THISARTICLE WILL EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARIAN arid of the service perspective in the digital library environment. The focus of the article will be limited to the topic of librarian/user collaboration where the librarian and user are not co-located. The role of the librarian will be explored as outlined in the literature on digital libraries, some studies will be examined that attempt to pu...

Decentralized security models and distributed infrastructures of scenarios based on Service Oriented Architectures make the enforcement of security policies a key challenge – all the more so for business processes spanning over multiple enterprises. The current practice to implement security functionality exclusively at the endpoint places a significant processing burden on the endpoint, render...

Reference services have taken a central place in library and information services. They are also regarded as personalised services since in most cases a personal discussion takes place between a user and a reference librarian. Based on this, the librarian points to the sources that are considered to be most appropriate to meet the specific information need(s) of the user. Since the Web and digi...

purpose: the aim of this study was to design a pattern for delivering outreach library services to the retirees of the education department of bojnourd. methodology: this was an applied study. the statistical population consisted of all the retirees of the education department of bojnourd city in 2013. the estimated sample size was 130 and cluster sampling was adopted. data were collected throu...

INA N ELECTRONIC ERA, THE EVALUATION OF REFERENCE and related information services should still be based on the same principles used to evaluate traditional face-to-face reference services and printed reference tools. Traditional research methods-which are surveys and questionnaires, observation, individual and focus group interviews, and case studies-can be utilized very effectively in an elec...

The increasing interconnections of city services, the explosion available urban data, and need for multidisciplinary analysis decision making sustainability require new technological solutions to cope with such complexity. Ontologies have become viable effective tools practitioners developing applications requiring data process interoperability, big management, automated reasoning on knowledge....

The article discusses how non-physicians can help address the increasing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. As demand for primary care services is projected to increase, the supply of primary care physicians is continuing to decline. Authors propose that non-physician professionals such as pharmacists and nurses are essential towards saving time for physicians, providing ...

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OBJECTIVE To identify socio-demographic factors associated with presenting for abortion services past the gestational age (GA) limit (12 weeks), and thus not receiving services, in Mexico City's public sector first trimester abortion program. METHODS We used clinical data from four high volume sites in the Interrupción Legal de Embarazo (ILE) program, 2007-2015. We used descriptive statistics...