This paper analyses the usage made of the journals and books offered by the BT Digital Library, looking in detail at the usage of the 3,500 people at BT’s development site at Adastral Park, near Ipswich, and the impact of this usage on purchase decisions in the library. The Digital Library offers over 800 electronic journals to its user community. Journals are held on the Library server, where ...

This paper reports on an evaluation carried out on behalf of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) of a Scottish Executive initiative to fund a year's use of a major commercial digital library service called SCRAN throughout public libraries in Scotland. The methodology used for investigating value for money aspects, content and nature of the service, users and usage patterns, the...

A core goal of librarians is to maximize usage of the content to which their libraries subscribe. Webscale or resource discovery systems offer a single search box for library users to access subscribed content. This article examines usage data at the University of Huddersfield to show how resource discovery has helped to increase the usage of publisher content, which has been made available to ...

This paper details research into building a Collaborative Educational Resource Design model by investigating two contrasting Kenyan / UK design case-studies and an evaluation of end-users and designers’ perceptions of digital libraries and their usage patterns. The two case-studies compared are; case study 1 based on formal learning in an African university digital library. Case study 2 is cent...

abstract introduction: introduction: traditionally, the central library of any university is the main source of scientific data retrieval for respective faculty members. exploration of rate and pattern of such usage makes it possible to promote the quantity and quality of library services and increasing the efficacy of faculty members' activities. objective: to determine the rate of usage ...

Programmers who develop large, mature applications often want to optimize the performance of their program without changing its semantics. They often do so by changing how their program invokes a library function or a function implemented in another module of the program. Unfortunately, once a programmer makes such an optimization, it is difficult for him to validate that the optimization does ...

Shun Han Rebekah Wong is Assistant Librarian in the Multimedia Services Section and T.D. Webb is previous University Librarian, both at Hong Kong Baptist University Library; e-mail: rebekahw@hkbu. edu.hk, [email protected]. Sincere thanks go to Dr. Tong Chong Sze (previous Academic Registrar, HKBU) and Mr. Manson Yiu (Executive Officer, Academic Registry, HKBU). Without their cooperation, thi...