florus un homme de son temps, formé dans un certain milieu à de certaines méthodes, mais que son expérience et ses goûts poussèrent à faire évoluer, tout au long de sa carrière, ses propres méthodes au service de ses propres projets (seconde partie). Un travail d’historiographie est aussi proposé, qui n’avait pas encore été entrepris, et qui fait apparaître les voies de la redécouverte de Florus au cours du XVIIe siècle, puis au XXe. La place de Florus et de sa bibliothèque d’usage, dans l’histoire intellectuelle et dans l’histoire de la transmission des textes antiques, en ressort mieux circonscrite et qualifiée plus précisément, en même temps que se dévoile le cours de sa propre évolution intellectuelle<br>An unusual amount of manuscripts that belonged to the Cathedral library of Lyons in the IXth century has been preserved, among which a number were firsthand used or produced by its prominent intellectual figure, the deacon Florus (floruit ca. 825—855). As we also know several large compilations that were gathered by the very same, Florus represents a rare double opportunity to investigate both a Carolingian cathedral library and the work methods of a Carolingian scholar. Numerous comparisons and crosscheckings can strengthen and supply informations regarding the books that were used and circulated at the time, but also regarding the men that read and circulated them, and clarify how Florus’s work on the Fathers has spread in the manuscript tradition (first part). Such analyses depict Florus as a man of his time, who was educated in a certain environment and to use certain methods; but who was then driven, all along his career, by his own experience and taste, to evolve his own methods in the pursuing of his own projects (second part). A historiography study is also held, which was never undertaken before, and reveals the how and why of Florus’s rediscovery in the XVIIth century, and then again in the XXth. Florus’s part and his work library’s, in the intellectual history and in the history of ancient texts transmission, is thus better circumscribed and more precisely described, as is unvailed the course of his own intellectual evolution
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Saraiva, Paula Cristina Sousa. "Bibliotecas físicas ou virtuais?: reengenharia de espaços, serviços e competências nas bibliotecas universitárias do século XXI." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10906.
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O novo modelo de ensino-aprendizagem introduzido por Bolonha e a implementação de tecnologias
nas bibliotecas académicas, trouxeram mudanças profundas ao modo como o conhecimento é
produzido e disseminado e conduziram à necessidade de uma reengenharia de espaços, serviços e
competências, conferindo às bibliotecas um maior dinamismo e inovação nos serviços que oferecem,
cada vez mais centrados nas necessidades reais dos seus utilizadores.
Este estudo, analisa as tendências conjeturais centradas na triologia utilizadores/ bibliotecas/
tecnologias, recorrendo à triangulação de dados, baseada na revisão de literatura, na realização de
inquéritos aos utilizadores e bibliotecas portuguesas e europeias e na observação de bibliotecas
através de visitas de estudo, análise das homepages e planos estratégicos.
Os resultados obtidos, permitiram delinear um modelo de biblioteca académica inserida numa rede de
bibliotecas, demonstrando-se que a colaboração entre instituições e a integração comum de serviços
são essenciais para o desenvolvimento futuro destas estruturas académicas, produtoras e geradoras de
conhecimento; ABSTRACT:
PHYSICAL OR VIRTUAL LIBRARIES?
Spaces, services and expertise reengineering in the university libraries of 21st century
The new teaching and learning model introduced by Bologna process and the implementation of
technologies in academic libraries, changed the way how knowledge is produced and disseminated
and have created within academic libraries, new needs of space reengeneering, new services and new
librarian skills that increased the offer of dynamic and innovating services with high level quality,
based on new technologies and user centered.
This study is focused in the library trends and based in the analysis of the triology: users / libraries /
technologies and applied as methodology, the data triangulation method, based on the literature
review, user survey / questionnaires to portuguese and european libraries and observation of libraries
in study visits and analysis of their homepages and strategic plans.
The results, brings to the light a new model for the academic library in 21st century embedded in a
network of libraries, showing us that collaboration between institutions and the integration of
services (shared services) are essential for the future development of these academic structures
responsible for producing and sharing knowledge.
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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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Lindqvist, Niklas. "Det moderna biblioteket inätverkssamhället : En studie över kulturpolitikers och bibliotekariers åsikter om bibliotekens användande av sociala medier." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-102850.
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”The modern library in the network society” A study of cultural politicians and librarians opinions about libraries' use of social media Social media is becoming more and more interacted in our daily lives and Carlsson (2013) argues that today's libraries have undergone major challenges in the digital information technology's entry in the library arena. The new technology has led to sum up in one question: how a library should relate to the digital information technology, the issue has applied in particular the social communications media, such as Facebook, Twitter and more. The purpose of this paper is to examine the culture of politicians and librarians 'perceptions of public libraries' use of social media linked to the libraries and their democracy promotion efforts. This is analyzed from Castells theories about the network society and the digital divide. In summary, the study concluded that the majority of the culture politicians and librarians believe that social media is a part of the future of the library. But they have different views on how to get there, cultural politicians describe the ideas for the library and the use of social media more visionary, while the librarians descriptions are more closely with the business. The possibility of dual communication instead of one-way communication took many respondents as an important part of the library's presence on social media. The importance of the library's democracy promotion efforts to reach out to everyone even those as defined by or at risk of falling into the digital divide is also discussed in the study.
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Almeida, Denise Fatima Fonseca. "Um modelo de gestão para a biblioteca de três escolas estaduais da cidade do Rio de Janeiro." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2012. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1573.
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Previous issue date: 2012-10-09<br>Este trabalho surgiu a partir da observação da inexistência de um modelo de
gestão das bibliotecas de três escolas estaduais localizadas na cidade do Rio
de Janeiro. Tem como proposta analisar as questões referentes aos fatores
necessários às bibliotecas escolares para que tenham gestores qualificados,
além de verificar a existência de práticas de leitura nos espaços das
bibliotecas escolares e ainda saber que projetos pedagógicos são
necessários para que haja uma boa frequência de professores e alunos nos
espaços das bibliotecas escolares. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir de
uma pesquisa qualitativa em que os critérios de observação foram a parte
física, o espaço, o acervo e os recursos tecnológicos. Na parte de gestão,
qualificação e presença do profissional da biblioteca na escola, frequência da
comunidade escolar no uso do espaço e se existem projetos de leitura e
escrita na biblioteca. Para a elaboração do Plano de Ação Educacional
sugerido para as bibliotecas das três escolas, cadernos, guias e metodologias
utilizados por outras instituições foram analisados, além da revisão
bibliográfica sobre gestão de bibliotecas de modo a aprimorar o
funcionamento das bibliotecas escolares para que sejam espaços de
promoção da aprendizagem, aquisição do conhecimento e de cultura, através
de um projeto que possa proporcionar aos gestores o uso do espaço de forma
adequada com divulgação do acervo existente de forma que a comunidade
escolar se aproprie do espaço e de seus recursos.<br>This work arose from the observation on the existence of a model of
management on the libraries at three public schools administrated by the
government of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It
proposes an analysis of the questions referring to the needs of the school
libraries to have qualified managers and also proposes to verify the existence
of reading skills inside these libraries and yet proposes to verify which kind of
pedagogical projects are necessary to have a pleasant frequency of teachers
and students to the school library space. This work was a qualifying research
in which the criterions of observation were focused on the physical part, the
space, the collection of books and the technological resources. On the
management qualification and presence of a librarian at school. On the
presence of the school community using the spaces of the libraries and
checking if there are projects of reading and writing happening inside the
libraries. To the elaboration of the Educational Action Plan suggested to these
three schools libraries, copybooks, guide-books and methodologies used by
other institutions have been analysed. Moreover was made a bibliographical
review on the libraries management aiming to improve the schools libraries
operation so they become appropriate places to promote learning and
acquiring knowledge and cultural development through a project that can offer
the adequate use of the space and the right divulgation of the books
collections belonging to these libraries in other to bring the school community
to make use of the space and its resources.
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Orsi, Maia. "Population synthesis models for IMF studies." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4525/.
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Population synthesis models (PSMs) are fundamental tools to study the star formation history and IMF of unresolved stellar populations using spectral features. This work presents a new set of PSMs constructed using theoretical isochrones and two state-ofthe- art synthetic spectral libraries. The BT-Settl and Munari libraries were chosen for their ability to predict the observed values of Lick-type and IMF-sensitive indices in individual stars of the solar neighbourhood. The BT-Settl library was used to sample the cool main sequence stars and the Munari library for the rest of the evolutionary phases. The PSMs cover a range of metallicities with [Fe/H]= 0, -1.31 and -1.81 for scaled-solar and α-enhanced metal mixtures. The models were used to study the behaviour of the IMF indices defined in the literature and the results are in good agreement with what other PSMs have determined. The PSMs in this work predict a strong degeneracy between age, metallicity and IMF. I used the models to study which are the main evolutionary phases contributing to each IMF-sensitive index and found that most indices reach their final integrated values before the turn off. The post-main sequence stars contribute mainly to the continuum of these bands. Uncertainties in the the effective temperature of the isochrones can affect IMF estimates. The PSMs were applied to extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) and early-type galaxies (ETGs) using data from the literature. I determined the ages, metallicities and IMFs of these systems using index combinations in the optical and infrared. I explored how the morphology of the Horizontal Branch (HB) and dynamical evolution (which are key uncertainties in the modelling of GCs) can affect the IMF predictions. In a population with a Milky Way IMF, dynamical evolution can make the IMF indices mimic a bottom-light IMF. HB morphology has no impact on the IMF estimates at low [Fe/H]. In the IMF index-index diagrams for GCs, the results are significantly affected by the unknown sodium abundances of these systems. Using the PSMs in this work the best index combination to determine the IMF is CaH1 and TiO2. The ETGs and the [Fe/H]=0 GCs appear to have a bottom-heavy IMF with x ~ 3:0. These results are discussed in the work.
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SECHE, GIUSEPPE. "Cultura e circolazione libraria in Sardegna tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266527.
