For thousands of years, libraries have allowed humanity to collect and organize data and information, and to support the discovery and communication of knowledge, across time and space. Coming together in this Internet Age, the world's societies have extended this process to span from the personal to the global, as the concepts, practices, systems, and services related to Library and Informatio...

This paper concerns the rehabilitation of aesthetics in the context of teaching computer science and digital media in schools. It explains how interdisciplinary, digitally extended learning environments can be created with the help of free or low cost software and hardware applications. Such learning environments focus especially on the idea that sensorial perception and co-construction of know...

This paper is about the rehabilitation of aesthetics in the context of teaching computer science and digital media in schools. It explains how interdisciplinary, digitally extended learning environments can be created with the help of free or low cost applications. Such learning environments focus especially on the idea that sensorial perception and co-construction of knowledge should be an int...

the rapid growing of information technology (it) motivates and makes competitive advantages in health care industry. nowadays, many hospitals try to build a successful customer relationship management (crm) to recognize target and potential patients, increase patient loyalty and satisfaction and finally maximize their profitability. many hospitals have large data warehouses containing customer ...

This paper considers how studies of collaborative activities in the real world can be used to aid in the design of digital libraries. We describe two studies of collaboration in physical environments. The first study examines behaviour at the enquiry desk in an academic library. The second study examines collaboration in an office environment concentrating on 'over the shoulder learning'. The n...

decision support systems (dsss) are prevalent information systems for decision making in many competitive business environments. in a dss, decision making process is intimately related to some factors which determine the quality of information systems and their related products. traditional approaches to data analysis usually cannot be implemented in sophisticated companies, where managers need...

decision support systems (dsss) are prevalent information systems for decision making in many competitive business environments. in a dss, decision making process is intimately related to some factors which determine the quality of information systems and their related products. traditional approaches to data analysis usually cannot be implemented in sophisticated companies, where managers nee...