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User Preferences in Reference Services: Virtual Reference and Academic Libraries
portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007 This study examines the use of chat in an academic library's user population and where virtual reference services might fit within the spectrum of public services offered by academic libraries. Using questionnaires, this research demonstrates that many within the academic community are open to the idea of chat-based reference or using chat for some ...
Cummings, Joel +2 more
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Embedded Librarians and the TEACH Act [PDF]
, 2013 Embedded librarians who work in online courses in American post-secondary institutions should embrace the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act, or TEACH Act, the federal law that governs online teaching and learning.
Burik, Anthony N
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Sustainable Materials Design With Multi‐Modal Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Critical mineral scarcity, high embodied carbon, and persistent pollution from materials processing intensify the need for sustainable materials design. This review frames the problem as multi‐objective optimization under heterogeneous, high‐dimensional evidence and highlights multi‐modal AI as an enabling pathway.
Tianyi Xu +8 more
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Public Libraries and the Internet 2006 [PDF]
, 2006 Examines the capability of public libraries to provide and sustain public access Internet services and resources that meet community needs, including serving as the first choice for content, resources, services, and technology ...
Charles R. McClure +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The modulation of polar tetrahedra enabled the synthesis of an outstanding short‐wave UV NLO crystal, Zn(C2H4NO2)2[SO2(NH2)2], which achieves a rare balance of a large bandgap (5.93 eV), high birefringence (Δn = 0.126 at 546 nm), and strong SHG response (1.36 × KDP), especially achieving excellent phase‐matching throughout the full transparency range ...
Chenjie Cui +7 more
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International Journal of Librarianship, 2019 Librarians need feedback from users to improve library services. On the other hand, users need assistance from librarians in order to gain a better understanding of library services. This paper focuses on how Chinese students use U.S. academic libraries’
Xiaojie Duan
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"Death of social encounters": Investigating COVID-19's initial impact on virtual reference services in academic libraries. [PDF]
J Assoc Inf Sci Technol, 2022 Radford ML, Costello L, Montague KE.
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A-Lib 2.0: New Avatar Academic Libraries with Web 2.0 Applications [PDF]
, 2008 The web has seen the explosion of social networking tools, which are empowering ordinary people to connect, collaborate and contribute in a global collaboration.
Dora, Mallikarjun, Maharana, Bulu
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Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang +9 more
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Web-Scale Search and Virtual Reference Service: How Summon Is Impacting Reference Question Complexity and Reference Service Delivery [PDF]
Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 2013 Web-scale discovery tools like Summon are becoming the norm at academic libraries across North America. How much do these tools simplify discovery? What changes do they bring to the provision of reference service? At Royal Roads University, where most students complete graduate degrees through distance study, I applied the READ scale to reference ...
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