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The aim of this thesis is that of contributing to improve the knowledge of the cultural history of Sardinia, with a particular focus on book circulation during a time of great intellectual, political and social change, such as the end of the XV and VI Century. Through the analysis of notary deeds, and particularly post mortem inventories, the first part of the study has reconstructed the structure and content of sixty-two private libraries, ten belonging to Church representatives, seven to lawyers, four to doctors or other categories related to public health, ten to women, seven to aricstocratic families and seven to other categories. The total number of volumes in this census exceeds 5000 units, while the different authors come up to almost 1260. In a number of cases the analysis conducted has allowed the investigator to outline brief biographical profiles, reconstructing family and professional relations as well as to bring to light the cultural context whereby Sardinian society evolved in those years. The second part of the dissertation has been devoted to the editorial production of the city of Cagliari between 1566 and 1600, with an emphasis on technical aspects of the typographic processes as well as on the circulation of the editions produced. Starting from 190 items and from archival sources, 86 editions have been described, 68 of which of secure identification and 18 for which ownership is probable or possible, two loose papers, which still today represents the only prove of draft printing.
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Geylan, Gökçe. "Training Machine Learning-based QSAR models with Conformal Prediction on Experimental Data from DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för farmaceutisk biovetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447354.
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DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DEL) allows an exhaustive chemical space sampling with a large-scale data consisting of compounds produced through combinatorial synthesis. This novel technology was utilized in the early drug discovery stages for robust hit identification and lead optimization. In this project, the aim was to build a Machine Learning- based QSAR model with conformal prediction for hit identification on two different target proteins, the DEL was assayed on. An initial investigation was conducted on a pilot project with 1000 compounds and the analyses and the conclusions drawn from this part were later applied to a larger dataset with 1.2 million compounds. With this classification model, the prediction of the compound activity in the DEL as well as in an external dataset was aimed to be analyzed with identification of the top hits to evaluate model’s performance and applicability. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) models were built on both the pilot and the main datasets with different descriptor sets of Signature Fingerprints, RDKIT and CDK. In addition, an Autoencoder was used to supply data-driven descriptors on the pilot data as well. The Libsvm and the Liblinear implementations were explored and compared based on the models’ performances. The comparisons were made by considering the key concepts of conformal prediction such as the trade-off between validity and efficiency, observed fuzziness and the calibration against a range of significance levels. The top hits were determined by two sorting methods, credibility and p-value differences between the binary classes. The assignment of correct single-labels to the true actives over a wide range of significance levels regardless of the similarity of the test compounds to the training set was confirmed for the models. Furthermore, an accumulation of these true actives in the models’ top hit selections was observed according to the latter sorting method and additional investigations on the similarity and the building block enrichments in the top 50 and 100 compounds were conducted. The Tanimoto similarity demonstrated the model’s predictive power in selecting structurally dissimilar compounds while the building block enrichment analysis showed the selectivity of the binding pocket where the target protein B was determined to be more selective. All of these comparison methods enabled an extensive study on the model evaluation and performance. In conclusion, the Liblinear model with the Signature Fingerprints was concluded to give the best model performance for both the pilot and the main datasets with the considerations of the model performances and the computational power requirements. However, an external set prediction was not successful due to the low structural diversity in the DEL which the model was trained on.
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Johansen, Michelle. "The public librarian in modern London (1890-1914) : the case of Charles Goss at the Bishopsgate Institute." Thesis, University of East London, 2006. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3404/.
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Charles Goss (1864-1946) was one among the pioneering set of librarians in charge of London's first wave of public libraries in the 1890s and early 1900s. He was chief librarian of Lewisham rate-assisted library in south-east London from 1891 until 1897 when he moved to the Bishopsgate Institute, a charitable library and cultural institution situated on the border of the City and the East End. Goss remained in charge at the Institute until 1941. In 1895, he co-founded the Society of Public Librarians (SPL), a group of thirty-plus London Chief and Deputy Public Librarians who met monthly until 1930 to discuss professional issues and offer mutual support and friendship. Using the writings of Goss, the SPL archive, public library records and library journals, this thesis describes the occupational experience of this set of librarians. It also examines their treatment in the secondary material on public library development. Because of their stance during an intraprofessional dispute over how readers should access the material on the library shelves (the socalled open access debates), Goss and his SPL colleagues have been marginalised in library historiography. The thesis revisits and assesses their standpoint during the open access contest. It then uses their professional experience as a means of accessing wider historical debates around social class and identity. According to profession and income, this group of men were lower-middle class. Expressed more precisely, however, Goss and his SPL colleagues were at the mid-point of a journey from the working to the middle class. The thesis attends to the duality of their class location. Informed by the occupational identity they collectively favoured, it provides a nuanced assessment of 'lower middle', an assessment which accommodates elements of working-class comradeship and modes of expression alongside the middle-class attributes more usually associated with this subaltern class fraction.
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Hoag, Beth A. Hoag. "Opposites or Perfect Partners: Student Affairs and Libraries in Collaboration to Advance Student Learning." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1463069534.
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Chancellor, Renate L. "E.J. Josey a historical look at a civil rights activist and transformative leader in the modern library profession /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1666155981&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Arias, Ordoñez José de Jesús. "Analisis para la creación, organización y desarrollo de la biblioteca digital de Colombia." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10913.
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Resumen: Partiendo de una reflexión epistemológica se dilucida conceptualmente la biblioteca digital y se proyecta un modelo de carácter nacional. Se toman en consideración, y se estudian, los proyectos más relevantes que dieron origen a las bibliotecas digitales en USA y Europa, al igual que las investigaciones y los desarrollos alcanzados por la Federación Internacional de Bibliotecas Digitales. A partir de estos estudios, se hace un examen sobre las potencialidades de Colombia para soportar el proyecto y para ello se estudian las políticas estatales e institucionales en los campos de sistemas de información, telecomunicaciones y sistemas, tanto del sector público como el privado, al igual que la población con capacidad para acceder a los servicios de una biblioteca digital de carácter nacional. Posteriormente se caracteriza el usuario de una biblioteca digital y se reflexiona la relación del usuario con los componentes tecnológicos, analizando como éste participa y actúa en estos ámbitos. Los argumentos anteriores aportan elementos para definir, qué tipo de biblioteca se debe crear, qué se pretende con ella, cuáles son sus metas y cuáles son las directrices estratégicas para su desarrollo, lo cual se complementa con la formulación de la visión, misión y alcance de la misma. Con estas definiciones, y con base en la comparación de diferentes bibliotecas digitales nacionales de América y Europa, especialmente la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, se tienen las bases del modelo de organización de la Biblioteca Digital de Colombia, que se presenta ajustado a la legislación colombiana y a los modelos administrativos de las entidades públicas y privadas. La organización que se propone es la de una Fundación, describiendo los órganos de gobierno y los componentes operativos y se precisa la organización administrativa y técnica interna. Cumplidos todos los requisitos administrativos y jurídicos, se aboca el estudio del componente tecnológico de la biblioteca y se inicia con la arquitectura del sistema de la misma, basando la decisión en cuatro estudios: 1) conceptualización de la arquitectura del sistema, 2) definir el modelo de la arquitectura del sistema, 3) seleccionar el software aplicativo, y 4) proponer el modelo lógico y físico de la plataforma y el software asociado para la digitalización de los documentos. Conocida la plataforma tecnológica de la arquitectura del sistema, se hace un estudio de las colecciones potenciales para conformar la biblioteca, proponiendo como colección básica la de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, de la cual se hace un análisis y descripción detallada. Posteriormente, se presenta un estudio que permite ver las relaciones usuarios- entornos -servicios, con lo cual, y con base en sitios Web de bibliotecas digitales lideres en el mundo, se proponen un conjunto de servicios potenciales. Teniendo en cuenta que la organización técnica de las bibliotecas digitales, fundamentan su organización en procedimientos y normas de carácter internacional, se definen y describen los macroprocesos de una biblioteca digital con todos sus procedimientos y normas. Finalmente, se propone en su estructura y funcionamiento el sistema nacional participativo, que es el componente exógeno de la Biblioteca Digital de Colombia; el desarrollo que se hace del Sistema es solo a nivel de diseño general, dado que su implementación y puesta en funcionamiento esta sujeto a que se cumplan las etapas de creación, organización y operación de la Biblioteca, en especial lo concerniente a políticas de colecciones, servicios, arquitectura del sistema y adopción de procedimientos y normas.<br>Based on an epistemological reflection, the digital library is conceptually elucidated and a model of national character is projected. To reaffirm this initiative, the most relevant projects that gave rise to the digital libraries in the USA and Europe, as well as the research and development accomplished by the International Federation of Digital Libraries, will be taken into consideration and studied. Based on these studies, there will be a review to determine the potential that Colombia has to support the project including a study of state policies and institutional resources in the fields of information systems, public and private telecommunications systems, and the people with the ability to access the services of a digital library of national character. Subsequently the user of a digital library is characterized and the relationship between the user and the technological components is typified, analyzing how the user acts and participates in this capacity. All the above arguments contribute elements to define what sort of library should be set up, its intent, its goals, and the strategic directions for its development, which are complemented by the formulation of the vision, mission and scope of the same. Based on the comparison of different national digital libraries in America and Europe, particularly the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes, the foundation for the organizational model of the Digital Library of Colombia is provided, set to comply with Colombian legislation and the administrative models of public and private entities. The organizational structure proposed is that of a Foundation, describing government bodies, operational components, and the required internal administrative and technical configuration. The study of the technological component of the library will be determined after the fulfillment of all legal and administrative requirements, starting with the system's architecture and basing the decision on four studies: 1) conceptualization of the system's architecture; 2) to define the model of the system's architecture; 3) selecting the application software; and 4) proposing the logical and physical model of the platform and the associated software for scanning documents. After the technological platform of the system's architecture is known, there will be a study of what potential collections will compose the library, using the National Library of Colombia, of which there is an analysis and detailed description, as its basic collection. Subsequently, a study will be conducted to determine the relationships between user-environments-services, and based on Web sites of leading digital libraries in the world, a set of potential services will be proposed. The procedures and rules, as well as the macro processes of the digital library, will be defined and described, taking into consideration that the technical organization of digital libraries is founded on procedures and rules of international character. Finally, the participatory national system, which is the exogenous component of the Digital Library of Colombia, is proposed in the structure and operation of the library; the development of the system is currently at the preliminary design level, since its implementation and operation is subject to the fulfillment of the stages of creation, organization and operation of the library, and in particular issues relating to the services, the collections' policies, the system's architecture, and the adoption of procedures and standards.
