A NEW APPROACH TO LIBRARY CONCEPT: LIBRARY-ON-DUTY

Gamifying the library services: A new concept in interacting with users

Background and Aim: Gamification refers to the use of game elements in non-game contexts to motivate engagement. This definition is the most comprehensive one presented so far. The term was proposed first in 2002 but it has been prolonged 8 years to attract individuals’’ attention. Gamification has been applied in various contexts according to its capabilities. The current study aims to investi...

Classification of scientific publications according to library controlled vocabularies: A new concept matching-based approach

Browsing a Digital Library: A New Approach for the New Zealand Digital Library

Browsing is part of the information seeking process, used when information needs are ill-defined or unspecific. Browsing and searching are often interleaved during information seeking to accommodate changing awareness of information needs. Digital Libraries often support full-text search, but are not so helpful in supporting browsing. Described here is a novel browsing system created for the Gr...

Rethinking the architecture of public library spaces in order to redefine a new paradigm

Purpose: The present study aimed to briefly review the current status of the required spaces for the public libraries in the country and identify and redefine the architectural needs of these spaces to achieve a new pattern for contemporary libraries. Method: It is a qualitative research based on grounded theory. The data is collected using library and field methods, analytical analyses, and i...

A Data Mining Approach to New Library Book Recommendations

In this paper, we propose a data mining approach to recommending new library books that have never been rated or borrowed by users. In our problem context, users are characterized by their demographic attributes, and concept hierarchies can be defined for some of these demographic attributes. Books are assigned to the base categories of a taxonomy. Our goal is therefore to identify the type of ...