Nowadays, the construction and application of digital library leads a new era of the way people obtain knowledge and information, and promotes the academic exchanges and social progress. Digital library, however, also involves great risk; hacker attacks become the main threat of the information security of digital library, and may probably cause the loss and damage of the information resources ...

This paper based on a study visit made in May 1999, generously sponsored by the VALA Travel Scholarship program, reports on developmental projects that seek to aid library users to efficiently discover and locate information resources. In the current information landscape, where resources exist in a variety of formats, the goal is to develop systems that seamlessly integrate the globally distri...

Simulations users at all levels make heavy use of compute resources to drive computational simulations for greatly varying applications areas of research using different simulation paradigms. Simulations are implemented in many software forms, ranging from highly standardised and general models that run in proprietary software packages to ad hoc hand-crafted simulations codes for very specific ...

Most users making use of library services encounter different levels of undesirable feelings of fear, tension, and anxiety. Coming across the library building, the presence of modern technology in contemporary libraries, the enormous bulk of information resources, lack of necessary skills for library research as well as the difficulties to interact with librarians can bring out unwillingness to...

Many libraries and information centres in the developing countries are still far behind the libraries in developed countries in the transition from traditional to electronic libraries. They are expected to continue acquiring print material, while simultaneously seeking out electronic sources. However, few developing countries such as India, Kenya and Thailand are competing with those in the dev...

Instructors expect students to access the best quality research resources available. Students, however, may be channeled to any number of non-library resources for a variety of reasons. In worst-case scenarios, students default to lesser quality electronic resources from free Internet search engines that are familiar, provide fast, less precise results, and require the least effort and the leas...

This paper briefly describes the WebNize system and how it applies a Metro Map metaphor for organizing guided tours in Web based resources. Then experiences in using the Metro Map based tours in a Knowledge Sharing project at the library at Aarhus School of Business (ASB) in Denmark, is discussed. The Library has been involved in establishing a Learning Resource Centre (LRC). The LRC serves as ...