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1 – 10 of over 7000The quality of library selectors’ initial decisions about which titles to relegate to storage will determine how convenient patrons are going to find the arrangement. Some of…
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The quality of library selectors’ initial decisions about which titles to relegate to storage will determine how convenient patrons are going to find the arrangement. Some of these decisions will inevitably need to be reversed over time, as research interests evolve and mistakes come to light. If patrons request storage items frequently, circulation records can identify these items for possible return transfer. Monographs can usually be restored easily, but serials pose harder questions, since back runs take up so much space on the home shelves. At the University of Florida, each request for a stored serial volume is compared to previous requests from the same title. Examining clusters of years retrieved over time provides an opportunity to “derelegate” portions of a back run, rather than the entire mass, to the active collection. Such a transfer saves shelf space, and responds directly to users’ demonstrated needs.
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The development of mobile applications in multiple clouds environment is a complex task because of the lack of platform standards in cloud computing and mobile computing. The…
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The development of mobile applications in multiple clouds environment is a complex task because of the lack of platform standards in cloud computing and mobile computing. The source code involves various proprietary programming libraries for different platforms. However, functionalities are inevitably changed over time, as well as the platform. Therefore, a great deal of development effort is required, when changes need to be made at functional and platform level. This paper aims to propose SIMON, a framework that eases complexity of the development to support software evolution.
Design/methodology/approach
SIMON shields the developer from the complexity of mobile and cloud platforms in the development of mobile applications in multiple clouds environment. The framework uses model of application design to automate the development and support execution of mobile applications in system environment that needs integration to the number of data sources located on multiple clouds. The framework is composed of prefabricated components that support function changeability and platform adaptability.
Findings
The framework is examined with the development of a sample application. After it is evaluated with scenarios that involve changing at functional and platform levels, the result shows significant reducing of the development effort by comparing with the other approaches.
Originality/value
The framework facilitates the implementation of mobile applications in the software system that involves integration to multiple clouds, and it supports software evolution with lesser development effort.
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This paper describes the development of a fault‐tolerant database processor (DBP) system to replace OCLC's conventional file system, which not only improves overall system…
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This paper describes the development of a fault‐tolerant database processor (DBP) system to replace OCLC's conventional file system, which not only improves overall system reliability and database availability, but also facilitates the operation and management of a large and rapidly growing online database. This database processor became operational on 16 October 1978, an achievement that represents a significant advance in the operation of information storage and retrieval systems.
Advances in telecommunications are providing libraries with the ability to link networks, to move information at faster and faster speeds and to combine data in ways barely…
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Advances in telecommunications are providing libraries with the ability to link networks, to move information at faster and faster speeds and to combine data in ways barely perceived 20 years ago. In Journey to the 21st Century, the summary of OCLC's Strategic Plan, OCLC's telecommunications strategy stated that between 1995 and 2000, OCLC would become fully integrated into the digital, global community that is emerging. This document summarizes OCLC's linking strategy with respect to US national networks that are becoming part of that global community — the Internet and its next phase, the National Research and Education Network (NREN).
If you had been using a 300 bit per second (bps) modem, then switched to a 1200 bps unit, as so many users did a few years ago, you were probably impressed with the changes you…
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If you had been using a 300 bit per second (bps) modem, then switched to a 1200 bps unit, as so many users did a few years ago, you were probably impressed with the changes you saw. Transmissions that formerly swept slowly across lines of text at 300 bps began producing those lines at heartbeat rates. With 2400 bps modems the text appeared even more rapidly, but that was by no means the upper limit of data transmission speeds from personal computers. Today, modems are available to pump out data at rates of 9600 bps, and faster.
Based on a three‐level digital preservation framework, the purpose of this paper is to suggest a solution for long‐term digital preservation for the public administration sector…
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Purpose
Based on a three‐level digital preservation framework, the purpose of this paper is to suggest a solution for long‐term digital preservation for the public administration sector, in the form of a centralised intermediate repository, on the basis of the concept of cloud computing.
