The Arizona Universities Library Consortium patron-driven e-book model

Patron Authentication, Biometrics, Automated Library

This paper discusses a new patron authentication approach in an automated and modern library based on the biometric recognition. The person working at the entrance or at the circulat ion desk of the library needs to either confirm or determine the identity of an individual requesting service in library. Presently, almost all of the libraries are using identity cards (ID card) for this purpose i...

Shared Patron-Driven Acquisition Within a Consortium: the OCUL PDA Pilot

Introducing the Unified E-book Format and a Hybrid Library 2.0 Application Model Based on It

We introduce Unified e-Book Format (UeBF) and an example Hybrid Library 2.0 application model based on it. The UeBF is a file format for storing electronic books and related metadata we have designed and developed. It differs from other electronic book file formats in its ability to store an electronic book in multiple file formats and related metadata using multiple metadata standards, all in ...

A Belief-driven Order Book Model

As first pioneered by [19] and treated in detail in [9] one of the crucial roles of market microstructure is price revelation. Different trading systems have emerged and evolved, from auctions to limit order books and dark pools. Each of them correspond to a different way of handling the risk of adverse selection, highlighting the importance played by private beliefs in the trading process. Age...

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...