LIBRARY BOOK-STACKS WITHOUT DAYLIGHT

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...

Book Detection and Grasping in Library Scenario

Total or shared autonomous behavior is still an open challenge for service robots. An example of such system is FRIEND (Functional robot arm with user-friendly interface for Disabled people) (Figure 1). In the project ReIntegraRob care robot FRIEND will carry out all necessary manipulations for a completely paralyzed person who with support of FRIEND will be able to work in library. The task of...

Classics in the Million Book Library

Auditing an Academic Library Book Collection

Towards Multi-granularity Multi-facet E-Book Retrieval in China-US Million Book Digital Library

There are more than one million digitalized books (i.e. e-books) so far in China-US Million Book Digital Library Project (MBP for short). It is thus important to design effective and powerful tools that enable users to easily search the required information and appropriately access knowledge in the digital library. Towards this end, currently most digital libraries simply use the traditional me...