Physical libraries store materials written in various languages, at various periods in history, and dealing with various cultures. As a result, large digital library projects such as Europeana, World Digital Library, HathiTrust, and Google Book Search have collections spanning different languages, periods, and cultures. This diversity complicates information access, in part because the grammars...

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Despite the current growth of graphic novel popularity with teens and the increasing representation of the LGBTQ community in those graphic novels, there has been little work done to evaluate these works in terms of how the LGBTQ characters are presented. Using Jenkins’s adaptations of Lerner’s, Bishop’s, and Chauncey’s frameworks—as well as Jenkins’s own framework that combined these three for...

The Cochrane Library. The single most reliable source of evidence in healthcare The Cochrane Reviews highlighted below are available from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (www.thecochranelibrary.com) Cochrane Reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to feedback, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews should always be consulted for the most recent...

The paper comprises an investigation, analysis and evaluation on using Blackboard as a digital repository for the course material of Control Engineering modules for Master degree at the University of Huddersfield. The advantages and limitations of using Blackboard as a digital repository for course materials and discussion board facilities are discussed. Also the use of action, quantitative and...

If order-making in the large is part of the institutional mission of libraries, then order-making in the small – the informal work of annotating and organizing materials collected in service of particular, day-to-day work or pleasure – is part of the business of library patrons. This paper focuses on just such activities, activities that stem from readers’ engagements with texts, and possibly w...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw an exact and accurate picture of classification problems being faced by libraries having a reasonable amount of collections on Islam. Different classification systems have been developed during the last two centuries to organize library materials. Where these systems provided libraries with better solution for organization of materials, the systems...

The archiving of Internet materials presents two major challenges: the dynamic nature of the content and the massive number of individual web pages. These two characteristics impact the choice of methods for storing, indexing and providing fast access to archives of materials retrieved from periodic web crawling activities. At the San Diego Supercomputer Center, we have applied two different te...