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Gwyn, Lydia Copeland, Sara Maeve Whisnant, and Wendy C. Doucette. "Silver Linings: Finding the Hidden Value in a Sudden Shift to Online Service Models." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8850.
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In March 2020, the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University found itself in the same position as most academic libraries across the country: making a rapid shift from a face-to-face model of service to an online model. All classes moved online and all employees worked remotely. Join Sherrod instruction librarians as we discuss how we maneuvered through this shift and came out the other end with a more robust model of service and a new perspective. Participants will come away with tips for establishing an online service model from the ground up as well as tools for assessment and collaboration.
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Wema, Evans F. "Developing information literacy programmes for public university libraries in Tanzania : a case study of the University of Dar es Salaam." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10918.
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The aim of the research was to develop a training course that inculcated infonnation literacy that could be implemented by staff at the University of Dar es Salaam library (Tanzania), in order to provide students with appropriate infonnation literacy skills to meet their educational goals. The course was developed from an integration of knowledge from infonnation behaviour research and educational theory with current perspectives of infonnation literacy from Infonnation and Library Science (ILS). The ultimate goal of the research was to create a framework that would be used by public university libraries in Tanzania to teach infonnation literacy courses. The study was carried out in two parts. In the first implementation "pilot" programme, the course was tested by involving librarians who took the entire course, in order to see whether the same course structure could be used to implement to the Masters of Education students. Following adaptations made on the first course, a second course programme was implemented to Masters of Education students by two librarians who attended the first implementation "pilot" programme. Therefore, the success of the course was partly judged on whether it effectively enabled knowledge transfer from the librarians to students. Data collection methods were predominantly qualitative, although quantitative methods in tenns of diagnostic tests were also used. The tests were used to evaluate trainees' knowledge ofinfonnation literacy before and after the course to provide an indication of changes in knowledge. Qualitative methods used included semistructured interviews with librarians and academic staff at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in order to make sure that assumptions made about students' knowledge of infonnation literacy and the kind of problems experienced by students were correct. Other methods included quizzes, exercises, group reflection and presentations that related to each stage in the course. These methods served to indicate trainees' understanding of what was taught, reflections on the leaming process and provided feedback for improvements on the course. The major findings showed that there was a recognized need for infonnation literacy and that problems such as unfamiliarity with categories of infonnation sources, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and use, were experienced in Tanzania as was the case in other "Western" countries. In addition, librarians were able to transfer skills learned to students, who in turn used the same course materials to teach fellow students who did not participate in the course. Furthermore, the design of the course was facilitated by the integration of Information and library science (ILS) approaches to information literacy with the knowledge of information behaviour and pedagogic theory. The thesis provides recommendations for the library and information curricula to introduce information literacy, teaching information literacy in a holistic way and with librarians participating in teaching and research. In addition, the study recommended that librarians should facilitate the development of information literacy in primary and secondary schools.
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Halliwell, David C. "Building for Communities: Definitions, Conceptual Models, and Adaptations to Community Located Work." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533052538144644.
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Valmorbida, Willian. "U-LIBRARY: um modelo para suporte a bibliotecas ubíquas." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2014. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4712.
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Previous issue date: 2014<br>CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>A computação ubíqua visa tornar as tarefas que dependem da computação transparente aos usuários, permitindo assim, a disponibilização de recursos e serviços a qualquer momento e em qualquer lugar. Serviços de bibliotecas encontram-se intimamente relacionados ao uso de tecnologias da computação, sendo que alguns modelos foram propostos com vistas a fornecer suporte ubíquo a bibliotecas. No entanto, tais modelos não apresentam alguns aspectos que permitem oferecer recursos diferenciados aos usuários, tais como suporte ao bibliotecário, utilização de históricos de atividades de usuários e integração com sistemas de disponibilização de informação mantidos por terceiros. Desta forma, esta dissertação propõe um modelo computacional para suporte a bibliotecas ubíquas, denominado U-Library. O ULibrary disponibiliza recursos e serviços a usuários de bibliotecas com vistas a fornecer apoio ao desenvolvimento de suas tarefas diárias, no que tange a recuperação, o acesso e a manutenção de recursos e serviços de uma biblioteca. Este trabalho discute características presentes em trabalhos relacionados, descreve o modelo U-Library e apresenta aspectos de implementação e avaliação do modelo através de um protótipo. A avaliação do modelo ocorreu utilizando dados reais da Biblioteca do Centro Universitário Univates, no apoio de tarefas diárias de um grupo de voluntários.<br>Ubiquitous computing aims to make tasks that depend on computing transparent to the users, thus providing resources and services anytime and anywhere. Library services are closely related to the use of computing technologies. Some models have been proposed in order to provide ubiquitous support to libraries. However, such models do not present some aspects that allow to offer differentiated resources to the users, such as librarian support, use of user activity history and integration with systems providing information maintained by third parties. Therefore, this paper proposes a computational model to support ubiquitous library, called U-Library. The U-Library provides resources and services to library users in order to provide support for the development of their daily tasks, regarding the recovery, access and maintenance of resources and services of a library. This dissertation discusses features present in related work, describes the model U-Library and presents aspects of implementation and evaluation of the model through a prototype. The model evaluation has occurred using real data from Library of Centro Universitário Univates, in support to daily tasks of a volunteers group.
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GATTI, ELENA. "FRANCESCO PLATONE DE' BENEDETTI E GIOVANNI ANTONIO DE' BENEDETTI (1482-1512), OVVERO LA TIPOGRAFIA BOLOGNESE A CAVALLO FRA XV E XVI SECOLO. CATALOGO CULTURALE E MERCATO LIBRARIO A CONFRONTO." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6149.
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Il lavoro ha indagato alcuni aspetti del primo trentennio di vita dell'officina tipografica bolognese fondata da Francesco Platone de' Benedetti (1482-1496), focalizzandosi in particolare sulla produzione del primo erede, il nipote Giovanni Antonio (1499-1512), sui rispettivi cataloghi culturali e, infine, sul mercato librario bolognese a cavallo fra il XV e il XVI secolo. Tre i punti nodali della ricerca: 1) la rappresentazione del circuito intellettuale che gravitò attorno ai due de’ Benedetti, con particolare attenzione per i curatori editoriali; 2) l’accertamento delle edizioni sine notis ancora da attribuire in via definitiva a Francesco de’ Bendetti, per una comparazione credibile dei cataloghi di zio e nipote e per comprendere, fin dove possibile, le logiche commerciali che Francesco progettava per la sua azienda; 3) un’analisi del progetto culturale di Francesco de' Benedetti basandosi sul suo inventario di magazzino, da cui si evincono: il pubblico cui l’officina mirò, le coordinate (geografiche e culturali) del mercato del libro a Bologna sullo scorcio del secolo XV, i confini del network commerciale in cui Platone de’ Benedetti seppe inserire la sua impresa.<br>The research has investigated some aspects of the first three decades of the bolognese typography founded by Francesco Platone de 'Benedetti (1482-1496), focusing, in particular, on the production of the first heir, his nephew Giovanni Antonio (1499-1512), on their cultural catalogs and, finally, on the book trade in Bologna between Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. Three key points of the research: 1) the representation of the intellectuals (their life, their work) gravitated around the typography, with particular attention to the editors; 2) analysis of the sine notis editions still attributed to Francesco Benedetti, for a comparison of the catalogs of uncle and nephew, and to understand, as far as possible, the commercial logic Francesco was planning for his business; 3) an analysis of Francesco Benedetti's cultural project, based on his famous shop inventory, from which can be deduced: the custumers the typography aimed to, geographical and cultural coordinates of the book trade in Bologna at the turn of the XV century, the shape of the commercial network in which Francesco de 'Benedetti entered his business.
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GATTI, ELENA. "FRANCESCO PLATONE DE' BENEDETTI E GIOVANNI ANTONIO DE' BENEDETTI (1482-1512), OVVERO LA TIPOGRAFIA BOLOGNESE A CAVALLO FRA XV E XVI SECOLO. CATALOGO CULTURALE E MERCATO LIBRARIO A CONFRONTO." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6149.
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Il lavoro ha indagato alcuni aspetti del primo trentennio di vita dell'officina tipografica bolognese fondata da Francesco Platone de' Benedetti (1482-1496), focalizzandosi in particolare sulla produzione del primo erede, il nipote Giovanni Antonio (1499-1512), sui rispettivi cataloghi culturali e, infine, sul mercato librario bolognese a cavallo fra il XV e il XVI secolo. Tre i punti nodali della ricerca: 1) la rappresentazione del circuito intellettuale che gravitò attorno ai due de’ Benedetti, con particolare attenzione per i curatori editoriali; 2) l’accertamento delle edizioni sine notis ancora da attribuire in via definitiva a Francesco de’ Bendetti, per una comparazione credibile dei cataloghi di zio e nipote e per comprendere, fin dove possibile, le logiche commerciali che Francesco progettava per la sua azienda; 3) un’analisi del progetto culturale di Francesco de' Benedetti basandosi sul suo inventario di magazzino, da cui si evincono: il pubblico cui l’officina mirò, le coordinate (geografiche e culturali) del mercato del libro a Bologna sullo scorcio del secolo XV, i confini del network commerciale in cui Platone de’ Benedetti seppe inserire la sua impresa.<br>The research has investigated some aspects of the first three decades of the bolognese typography founded by Francesco Platone de 'Benedetti (1482-1496), focusing, in particular, on the production of the first heir, his nephew Giovanni Antonio (1499-1512), on their cultural catalogs and, finally, on the book trade in Bologna between Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. Three key points of the research: 1) the representation of the intellectuals (their life, their work) gravitated around the typography, with particular attention to the editors; 2) analysis of the sine notis editions still attributed to Francesco Benedetti, for a comparison of the catalogs of uncle and nephew, and to understand, as far as possible, the commercial logic Francesco was planning for his business; 3) an analysis of Francesco Benedetti's cultural project, based on his famous shop inventory, from which can be deduced: the custumers the typography aimed to, geographical and cultural coordinates of the book trade in Bologna at the turn of the XV century, the shape of the commercial network in which Francesco de 'Benedetti entered his business.
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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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Saorín, Pérez Tomás. "Modelo conceptual para la automatización de bibliotecas en el contexto digital." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10903.
