Library Analytics: Shaping the Future — Communicating Library Impact through Annual Reports

Communicating Scientific Information Through a University Library Network

The Quill Distributed Analytics Library and Platform

This technical report introduces Quill (stands for a quadrillion tuples per day), a library and distributed platform for relational and temporal analytics over large datasets in the cloud. Quill exposes a new abstraction for parallel datasets and computation, called ShardedStreamable. This abstraction provides the ability to express efficient distributed physical query plans that are transferab...

(special) library services of the future

the future of library services must be considered against the background of a new self-conception of libraries and their definition and of a changing information society. in future, traditional library services will no longer be sufficient to ensure the survival of libraries. they will be required as a basic routine, but the proactivity of the library and its contribution to the overall enterpr...

university library buildings of the future

various view points of the library planners about the future’s library buildings have been explained in this paper. with the advances in information technology, some librarians believe that modern and well planned library buildings are not so necessary in the future. on the other hand, many others believe that more modern and well technologically equipped library buildings should be built to fu...

Identify the components of appointing library managers

Purpose – Libraries as one of the most important scientific, educational, research, social and cultural centers have an effective role in the development of information, awareness and human knowledge that the realization of their goals requires specialized and experienced managers to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of libraries. Is. But the goals of libraries will not be possible with...