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81	The use and usability of SFX: context-sensitive reference linking Joel, Cummings, Ryan, Johnson 03 1900 (has links) SFX is an XML based product designed to inter-link electronic resources with other resources in context-sensitive manner. SFX was first developed at the University of Ghent by Herbert Von de Sompel and has been released as a commercial product by Ex Libris. Use statistics garnered from SFX's statistics module since the implementation July of 2001 are discussed in the context of an academic research library environment. The results from usability testing conducted at Washington State University are reported. These usage statistics demonstrated a pattern of increasing use and exceptional use from FirstSearch databases. Library Science Databases Academic Libraries Human Computer Interaction Qualitative Research Library Statistics Information Science Information Retrieval Internet Libraries Information Seeking Behaviors Electronic Publishing
82	The Situational Small World of a Post-disaster Community: Insights into Information Behaviors after the Devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana Slagle, Tisha Anne 12 1900 (has links) Catastrophes like Katrina destroy a community's critical infrastructure-a situation that instigates several dilemmas. Immediately, the community experiences information disruption within the community, as well as between the community and the outside world. The inability to communicate because of physical or virtual barriers to information instigates instant isolation. Prolonged, this scarcity of information becomes an information poverty spell, placing hardship on a community accustomed to easily accessible and applicable information. Physical devastation causes the scarcity of what Abraham Maslow calls basic survival needs-physiological, security, and social-a needs regression from the need to self-actualize, to meet intellectual and aesthetic needs. Because needs regress, the type of information required to meet the needs, also changes-regresses to information regarding survival needs. Regressed information needs requires altered information behaviors-altered methods and means to meet the information needs of the post-disaster situation. Situational information behavior follows new mores-altered norms-norms constructed for the post-disaster situation. To justify the unconventional, situational social norms, residents must adjust their beliefs about appropriate behavior. Situational beliefs support situational social norms-and situational information behaviors prevail. Residents find they must trust strangers, create makeshift messaging systems, and in some cases, disregard the law to meet their post-disaster survival needs. Disaster information-seeking behavior information behavior disasters social norms Slidell Louisiana Hurricane Katrina information-seeking behaviors information behaviors small world Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- Slidell.
83	ICTS: A catalyst for enriching the learning process and library services in India Chandra, Smita, Patkar, Vivek January 2007 (has links) The advances in ICTs have decisively changed the library and learning environment. On the one hand, ICTs have enhanced the variety and accessibility to library collections and services to break the barriers of location and time. On the other, the e-Learning has emerged as an additional medium for imparting education in many disciplines to overcome the constraint of physical capacity associated with the traditional classroom methods. For a vast developing country like India, this provides an immense opportunity to provide even higher education to remote places besides extending the library services through networking. Thanks to the recent initiatives by the public and private institutions in this direction, a few web-based instruction courses are now running in the country. This paper reviews different aspects of e-Learning and emerging learning landscapes. It further presents the library scene and new opportunities for its participation in the e-Learning process. How these ICTs driven advances can contribute to the comprehensive learning process in India is highlighted. Library Science World Wide Web Virtual Communities Library Systems Communications Archives Interdisciplinarity Community Informatics Digital Libraries Internet Libraries Information Seeking Behaviors Knowledge Structures Electronic Publishing Distributed Learning Reference Services Social Informatics Information Systems Information Literacy Scholarly Communication Science Technology Studies
84	e-Research and the Ubiquitious Open Grid Digital Libraries of the Future Patkar, Vivek, Chandra, Smita January 2006 (has links) Libraries have traditionally facilitated each of the following elements of research: production of new knowledge, its preservation and its organization to make it accessible for use over the generations. In modern times, the library is constantly required to meet the challenges of information explosion. Assimilating resources and restructuring practices to process the large data volumes both in the print and digital form held across the globe, therefore, becomes very important. A recourse by the libraries to application of successive forms of what can be called as Digital Library Technologies (DLT) has been the imperative. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is one recent development that is expected to assist the libraries to partner in setting up virtual learning environment and integrating research on a near universal scale. Future extension of this concept is envisaged to be that of Grid Computing. The technologies driving the â Gridâ would let people share computing power, databases, and other on-line tools securely across institutional and geographic boundaries without sacrificing the local autonomy. Ushering an era of the ubiquitous library helping the e-research is thus on the card. This paper reviews the emerging technological changes and charts the future role for the libraries with special reference to India. Virtual Communities Library Systems Archives Knowledge Organization Information Analysis Community Informatics Digital Libraries Internet Economics of Information Information Seeking Behaviors Knowledge Structures Electronic Publishing Wireless Technologies Information Extraction Geography Academic Libraries Social Informatics Information Ethics Knowledge Management Information Retrieval World Wide Web Digital Preservation Interdisciplinarity Learning Science User Studies Government Information Libraries Distributed Learning null Training Public Libraries Information Systems Information Literacy Geographic Digital Libraries Scholarly Communication Science Technology Studies Knowledge Representation

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