According to Seneca, the ability excel beyond one’s destiny in any circumstance makes one noble. One of those who succeeded without fail was Jacques Guérin, a chemist made major contribution creation and subsequent codification myth carefully moulded around most important figures modern culture, Marcel Proust. Although relics Proust’s life oeuvre, that trained industrialist Guérin preserved, ar...

The novel coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has forced archives to rethink their modes providing access physical collections. Whereas difficult copyright questions raised by reproducing items could previously be skirted requiring researchers work with materials in person, the long-term closure reading rooms and decrease long-distance travel mean that need a workflow for handling user digiti...

This article describes the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) Open WorldCat program. WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. Open WorldCat seeks to make library collections and services visible and available through popular search engines such as Yahoo! and Google and other heavily used sites on the open Web. In this...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2014 (“The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual Freedom in the Twenty-First Century,” edited by Joyce M. Latham and Barbara M. Jones), pp. 759–770. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract An examination of the controversy at the West Bend Community Memorial Library over homosexual materials in the young adult collection, and an...

Many of your readers will have read of the death of Mr. David Fuller and his entire family in the helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly on 16th July 1983. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery on 6th September 1982 and was due to take up his appointment on 1 st September 1983. As Professor Williamson recorded in the January/April 1983 issue of this Journal, his Chai...

During recent years, how to provide personalized services has become an important research issue in library services. The libraries provide more and more personalized services such as customized web interface and reading suggestions. In the traditional approaches, the features of the books that a reader likes are used to construct the profile of the reader to support recommendation of books suc...

This case study evaluated a real-time online interactive reference service. Three data gathering methods were used. First, general usage statistics were generated electronically from the service provider. Second, patron evaluations were collected electronically. Third, questionnaires were mailed to the librarians who provided the service. The general usage statistics revealed an overall pattern...