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A review of: Kwon, Nahyun. "Public Library Patrons' Use of Collaborative Chat Reference Service: The Effectiveness of Question Answering by Question Type." Library & Information Science Research 29.1 (Mar. 2007): 70-91.
Stephanie Hall
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Virtual Reference for Video Collections: System Infrastructure, User Interface and Pilot User Study [PDF]
A new video-based Virtual Reference (VR) tool called VideoHelp was designed and developed to support video navigation escorting, a function that enables librarians to co-navigate a digital video with patrons in the web-based environment.
Borgman +17 more
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Before the pandemic, the University of Toronto was predominantly an in-person experience. The closure of physical libraries and shift to remote learning required library staff and users to adapt to new modes of supporting teaching, learning, and research.
Madeline Gerbig +3 more
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Objective – To investigate and compare the nature of e-mail reference services in academic and public libraries outside the United States. Design – Longitudinal comparative study.
Giovanna Badia
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Virtual Reference Services through Web Search Engines: Study of Academic Libraries in Pakistan
Web search engines (WSE) are powerful and popular tools in the field of information service management. This study is an attempt to examine the impact and usefulness of web search engines in providing virtual reference services (VRS) within academic ...
Rubia Khan +3 more
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Learning from Chatting: How Our Virtual Reference Questions Are Giving Us Answers
Objective - This research compares two types of online reference services and attempts to determine whether the same sorts of questions are being asked; which questions are being asked most often; and whether patron and staff behaviour is consistent or ...
Lorna Rourke, Pascal Lupien
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Multiple image view synthesis for free viewpoint video applications [PDF]
Interactive audio-visual (AV) applications such as free viewpoint video (FVV) aim to enable unrestricted spatio-temporal navigation within multiple camera environments.
Cooke, Eddie, O'Connor, Noel E.
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In-Network View Synthesis for Interactive Multiview Video Systems [PDF]
To enable Interactive multiview video systems with a minimum view-switching delay, multiple camera views are sent to the users, which are used as reference images to synthesize additional virtual views via depth-image-based rendering.
Cheung, Gene +2 more
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Modeling a launch vehicle dynamics accurately is time-consuming since its dynamics is very complex with high nonlinearity, when considering the influence of load variation and other related factors.
Li Duan +4 more
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Objective - The project team investigated the changes necessary to transform the original library into an information commons. The researchers sought to drive the project by asking for patrons’ input, rather than rely on the vision of administrators or ...
Quincy Dalton McCrary
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