Bringing Visual Anthropology to the Academic Library

Comparative Study of Visual structure, “bringing the head of Iraj to Fereydoun "in the Safavi schools"

Basic features of Iranian painting in the centuries after the establishment of Islam are in relations with Persian literature. Painting depicts various literary themes by showing persons and scenes of stories, it also depicts the poetchr('39')s or writerchr('39')s words in drawing and color. Persian literature paintings, and especially Ferdowsichr('39')s Shahnameh stories are one of the most im...

Hockings: Principles of Visual Anthropology

VISCO: Bringing Visual Spatial Querying to Reality

This paper reports on the evolution of the spatial (sketchbased) query language VISCO and its implementation. The first design of VISCO’s query language was presented at VL ’97. The language is based on a strong naive physics metaphor for query objects (e.g. marbles, nails, rubberbands). We shortly review the prominent aspects of the revised version of VISCO’s query language. The main focus of ...

Evolving academic library specialties

Quality assessment of academic library performance: the case of an Iranian academic library

The present research aims to assess the performance of libraries at the Islamic Azad University, Sciences and Research Branch (IAUSRB) through gap analysis. To do this, a researcher-developed questionnaire which is based on available standards and quality assessment tools including ACRL standards, LibQUAL and ISO 11620, and some criteria included in the related literature was designed and distr...