Health Libraries Australia, a group from the Australian Library and Information Association, is currently undertaking a research project to determine the future requirements for the health librarian workforce in Australia. The study has yielded an in-depth literature review exploring the Australian health care system and health library sector and international trends in health libraries that ma...

this study examines the quality of services at iran’s central library of management and planning organization (mpo) from the viewpoint of its users. the research was conducted in two phases: first, the library and its services were compared to the standards for special libraries published by the national library of iran (nli). the library was found to meet most of the standards. second, the qua...

works on French publishing history. He has also served as a trustee of the New York Public library and, early in his career, as a reporter for The New York Times. As a scholar, author, and reporter, Darnton brought an impressive, well-rounded understanding of traditional print publishing to the negotiating table with Google. Given this intimate personal and professional history with what he cal...

1 Summary Caching is one common technique for enhancing the scalability of media streaming systems. However, current caching techniques are not aware of quality adaptation. To deal with this problem, Rejaie et al. (1999) proposed an adaptive multimedia caching mechanism for layered encoded multimedia streams. This mechanism includes two techniques. The first is a pre-fetch scheme that enables t...

There are many works in TEL literature aiming to support learners and educators in their educational tasks. A current trend in this field is to develop expert systems and agents able to retrieve the most appropriate educational material. Such systems are great when handling pools of resources specifically designed for education, where the material is associated to educational data about the cha...

Orchestrating learning is a quite complex task. In fact, it has been identified as one of the grand challenges in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) by the Stellar Network of Excellence. The objective of this article is to provide teachers and students with a tool to help them in their effort of orchestrating learning, that makes use of awareness artefacts. Using this powerful mechanism in lab ...