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Partiendo de un análisis de los principales aspectos de la sociedad de la información como contexto social en el que las bibliotecas actuales redefinen su función social y sus servicios, se estudia el papel de la tecnología como agente de cambio en los servicios de información de las bibliotecas públicas. Antes de estudiar la automatización y las tecnologías en las bibliotecas, se realiza un estudio terminológico sobre la biblioteca actual en este sentido (biblioteca digital, biblioteca electrónica, biblioteca virtual y biblioteca híbrida).La biblioteca híbrida se toma como marco conceptual para el desarrollo del trabajo: el ámbito de los servicios de biblioteca en el contexto digital. Posteriormente se revisa la evolución del concepto y aplicación de la automatización de bibliotecas, centrándose en la descripción de las aplicaciones de gestión integral de bibliotecas (SIGB). Se elabora un esquema común que responde al modelo clásico de automatización de bibliotecas, y de él se estudian con más detalle los elementos pertenecientes al sistema de información público, generalmente conocidos como Opac. Posteriormente se traza un panorama actual del mercado de la información y de aplicaciones para bibliotecas, atendiendo a las divergencias y desarrollos del modelo clásico. Se recoge información sobre los proyectos de bibliotecas digitales más significativos, y se ponen en relación con la gestión estratégica de las tecnologías en las bibliotecas. Se completa este apartado con el estudio de los dos contextos tecnológicos actuales que más inciden sobre las posibilidades y configuración de las aplicaciones de gestión bibliotecaria; por un lado la gestión documental corporativa (Groupware y Workflow) y por otro los portales y comunidades virtuales en internet. Antes de describir nuestra propuesta conceptual de SIGB, se estudia la arquitectura del sistema de información digital de la biblioteca, introduciendo el concepto de Biblioteca-Red, derivado del estudio de la biblioteca desde la óptica organizacional y de los factores del entorno que la moldean.<br>The role of information technology as a critical agent of change in public library information services, in the environment of infornation society, is studied, considering the redefinition of libraries social functions and services. First of all, it's presents a terminological survey of modern libraries trends (digital library, electronic library, virtual library, hybrid library). Hybrid library is selected as a valid conceptual framework for this work: library services in digital context. Library automation and technologies concepts and applications are reviewed, focusing in library systems, which match into a classic model of library automation. Information retrieval and public information features (Opac) are studied in-depth, in order to compare it with recent development in the information market for libraries and significant digital ibraries projects. The strategic role of information technologies management is presented as a requirement for understanding the complex interrelation between services and technologies. It's also analysed the two technological context that have a greater potential of influence in library systems: In one hand the Groupware and Workflow, and in the aher hand internet virtual communities and portals. Also is described the different points of view about digital information systems architecture, introducing the concept of Net-Library, as an organizational view of libraries in interaction inside an infomation and social environment. A new conceptual framework of library systems is defined, with extended functionalities derived of social and technological changes about information services, denominated Extended Library System. It's structured in two leve ls: application and product. The first level describes the modules of an library management and infonnation system application. The second one is dedicated to fue public information project requirements of a library portal. Finally it presents structured indicators to evaluate extended automation, as well as elements to model hybrid libraries information technologies project
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Mota, Ana sofia de Sousa Machado. "O serviço de referência nas bibliotecas públicas em Portugal: modelo de desenvolvimento." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18746.
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O Serviço de Referência (SR), incorporando na sua organização, funcionamento e
comunicação com o utilizador um conjunto de potencialidades proporcionadas pela
tecnologia, assume um papel fundamental na luta contra a desigualdade e o analfabetismo
digital, no fomento da literacia da informação e na criação de conhecimento.
A percepção do valor e das fragilidades do SR nas bibliotecas públicas em Portugal levanta
a questão sobre como contribuir para o seu desenvolvimento. A presente investigação,
visando a construção de alicerces numa perspectiva de evolução, parte da análise de
documentos orientadores internacionais da RUSA/ALA (Reference and User Services
Association / American Library Association) e da IFLA (International Federation of
Library Association) e da observação de características estruturais da Rede Nacional de
Biblioteca Públicas (RNBP), para a concepção de soluções de desenvolvimento do SR a
aplicar a esta realidade concreta.
Seguindo um paradigma compreensivo indutivo, com uma orientação baseada na
Grounded Theory, esta pesquisa privilegia o contexto da descoberta e a construção de uma
teoria. No plano empírico cumpre uma complementaridade de técnicas qualitativas e
quantitativas, com recurso a uma triangulação metodológica. O campo de análise abrange a
totalidade das bibliotecas públicas portuguesas integradas na RNBP em Portugal. Visando
aspectos funcionais e materiais, são analisados dados preexistentes e aplicadas técnicas de
observação directa e inquérito por questionário. Visando aspectos sociais, são efectuadas
seis entrevistas semi-estruturadas.
Os resultados apontam para uma situação de estagnação das bibliotecas da RNBP e para
um funcionamento não estruturado e informal do SR, na maioria dos casos em que se
verifica a sua disponibilização. Fundamentada a necessidade de evolução, e do
investimento que nele possa ser feito, é construído um modelo, seguindo uma estratégia
por níveis, flexíveis e adaptáveis às necessidades e aos recursos de cada biblioteca, que
visa o desenvolvimento incremental e congruente daquele serviço; Abstract:
The Reference Service in public libraries in Portugal. Development model from
international guidelines.
Incorporating in its organization, procedures and communication with the users a set of
tools brought by technology, Reference Service (RS) plays a key role in the struggle
against inequality and digital illiteracy, promoting information literacy and creating
knowledge.
The perception of the value of RS and the weaknesses in public libraries in Portugal raise
the question on how to contribute to its development. In order to build RS foundations on
an evolutionary perspective, this research analyzes RUSA / ALA (Reference and User
Services Association / American Library Association) and IFLA (International Federation
of Library Association) international guidelines and the structural characteristics of the
Portuguese National Public Library Network (RNBP), with the objective of creating a
solution for the development of that service to be applied to this reality.
Following an inductive comprehensive paradigm, with an orientation based on Grounded
Theory, this research focuses on the context of discovery and the construction of a theory.
Empirically it fulfils complementary qualitative and quantitative techniques, using a
methodological triangulation. The field of analysis covers Portuguese public libraries
integrating the RNBP. Aiming at functional and material aspects, direct observation
techniques and a survey by questionnaire are applied. Targeting social aspects, six semistructured
interviews are carried out.
The results point to a situation of stagnation in the RNBP as well as the unstructured and
informal performance of the SR, which justifies the need for evolution and investment. A
model is constructed, following a strategy based on levels, flexible and adaptable to the
needs and resources of each library, with the perspective of an incremental and consistent
development of this service.
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Silvello, Gianmaria. "A Set-Based Approach to Deal with Hierarchical Structures." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425324.
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Hierarchical structures are pervasive in computer science because they are a fundamental means for modeling many aspects of reality and for representing and managing a wide corpus of data and digital resources. One of the most important hierarchical structures is the tree, which has been widely studied, analyzed and adopted in several contexts and scientific fields over time. Our work takes into major consideration the role and impact of the tree in computer science and investigates its applications starting from the following pivotal question: "Is the tree always the most advantageous choice for modeling, representing and managing hierarchies?" Our aim is to analyze the nature and use of hierarchical structures and determine the most suitable way of employing them in different contexts of interests.
We concentrate our work mainly on the scientific field of Digital Libraries. Digital Libraries are the compound and complex systems which manage digital resources from our cultural heritage – belonging to different cultural organizations such as libraries, archives and museums – and which provide advanced services over these digital resources. In particular, we point out a focal use case within this scientific field based on the modeling, representation, management and exchange of archival resources in a distributed environment. We take into consideration the hierarchical inner structure of archives by considering the solutions proposed in the literature for modeling, representing, managing and sharing the archival resources. Archives are usually modeled by means of a tree structure; furthermore, the standard de facto for digital encoding of digital cultural resources – described and represented by means of metadata – is the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) that supports a tree representation. The problem often affecting this approach is that the model used to represent the hierarchies is bounded by the specific technology of choice adopted for its instantiation – e.g. the XML. In the archival context the tree structure is commonly instantiated by means of a unique XML file which mixes up the hierarchical structure elements with the content elements, without a clear distinction between the two; it is then not straightforward to determine how to access and exchange a specific subset of data without navigating the whole hierarchy or without losing meaningful hierarchical relationships.
To address the problems exemplified in the previous scenario we propose the NEsted SeT for Object hieRarchies (NESTOR) Framework which is composed of two main components: the NESTOR Model and the NESTOR Prototype.
The NESTOR Model is the core of the NESTOR Framework because it defines the set data models on which every component of the framework relies. It defines two set data models that we have called the "Nested Set Model (NS-M)" and the "Inverse Nested Set Model (INS-M)". We formally define these two set data models by showing how we can model and represent hierarchies throughout collections of nested sets. We show how these models add some features with respect to the tree while maintaining its full expressive power. We formally prove several properties of these models and show the correspondences with the tree. Furthermore, we define four distance measures for the the NS-M and the INS-M and we prove them to be metric spaces.
The NESTOR Model is presented from a formal point-of-view and then envisioned in a practical application context defined by the NESTOR Prototype. In order to describe the prototype we rely on the archive use case, and propose an application for modeling, representing, managing and sharing of archival resources. The expressive power of the archive modeled by means of a tree and the set data models are compared. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of our approach when data management and exchange in distributed environments have to be faced. We provide a concrete implementation of the described models in the context of the informative system called SIAR (Sistema Informativo Archivistico Regionale) that we designed and developed for the management of the archival resources of the Italian Veneto Region. Furthermore, we show how the NESTOR Framework can be used in conjunction with well-established and widely-used Digital Libraries technological advances.<br>Le strutture gerarchiche sono largamente utilizzate in informatica in quanto mezzi fondamentali per modellare molti aspetti della realtà e per rappresentare nonché gestire una grande varietà di dati e risorse digitali. Una delle strutture gerarchiche più rilevanti è l'albero, una struttura ampiamente studiata, analizzata e adottata in diversi contesti scientifici.
