Evidence Based Librarianship Backgrounder

Approaching librarianship from the data: using bibliomining for evidence-based librarianship

Given the current lack of systematic studies in librarianship, it can be difficult to do proper traditional Evidence-Based Librarianship This article starts by deconstructing Evidence-Based Librarianship down to the representations of the users involved. The bibliomining process, or the combination of data warehousing, data mining, and bibliometrics, is used as a framework to build a different ...

Evidence Based Librarianship: A case study in the social sciences

Evidence based practice began within healthcare but has recently migrated to such fields as social work, education, and human resource management. It involves applying results from rigorous research studies to professional practice in order to improve the quality of services to clients, customers and users. Familiarity with these methods has caused an increasing number of information profession...

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Summary of Applications: Backgrounder

For 20 years, the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Conference has awarded high-impact computer applications that utilize AI in new ways with a significant economic return on the investment (ROI) costs to develop and deliver the system. Typically the ROI is quantitatively measured in dollars saved, staff work hours saved, increased productivity by current staff, etc. To ...

Technology backgrounder: Immersion Lithography

The growth of the semiconductor industry is driven by Moore’s law: “The complexity for minimum component cost has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year” [1]. Notice that Moore observed that not only was the number of components doubling yearly, but was doing so at minimum cost. One of the main factors driving the improvements in complexity and cost of ICs, is improvements in p...