Design/methodology/approach
By means of a thorough review of the literature in this area and an analysis of the current state of the art, the paper investigates a three‐level digital preservation framework with a focus on the public sector. It cross‐links this framework with the cloud computing concept, in order to propose an appropriate solution.
Findings
The mapping of six factors of digital preservation to three levels of digital preservation shows that using appropriate steps supported by suitable strategies and policies enables the public administration sector to take advantage of modern information technology and solve the demanding and critical problem of digital preservation.
Practical implications
The paper suggests an organisational and technological solution in the form of a centralised digital preservation repository within a cloud computing framework, to aid both organisations of the public sector which deal with active life cycle document phases and archives and libraries which deal with passive phases of documents and records.
Originality/value
The paper addresses the difficulties of digital preservation implementation in the public administration sector. The findings indicate that while developing and implementing digital preservation, the public administration sector should formulate common policies and solutions based on the suggested results of this paper and, in doing so, maximise the benefits of current technologies.
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Two recent international standards, the Search and Retrieve Protocol (ISO 29350) and the Interlibrary Loan Protocol (ISO 10160/1), and a recommendation for standardisation of…
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Two recent international standards, the Search and Retrieve Protocol (ISO 29350) and the Interlibrary Loan Protocol (ISO 10160/1), and a recommendation for standardisation of electronic document delivery will have a great impact in the area of inter‐library loan and document delivery. In combination, the three standards will allow end‐users to search for items, find a location for the item, order it, and receive the item electronically, without the intervention of an intermediary. This paper gives a brief overview of the history and development of the three standards. The two protocols and the important role played by two implementation groups, the ZIG and the IPIG, are discussed. The electronic delivery recommendation was developed by an international group in the early 1990s and has recently been submitted as an international standard. The paper concludes with a description of one major project (UNIverse) that is looking at the integration of all aspects of searching and delivery using these standards.
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It is difficult to recall ten years later the depth of feeling roused among university librarians in Britain by the report of a University Grants Committee Working Party on…
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It is difficult to recall ten years later the depth of feeling roused among university librarians in Britain by the report of a University Grants Committee Working Party on Capital provision for university libraries. “Anger, indignation, incredulity and despondency” were among the immediate reactions to the Atkinson report, nor were these reactions confined to university librarians alone. The academic community at large reacted violently to the proposals, and in so doing identified the well‐being of universities unequivocally with that of their libraries.
At present higher education in Hungary comprises 74 state, 24 church and four private institutions of which 19 offer courses at university level and 74 are specialised colleges…
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At present higher education in Hungary comprises 74 state, 24 church and four private institutions of which 19 offer courses at university level and 74 are specialised colleges. The legal framework for education and research in the system of higher education institutions is the Higher Education Act passed in 1993. With the Academy of Sciences Act being passed in 1994 the legal foundations for scholarship and scientific research have also been laid down. The Conference of Rectors of universities has produced a report on plans for higher education in Hungary up to the year 2000 which calls for updating of many aspects of university education. All these developments will greatly increase the number of students (by about 50–60 per cent), will result in changed curricula, enable more institutions to grant scientific degrees (including Ph.D) and will result in the setting up of regional universities with several faculties.
Most large academic and research libraries have placed parts of their collections in off‐site storage. The author discusses the full range of decision‐making criteria used in…
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Most large academic and research libraries have placed parts of their collections in off‐site storage. The author discusses the full range of decision‐making criteria used in selecting materials to be transferred into such facilities, their rationale and liabilities. The physical impact of remote library storage includes closed/limited access, collection disassembly, user inconvenience/lower productivity, and usage decline. Intellectual impact may encompass undermined scholarship, diminished graduate education, and inhibited library services. Although digital storage and electronic publishing hold some promise of relief for these problems, it’s still too early to tell just how much. Has the ubiquitous use of remote library storage taken collection development into the era of de‐construction?
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