Questo lavoro tiene in grande considerazione il ruolo e l'impatto della struttura ad albero in informatica e ne studia le applicazioni a partire dalla seguente domanda: "La struttura ad albero è sempre il modo più vantaggioso per modellare, rappresentare e gestire le gerarchie?" A tal proposito ci si propone di analizzare la natura e l'uso delle strutture gerarchiche e di determinare il modo più adeguato per impiegarle nei diversi contesti considerati. Il lavoro si focalizza principalmente sul campo scientifico delle biblioteche digitali, ossia su quei sistemi composti e complessi che gestiscono risorse digitali culturali, provenienti da organizzazioni differenti quali biblioteche, archivi e musei e che definiscono servizi avanzati su tali risorse.
In particolare, il caso d'uso principale su cui è basato questo lavoro è la modellazione, la rappresentazione, la gestione e la condivisione delle risorse di tipo archivistico in ambiente distribuito. Si considera quindi la struttura gerarchica degli archivi tenendo presente le soluzioni per modellare, rappresentare, gestire e condividere le risorse archivistiche allo stato dell'arte. Gli archivi sono solitamente modellati mediante una struttura ad albero; inoltre, lo standard di fatto per la codifica delle risorse culturali digitali descritte e rappresentate per mezzo di metadati è l'XML che supporta la rappresentazione ad albero.%; tale approccio tuttavia utilizza un modello per rappresentare le gerarchie spesso legato alla specifica tecnologia scelta per la sua istanziazione, ad esempio l'XML.
Nel contesto archivistico la struttura ad albero è comunemente istanziata mediante un unico file XML che, per come è definito e comunemente utilizzato, mischia elementi strutturali e di contenuto senza permettere una chiara distinzione tra di loro. Di fatto, non è facilmente definibile l'accesso e lo scambio di sottoinsiemi di dati e risorse senza costringere alla navigazione di tutta la gerarchia o senza perdere le significative relazioni gerarchiche tra le varie componenti.
Per affrontare i problemi esemplificati nel precedente scenario si propone il NEsted SeT for Object hieRarchies (NESTOR) Framework composto da due componenti principali: Il NESTOR Model e il NESTOR Prototype.
Il NESTOR Model è il nucleo del framework perché definisce i modelli ad insiemi su cui ogni componente del framework si basa. Il NESTOR Model definisce due modelli dati basati su insiemi annidati: il "Nested Set Model (NS-M)" e l' "Inverse Nested Set Model (INS-M)". Questi modelli sono definiti formalmente mostrando come sia possibile modellare e rappresentare gerarchie mediante collezioni di insiemi annidati. Si dimostra come questi modelli aggiungano alcune caratteristiche rispetto alla struttura ad albero, mantenendone il potere espressivo. Si dimostrano formalmente diverse proprietà dei modelli ad insiemi e si mostrano le corrispondenze con la struttura ad albero. Si definiscono inoltre quattro misure di distanza per il NS-M e l'INS-M dimostrando come questi possano essere definiti come spazi metrici.
Il NESTOR Model è presentato da un punto di vista formale e successivamente adottato in un concreto contesto applicativo definito dal NESTOR Prototype. Per descrivere il NESTOR Prototype ci si basa sul caso d'uso degli archivi, proponendo un'applicazione per modellare, rappresentare, gestire e scambiare le risorse archivistiche. Il potere espressivo degli archivi modellati mediante l'albero e modellati mediante i modelli dati ad insiemi sono confrontati. Si analizzano i vantaggi e gli svantaggi dell'approccio presentato quando deve essere affrontata la gestione e lo scambio delle risorse in ambiente distribuito. Si fornisce un'implementazione concreta dei modelli descritti nel contesto del sistema informativo chiamato SIAR (Sistema Informativo Archivistico Regionale), progettato e sviluppato per la gestione delle risorse archivistiche della Regione del Veneto. Inoltre, si mostra come il NESTOR Framework possa essere usato congiuntamente alle tecnologie definite e ampiamente utilizzate nel contesto delle biblioteche digitali per superare i problemi evidenziati dalle soluzioni allo stato dell'arte.
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Venegas-Palomino, Solhange. "Albergue para niñas, niños y adolescentes en estado de abandono y jardín de niños en Villa el Salvador. Un modelo de arquitectura a partir de una metodología alternativa de educación." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2017. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/ulima/4905.
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El proyecto arquitectónico a desarrollar será un albergue para niños, niñas y adolescentes, que se encuentren en estado de abandono o riesgo y cuyas edades fluctúen entre 03 y 17 años; así como, un jardín de niños diseñado a partir de una metodología alternativa de enseñanza. Y estará ubicado en el distrito de Villa el Salvador. Por último, el proyecto se complementará con áreas de recreación, áreas verdes y una biblioteca pública.<br>Tesis
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Filho, Claudio Marcondes de Castro. "O modelo europeu do Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la Investigación (CRAI) e as bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras: convergências e divergências." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27151/tde-06112008-152405/.
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A pesquisa enfoca as bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras, destacando a existência das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação nas bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras e espanholas; caracteriza as semelhanças e diferenças existentes entre as redes de bibliotecas dos dois países, analisa o modelo europeu dos Centros de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la Investigación - CRAI e apresenta um quadro comparativo, identificando a missão, os objetivos, as características e as metas do ensino superior no Brasil e na Espanha. A pesquisa também verifica a possibilidade de transposição do modelo CRAI para as bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras, mediante as Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação.<br>The research focuses on the Brazilian academic libraries, highlighting the existence of the Information and Communication Technologies in the academic libraries in Brazil and Spain; characterizes the similarities and differences between the networks of libraries of the two countries, analyzes the European model of the Learning and Research Resource Center - CRAI and presents a comparative table, identifying the mission, objectives, characteristics and goals of higher education in Brazil and Spain. The research also notes the possibility for implementation of the model CRAI for Brazilian academic libraries, through the Information and Communication Technologies.
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Grundmann, Ulrich, Ulrich Rohde, Siegfried Mittag, and Sören Kliem. "DYN3D version 3.2 - code for calculation of transients in light water reactors (LWR) with hexagonal or quadratic fuel elements - description of models and methods -." Forschungszentrum Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:d120-qucosa-28604.
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DYN3D is an best estimate advanced code for the three-dimensional simulation of steady-states and transients in light water reactor cores with quadratic and hexagonal fuel assemblies. Burnup and poison-dynamic calculations can be performed. For the investigation of wide range transients, DYN3D is coupled with system codes as ATHLET and RELAP5. The neutron kinetic model is based on the solution of the three-dimensional two-group neutron diffusion equation by nodal expansion methods. The thermal-hydraulics comprises a one- or two-phase coolant flow model on the basis of four differential balance equations for mass, energy and momentum of the two-phase mixture and the mass balance for the vapour phase. Various cross section libraries are linked with DYN3D. Systematic code validation is performed by FZR and independent organizations.
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Grundmann, Ulrich, Ulrich Rohde, Siegfried Mittag, and Sören Kliem. "DYN3D version 3.2 - code for calculation of transients in light water reactors (LWR) with hexagonal or quadratic fuel elements - description of models and methods -." Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, 2005. https://hzdr.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21687.
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DYN3D is an best estimate advanced code for the three-dimensional simulation of steady-states and transients in light water reactor cores with quadratic and hexagonal fuel assemblies. Burnup and poison-dynamic calculations can be performed. For the investigation of wide range transients, DYN3D is coupled with system codes as ATHLET and RELAP5. The neutron kinetic model is based on the solution of the three-dimensional two-group neutron diffusion equation by nodal expansion methods. The thermal-hydraulics comprises a one- or two-phase coolant flow model on the basis of four differential balance equations for mass, energy and momentum of the two-phase mixture and the mass balance for the vapour phase. Various cross section libraries are linked with DYN3D. Systematic code validation is performed by FZR and independent organizations.
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Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel. "Préstamo interbibliotecario e Internet: análisis de un modelo para bibliotecas universitarias españolas basado en agentes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/316774.
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Esta tesis doctoral parte de la hipótesis que el uso de agentes informáticos puede mejorar los procesos implicados en la gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas.
Los objetivos de esta tesis son por una parte analizar los procesos implicados en la gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario, comparando el modelo español con modelos internacionales, y por otra analizar la funcionalidad de los agentes de software en el ámbito de las bibliotecas, valorando su viabilidad, y aplicándolos a la gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario para constatar su utilidad.
Se plantean cinco preguntas de investigación ¿Las bibliotecas universitarias españolas han seguido los modelos internacionales en lo que se refiere a la automatización? , ¿Las características del préstamo interbibliotecario en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas se adaptan a las normativas internacionales?, ¿Se están usando agentes en los sistemas de automatización de bibliotecas universitarias?, ¿Pueden los agentes de software ser aplicados en la gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas?, ¿Resultan dichos agentes útiles y aplicables a un modelo de gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario descentralizado como el de las bibliotecas universitarias españolas?
Para contestar estas preguntas se aplican dos tipos de metodologías; por una parte una revisión bibliográfica y normativa y por otra una metodología experimental basada en la observación e introducción controlada de agentes informáticos en los procesos de gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario. Se utilizan agentes que permitan la verificación de los datos de las peticiones, tanto administrativos como bibliográficos, y agentes de búsqueda que completen las citas bibliográficas para minimizar los errores en la posterior localización. Se diseñan también agentes que permiten la sincronización del estado de las peticiones entre distintos sistemas de gestión de préstamo interbibliotecario, como es el caso del sistema GTBib presente en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas con el sistema WorldShare de la red americana OCLC.
Como resultados de la revisión bibliográfica y normativa podemos constatar la idiosincrasia del modelo de préstamo interbibliotecario de las universidades españolas respecto a otros países como Estados Unidos o Inglaterra. Mientras que en España predomina un modelo de automatización uniforme y descentralizado en el que cada biblioteca universitaria dispone de su propio programa de gestión, siendo éste GTbib en un 95% de ellas, en otros países predominan modelos centralizados asociados a un catálogo colectivo como es el caso de OCLC o a una gran biblioteca de préstamo como es el caso de la British Library inglesa.
Como resultado de aplicar agentes en la gestión del préstamo interbibliotecario queda constatada su utilidad al suponer una reducción del tiempo de procesos, una mejora en los mismos y en definitiva un incremento en la satisfacción del usuario del sistema; tanto de los gestores de la aplicación como de los usuarios finales, profesores, investigadores o estudiantes.<br>ABSTRACT: The hypothesis in this thesis is that the use of software agents can improve the processes involved in the management of interlibrary loan (ILL) in Spanish university libraries.
