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Tools For Cataloguing In Digital Age, Sadaf Shahid Sep 2014

Tools For Cataloguing In Digital Age, Sadaf Shahid

Sadaf Shahid

No abstract provided.


Rss And Its Use In Libraries, Sadaf Shahid Jun 2013

Rss And Its Use In Libraries, Sadaf Shahid

Sadaf Shahid

No abstract provided.


Cataloging Theory Meets The Real World, Sarah H. Theimer Oct 2012

Cataloging Theory Meets The Real World, Sarah H. Theimer

Sarah H. Theimer

No abstract provided.


Proximity Rule And Matthew Effect In Coauthorships Of Iranian Medical Universities, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Mohammad Karim Bayat, Abbas Eslami, Marzieh Hajipoor, Neda Zeraatkar Dec 2011

Proximity Rule And Matthew Effect In Coauthorships Of Iranian Medical Universities, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Mohammad Karim Bayat, Abbas Eslami, Marzieh Hajipoor, Neda Zeraatkar

Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

One of the measures which used to calculate the scholarly collaboration of countries and organizations is co-authorship. Co-authorship is a process in which two or more authors/researchers collaborate with each other to create a joint work via collaboration channels and methods. Although many studies have been considered individual or domain co-authorships, but the organizational aspect of this type of collaboration has attracted less attention. Therefore, the aim of this study is to draw the organizational co-authorships among Iranian medical universities and to analyze the role of proximity and Matthew effect in this collaboration. Thus, 32 medical universities were selected based …


Social Networking In Libraries, Sadaf Shahid May 2011

Social Networking In Libraries, Sadaf Shahid

Sadaf Shahid

No abstract provided.


Digital Showcase In The Library: How Trace Enhances Ut's Virtual Library, Piper F. Mullins Apr 2010

Digital Showcase In The Library: How Trace Enhances Ut's Virtual Library, Piper F. Mullins

Piper F Mullins

UT’s Virtual Library Steering Committee is charged to enhance the library’s virtual presence through efficient searching capabilities, interactive features, archiving services, tools for discovery and delivery of scholarly resources, and new technologies that advance and scale services. Trace supports all of these enhancements as UT’s digital showcase. Trace is an evolving concept defined by and for UT’s user communities to promote local and global research. Its services are collaborative, discoverable, contextual, and scale from a single item to data sets in multiple formats. As Trace nears the end of its first year, we’re excited to offer more contributions to the …


Words To The Wise: Web Managers And Librarians Working It Out, Maria A. Perez-Stable Mar 2010

Words To The Wise: Web Managers And Librarians Working It Out, Maria A. Perez-Stable

Maria A. Perez-Stable

No abstract provided.


Gla On My Mind: Successful Initiatives Of Georgia’S Library Association, Deborah Striplin Feb 2010

Gla On My Mind: Successful Initiatives Of Georgia’S Library Association, Deborah Striplin

Ashley Dupuy

Interview for a February 2010 article in Footnotes--a publication of the New Members Round Table of the American Library Association.


Embedding Ourselves: Using Web 2.0 And Second Life For Instructional Presence, Kelly Evans Apr 2009

Embedding Ourselves: Using Web 2.0 And Second Life For Instructional Presence, Kelly Evans

Kelly Evans

No abstract provided.


Evergreen: An Open Source Ils, John Fink Jan 2008

Evergreen: An Open Source Ils, John Fink

John Fink

A short presentation on Evergreen, an open source integrated library system, given to the Hamilton Linux Users Group.


The Economics Of Open Access Publishing, Jessica Litman Jul 2006

The Economics Of Open Access Publishing, Jessica Litman

IR Research

The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of scholarly research. The role of copyright in the dissemination of scholarly research is in many ways curious, since neither authors nor the entities who compensate them for their authorship are motivated by the incentives supplied by the copyright system. Rather, copyright is a bribe to entice professional publishers and printers to reproduce and distribute scholarly works. As technology has spawned new methods of restricting access to works, and copyright law has enhanced copyright owners' rights to …


Librarian And Faculty Partnerships For Distance Education, Holly B.A. Heller-Ross Jan 1996

Librarian And Faculty Partnerships For Distance Education, Holly B.A. Heller-Ross

Holly B.A. Heller-Ross

Emphasizes the importance of faculty and librarians working together to support distance education. Describes the Telenursing Distance Education program at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Characterizes the library role by its support through curriculum enrichment, research instruction, and direct student services.