The Evolving Business Library: Introduction

Evolving academic library specialties

The Evolving E-Business Strategy: Lessons Learned

Bricks-and-mortar companies wishing to create value-added Internet services do so in a business environment that is characterized by great uncertainty and, hence, formulating a coherent business strategy is exceedingly challenging. This paper presents a case study based analysis of the evolving eBusiness strategy of a bricks-andmortar grocer contrasted with the strategies of other competitors. ...

Evolving a Library of Artistic Scene Descriptors

We describe the building of a library of 10,000 distinct abstract art images, and how these can be interpreted as describing the placement of objects in a scene for generative painting projects. Building the library to contain only markedly distinct images necessitated a machine learning approach, whereby two decision trees were derived to predict visual similarity in pairs of images. The first...

Library Portals and an Evolving Information Legacy

Many authors report uncertainties over the expression Web portal, but nowhere are these more understandable than with library applications. On one hand, the phase library portal is a tautology. In keeping with the traditional role of a doorway to knowledge, much of the library’s Web presence is characterized by portal functions and their continuing role as “trusted” information resources. On th...

Introduction to the Special Section: Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Innovative technologies are changing the landscape of interorganizational relationships. Following proprietary interorganizational information systems (IOS), the advent of Internet-based electronic commerce provided new opportunities and challenges to connect businesses, facilitate transactions, and enable collaborations among business partners, sellers and buyers, and businesses and public ins...