A DIRECTOR OF A UNIVERSITY LffiRARY has many problems. Besides financial problems, he must decide how to build collections, what resources in the collections can best serve faculty and students, what kind of bibliographical control must be provided, how to cope with the growth of collections and building problems that ensue, how to make more effective public services, how to provide instruction...

In this paper, a prototype of an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is presented. This new OPAC features new functionalities and utilizes web 2.0 technologies in order to deliver improved search and retrieval services. Some of these new services include social tag annotations, user opinions and ranks and tag-based similarity searches. The prototype is evaluated by a user group through question...

Application functionality in business-to-business marketplaces today covers a smaller range of a company's overall procurement activities. Not every product or service can be acquired using catalogs, auctions or tenders. With the growing number of market transactions to be supported electronically, we expect a range of applications that will handle other forms of transactions. We hold that to a...

Wide ranges of companies have deployed successful applications of data mining. While early adopters of this technology have tended to be in information-intensive industries such as financial services and direct mail marketing the technology is applicable to any company looking to leverage a large data warehouse to better manage their customer relationships. Two critical factors for success with...

Most people I encounter think of marketing in a pejorative sense. To them, marketing is tantamount to selling. In particular, people in nonprofit organizations don’t seem to realize that in modern management, marketing is highly integrated with production and distribution. It is not merely concerned with “the business process by which products are matched with markets, and through which transfe...

W use the results of three large-scale field experiments to investigate how the depth of a current price promotion affects future purchasing of first-time and established customers. While most previous studies have focused on packaged goods sold in grocery stores, we consider durable goods sold through a direct mail catalog. The findings reveal different effects for first-time and established c...

abstract purpose: measures the rate of physical accessibility to printed book collection at a major iranian university library system. methodology: a list of 2972 titles cited in 97 theses completed in the last two years was checked against the online catalog of the university of isfahan (iran) to determine their availability, then search was carried out to find out how far titles with records ...

The GUSBAD catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is based on archival BATSE DISCLA data covering the full 9.1 years of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission. The catalog contains 2204 GRBs, including 589 bursts not listed in the Current Batse Burst Catalog. The GUSBAD catalog is uniform in the sense that the detection criteria are the same throughout and that the properties given in the catalo...

We determine a new relocated catalog, HYS_catalog_2011, for southern California from 1981 through June 2011. About 75.3% of the hypocenters are calculated with absolute and differential travel-time picks, and 24.7% could be relocated only by using absolute travel-time picks with 3D or 1D velocity models. The total catalog consists of more than 502,000 earthquakes in the region extending from Ba...

The exponential growth of the Internet and the increasing communication and computational power have created many opportunities for advancing engineering, manufacturing and business activities. Active Catalog brings a conceptually new idea to design and electronic commerce by providing new forms of catalog information about engineering parts and physical objects. Active Catalog is designed for ...