Departmental Libraries in Divisional Plan University Libraries

University Libraries

Libraries are a critical component in the functioning of a University. With students, faculty, and staff using the libraries, it has both direct and indirect impacts on the lives of thousands of people. The libraries, just by its core function, have been contributing to intellectual sustainability – a “connecting thread” for the sustenance of life. It is essential for the libraries to become su...

Drexel University Libraries

We are investigating the nature of knowledge building in virtual communities. In particular, we are exploring the possibility that a small group of students collaborating online on math problems can construct shared group knowledge that exceeds the knowledge of the individual group members. That is, can people working and learning as a community accomplish tasks that none of them would have bee...

Lighting intensity in university libraries of Rafsanjan, Iran, in 2014

Background: Lighting is a basic need for human beings and affects their physical, physiological, and psychological behavior. The required level of lighting for visual performance must be provided in order to ensure health and wellbeing. Students spend much of their time studying in libraries, and thus, sufficient lighting is necessary in libraries. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to...

Budgeting for a Main Library and Several Departmental Libraries

Towards the Automatic Acquisition of Plan Libraries

While most plan recognition systems make use of a plan library containing the set of available plan hypotheses , little eeort has been devoted to the question of how to create such a library. This problem is particularly diicult to deal with when only little domain knowledge is available|a common situation when e.g. developing a help system for an already existing software system. This paper de...