The thesis have two main objectives: first, to analyze the processes involved in the management of ILL, comparing the Spanish model with international standards; second, to analyze the functionality of software agents in the field of libraries, assessing their feasibility and performance in the management of ILL, in order to ascertain its usefulness.
To achieve these objectives, two types of methodologies are applied: on the one hand a review of current literature and standards, and on the other an experimental methodology based on observation of the performance of computer agents in the management of ILL transactions. The use of three types of agents have been studied: agents that enable verification of administrative and bibliographic data of the requests, search agents who complete bibliographic references to minimize errors in the subsequent localization, and agents for synchronization status of requests from different ILL management systems. The tests for this compatibility have been tested among Spanish university libraries using GTBib ILL system and OCLC WorldShare integrated LMS.
As results of the literature and standards review we have profiled the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the Spanish universities ILL model, in comparison to other countries like the US or UK. While in Spain a decentralized model prevails, in which each university library has its own management program (GTbib the prevalent one, with a 95% share), in other countries predominate centralized models, associated in most cases with a union catalog, as it is the case with OCLC in the US, or in other cases like UK where the model is based in a huge lending library and document supply center such as the British Library.
The results obtained after applying agents to ILL management systems have been very useful for some reasons: agents perform tasks efficiently and that improves the overall performance, with a reduced process time for the requests. That at the end gives to the user and the librarians a greater satisfaction and a timely control of the process.
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Botelho, Maria de Fátima Cleômenis. "Bibliotecas universitárias: mediação e acesso à informação para pessoas com deficiência." Instituto de Ciência da Informação, 2014. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/16709.
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Dissert_BotelhoMFC_v.final[27.10.14].pdf: 2268253 bytes, checksum: 105f00d70d5f7a2d0bd68242c03f5f74 (MD5)<br>Este trabalho focaliza o acesso à informação por pessoas com deficiência em bibliotecas universitárias, especificamente nas bibliotecas do Sistema Universitário de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal da Bahia (SIBI/UFBA), objetivando investigar o papel mediador exercido por essas bibliotecas e profissionais bibliotecários que nelas atuam. A pesquisa teve como pressuposto, a ausência significativa desses usuários nas bibliotecas e se deteve no atendimento praticado pelo Serviço de Referência (SR) de duas bibliotecas: a Biblioteca Universitária Reitor Macedo Costa (BRUMC) e a Biblioteca Universitária de Saúde (BUS). A fundamentação teórica partiu dos Disability Studies (Estudos sobre Deficiência), formulados por teóricos britânicos da década de 1960, cujos conceitos estruturaram os movimentos pelos direitos das pessoas com deficiência, intensificados mundialmente. Apresenta o Modelo Social da Deficiência, bem como os aspectos históricos relacionados à problemática da deficiência, abordando questões relativas ao preconceito, segregação e direitos humanos. Aborda também o conceito de mediação da informação, a importância do SR e sua prática relacionada às competências em informação, dos profissionais bibliotecários. Efetuou-se uma pesquisa exploratória, com intuito de conhecer a relação que a biblioteca universitária tem com seus usuários com deficiência, visando contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento desse atendimento. Utilizou-se a entrevista como instrumento de coleta de dados, tendo em vista não apenas o tamanho da amostra, como também às características subjetivas das questões formuladas, que revelaram o caráter essencialmente qualitativo da pesquisa. Os resultados foram obtidos mediante a análise das respostas de dois grupos de bibliotecários do SIBI/UFBA: o primeiro formado pelos bibliotecários gestores e o segundo pelos que atuam no SR. Esses resultados comprovaram os pressupostos iniciais da pesquisa, constatando a ausência de usuários com deficiência nas bibliotecas e também a inexistência de políticas institucionais direcionadas ao atendimento dessas pessoas nas bibliotecas do SIBI/UFBA. Os resultados apontam também para a necessidade de uma discussão mais aprofundada sobre a deficiência e sobre a mediação direcionada a esse público. Sugere-se que mudanças na formação dos profissionais bibliotecários são necessárias, além da elaboração de políticas e ações, por parte do SIBI/UFBA, que permitam maior aproximação como esse público específico.<br>This study focuses on access to information by people with disabilities in university libraries, specifically in the library system of the Federal University of Bahia (SIBI/UFBA). The objective is to investigate the mediating role performed by these libraries and professional librarians who work in them. The research was based on the significant absence of these users in libraries and has been engaged in the observation of the service given by Service Reference (SR) of two libraries: Reitor Macedo Costa University Library and University Library of Health. The theoretical foundation came from Disability Studies, formulated by British theorists of the 1960s, whose concepts have structured the movement for the rights of people with disabilities, intensified worldwide. Displays the Social Model of Disability, as well as the historical aspects related to the disability, addressing issues of preconception, segregation and human rights. Also addresses the concept of mediation of information, the importance of the SR and practice related to information literacy, of librarians. We conducted a exploratory research, in order to know the relationship that the university library has with its users with disabilities to contribute to the improvement of this service. We used the interview as an instrument of data collection, considering not only the sample size, but also the subjective characteristics of the questions, which show the essentially qualitative nature of the research. Results were obtained by analyzing the responses of two groups of librarians SIBI/UFBA: the first formed by the managers and the second by librarians who work in SR. These results confirmed the initial assumptions of the research, noting the absence of users with disabilities in libraries and also the lack of institutional policies focused on serving these people in the SIBI/UFBA libraries. The results also point to the need for further discussion on disability and on mediation aimed at these users. It is suggested that changes in the education of librarians are needed, in addition to the development of policies and actions by the SIBI / UFBA, enabling closer approach to that specific public.
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Pacheco, Urubatan Rocha. "Análise de redes sociais em dados bibliográficos." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275784.
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Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: O foco deste trabalho é viabilizar a análise estrutural em redes sociais de colaboração científica a partir de bases de dados bibliográficos. Os dados bibliográficos são utilizados para obter redes sociais de afiliação dos autores a instituições de pesquisa científica, e das publicações são extraídas as suas relações com ontologias de áreas de pesquisa. Foram estudados e aplicados métodos que utilizam a análise das redes sociais para solução/redução de ambiguidades em identidades de nomes de pesquisadores, instituições, e veículos científicos. Outro assunto estudado foi a abordagem de medida da qualidade dos resultados e os problemas que afetam a sua qualidade. Concretizando o objetivo deste trabalho, foram construídas métricas e ferramentas que permitem a comparação da produção científica entre instituições, departamentos, áreas de pesquisa, países, etc. As ferramentas também produziram um ranking de universidades baseado no prestígio dos pesquisadores destas universidades na rede social de co-autoria. Este resultado permitiu demonstrar que a informação estrutural de prestígio foi devidamente capturada ao correlacionar este ranking com outros que avaliam a qualidade da produção científica das universidades utilizando critérios semelhantes.<br>Abstract: This work performs social network analysis of the scientific collaborations extracted from bibliographic data bases. The analysis also includes the authors' scientific institution afiliation, and its relation with the main scientific publications and with research subject ontologies. We studied and applied methods that use social network analysis to solve or mitigate the problem of ambiguity in researchers' identities. We also applied the methods for ambiguity resolution for names of institutions, scientific meeting venues, country/state names, etc. Another study subject was measuring the quality of the results. Finally we developed metrics and implemented tools that allow the comparison of the scientific production of institutions, researcher groups, research subjects fields, countries, etc. The tools also produced a ranking of universities based on the prestige of these universities researchers at the co-authorship social network. These results demonstrated that prestige structural information was properly captured showing its correlation with other works that assess the quality of scientific production of universities using similar criteria.<br>Mestrado<br>Metodologia e Tecnicas da Computação<br>Mestre em Ciência da Computação
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Колесникова, Тетяна Олександрівна, Татьяна Александровна Колесникова, Tatyana A. Kolesnikova та Tetyana O. Kolesnykova. "Комунікаційні моделі діяльності бібліотек ВНЗ в умовах інформатизації". Thesis, Харківська державна академія культури, 2012. http://eadnurt.diit.edu.ua:82/jspui/handle/123456789/1849.
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Колесникова, Т. О. Комунікаційні моделі діяльності бібліотек ВНЗ в умовах інформатизації: авт. дис. к. с. к.: 27.00.03 / Т. О. Колесникова ; Харківська держ. акад. культури. - Х.: 2012. - 22 с. ГРНТИ 04 УДК 316.77 + 027.7 : 004<br>UK: АНОТАЦІЯ Дисертація присвячена визначенню тенденцій розвитку комунікаційних моделей діяльності бібліотек ВНЗ України під впливом інформатизації. Охарактеризовано умови формування нових моделей комунікаційної діяльності бібліотек, особливістю яких є можливість поєднання лінійного та нелінійного подання інформації. Досліджено, що в процесі еволюції на основі новітніх технологічних рішень лінійна (документально-комунікаційний рівень) комунікаційна модель діяльності бібліотеки змінюється на інтеракційну (інформаційно-комунікаційний рівень), а надалі — на інтеграційну (когнітивно-комунікаційний рівень).
Доведено, що застосування комунікаційних моделей діяльності, які мають нелінійний характер, збільшує можливість якісних змін у разі неперервних змін параметрів діяльності бібліотек ВНЗ та інформаційного простору освіти і науки. Розглянуто стан та уточнено періодизацію інформатизації в бібліотеках ВНЗ України; обґрунтовано відповідність застосування визначеної комунікаційної моделі діяльності бібліотеки в різні періоди їх інформатизації.<br>RU: АННОТАЦИЯ
Диссертация посвящена установлению тенденций развития коммуникационных моделей деятельности библиотек вузов под влиянием информатизации. Характеризуются условия формирования новых моделей коммуникационной деятельности библиотек, особенностью которых является возможность объединения линейной и нелинейной подачи информации.
