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, 2015 The use of volunteers in English public libraries is nothing new, however their use is becoming ever greater and one may argue that we are increasingly seeing a mixed economy of public library provision, in the wider arena of the Big Society.
McLeod, Julie +2 more
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Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2012 Information centers are duly obliged to move in line with their parent organizations’ goals and missions in creating knowledge. In the age of information and communication revolution, and in a knowledge-based economy, organizations that are involved in ...
Abdolhossein Farajpahlou +1 more
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Continual Learning for Multimodal Data Fusion of a Soft Gripper
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Models trained on a single data modality often struggle to generalize when exposed to a different modality. This work introduces a continual learning algorithm capable of incrementally learning different data modalities by leveraging both class‐incremental and domain‐incremental learning scenarios in an artificial environment where labeled data is ...
Nilay Kushawaha, Egidio Falotico
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Public libraries in the "age of austerity" : income generation and public library ethos
, 2014 A UK-wide survey was conducted using questionaires and interviews into the ethical and professional issues that public librarians faced when considering paid versus free access to services.
Poulter, Alan, Pautz, Hartwig
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The Role of Rural Public Libraries in Empowering Farmers [PDF]
تحقیقات اطلاعرسانی و کتابخانههای عمومیObjective: The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of rural public libraries in empowering farmers from librarians’ viewpoints. Method: This is an applied research that was conducted with a qualitative approach using thematic analysis ...
Mahdi Narmenji
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Scaling Up Citizen Workshops in Public Libraries to Disseminate and Discuss Primary Care Research Results: Quasi-Experimental Study. [PDF]
JMIR Aging, 2022 Massougbodji J +12 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Public Libraries and Knowledge Centers newsletter
, 2010 This publication contains may contain links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).This publication contains many links to ...
Public Libraries and Knowledge Centres
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings +6 more
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Images of exclusion: user and community perceptions of the public library [PDF]
, 2000 The paper examines how disadvantaged groups, communities and individuals use and perceive the public library. It reviews recent research on the use of, and attitudes towards, public libraries by working class and disadvantaged people and on perceptions ...
Muddiman, Dave
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