For Medical Literature Expertise, Ask a Librarian

Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions

This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 factual and 100 topical questions were picked from a digital reference service run by public libraries. The queries inferred simulated average Web queries. The top 10 retrieval results were observed for the answer. The...

Need for a citation database of medical literature in Iran

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Librarian Stereotypes in Children’s Literature: 2001-2015

Ask a Librarian: The Role of Librarians in the Music Information Retrieval Community

Participation from music librarians has been sparse in the first six ISMIR conferences, despite many potential areas of common interest. This paper makes an argument for the benefit to both the library and Music IR communities of increased representation of librarians at ISMIR. An analysis of conference programs and primary publications of two music library organizations to determine topics fro...

Creativity, expertise and the questions people ask in engineering design

Finding a creative solution to a design problem (e.g. designing a device for taking water samples at different depths) often depends on finding a fruitful representation of the problem space. For instance, a problem space in which the device is assumed to be motor-driven might be less fruitful than one in which the mechanism for motion is not specified or could be one of several possibilities. ...