The idea for this special issue arose at the Cultural Heritage Information Professionals (CHIPs) workshop in April 2008. Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Florida State University, and the Ringling Museum of Art, the workshop’s goals were to explore the ability of educators to meet the information needs of cultural heritage organizations, and to encourage a closer relat...

In 2019, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) took over analogue archive of weekly magazine stern. Digitising its 15 million pictures poses challenges in terms logistics, process management and indexing that go beyond traditional librarian methods. order to make digitally available public, is exploring new ways organising digitisation workflows indexing. The article describe...

The power of a programming language depends to a significant extent on its semantics of expression evaluation. It is therefore rewarding and popular to emulate nonexistent evaluation features by library constructs. For instance, one can emulate the functional programming idiom of a (partially) unbound function in an imperative language by providing special functor types. Their instances are cre...

Explores the use of an assessment instrument based on a model named library information systems security assessment model (LISSAM) to assess the ISS status in special and public libraries in Malaysia. The study aims to determine the implementation status of technological and organizational components of the LISSAM model. An implementation index as well as a scoring tool is presented to assess t...

Digital libraries, to fulfil their true potential, must display features and exploit skills more readily associated with traditional library service. To an extent this has already happened: collection management has become the process of Internet resource discovery, while document cataloguing skills have been applied to the creation of Internet resource metadata repositories. This paper argues ...

We describe an architecture for a distributed digital library system based on an unsupervised neural network model, namely the Self-Organizing Map. The system allows the clustering of text documents forming the basis for intelligent information retrieval. User prooles can be combined with full text queries or sample texts to locate documents within the library system. Contrary to conventional a...

In order to fit diversified military simulation requirement, we propose a common visual simulation framework based on flexible architecture, which includes hierarchical structure design, model combined theory and decoy modeling method. Firstly, flexible architecture is given about framework design method, flexible interface design rule, modeling standards, library manage standards. Secondly, mo...

Despite the uncertain challenges facing libraries of all types during COVID-19 pandemic, new best practices and innovative ways approaching services have emerged. Including groundbreaking Taylor Family Digital Library in 2011, University Calgary Libraries Cultural Resources has been contributing towards ongoing development digital academic library. The pandemic necessitated a rapid leveraging s...

Paul Metz is Collection Management Assistant to the Dean for Special Projects at Virginia Tech; e-mail: [email protected]. The author wishes to thank Eileen Hitchingham, Dean of Libraries, for her gracious suggestion that he revisit the “who uses what?” question and Debbie Averhart and Barbara Moore of the library staff for their assistance in gathering and organizing the data. Circulation data from...

A key scalability challenge for interprocedural dataflow analysis comes from large libraries. Our work addresses this challenge for the general category of interprocedural distributive environment (IDE) dataflow problems. Using pre-computed library summary information, the proposed approach reduces significantly the cost of whole-program IDE analyses without any loss of precision. We define an ...