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Imagining the digital library in a commercialized Internet

Ronald J. Heckart
- 01 Jul 1999 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 4, pp 274-280
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Digital library planning must address these trends in ways that effectively use changing technology, but also respect professional values of privacy, fairness, and disinterestedness.
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This article is published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.The article was published on 1999-07-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: The Internet & Digital library.

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An Analytical Survey of Chat Reference Services.

Stephen A. Francoeur
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
TL;DR: Survey of chat reference services around the globe and analyzes trends in the provision of this new mode of assistance and presents discussion of why chat reference service is gathering attention as well as its limitations and drawbacks.
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Digital library research 1997‐2007: Organisational and people issues

Chern Li Liew
- 06 Mar 2009 - 
TL;DR: This review aims to provide a snapshot of digital library research of the past 11 years that focuses on organisational and people issues, including those concerning the social/cultural, legal, ethical, and use dimensions.
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Information intermediaries and optimal information distribution

Ryan Womack
- 01 Jan 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined three institutional forms of information intermediary: the for-profit firm, the nonprofit organization, and the government agency, using results from the economics and information science literature.
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An overview of electronic books: a bibliography

Chennupati K. Ramaiah
- 01 Feb 2005 - 
TL;DR: This bibliography brings together all bibliographic references of the published literature on electronic books (e-books) and related technologies in one source so that it will save time for others in conducting literature searches and reviewing the developments.
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From Information Center to Discovery System: Next Step for Libraries?.

James W. Marcum, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2001 - 
TL;DR: The model fuses organizational learning, systems learning, and knowledge creation techniques with constructivist learning practices to suggest a possible future direction for the academic library of the future.
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The Five Laws of Library Science

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan
TL;DR: The works of the renowned Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan - considered the father of library science in India - cover certain facets of library and information science.
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate

Steven Johnson
TL;DR: In this article, Johnson explores the history of the modern interface design and its roots in Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning to understand how modern interfaces influence our daily lives.
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Real Time: Preparing for the Age of the Never Satisfied Customer

Regis McKenna
TL;DR: McKenna's Real Time as mentioned in this paper is a book on doing business in a real-time world, where time and distance vanish, action and response are simultaneous, and customers demand instant gratification...or else.
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Ethnography of novices' first use of Web search engines: affective control in cognitive processing

Diane Nahl
- 01 Jun 1998 - 
TL;DR: Without prior searching instruction, undergraduate novices wrote structured self-reports during their first session on a Web search engine, revealing how users set goals and limit the scope of the cognitive operations in executing searches.
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Supporting Scholarly Inquiry: Incorporating Users in the Design of the Digital Library

Sandra Payette, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1998 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that scholars will benefit from adaptive, flexible user interfaces that enable easy navigation of a complex information landscape.