Исследовано, что в процессе эволюции на основе новейших технологических решений линейная (документально-коммуникационный уровень) коммуникационная модель деятельности библиотеки вуза изменяется на интеракционную (информационно-коммуникационный уровень). Эта модель может быть охарактеризована как локальная, «замкнутая» (в пределах отдельного вуза) модель коммуникации с обратной связью. Перемещение взаимодействия пользователей и библиотеки в пространство виртуальных коммуникаций, создание необходимых условий для усиления интеграционных процессов и интеллектуализации деятельности приводят к постепенному изменению интеракционной коммуникационной модели деятельности библиотеки вуза на интеграционную (когнитивно-коммуникационный уровень). Данная модель характеризуется полной интегрированностью в информационно-коммуникационную структуру учебного заведения и всей системы образования и науки. Доказано, что применение коммуникационных моделей деятельности, имеющих нелинейный характер, увеличивает возможность качественных изменений при непрерывной смене параметров функционирования библиотек вузов и информационного пространства образования.
Уточнено, что состояние информатизации в библиотеках вузов Украины разделяется на периоды и этапы: 1 — начальный период (этап модернизации); 2 – переходный период (этап инноваций); 3 — период медиатизации (этап трансформации). Обосновано применение определенной коммуникационной модели деятельности библиотеки вуза в разные периоды её информатизации. Обосновано, что библиотеки вузов Украины находятся на разных стадиях информатизации, изменившей их внутреннее состояние и связи с окружающей средой. Большая часть библиотек находится на этапе инноваций, характеризуется интеракционной коммуникационной моделью деятельности. В то же время существует ряд библиотек, уже сегодня демонстрирующих готовность к началу реализации задач этапа трансформаций и переходу к интеграционной коммуникационной модели.
Выявлена причинно-следственная связь информатизации и форм организации библиотечной деятельности. Современная библиотека вуза Украины имеет признаки информационного центра, основой деятельности которого является совмещение линейных и нелинейных моделей коммуникации. В то же время медиатизация как высшая форма развития библиотечной информатизации предполагает переход к медиатеке как полному циклу автоматизированного производства и сервиса, полностью интегрированного в информационную структуру вуза и всей системы образования.
Обнаруженные системно-интеграционные связи, которые обуславливаются коммуникационным единством библиотек вузов, а также их функциональной зависимостью от других агентов информационно-коммуникационного пространства, позволили применить кластерную теорию в качестве аналитического аппарата для выбора коммуникационных моделей.
Определено, что переход от интеракционной к интеграционной коммуникационной модели возможен при условии реализации стратегических направлений: 1 — «Внутренняя самореализация и саморазвитие библиотеки»; 2 — «Интеграционная стратегия»; 3 — «Инновационное управление»; 4 — «Мониторинг изменений»; 5 — «Создание имиджа библиотеки». Их реализация предусматривает выполнение комплекса задач: от модернизации системы управления библиотекой и построения библиотечного портала до развития адвокационной деятельности, краудсорсинга и формирования системы критериального измерения результатов внедрения новой коммуникационной модели.<br>EN: ABSTRACT The thesis deals with the establishment of progress tendencies of communicative models of higher educational institution libraries’ activity under the influence of informatization. Conditions of forming of new models in libraries’ communicative activity are characterized. The peculiarities of such models consist in possibility of unification of linear and unlinear presenting of information. It is investigated in the process of evolution the linear (documentary and communication level) communication model of higher educational institution libraries’ activity changes to interactive (information and communication level), and further – to integral (cognitive and communicative level).
It is proved that the use of unlinear communication models increases the possibility of qualitative changes in the continuous changes of the parameters of the higher educational institution libraries’ activity and information space of education and science. The state is considered and periods of university libraries informatization in Ukraine are specified. The reasonable application of the communication model of a particular library activity in different periods of their informatization is proved.<br>Харківська державна академія культури
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Lin, Ching-Hu, and 林慶弧. "A Study of the Development of Libraries in Modern Taiwan,1895-1981: Focusing on Public Libraries." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77608648019198481601.
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博士<br>中興大學<br>歷史學系所<br>103<br>Libraries are the product of civilization from thousands of years ago. They play different roles in different ages, however, the main function which is ordering knowledge and information and inheriting cultures has been the same. Besides, libraries are the symbol of cultural business. The way it goes up or down reflects political, economic and socially classical situation of a nation. Libraries are the very important index to evaluate a civilized nation. This article is about a historical research of library development in modern Taiwan. I put Taiwanese library business as a sequence of Taiwanese historical development, and make the business as an individual subject to be analyzed. It is found that how libraries developed relates to the political, social, economic, and cultural situation of a nation. The whole environment influences even more on the operational ideas, administrational system, and concreted execution of developing libraries.
When the time Taiwan was governed under Ching Dynasty, we knew that there were no library conceptions and facilities in the Han society like those in the western society based on the understanding of officially compiled annals of local history. Only the book collections from Confucianism or an academy of classical learning regarded as sort of libraries. In the modern times of Taiwan, library development started from Japanese ruled period. At the first beginning of the period, the civil proposed to establish libraries. It was the origin of Taiwanese library business. The main idea of the library in this time was to transform social traditions. The purpose of running library was to promote local education and to inspire folks’ intelligence. Later of the time, the authority set up “Library of Taiwanese Presidential Palace”. It was the only one library governed directly under Presidential Palace. It was filled with sufficient resources in human, finance, and collections, and became the most well established library gradually. It also held an important position of counselling libraries all around Taiwan. It could be called the center of Taiwanese libraries. It was thought that libraries were an effective social educational tool in the post Japanese ruled period. The background of the purpose by building libraries’ facilities as social education was to colonize the society and to use libraries as cultural political tool of Japanese Imperialism
The first beginning of postwar, Taiwan was situated under the policies of “de-Japanimation” and “in-Sinicization”, there were problems for re-establishing libraries like budget–short, librarian-supply, and organization-subordination. It went through comprehensive consideration and scheme, but only focused on receiving buildings and destroying Japanese collections. There were no practical steps or programs for follow-up administration. This caused potential hard breaking through difficulties and crisis by running Taiwanese libraries after. The library development of the time was the worst and no contribution. After Korean War, the dispirited library business was at the stage of transform and key development for American support. It gained a great deal of financial support and American advisors. The most important key point was to help holding library workshop and to develop professional education of library. The last was the long-term influence to Taiwanese library business. What had done during the time American support was to store energy to Taiwanese library growing for next step. It was the first stage work of post cultural establishments and made stable foundations. It could be the biggest transition and change in history of Taiwanese library business.
With establishing Chinese library associate, re-opening National Central Library in Taiwan, and reviving movements of Chinese culture, the cultural administration of Taiwan at this time frame was basically going with government’s policies which were counterattacking and reviving Chinese culture. The cultural development was deeply controlled and influenced by the government. In 1970’s, when the time Chiang, Ching-Kuo was the premier, he completed the ten major construction projects and kept promoting the twelve major construction projects. The twelfth project was cultural establishments and focused on libraries. Cultural centers were built in every county and city. The core of cultural establishments was building libraries expanding in hardware and software from the central government to the local governments. This was regarded as a new milestone of Taiwanese library business. After, building libraries developed further to the basic level, to further away, and to village and town levels which needed libraries. It presented the prosperity of Taiwanese library business and a new expecting opportunity.
Running library business is not a temporary hard construction; it is a long-term and sustainable investment, a continually long-range cultural business. Finally, this research addresses that it needs to be in accord with every subjective and objective situation to develop Taiwanese library business sustainably. For outside objective situations, the government has to make mature policies of developing libraries and to provide stable and sufficient budget-support. General people like to use the information from libraries for the atmosphere of libraries made by the whole social environment. For the subjective situations, libraries become important institution with feature collections to provide all service and professional information as core value through professional librarians’ good attitudes and in proper buildings for running libraries sustainably to upgrade culture and to promote social education.
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Nelles, Paul Neave. "The public library and late humanist scholarship in early modern Europe antiquarianism and encyclopaedism /." 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=vczgAAAAMAAJ.
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Wang, Kuo-Hsiung, and 王國雄. "Function of the modern library development of study Transfer：A case of zhunan Miaoli city libraries." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a2rqnn.
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碩士<br>玄奘大學<br>大眾傳播研究所<br>102<br>In order to stimulate development of modern information technology advances, people learn new information becomes pipes immediate and great, especially the growth in terms of Internet and electronic information and updates more quickly. Early people probably to provide newspapers and magazines and borrow books service, but benefited from the image library for upgrading technology, library functions also changed towards more diverse resources services to meet the needs of the people in this study explore the evolution of Chunan town library functions in a systematic and objective manner Analysis Chunan town library users fit the use of space and comfort, space utilization and the future of libraries as an important reference for the transformation, further research hinder appropriate transformation.
And they worshiped has advanced to the gift, have encountered many Knowledge obtained through Internet search, indeed seen the world without leaving your thing, many of the larger-scale library gradually established book function, yet Chunan Town Library have this feature, I worked in the library during, felt many students and scholars to study data are nil Chunan old town, past the town of Chunan develop data collection, including all Chunan town Records, town Journal, newspaper clippings ... etc, posted on the professional scan specific network for people to search, in order to achieve the purpose of effective use of information.
This study used questionnaires, subjects were to have ever used any resource Library Readers Chunan town, and several depth interviews with senior currently employed or worked in library-related workers, in order to discuss Chunan Town Library Evolution and the need to strengthen the function of improvement, the survey results using SPSS statistical software to descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, statistical analysis. Compile the results of the questionnaire and in-depth interviews with content analysis conclusions are summarized as follows:
1. Town Library Space Planning partially satisfy the reader to use, there are unused space can do more efficiently and in line with user needs improvement.
2. Chunan town cultural activities organized by the multi-Chunan Town Library, increasing the pipeline to convey information, the townspeople of all ages to enhance the use and participation rates.
3. Literature digitization has become popular, many of the old town Jhunan literature and Chunan Town Library precious collection literature, to digitize, allowing users to more easily achieved.
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Tang, Jinhong, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Educational reform and the emergence of modern libraries in China with special reference to the Metropolitan Library of Beijing, 1909-1937." 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/23658.
