Library Hi Tech: Volume 32 Issue 3

Skimming comprehension in two online document presentation environments

Nathan Lowrance, Heather Lea Moulaison

Readability applications are the software products designed to make online text more readable. Using information foraging theory as a framework, the purpose of this paper is to…

System of digital publishing policies and regulations in China

XianRong Huang, Ting Hao

– The purpose of this paper is to find the problems in the establishment of Chinese digital publishing policies and regulations system.

Open Source Software solutions in Indian libraries

Anilkumar Hanumappa, Mallikarjun Dora, Viral Navik

The purpose of this paper is to explore the Open Source Software (OSS) market relevant to Indian libraries and more specifically, to review the existing library automation, i.e…

Institutional repository as an important part of scholarly communication

Teja Koler-Povh, Matjaž Mikoš, Goran Turk

The purpose of this paper is to present the institutional repository (IR) named DRUGG (Digital Repository of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic…

Community information portals: content and design issues for information access

Philip Hider, Lisa M. Given, Paul Scifleet

The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of an audit of community information (CI) portals to provide an overview of how CI is being organised and presented on the…

Leveraging student course enrollment data to infuse personalization in a library website

Ian Chan

The purpose of this paper is to describe the benefits of integrating personalization within a library web site and presents methodology for achieving this goal within an academic…

Understanding methodological and disciplinary differences in the data practices of academic researchers

Travis Weller, Amalia Monroe-Gulick

– The purpose of this paper is to better understand the data practices, influences and needs of researchers at a major public research institution.

Web services to link interlibrary software with OCLC WorldShare

Josep-Manuel Rodríguez-Gairín, Marta Somoza-Fernández

– The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of web services to interconnect the GTBib interlibrary loan (ILL) program with the OCLC WorldShare platform.

Integrating PDF interface into Java application

Quan Lu, Gao Liu, Jing Chen

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel approach to integrate portable document format (PDF) interface into Java-based digital library application. It bridges the gap…

Enhancement of reading experience : Users’ behavior patterns and the interactive interface design of tablet readers

Kuo-Liang Huang, Kuo-Hsiang Chen, Chun-Heng Ho

Tablets are becoming mainstream devices for digital reading. Through user experience (UX), the purpose of this paper is to identify significant differences between tablet reading…

Experts as facilitators for the implementation of social media in the library? A social network approach

Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe, Elke Boudry, Ruben Vanderlinde, Pieter Verdegem

Based on the social capital theory, the authors assume that personal and professional experts are both relevant to people's competence development. However, to date, there is…

StatBase: library statistics made easy

Alexandria Payne, John Curtis

The purpose of this paper is to detail a Library open source software (OSS) development project resulting in the launch of StatBase, a statistical gathering and data visualization…