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Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment

In the dynamic and interactive academic learning environment, students are required to have qualified information literacy competencies while critically reviewing print and electronic information. However, many undergraduates encounter difficulties…

Tags: Academic administrators, Academic and public librarians, Executives and instructors, Library and information science (LIS) students, University and college undergraduates

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Leveraging Quality Web-based Library User Services in the Digital Age

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore key issues involved with opportunities, challenges, and future developing trends of delivering dynamic and distributed web‐based academic library information resources, services, and instructions for…

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Building the Ubiquitous Library in the 21st Century

On the basis of web-based library information architecture, this paper outlines the ubiquitous library’s most relevant concepts and features tied up with the internet platform. Utilizing successful library projects and applications from the real…

Tags: 21st Century, Design, Digital Age, Instructors, IT specialists, Librarians, Managers, Technical, Ubiquitous library, Web-based

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Emerging Technologies and Their Impacts on Academic Libraries, Librarians, and Library Services

This paper intends to overview most relevant emerging technologies and their impacts on academic libraries, librarians, and web-based library information services in the digital age.

Tags: Academic Library, Digital Age, Emerging Technologies, Information Services, Librarians, Web-based

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Leveraging Academic Library Information Commons for the 21st Century

With the rapid development of modern sciences and technologies, all kinds of data and information from heterogeneous resources can be dynamically accessed, converted and disseminated in the digital world. To meet the challenges of today's information…

Tags: Academic Library, Cutting-Edge Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Information Commons, Reference Services, User Services, Web-based Information Technology

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Enhancing Academic Library Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

For over a decade, hundreds and thousands of researches have been made to initialize information literacy programs and leverage information literacy instructions. Facing up to the new information explosion in the digital age, many academic institutes…

Tags: Academic Instruction, Information literacy, Library Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Scale Effectiveness, Scale Instruction

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Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists,…

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Future of Academic Libraries in the Digital Age: Trends, Discovery and People in the Digital Age

Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of…

Tags: Data management, Digital age Future development, Digital information, JISC, Software

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Dynamic Map Display in Web OPAC: An Experiment at Wichita State University Libraries

Adding more features to the web OPAC or making the Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) more compatible to external web services has been a tendency in recent years. Wichita State University (WSU) Libraries' Dynamic Map Project enriched the…

Tags: Cataloguing, Dynamic mapping, ILS, Location mapping, OPAC public interface, OPAC Search Results, Shelf mapping, SketchUp 3D, SQL query, WSU Libraries

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Location and Shelf Mapping from OPAC Search Results: With Reference To Wichita State University

Purpose Ð The purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic mapping of holding locations to the animated maps in a library catalog which aims to resolve complex shelving situations, augment the user experience in locating library materials and enrich…