From an educational perspective, today’s world of information technology has two of the most growing fields, knowledge management (KM) and e-learning. In this paper, the need for developing an online library system as tool to manage knowledge and as a necessary tool in elearning paradigms is presented through implementing an online library system of Arab Open University (AOU) at Jordan branch.

Digital libraries populated with learning objects are becoming popular tools in the creation of instructional technologies. Many current efforts to create standard metadata structures that facilitate the discovery and instructional use of learning objects recommend a single, authoritative metadata record per version of the learning object. However, as we argue in this paper, a single metadata r...

s of papers presented at the 2006 and 2008 iConferences. The course titles and course descriptions for master's level courses listed on the websites of the 14 iSchools in 2008, and those for the 14 randomly selected other schools were analyzed for word frequency and the rank order of the ten most frequent words in each list were compared as shown in Table 4. Variation occurs at the third, fifth...

Digital Library Management Systems are systems that are able to manage collections of digital documents that form Digital Libraries and Digital Archives, and they are currently in a state of evolution. Today, most of the times they are simply places where information resources can be stored and made available, whereas for tomorrow they are becoming an integrated part of the way the user works. ...

Conflict processing is assumed to serve two crucial, yet distinct functions: Regarding task performance, control is adjusted to overcome the conflict. Regarding task choice, control is harnessed to bias decision making away from the source of conflict. Despite recent theoretical progress, until now two lines of research addressed these conflict-management strategies independently of each other....

Recent years have witnessed a noticeable proliferation in Digital Library Systems (DLSs) and their specialized form represented in Digital Heritage Resources (DHRs). DHRs usually manage a complex and varied mix of digital heritage objects of different types and formats. They tend to be complex in nature and usually involve complex, simultaneous and intersecting workflows. As a result, DHRs impo...