Purpose – This paper aims to assess the usage patterns of a university library website to find out user’s behaviour of monthly use, its top most used resources and services and search phrases used to reach the library website. Design/methodology/approach – Transactional log analysis (TLA) – an unobtrusive research method – was used to identify and analyse data of website-using patterns. The log...

BACKGROUND The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library is the largest collection of its kind in the Southeastern United States, consisting of over 5,200 books, videos/DVDs, brochures, and audiotapes covering a variety of disability-related topics, from autism to transition resources. The purpose of the library is to support the information needs of families, faculty, students, staff, and ...

The use of spreadsheets to capture information is widespread in industry. Spreadsheets can thus be a wealthy source of domain information. We propose to automatically extract this information and transform it into class diagrams. The resulting class diagram can be used by software engineers to understand, refine, or re-implement the spreadsheet’s functionality. To enable the transformation into...

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) are commonplace in many universities. Understanding the trends in the usage of these networks is becoming more important. Interesting results can be extracted about association patterns by analyzing WLAN traces from real scenarios. In this work, the library in the main campus of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona has been studied. Daily...

We present the Data Parallel Fortran (DPF) benchmark suite, a set of data parallel Fortran codes for evaluating data parallel compilers appropriate for any target parallel architecture, with shared or distributed memory. The codes are provided in basic, optimized and several library versions. The functionality of the benchmarks cover collective communication functions, scientific software libra...

This paper demonstrates the utility of typed shared data abstractions as an effective high-level means of structuring and coordinating parallel programs. Access to data shared by concurrent processes is expressed through operations of shared abstract data types (SADTs). SADTs abstract low-level concerns of communication and synchronization. The exposition addresses two major challenges: mismatc...

This paper demonstrates the utility of typed shared data abstractions as an effective high-level means of structuring and coordinating parallel programs. Access to data shared by concurrent processes is expressed through operations of Shared Abstract Data Types (SADTs). SADTs abstract low-level concerns of communication and synchronisation. The exposition addresses two major challenges: mismatc...

This study examines the usage of e-library among students in a public university in Malaysia using the Technology Acceptance Model. Data from a questionnaire survey of 201 students were analyzed using linear regression. The results show that individual differences (computer self-efficacy and knowledge of search domain) had a significant positive relationship with perceived ease of use. Perceive...

The movement from the physical to the digital library offers both dangers and opportunities. Alongside the greater quantity of online material goes the problem of quality assurance: how can be the information searcher be sure of the status of a document. We suggest that this be addressed by supporting recommendations and that the key feature that links these recommendations together is that of ...