The Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact is the single academic reference work to provide comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users, interactions, and experiences, this in-depth collection provides developers and scholars with an extensive collection o...

Sheila Corrall is Professor and Chair of the Library & Information Science program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses on research methods and academic libraries. Her research interests include the application of business management concepts to library and information services, collection development in the digital world, and the evolving roles and competencies of librari...

The libxtract library consists of a collection of over forty functions that can be used for the extraction of low level audio features. In this paper I will describe the development and usage of the library as well as the rationale for its design. Its use in the composition and performance of music involving live electronics also will be discussed. A number of use case scenarios will be present...

Based on the concept that library use measurement should have as its basic starting point the individual patron, a method of data collection and analysis has been developed that explores individual patterns of borrowing over time The method accounts for the number of visits on which borrowing takes place, number of items borrowed per visit, and total items borrowed over time, and it relates the...

Copying the whole of a library is one of the major types of reuse in software development. In Java, a single library archive file often contains other libraries it depends on, but users of the library hardly know about such inner libraries. Since reusing libraries is a black-box method, developers may combine some libraries without knowing that those libraries contain the same library inside in...

The Library Information Science Collection is a specialized reference collection which supports research in the field of Library Information Science. This premier package includes 13 scholarly titles focusing on library information science, digital libraries, and digital literacy. These titles represent IGI Global’s unique coverage of the impact and effective use of technology within the area o...

Introduction Academic libraries in Croatia are facing constant budget cuts, making it difficult to obtain access to current scientific and professional journals (Krajna & Markulin, 2011). At the end of 2008 the Croatian economy had plummeted into recession and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports ceased the funding of scientific literature acquisition (Krznar, 2011). Parallel to budget...

As LIBRARIANS ADDED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS to their collections and then electronic materials, they moved from selection as an individual activity to selection as a group activity. Librarians made every effort to mainstream the resulting selection process and incorporate it into the existing library organization. However, with the advent of the Internet and the ability to simultaneously share vi...