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This thesis examines the rise of modern Chinese libraries between the1840s and the 1930s in the context of educational reform, intellectual development, national regeneration and state building. It focuses on how educational reform and other factors influenced the way in which modern libraries came into being in China. It argues that the establishment of modern libraries in China was a complicated and long process, as China followed neither the “industrialisation and democracy” model of the United States nor the “modernisation” model of Meiji Japan. Modern libraries were introduced into China in the closing years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) to facilitate educational reform and national regeneration. The Nationalist government, established in 1928, further stimulated the expansion of Chinese libraries as part of the government’s state building efforts. This thesis examines the Chinese case in the emergence of modern libraries: the case of “underdevelopment” with distinctive Chinese characteristics. To explore the factors that contributed to the underdevelopment of modern Chinese libraries as they emerged, this thesis employs a case study of the Metropolitan Library of Beijing—the predecessor of the National Library of China—between 1909 and 1937 in terms of its formation, early development, and problems. This analysis reveals that both the macro and micro factors conducive to library development were not present in China before the 1920s. Even when the conditions improved during the 1920s and the 1930s, especially during the Nanjing Decade, the development of modern Chinese libraries was far from satisfactory for various reasons, with low library consciousness being an important one. The Conclusion of this thesis outlines the continuing impediment of low library consciousness in China today.<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Šípek, Richard. "Javorská zámecká knihovna Otty ml. z Nostitz." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-322549.
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CASTLE LIBRARY OF OTTO JR. OF NOSTITZ IN JAWOR The library of Otto Jr. of Nostitz was founded in the beginning of the 1650's in the Lower Silesian castle Jawor. It consists approximately of 5 000 volumes and its structure as well as its history makes it unique and elevates the Jawor library among the most interesting book collections of early modern Europe. Shortly after death of its founder, the library was bought by Otto's brother Johann Hartwig of Nostitz and moved to the newly built palace in Malá Strana in Prague where it laid the foundations of the new family library of the house of Nostitz. The library is placed in two rooms on the second floor till today. The thesis tries to introduce the personality of the founder of the Jawor library Otto Jr. of Nostitz, his tastes in the book purchase as well as the topical structure of his book collection and its future fates. Notwithstanding, the main point of the doctor thesis is to present the issues of the thorough provenance research of the oldest part of the library. The terminus ante quem for the year of edition of the books relevant for the provenance research marks out the death of Otto Jr. in the year 1665. The most recent and complete catalogue of the Nostitz library in the present use dates back to the 19th century and shows remarkable leaks and...
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"Academic Libraries as Feminine and Feminist Models of Organization." East Tennessee State University, 2008. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0328108-090530/.
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Knudsen, Cindy. "Simulation and queuing models for resoource allocation in the UBC Libraries." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16524.
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This thesis describes two projects completed at the Centre for Operations Excellence (COE) for Darrell Bailie Manager, Finance and Facilities, and Dwight Tanner, Administrator, Special Projects of UBC Libraries. The cost of maintaining a sizable collection of reference material facilitates the need for UBC Library branches to be more cost effective. This thesis studies two services the library offers with this goal in mind. The first study considers the photocopier service available at Koerner Library. There are copy rooms on four floors of the library with different levels of demand. Furthermore, the peak demand for the photocopiers occurs for only a short period. Queueing theory and simulation are used to model the system to determine the optimal number of photocopiers needed in each copy room to meet the peak demand, while still maintaining an acceptable service level. This thesis shows a reduction in photocopiers is feasible for Koerner Library and offers two types of charts to use when making decisions on size and allocation of the photocopier fleet. The first chart quantifies changes in the mean time in the system (i.e. the mean waiting time and service time), the mean time in the queue, the mean queue length, and the utilization of the photocopiers when the number of photocopiers on a floor is decreased or increased from the current number of photocopiers. The second chart indicates how many photocopiers are needed to meet a certain level of customer service, for each Copy room. The second study considers the services offered at circulation desks in Koerner Library, Woodward Biomedical Library, and David Lam Library and the self-charge machines at Koerner Library. The demand for their circulation desks is variable not only throughout the day, but also throughout the week and the year. Demand is assessed and grouped into similar periods. Queueing theory is used to determine a staffing schedule to satisfy the demand for each of these periods, while still maintaining an acceptable service level. With the selfcharge machine, a patron can check out his/her own material, thereby circumventing the circulation desk. This thesis shows the reliability of the machines is very limited and a large number of patrons will have to continue their transactions at the circulation desk.<br>Business, Sauder School of<br>Operations and Logistics (OPLOG), Division of<br>Graduate
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Fisher, Edith Maureen. "Modern racism in academic librarianship towards Black Americans a California study /." 1991. http://books.google.com/books?id=sLHgAAAAMAAJ.
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Tsai, Chia-jung, and 蔡佳容. "The Study of BOT models on Libraries — Cases on Government Spare-Space Reuse." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71238874622960738022.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>資訊與圖書館學系<br>92<br>The prevalence of the human race is contributed by the accumulation of our knowledge and experience and public libraries have played a central role in providing these services. Recent development of information and communication technologies also declares a new era for information services to the people’s life-long learning. However, as computer and networking technologies become popular and sources of information retrieval diversify, the public libraries in our country are unable to keep up with the trend due to the reductions of government funds. Suffered from global depression and reduction of government financing, the San Francisco Public Library has an alternative solution to raise funds more aggressively from private sectors to support its operations and new services. This study proposes the idea for public libraries to be operated on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) manner which may provide a way for effective use of available resources from the government and private sectors.
In addition, spare-space reuse has recently became a field of intensive research after successfully renovation of the Art Site of Chia-Yih Railroad Warehouse and the Hwa-Shan Special District for Art and Culture. Spare-space reuse not only saves government funding by avoiding reconstruction, it also re-vitalizes the function of existing buildings and spaces. Thus, spare-space reuse is one of the mainstream administrative policies for the Council for Cultural Affairs of current administration. The Council for Cultural Affairs has budgeted over one hundred million in the 2001 fiscal year for spare-space reuse and local governments also propose many spare-space reuse plans. Spare-space reuse is now not only a new direction in cultural event plans, it also represents the growth of Taiwanese cultural development and a new possibility for Taiwanese cultural environment.
This study explores current status of both domestic and foreign spare-space reuse projects and applications of BOT operations in spare-space reuse projects. These information are compiled into a new model of BOT operations that may be applicable for public library projects in the future.
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Chung-chin, Lai, and 賴忠勤. "A Study of the Automation Intersystem Integrated Models for Public Libraries in Taiwan Area." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23786248875936199720.
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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>圖書資訊研究所<br>91<br>The main connective model of the public libraries automation system in Taiwan area is an integrated model connected between the municipal and county cultural bureaus (cultural centers) and rural libraries with one mutually automated system. Since its setup in 1996, the model has provided library patrons of all cities and counties with services of the union bibliographic database and one library card to be used at all libraries. Some counties and cities have also prepared to advance the interlibrary loan service and utilize the functions of the common library automation system. The motive of the study is to find out the integration of the public library automation in every county and city, to the provision of the intersystem information exchange, the promotion of the public library cooperation, and the expansion of the cross utilization of collections resources of public libraries all over Taiwan when the public library automation system has been completed in every county and city.
The purposes of the study are: to investigate and find out the state of art of the operation of library automation systems of public libraries in Taiwan area and the interlibrary exchange problems, to collect and generalize functions, structures and related standards of interlibrary processes of the library automation system, and to analyze advantages and shortcomings and feasible methods of each intersystem integrated model, so as to work out a union model of public libraries integrated automation system in Taiwan area for reference by public libraries, government institutions and factories in their decision making and system development. Forthermore, the study tries to make an outline of the future development trends of the library automation system and offer some proposals on the basis of other information related technology and conceptions.
The document analysis, questionnaires, information system analysis and other approaches are used for the research. The questionnaires are collected mainly from the library system management staffs or chiefs including national libraries and municipal and county public libraries. In addition, similar questions are also asked to system librarians, information system factories and college system librarians in order to make the data more accurate and objective.
The conclusions of this study suggest three intersystem integrated structures of the public library automation system: “one” system, one “central system” set up for connecting with other uniform systems, and one system to connecting non-uniform systems (with at least one of the connected libraries available with a “central system”). The applicable area range of the integration is preferably life circle area, and may be expanded to the whole Taiwan area in the future. As to functions of the integration system, in addition to promoting factories, developing the system on the basis of the relative standards, suggestions are made for applications of information technology in other domains and in compliance with patron-oriented needs. Public libraries can also consider information outsourcing and adopt ASP (Application Service Provider) mode for the library automation system, so as to help out the lack of information management professional staffs.
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Pitts, Judy M. "Personal understandings and mental models of information a qualitative study of factors associated with the information seeking and use of adolescence /." 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=srrgAAAAMAAJ.
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Huang, wen-yu, and 黃文玉. "A study on the operation models of the rurallibraries in Taiwan:based on the case of I-Lan county libraries." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95759280774541486938.
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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>圖書資訊研究所<br>92<br>There’s no doubt that Taiwan public libraries’ future prosperity will depend heavily on rural libraries management. As we stride into the 21st century, it is important to have public libraries fit modern and technical trends while rural libraries play a very important role in this issue. The result of this study provides the relate master unit, library management team and those who intend to devote themselves in rural library services with the reference of amending related regulations to enhance effectiveness of library operation and to improve rural library services.
The methods of this study include questionnaire survey and interview. Questionnaire survey covers twelve rural libraries of I-Lan County, supported with libraries’ human resources to show the operation situation of each rural library. Interviews were made with one government officer from the Bureau of Cultural Affairs, twelve rural librarians and two rural government mayors.
The result of this study indicates that libraries in the I-Lan County are basically running smoothly but still need improvement for the following: 1) to strengthen the training program for librarians and to attractive the participation of specialists. 2) due to shortage of financial resources and budget limitation, it is encouraged that well manage culture resources and donation from society. 3) update the collection quality and quantity. 4)to unify the system of inter-library loan service procedure and to simplify the inter institutional transmission in order to meet reader’s satisfaction. 5)completing the network for rural libraries in order to meet the goal for the community learning center.
This study suggested the realization promotes the public library management into execution, effectively expands the rural libraries fund to originated, strengthens the inter institutional exchange program, the enrichment specialized manpower, initiative handles the motion library and circulating library also the revision correlation law to increase the effectiveness of operations and development for rural libraries.
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Main, Linda Young. "Computer simulation modeling and circulation an exploration of some of the factors that inhibit the adoption of computer simulation models in libraries /." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26457261.html.
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