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Senior citizens embrace change and make a new technology work for them
2008
Electronic library
There is a perception that "Seniors" are reluctant to change but a recent Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind pilot project to test an internet-connected digital talking book player with borrowers ...
This positive attitude to change by seniors was also reinforced in a survey of library users and non-users conducted by the Foundation. ...
A survey of RNZFB library users and nonusers, and a Digital Talking Book Trial. The results from both the survey and the trial showed seniors are not afraid of technology or change. ...
doi:10.1108/02640470810910693
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Digital Literacy and Public Policy through the Library Lens
2013
Maine policy review
for digital literacy instruction. ...
To support libraries interested in replicating these "learning labs," the MacArthur Foundation has also created a toolkit with resources for libraries and other organizations to develop similar programs ...
doi:10.53558/wcuz5068
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Towards automatic conceptual personalization tools
2007
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Digital libraries - JCDL '07
These findings serve to inform the design of personalized instruction tools for digital libraries. ...
Digital library resources provided the content base for human experts to construct a domain competency model for earthquakes and plate tectonics encoded as a knowledge map. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work is funded in part by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award IIS/ALT 0537194. ...
doi:10.1145/1255175.1255268
dblp:conf/jcdl/AhmadCBSM07
fatcat:v66jpncl45dqfh5jwx6obq55vm
Electronic Text Centers
2000
Journal of Library Administration
ELECTRONIC TEXTS CENTERS What is an Electronic Text Center and why are some libraries establishing them? Electronic Text Centers are both real places, with high-Joan R. Giesecke is Dean ...
In this article, we will describe a slightly different approach to building digital collections. ...
Staff person learns about Encoded Archival Description (EAD). 1999 Foundation proposal ''Expanding Digitization and Electronic Text Work'' submitted to NU Foundation. ...
doi:10.1300/j111v31n02_08
fatcat:3httv6qc5bbwvo4zms3pmom2ju
The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program
2005
D-Lib Magazine
This project is providing the equivalent of a personal digital library, allowing patrons to store digital library holdings together with the associated identifying metadata. ...
The Computational Science Education Reference Desk . Institution: Shodor Education Foundation Inc. (PI: Robert Panoff). ...
doi:10.1045/march2005-zia
fatcat:enqbubxylnhwpgc3ddmgqkzjh4
Impact of Overemphasis of Technology on Information Literacy Program: A Study
2019
Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services
lifelong learning and a skill to use information effectively rather than giving more emphasis on technology,which can only make a computer literate who may be expert in using computer, but may not be ...
This paper argues that the concept of Information Literacy has been in use before the Information Explosion and it should be treated as an ability to understand the intricacies of information, as a tool for ...
These tutorials sometimes replace or supplement in person library instruction session. ...
doi:10.51983/ijiss.2019.9.s1.571
fatcat:2mhlb7zeq5bulhcjdtzhwtb7we
The Shape of Services to Come: Values-Based Reference Service for the Largely Digital Library
1997
College and Research Libraries
holistic computing environments, delivering core services through the network, making technology work for all, and collaborating across administrative lines. ...
Much has been said about the technological dimensions of the largely digital library of the future, but little has been said about the service values librarians must advance to make this environment work ...
But if the person begins in a computer user room, he or she is much closer to one-stop shopping, albeit with the potential for loss due to the lack of on-site reference or instructional assistance. ...
doi:10.5860/crl.58.3.252
fatcat:vbnrleh5tzaclnilf5dfragmbq
PROMISING LIBRARY PRACTICES: ASSESSING AND INSTRUCTING DIGITAL PROBLEM SOLVING
2018
International Journal on Innovations in Online Education
with digital tools in libraries for the wider public more generally. ...
with digital tools in libraries for the wider public more generally. ...
A structured assessment can also provide librarians, library staff, and volunteers with knowledge about how much in-person support an individual may need in order to be successful with a given digital ...
doi:10.1615/intjinnovonlineedu.2019029875
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Analyzing Public Library Service Interactions to Improve Public Library Customer Service and Technology Systems
2012
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Conclusions – Technology help is a core customer need for Edmonton Public Library, with requests varying in complexity and sometimes resolved with instruction. ...
Further analysis revealed significant library customer need for help with Internet workstations and printing. ...
computers that ended with personal talk between a customer and a staff member. ...
doi:10.18438/b8np6t
fatcat:ko4qomjrrnfa5bjub3torypohq
SELECTIONS FROM ERIC
2017
Education Libraries
Although making college libraries accessible by computer appears simple to laymen, developing a fully digitized library is not simple. ...
;s ' desire for hard copy persists. ...
AskERIC and the Virtual Library : Lessons for Emerging Digital Libraries. Internet Research, v5 n1 p56-63. ...
doi:10.26443/el.v19i3.91
fatcat:6tthtrj2szbbhe3igty4qb6j6y
Are High-Impact Practices Library Programs the Next Disruptive Innovation for Instruction Programs?
2018
Journal of New Librarianship
As the landscape within higher education continues to shift and learning success initiatives become more distributed and complex, many library instruction programs are faced with difficult choices. ...
This article briefly introduces the theory of disruptive innovation and questions whether high-impact library instruction practices (HIPs) have the potential to be a disruptive innovation. ...
Library instruction itself has followed an evolutionary path within this niche, gaining a foothold during the rise of the personal computer and later during the one-shot era where librarians partnered ...
doi:10.21173/newlibs/4/17
fatcat:hyebnmfln5endewznccaqdlssu
Enhancing distance learning using quality digital libraries and CITIDEL
[chapter]
2003
Quality Education @ a Distance
The rapid growth of digital libraries worldwide, coupled with the NSDL initiative and the CITIDEL project, make digital libraries ideal resources for distance education and learning. ...
The Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (CITIDEL) project is responsible for the computing content collection of the overall NSDL initiative. ...
With searches covering the entire ACM Digital Library, the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, as well as NCSTRDL, NDLTD (2003) , CSTC, and other collections of resources, CITIDEL provides access to ...
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35700-3_7
dblp:conf/ifip3-6/LeeICFGKP03
fatcat:ndbx3tnxffchlpquq5x4mb73gm
IT media for the development of technical education in Iraq
2017
International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration
and misused mutually by instructive foundations and specialized with the organizations that consent to the foundation of the association. ...
Importance of (virtual library) in the distance learning process A virtual library is a library that captures the sources of digital information, whether produced in digital form or changed over into advanced ...
doi:10.19101/ijatee.2017.432006
fatcat:jmgvq5kxznc73jflvirrycvwmu
The Role of Digital Libraries in Moving Toward Knowledge Environments
[chapter]
2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Information Science unfold through digital libraries. ...
We illustrate how suitable knowledge environments can be more easily prepared as instances of these meta-models, resulting in usable and useful DLs, including for education, computing, and archaeology. ...
Acknowledgements The work discussed in this paper was funded in part by the US National Science Foundation through grants DUE-0333531, 0121741, 0136690, 0121679; IIS-0325579, 0086227, 0080748, 0002935, ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31842-2_11
fatcat:a27lr6lllrapxcqxghj4c5jwxu
Enacting Change: A Study of the Implementation of e-Readers and an Online Library in two Canadian High School Classrooms
2010
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
of a customized and purposespecific online library for two selected high school classrooms at a time when such systems did not exist for this purpose. ...
In this paper the authors discuss their interdisciplinary pilot project entitled 'Teaching for the 21st Century: A Pilot Project on E-Reading with SD62' that engaged in the development and implementation ...
Computers are not ideal personal reading mediums, and so materials were transferred from the online library to the more manageable personal e-readers. ...
doi:10.18352/lq.7977
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