Providing collections of resources â books, journals, videos, CDs, papers â was and still is a major function of academic libraries to support learning. When resources were offered electronically, libraries responded proactively, integration was done naturally into a virtual environment of learning. Leveraging on the convenience and speed of technology to meet the information needs of students was a challenge that could not be ignored. This paper highlights user education initiatives that relate to the support of learning and teaching in the virtual environment.

This presentation is an envrionmental scan of the search engine industry and commercial information service providers. It aims at providing an alternative perspective in answering the question of where libraries should go next in the new digital age. This presentation is part of a panel discussion for the Digital Library and Information Systems Team of the University of Arizona Libraries.

Discusses briefly the concept and significance of resource sharing in Indian context with a view to justify on the basis of tremendous growth as well as diversity of explicit knowledge, increased users' demands, diminished budgets, galloping prices for subscribing periodicals and purchasing books, etc. Papers suggest that resource sharing is inevitable among libraries and mentions the concepts, the areas and modalities for cooperation through library consortia in the networked information environment. This paper also covers growth as well as points out merits and demerits of library consortia and the future prospect of consortia in Indian scenario.

Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona / This research investigated the application of techniques successfully used in previous information retrieval research, to the more challenging area of medical informatics. It was performed on a biomedical document collection testbed, CANCERLIT, provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) , which contains information on all types of cancer therapy. The quality or usefulness of terms suggested by three different thesauri, one based on MeSH terms, one based solely on terms from the document collection, and one based on the Unified Medical Language System UMLS Metathesaurus, was explored with the ultimate goal of improving CANCERLIT information search and retrieval. Researchers affiliated with the University of Arizona Cancer Center evaluated lists of related terms suggested by different thesauri for 12 different directed searches in the CANCERLIT testbed. The preliminary results indicated that among the thesauri, there were no statistically significant differences in either term recall or precision. Surprisingly, there was almost no overlap of relevant terms suggested by the different thesauri for a given search. This suggests that recall could be significantly improved by using a combined thesaurus approach.

Thesis--University of Illinois. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-173).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1961. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 502-523).

Thesis--University of Illinois. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-173).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1996. / Includes vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-290).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Karachi, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-102).

Thesis--Rutgers. / Vita. Photocopy of typescript. Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International, 1979. -- 21 cm. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-220).