UC-Irvine’s Main Library reopens

Document image decoding in the UC Berkeley Digital Library

The UC Berkeley Environmental Digital Library Project is one of six university-led projects that were initiated in the fall of 1994 as part of a four-year digital library initiative sponsored by the NSF, NASA and ARPA. The Berkeley project is particularly interesting from a document image analysis perspective because its testbed collection consists almost entirely of scanned materials. As a res...

Budgeting for a Main Library and Several Departmental Libraries

The Emerging Environment of the Urban Main Library

THEURBAN ENVIRONMENT in which most main libraries are located has, in one sense, already emerged. Perhaps certain environmental problems are becoming more acute and more evident in some parts of the country than in others, but basically urban libraries exist in a setting which has long been forecast, and which has been developing gradually for decades, According to Richardson, Many of the issue...

Branch libraries and technology: impact of a new main library

[ABSTRACT] The UNLV Libraries consists of a main library and three branches. All facilities are connected by one network, and served by one systems department. This has many advantages, including equipment and software upgraded on a regular schedule. It also presents some challenges, such as implementing or adapting policies developed to address needs and concerns of the main library. The gener...

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