Building a Research Library

Building a Digital Library for Computer Science Research: Technical Issues

Technical reports are available electronically at hundreds of internet sites around the world. A major impediment to their utility in computer science research is the difficulty in locating reports that are relevant to a particular area. We describe the implementation of a digital library for computer science technical reports that indexes every word in each report, covers a majority of compute...

Building Archaeological Photograph Library

The photographs taken at excavation fields are one of most important materials. It is expected to digitize and save these photographs in the computer system because of difficulty of management to many photographs and losing color problem. We designed and implemented prototype of archaeological photograph library. The library is designed based on Dublin Core Metadata Element set and XML We descr...

Provo City Library: Building across a Century

Alternatives to a New Library Building

R I THE PRICE TAG for a new library building in these days of high construction costs often comes to twenty times the library's annual budget, or even more. This being the case, alternatives to new construction ought to be considered. Buildings may become inadequate for a variety of reasons; they do not usually wear out, but fashions, standards, and needs change. Inadequate size, however, is us...

Building a Digital Library of Web News

We introduce a new information system for organization of a Digital Library of news articles found on the Web, with automatic topic classification. We present our strategies to deal with different update frequencies of news Web sites, the classification methodology, the data model for storing news articles, measurements on the data retrieved and finally results of classification of this type of...