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Towards a digital library theory: a formal digital library ontology
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2008Digital libraries (DLs) have eluded definitional consensus and lack agreement on common theories and frameworks. This makes comparison of DLs extremely difficult, promotes ad-hoc development, and impedes interoperability. In this paper we propose a formal ontology for DLs that defines the fundamental concepts, relationships, and axiomatic rules that ...
Marcos André Gonçalves +2 more
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The Innovative Library: Innovation Theory Applied to Library Services
Libri, 1995The purpose of this paper is to organize the innovation literature - including some of the literature on innovation in libraries - into a framework for the qualitative measurement of innovation in libraries. The framework includes propensity for change, professional engagement, organizational networking, project description and organizational ...
JOHAN OLAISEN +2 more
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Democratic theory in library information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008AbstractA recent article by Joseph Buschman regrets that democratic theory is an unfinished idea. The argument appears to assume an essential relationship between library and information science (LIS) and democratic theory. Libraries services are important for undemocratic purposes also, and like other sociotechnical systems, partake on the cultural ...
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Estimating the demand for library service: Theory and practice
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978AbstractIssues related to the demand for library service are not new to library administrators and other information scientists. However, formal economic analysis of that demand is just beginning. This paper has two objectives: to explain the theoretical links between the demand for library service and key economic variables and to describe how demand ...
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The urban library program: Integrating theory and work
Education for Information, 2008The paper reports on a collaborative education model involving library education, faculty and public library practitioners preparing under-represented and culturally diverse individuals for employment as support staff in public libraries. The Urban Library Program (ULP) is an intensive ten month education certificate at the para-professional level ...
Mary M. Wagner, Deborah Willms
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Applying the Critical Theory of Library Technology to Distance Library Services
Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 2010The re-envisioning of libraries as information leaders in higher education requires an examination of the decisions made in the acquisition and adoption of library technology. The Critical Theory of Library Technology offers a framework for viewing technology decisions through a social, economic and political perspective.
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Modelling Advances in Gatekeeping Theory for Academic Libraries
Journal of Documentation, 2019Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the appropriateness of gatekeeping theory, particularly its recent elaboration in journalism and communication studies for the investigation of information flows in academic libraries. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the methods of conceptual analysis and thought experiment.
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Contingency Theory for polytechnic libraries
Journal of librarianship, 1981The structure of any organization is determined by its response to environmental pressures and by a systems analysis of the organization itself. Polytechnic libraries face change in relation both to their evolving internal systems and to the discordant dynamic environment in which they exist. However, changes in library service can only be accommodated
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Translating the IMPS Theory Library to MMT/OMDoc
2018The IMPS system by Farmer, Guttman and Thayer was an influential automated reasoning system, pioneering mechanisations of features like theory morphisms, partial functions with subsorts, and the little theories approach to the axiomatic method. It comes with a large library of formalised mathematical knowledge covering a broad spectrum of different ...
Jonas Betzendahl, Michael Kohlhase
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Motion4D – A library for lightrays and timelike worldlines in the theory of relativity
Computer Physics Communications, 2009zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Thomas Müller 0005, Frank Grave
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