Story Telling—A Public Library Method

A Public Digital Library based

The NZDL aims to impose structure on anarchic and uncataloged repositories of information, providing information consumers with effective tools to locate and peruse what they need. Our goal is to produce an easy-to-use digital library system that runs on inexpensive computers at information providers’ own sites and offers an information service that information providers themselves maintain. Ne...

Z Technical Library the Story of Nonwsecret Encryption

1. Public-key cryptography (PKC) has been the subject of much discussion in the open literature since Diffie and Hellman suggested the possibility in their paper of Apri11976 (reference 1). It has captured public imagination, and has been anaIysed and developed for practical use. Over the past decade there has been considerable academic activity in this field with many different schemes being p...

Public library use of free e-resources

User perceptions of online public library catalogues

Online Public Library Catalogues (OPACs) are widely used electronic library catalogues giving a wealth of remote access to library information resources. Users should be involved early in the OPAC development cycle process in order to ensure a usable and functional interface, as the integration of user-defined requirements of OPACs, along with the other Human-Computer Interaction considerations...

Twitter Content Categorisation: A Public Library Perspective

With the rise of social media, many library and information services have begun to incorporate a wide variety of social media and social networking applications into their systems and services. Among the mainstream social networking applications, micro-blogging, in general, and Twitter, in particular, have gained increasing popularity. This paper reports the results of an exploratory study of t...