Baker Library Develops Virtual Open House 2020

Virtual and Augmented Reality 2020

ith roots going back to Ivan Suther-land's research in the 1960s, virtual reality (VR) reached a plateau in the early 1990s when the promise was demonstrable in universities and research laboratories. Although we all knew we had a long way to go, hype overtook the field, leading to impossible expectations. Fortunately, a few years later the Internet became the latest hot topic, leaving VR resea...

Sics Open House 2014

Browsing the Virtual Library

8 This article is very much a manifesto for a new type 9 of on-line public access catalog (OPAC). On-line public 10 access catalogs have been around for many years and 11 have served libraries well; however, this article argues 12 that with the arrival of the ‘‘virtual library’’—remote, 13 dispersed information resources accessible primarily via 14 some form of telecommunications network—existi...

Virtual Digital Library

DIGMAP is a digital library specialized in searching and browsing services for old maps and related resources. The service reuses metadata from national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources, providing added value services by aggregating all the data in comprehensive collections, browsing indexes and search functions. The services are based in a set of specialized tools, com...

The Virtual Library

The key ideas embodied in the notion of the Virtual Library are that: the library contains many types of information in different forms, and particularly in forms other than paper; all this information must be accessible to users located not at the physical library but in their homes, schools, hospitals or clinics; this information travel quickly to the users who need it; and one must be able t...