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Research In Academic Library Collection Management, Mary F. Casserly
Research In Academic Library Collection Management, Mary F. Casserly
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
This chapter describes the empirical quantitative and qualitative research and case studies pertaining to collection management practice in academic libraries published between 1990 and 2007. The topics covered include collection size and growth, material cost, library expenditures, budgets and budgeting, collection development policies, collection composition, organization and staffing for collection management, selection, and the evaluation of the collection development process and the collection itself. The chapter identifies the most influential and useful studies and the most active areas of research. The collection management research literature was limited in the methodologies employed (surveys and case studies), statistical analyses applied (basic and …
User-Generated Descriptions Of Individual Images Versus Labels Of Groups 3 Of Images: A Comparison Using Basic Level Theory, Abebe Rorissa
User-Generated Descriptions Of Individual Images Versus Labels Of Groups 3 Of Images: A Comparison Using Basic Level Theory, Abebe Rorissa
Information Science Faculty Scholarship
Although images are visual information sources with little or no text associated with them, users still tend to use text to describe images and formulate queries. This is because digital libraries and search engines provide mostly text query options and rely on text annotations for representation and retrieval of the semantic content of images. While the main focus of image research is on indexing and retrieval of individual images, the general topic of image browsing and indexing, and retrieval of groups of images has not been adequately investigated. Comparisons of descriptions of individual images as well as labels of groups …