Rare book library opens at Columbia

STFM opens family medicine digital resources library.

In late 2004, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine was awarded a 3-year grant expected to total approximately $400,000 by the National Library of Medicine to develop the Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL). FMDRL will provide an administrative and technical framework for the dissemination, review, revision, archiving, and maintenance of presentations, learning modules, quizz...

A Book Which Opens Up Incredibly Interesting Material

As a specialist working on the history of the Islamic world and interested in documentary material, I had eagerly awaited this book, a book which would continue the chapters on Jewishwomen inGoitein’smagnumopus on the Jews of medieval Cairo based on Genizah documents.[1]What we now have is, indeed, a colorful insight into the world of Jewish women of sixteenth-century Palestine, based on an imp...

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...

Book Detection and Grasping in Library Scenario

Total or shared autonomous behavior is still an open challenge for service robots. An example of such system is FRIEND (Functional robot arm with user-friendly interface for Disabled people) (Figure 1). In the project ReIntegraRob care robot FRIEND will carry out all necessary manipulations for a completely paralyzed person who with support of FRIEND will be able to work in library. The task of...

Classics in the Million Book Library