the barefoot librarian

2. The Data Librarian: introducing the Data Librarian

This paper provides some initial considerations into the design and function of the Data Librarian. The first part (Liscouski, J., 1997, Journal of Automatic Chemistry, 19, 193-197) described the need for the Librarian.

The Southeastern Librarian

The information Services Librarian*

Libraries appear to be in a period of great change and the major reason for this has been the increasing availability of machine-readable data bases and the information retrieval systems based on these. A number of data bases producers have established networks on national and international level in order to make services from these data bases widely available. The fact that few individual inst...

The Project Automated Librarian

The Project Automated Librarian (PAL) is a tool that has been created to manage the logistical problems inherent in a medium-sized software development project. The main goals of PAL are to eliminate the problems of simultaneous updates to software modules, while allowing programmers access to the latest possible versions of the software. PAL also seeks to prevent the software from getting into...

The Embedded Librarian Program

With the huge increase in online learning at colleges around the country, libraries need to consider how to serve the growing contingent of online students. Some typical library services include a Web site, remote access to databases, e-mail assistance, a toll-free phone number, a procedure for supplying library materials to students, FAQs, interlibrary loan, and online tutorials. Tutorials com...

The UJI librarian robot

This paper describes the UJI Librarian Robot, a mobile manipulator that is able to autonomously locate a book in an ordinary library, and grasp it from a bookshelf, by using eye-in-hand stereo vision and force sensing. The robot is only provided with the book code, a library map and some knowledge about its logical structure and takes advantage of the spatio-temporal constraints and regularitie...