New Discovery Services and Library Bibliographic Control

Bibliographic control or chaos: an agenda for national bibliographic services in the 21st century

The great irony of our present situation is that we have reached near-perfection in bibliographic control of " traditional " library materials at the same time as the advent of electronic resources is seen by some as threatening the very existence of library services—including bibliographic control. Before considering the question of " cataloguing the Web and the Internet, " it is salutary to r...

New Technology of Library and Information Services

[Abstract] Majority of the available digital information are associated with some location or regions on the Earth. Traditional visual interfaces to digital libraries were not designed to deal with the unique geospatial characteristics of data, nor did they take full advantage of the georeferencing as a mechanism for browsing and retrieving information. This paper highlights the trends of visua...

A New Discovery about Inflow Control Devices in Controlling Water and Increasing Oil Recovery

Inflow control devices (ICD), which prevent water breakthrough by controlling the inflow profile of a well, have been used successfully in many oilfields. This paper will introduce a new discovery and an unsuccessful example. Moreover, this paper investigates meticulously and thoroughly to find the application conditions of the new discovery. Based on permeability rush coefficient and permeabil...

Gamifying the library services: A new concept in interacting with users

Background and Aim: Gamification refers to the use of game elements in non-game contexts to motivate engagement. This definition is the most comprehensive one presented so far. The term was proposed first in 2002 but it has been prolonged 8 years to attract individuals’’ attention. Gamification has been applied in various contexts according to its capabilities. The current study aims to investi...

THE BRADFORD OPAC A new concept in Bibliographic Control