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Library technical services
About: Library technical services is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 150 publications have been published within this topic receiving 595 citations. The topic is also known as: technical services.
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TL;DR: It is shown that the current information systems have a high potential to be improved by integration with AI technologies, and the conclusion is that research in the area of smart resources needs to be developed.
Abstract: This paper reviews literature on the application of intelligent systems in the libraries with a special issue on the ES/AI and Robot Also, it introduces the potential of libraries to use intelligent systems, especially ES/AI and robots,Descriptive and content review methods are applied, and the researchers critically reviewed the articles related to library ESs and robots from Web of Science as a general database and Emerald as a specific database in library and information science from 2007–2017 Four scopes considered to classify the articles as technology, service, user and resource It is found that published researches on the intelligent systems have contributed to many librarian purposes like library technical services like the organization of information resources, storage and retrieval of information resources, library public services as reference services, information desk and other purposes,A review of the previous studies shows that ESs are a useable intelligent system in library and information science that mimic librarian expert’s behaviors to support decision making and management Also, it is shown that the current information systems have a high potential to be improved by integration with AI technologies In this researches, librarian robots mostly designed for detection and replacing books on the shelf Improving the technology of gripping, localizing and human-robot interaction are the main concern in recent librarian robot research Our conclusion is that we need to develop research in the area of smart resources,This study has a new approach to the literature review in this area We compared the published papers in the field of ES/AI and robot and library from two databases, general and specific
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TL;DR: Initial connections are drawn between existing literature and the impact of the pandemic on remote work, and future directions for research and discussion are offered.
27 citations
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TL;DR: Using interlibrary loan borrowing and book acquisition statistics gathered for one fiscal year from three health sciences libraries, the authors developed a way to graph the broad and narrow subject fields of strength and potential weakness in a book collection.
Abstract: Libraries, especially those supporting the sciences, continually face the problem of selecting appropriate new books for their users. Traditional collection development techniques include the use of librarian or user subject specialists, user recommendations, and approval plans. These methods of selection, however, are most effective in large libraries and do not systemically correlate new book purchases with the actual demands of users served. This paper describes a statistical method for determining subject strengths and weaknesses in a library book collection in relation to user demand. Using interlibrary loan borrowing and book acquisition statistics gathered for one fiscal year from three health sciences libraries, the authors developed a way to graph the broad and narrow subject fields of strength and potential weakness in a book collection. This method has the advantages of simplicity, speed of implementation, and clarity. It can also be used over a period of time to verify the success or failure of a collection development program. Finally, the method has potential as a tool for use by two or more libraries seeking to improve cooperative collection development in a network or consortium.
27 citations
01 Jun 2000
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TL;DR: A literature review revealed that the majority of articles addressing the impact of institutional repositories on library operations emphasize the role of public services as mentioned in this paper, and a survey was sent to 123 Association of Research Libraries libraries to determine how the management and workload associated with institutional repositories is distributed across the library including whether institutional repository responsibilities are fulfilled in technical services and whether there has been reorganization of technical services to handle the institutional repository.
Abstract: The library technical services units at the Ohio State University Libraries are heavily involved in the operation of the institutional repository. A literature review revealed that the majority of articles addressing the impact of institutional repositories on library operations emphasize the role of public services. In an effort to determine if the Ohio State experience was unusual, a survey was sent to 123 Association of Research Libraries libraries through the Association of Research Libraries directors' listserv. The survey was designed to determine how the management and workload associated with institutional repositories is distributed across the library including whether institutional repository responsibilities are fulfilled in technical services and whether there has been reorganization of technical services to handle the institutional repository. Twenty-one percent of the libraries returned the survey. Most of the institutions indicated that the operation and management of the institutional repo...
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