The KMODDL (Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library) is a digital library based on a historical collection of kinematic models made of steel and bronze. The digital library contains four types of learning modules including textual materials, QuickTime Virtual Reality movies, Java simulations, and stereolithographic files of the physical models. This paper reports an evaluation study on the ...

The library is a non-profit organisation and its mission is to provide services to users. The environment in which Nigerian libraries operate, however, presents challenges to accomplishing this mission. Ojoade and Ochai (2000) observe that the emptiness of the library shelves and dilapidated structures, coupled with obsolete materials and the disappearance of valuable materials from the shelved...

Library management frequently faces the need of making the value of the acquired materials significant as far as the most beneficial use of the allocated acquisition budget is concerned. Knowledge in the circulation databases can be explored in-depth to relevantly reflect this need. In this paper, a data mining based model (DMBA) is designed and developed to help allocate the library material a...

management software, both proprietary and open-source. Chapters 8–10 discuss newer developments in access to library materials. Chapter 8 covers the use of social media, especially Facebook, as a means of providing remote access to library materials and whether this would be effective, given copyright restrictions. Chapter 9 discusses mobile technologies such as smartphones, tablets, and netboo...

Due to rapid progress of ICT, our society is also changing rapidly. A huge amount of information is stored in the Internet servers and shared by all people. It is updated continuously. In such age, we are supposed to keep learning and libraries are supposed to support those people. In order to carry out such missions, libraries are trying to change themselves in order to provide better and up t...

THISARTICLE TRACES THE VALUE AND USE of the Library Bill of Rights in school library media settings through an examination of national library media collection development texts, intellectual freedom publicaconcludes that inrealizing that the Library Bill of Rights is for support and guidance. INTRODUCTION Gordon Baldwin, in this issue of Library Trends, examines the Library Bill of Rights from...

Purpose: This paper is a high-level investigation of the physical-conceptual continuum occupied by both digital and physical libraries. Methodology/Approach: A framework is provided for thinking about the notions of place and library. The issue of materials and the ideas they represent is considered. Places for people are considered, including issues of people's sense of place in physical and d...

An expert system developed for use with geologic materials (minerals) has been modified to more generally analyze spectra of all types of materials, including manmade materials, military targets, and background. The methodology requires reflectance spectra, but can also be extended to emissive measurements in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR). The spectra of known mater...

High demand in acquiring online academic materials, digitization of education and research materials is just not enough. Beyond that, the needs of accessing and retrieving information through the network environments has made digital library to be the right answer and choice for many. Academic digital library appears to find its niche in the world of academic society resulting dramatic changes ...