The article is devoted to the owners of Russian personal libraries in Turkestan region at end 19th – beginning 20th centuries, persons who made a great contribution creating first public library European type on territory modern Uzbekistan. purpose consider personality libraries’ late early as well history formation their book collections, thematic content and degree study. considers peculiarit...

We introduce the Concurrent Collections (CnC) programming model. CnC supports flexible combinations of task and data parallelism while retaining determinism. CnC is implicitly parallel, with the user providing high-level operations along with semantic ordering constraints that together form a CnC graph. We formally describe the execution semantics of CnC and prove that the model guarantees dete...

Additional copies are available for $15.00 from the address noted above. Orders must be prepaid, with checks made payable to the Council on Library and Information Resources. Laura Price is a senior manager in the Public Services–Assurance Practice of KPMG LLP in Washington D.C. Ms. Price provides audit and advisory services to Federal government clients in both the legislative and executive br...

All libraries, regardless of patron base, are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of changing patron expectations in an increasingly digital world. Special collections libraries face their own set of challenges in this arena, particularly with regard to increasing collection visibility. Special Collections 2.0 presents an overview of the ways in which Web 2.0 technology can be utili...