The traditional way of publishing books is a one-dimensional procedure. An author creates content, believing that somebody may be interested in it. A publisher invests money in his book project, financing the production, the marketing and the distribution to the bookstores. The readers select the books in the bookstore under a wide range of decision criteria’s. At the end of the chain, the publ...

As the New Zealand population ages, libraries will find themselves providing services to an increasing number of senior citizens who are starting to experience age related conditions such as vision impairment. Some of these people will also appreciate the housebound service that many public libraries offer. The libraries will be looking to new technology to help them provide a better and more e...

Introduction. The percentage of foreign-born residents in Spain has multiplied almost fourfold over the last decade. Immigration has changed our society, both from a demographic and economic perspective, and from a cultural and political prospective. The Spanish public library network, a democratic institution that provides services, initially, of equal access for all users, may become in this ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the current state of information literacy (IL) training and to identify the strategies and methods used by Canadian public libraries in improving IL skills for their staff and patrons. Also, the study sought to identify problems associated with the development of IL training. This study employed document analysis, observations, and focus group interviews...

Recent efforts to assess the value of public library services have been aimed at using the contingent valuation method in order to reveal the hidden preferences of the consumers (readers). However, the total value of public library expressed in one number does not reflect the needs of public libraries’ management. Therefore, this paper aims to bridge this gap and investigates the most important...

Selinda Adelle Berg is Librarian and Heidi LM Jacobs is Information Literacy Librarian in Leddy Library at University of Windsor; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]; Dayna Cornwall is at Windsor Public Library, e-mail: [email protected]. © 2013 Selinda Adelle Berg, Heidi LM Jacobs, and Dayna Cornwall, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

Modelling and programming process requires a completely diierent approach in discrete event simulation of complex and large systems of many moving objects. In this paper we describe the public interface of a C++ class library that addresses this problem. Our class library has the virtue of being a exible and application-independent object-oriented environment which presents to the user a world ...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 2,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 556–580. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract One of the most satisfying undertakings in library building design can be the expansion and remodeling of historic public libraries from the early twentieth century. However, although ...

The diffusion of the Internet has radically expanded the readily available sources for information of all types. Information that was once obtained second-hand from friends and acquaintances—the traditional “two-step flow”—is now found easily through the Internet. The authors make use of survey data to explore this thesis in regards to information sources about genetic testing and the influence...