the present study mainly aims to demonstrate the weaknesses and strengths of using marketing principles in academic libraries and finally presenting some important suggestions in order to improve their marketing. this study proceeds through expressing the current marketing situation of studied academic libraries from the view point of 4p model. in this regard, the current situation is analyzed ...

These lecture notes introduce libraries for datatype-generic programming in Haskell. We introduce three characteristic generic programming libraries: lightweight implementation of generics and dynamics, extensible and modular generics for the masses, and scrap your boilerplate. We show how to use them to use and write generic programs. In the case studies for the different libraries we introduc...

Libraries are the tools we use to learn and to answer our questions. The quality of our work depends, among others, on the quality of the tools we use. Recently, the semantic web and social networking technologies are being introduced to the digital libraries domain. In this article we present the results of an evaluation of social and semantic end-user information discovery services for the di...

In academic libraries, “codes of conduct” are policies that define what people who use those libraries allowed to do in library spaces and serve as rules for enforcement. this policy discourse analysis, the author examines these understand dominant discourses emerge about students libraries. The represented portray through frames deficit thinking, adultism, exclusion, surveillance. study advoca...

purpose: this study aimed at evaluating the usability of central libraries’ websites of universities subordinated to the ministry of science, research and technology (msrt) from the students’ point of view. method: 30 universities had independent pages for their central library website. after making use of a two-stage cluster sampling method, 5 universities and 92 students from each university ...

objective: the aim of this study is to determine and identify the components of the strategic plan of academic libraries so that the academic libraries can take steps to better track the progress of their goals. methods: using descriptive method and reviewing the literature related to the strategic planning and the strategic plans of 65 international academic libraries, the common components of...

The process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. This article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...