The last few years have been the years of the beginning of a revolution in information. It is not long ago that we used to assume that information usually comes in alpha-numeric form, now information is becoming multimedia. A very good example of this fact is that all digital library project are developing techniques to organize, index, and access information in images, video, audio, and other ...

have benefitted from the addition of concrete examples and more theoretical material. Those chapters provide so little information that they would be of minimal use to a new administrator or to a staff member seeking to understand the political environment of a college campus. Several thought-provoking chapters balance these deficiencies, however. Frank Cervone provides an excellent description...

This article discusses the design of a digital library that addresses both content and knowledge management. The design of the digital library features two major distinctions: (1) the system incorporates a two-tier repository system to facilitate content management, and (2) the system incorporates an object-oriented model to facilitate the management of temporal information and exploits informa...

this study examines the quality of services at iran’s central library of management and planning organization (mpo) from the viewpoint of its users. the research was conducted in two phases: first, the library and its services were compared to the standards for special libraries published by the national library of iran (nli). the library was found to meet most of the standards. second, the qua...

In this paper, an attempt has been made for the design of a robotic library using an intelligent system. The robot works on the ARM microprocessor, motor driver circuit with 5 degrees of freedom with Wi-Fi and GPS based communication protocol. The authenticity of the library books is controlled by RFID. The proposed robotic library system is facilitated with embedded system and ARM. In this lib...

Neda Kabiri, Ali Jannati, Nafiseh Vahed, Mina Mahami Oskouei. Ph.D. Student in Health Policy, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine Iran (RCEBM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Associated Professor in Health Management,...

purpose: this study examined the performance management component of librarians and library staff using internal valuation models at the central library of astane quds razavi. methodology: this study, based on its nature and the data collection methods, is a descriptive research. the population studied here included public librarians and library patrons at the control library astane quds razavi...

This is a case study of developing and using community knowledge management software. The context of the case study is a school. During a training workshop staff at a school was introduced to a community knowledge management system. The intent was for them to use it for lesson planning and discussions. Instead, they built a series of applications that they could use to make the school administr...