introduction: nowadays , use of library software is a basic need for libraries and information centers. user interface is a part of computerized systems which is interacting to the user and it is an important factor in information searching process. this study aimed to compare librarian's satisfaction rate from library software interface in isfahan libraries in 2010. methods: this was a descrip...

Recent years have witnessed a noticeable proliferation in Digital Library Systems (DLSs) and their specialized form represented in Digital Heritage Resources (DHRs). DHRs usually manage a complex and varied mix of digital heritage objects of different types and formats. They tend to be complex in nature and usually involve complex, simultaneous and intersecting workflows. As a result, DHRs impo...

The Norwegian BIBSYS consortium replaced the self-developed and -hosted library system by Alma, a Library Services Platform delivered by Ex Libris in December 2015. Academic libraries and consortia in particular, considering replacing its current ILS with a next generation library system could use the BIBSYS experience. In this article, BIBSYS shares its experiences with the procurement process...

The electric powered aircraft’s secondary system has advantages of cost and efficiency when compared to the conventional aircraft power system. However, the advantages come at the cost of increased design and analysis complexity. This paper presents a VHDL-AMS based, system-level and behavioral aircraft electrical library developed in ANSYS Simplorer. The library is intended to provide a conven...

Greenstone and DSpace are widely used software systems for digital libraries, and prospective users sometimes wonder which one to adopt. In fact, the aims of the two are very different, although their domains of application do overlap. This article describes the two systems and identifies their similarities and differences. We also present StoneD [note 1] a bridge between the production version...

In a large-scale digital library, it is essential to recommend a small number of useful and related articles to users. In this paper, a literature recommendation framework for digital libraries is proposed that dynamically provides recommendations to an active user when browsing a new article. This framework extends our previous work that considers only Web usage data by utilizing content infor...

While many digital libraries focus on supporting defined tasks that require targeted searching, there is potential for enabling serendipitous discovery that can serve multiple purposes from aiding with the targeted search to suggesting new approaches, methods and ideas. In this research we embedded a tool in a novel interface to suggest other pages to examine in order to assess how that tool mi...

This paper describes technological and methodological options to achieve interoperability in accessing electronic information resources, available in Internet, in the scope of Brazilian Digital Library in Science and Technology Project - BDL, developed by Brazilian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information - IBICT. It stresses the impact of the Web in the publishing and communication p...

In recent years, the use of small screen devices has multiplied rapidly. This paper covers a number of different issues which arise when digital libraries are used in combination with such displays. Known limitations of small screens are presented to the Digital Library community. Two evaluations of pilot small-screen DL systems are presented, with some unexpected cultural and socio-technical c...