Serials Management in the Next-Generation Library Environment

Next-Generation Library information service - 'Smart Library'

For a library to be able provide information services and fulfill its function as a knowledge convergence center capable of responding to various information demands, the development of next-generation information systems based on the latest information and communication technology is needed. The development of mobile information services using portable devices such smart phones and tablet PCs ...

Next Generation Library: Automatic book management system with ubiquitous sensors

Ubiquitous environment is supposed to show various automation system according to increase in miscellaneous sensors. For example, when a user puts a book out from bookshelf in a library, the user wants the ubiquitous environment to proceed with checkout automatically. Also, a user can return a book by adverse action in such a Next Generation Library[1]. Furthermore, the librarians can devote th...

The HST/STIS Next Generation Spectral Library

During Cycles 10, 12, and 13, we obtained STIS G230LB, G430L, and G750L spectra of 378 bright stars covering a wide range in abundance, effective temperature, and luminosity. This HST/STIS Next Generation Spectral Library was scheduled to reach its goal of 600 targets by the end of Cycle 13 when STIS came to an untimely end. Even at 2/3 complete, the library significantly improves the sampling ...

Implementing a Next Generation Library System

Next generation knowledge management

Despite its explosive growth over the last decade, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. The next generation of the Web, dubbed the ‘Semantic Web’, will extend the Web’s capability through the increased availability machine-processable information. These machine-processable descriptions of Web information resources are called meta-data and are associated with...