Smart Libraries

Including Cyberphysical Smart Objects into Digital Libraries

Visible Threads: A Smart VR Interface to Digital Libraries

The importance of information as a resource for economic growth and education is steadily increasing. Due to technological advances in computer industry and the explosive growth of the Internet much valuable information will be available in digital libraries. This paper introduces a system that aims to support a user's browsing activities in document sets retrieved from a digital library. Laten...

From Smart Guesser to Smart Navigator: Changes in Collection Development for Research Libraries in a Networked Environment

NETWORKTECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONIC publishing, and Internet communication are changing the practice of collection development in research libraries. The proliferation of both commercialized electronic information products and the electronic resources available over the Internet require selectors to extend their traditional expertise to include knowledge of various electronic resources and acquisitio...

Smart Hospitals Need Smart Managers

Design and Implementation of an Integrated Management System for Smart Libraries

Currently, most library systems use the client/server and ASP services for their software. However, such systems are difficult to manage and incur high operating costs because of the problems related to high HW and SW purchasing costs, installation and distribution, customization, upgrades, fault and problem management, and costly license royalties. To solve such problems, this study developed ...