When we attend library conferences we often rush back to our libraries excited to implement some of the ideas that we’ve heard. Lucy Lockley presented a session at the 2012 Public Library Association Conference that focused on a staffwide, all-inclusive readers’ advisory model. With an “all for one, one for all” mentality, we receive a vision for including all staff in readers’ advisory service...

Article type: Literature review Purpose: This paper provides an overview of the published literature and current use of social software by libraries primarily in the UK and US. Methodology/Approach: Literature review and desk research. Findings: Libraries are experimenting considerably in this area and many Web 2.0 applications have been developed by libraries and librarians over the past few y...

In the last two years a digital library of learning objects (named with an acronym DILLEO) has been implemented by the staff and students of the University of Hradec Králové. The intent of this paper aims mainly to introduce the features of the library and to point out some of the core design and security issues dealt with during the implementation process.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses the following general areas of research: (1) automatic programming, (2) computer vision, (3) expert systems, (4) intelligent computer-assisted instruction, (5) natural language processing, (6) planning and decision support, (7) robotics, and (8) speech recognition. Intelligent library systems utilize artificial intelligence technologies to provide knowle...

There are numerous articles published across the professional literature that speak to the work of specific types of librarians. Many other articles have attempted to outline how the work of those librarians is changing. Although most of these articles are excellent by themselves, a library is made up of many different kinds of librarians, staff, and other professionals. Scott Walter and Karen ...

Economic and political factors have had far-reaching effects on hospital libraries in the last decade, but quantitative evidence of these changes is not readily available. Through periodic evaluation surveys within its multistate region, the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service, the Regional Medical Library for Region 7 of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (formerly th...

In 1998 the Central University Library was in serious difficulties, principally because of deficient funding. Since 1990 Cuba had been in the grips of a grave economic crisis, caused partly by the disappearance of the Soviet Union, until then our main trading partner, and partly by the further tightening of the already long and tough US embargo upon Cuba. But, over and above this, the library d...