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Ensuring accessibility of electronic information resources for visually...

AbstractPurpose– The paper addresses the importance of clarifying terminology such as visually impaired and related terms before embarking on accessibility studies of electronic information resources...

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Exploring the effect of individual differences on user perceptions of print...

AbstractPurpose– Individual differences are critical in determining how individuals think and behave in different ways. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of individual differences on...

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Mobile services at academic libraries: meeting the users’ needs?

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to describe how academic libraries in the USA have responded to the rapidly evolving mobile environment and to determine if there is a noticeable,...

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The Albert Einstein archives digitization project: opening hidden treasures

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to present the organizational and technological processes and strategic choices that led to the successful digitization project of the Albert Einstein...

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Digital library user privacy: changing librarian viewpoints through education

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to research attempts to educate public librarians in the importance of user privacy issues and assist in reducing privacy violations by providing...

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Electronic theses and dissertations: Differences in behavior for local and...

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine two research questions: first, How do users in different locations find Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)? Second, do...

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System design for location name recognition in ancient local chronicles

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a system for recognition of location names in ancient books written in languages, such as Chinese, in which proper names are not signaled by an...

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The application profiles and development characteristics of library Open...

AbstractPurpose– Little is known as to the breadth and diversity of Open Source Software (OSS) applications for libraries and the development characteristics that influence the sustainability and...

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Populating the wilderness: crowdsourcing database of the smokies

AbstractPurpose– Researchers at the University of Tennessee Libraries experimented with crowdsourcing to determine if contributions by members of the public could be utilized to add citations and...

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Ontology-based text summarization. The case of Texminer

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to look into the latest advances in ontology-based text summarization systems, with emphasis on the methodologies of a socio-cognitive approach, the...

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Case study: a metadata scheme for multi-type manuscripts for the T.D. Lee...

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution for designing a metadata scheme for multi-type manuscripts based on a comparison of various existing metadata schemes....

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Semantic ontologies for multimedia indexing (SOMI): Application in the...

AbstractPurpose– The overwhelming speed and scale of digital media production greatly outpace conventional indexing methods by humans. The management of Big Data for e-library speech resources requires...

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