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Signs Of The Times: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, And It Audit, Win Shih, John Cashaw
Signs Of The Times: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, And It Audit, Win Shih, John Cashaw
Win Shih
The rapid evolution of Web technologies and standards has fueled the development of a raft of highly interactive and personalizable Web applications. AJAX (Asynchronous javaScript and XML)-powered and RSS-enabled Web sites, such as Google/IG, Google Map, Start.com from Microsoft, and Flickr.com from Yahoo make Web interfaces out of normally-nonweb-eanbled functionalities as running typical applications on your local PC.
Using similar technologies, we have been exploring the possibilities to a library-based portal that allows users freely configure their customized portal with contents of their choosing. Be this content e-mail, news, weather, blogging, photos, library’s catalog, or any RSS feed from publishers, …
From Opac To Library Search Engine, Win Shih
Understanding Patron Needs And Resource Usage In The Networked Academy, Win Shih
Understanding Patron Needs And Resource Usage In The Networked Academy, Win Shih
Win Shih
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to better understand various aspects of patrons’ access to library’s electronic resources and services via its Web site, their motivation, and the resources they used.
Brief Description: As library resources and services continue to evolve rapidly and ever-more-sophisticatedly along technological vectors, the imperative persists for librarians to develop an innovative, systemic methodology for fathoming the effectiveness in meeting the demands and necessities of our less-visible, yet omnipresent and “omni-diverse” patrons, as well as for promoting efficient resource management and capacity planning.
Methods: Traditional, web-transactional log analyses possess a raft of merits, including unobtrusive …