Robots in the Nigerian University Library - first of its kind

Robots in the Nigerian University Library -  first of its kind

University of Lagos Library is the first University Library in West Africa to deploy robots for its services.

Dr. Yetnde Zaid led library has incorporated the use of the Cruzr robots, which has been dubbed "RoboScholar", in the administration of efficient library services.
Watch how the University of how the UNILAG Library Engages its RoboScholar

New Book: Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research perspectives

Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research perspectives

Edited by G G Chowdhury, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

"Professors Chowdhury and Foo are to be commended on assembling this thoughtful body of work on digital libraries from around the world. The volume is a valuable addition to library collections, digital and otherwise."

- Christine L Borgman, UCLA

An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries.

Internationally renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future through the prism of research. The increasing number of digital libraries in all sectors and the pressure of ever more demanding and diverse user needs have encouraged the development of user-centred interfaces, intelligent search and retrieval capabilities, effective metadata description and efficient contents organization.

In addition to the two editors who are renowned for their works in digital library research, this collection brings together established international names in the field to analyse these developments in relation to users and information access and the future trends and challenges that practitioners will face.

Contents:

• Foreword Christine L Borgman
• Digital libraries and information access: introduction Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
• Design and architecture of digital libraries Hussein Suleman
• Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces Ali Shiri and Dinesh Rathi
• Information Access Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
• Collaborative Search and Retrieval in Digital Libraries Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
• The social element of digital libraries Natalie Pang
• Towards socially inclusive digital libraries Chern Li Liew
• Users’ interactions with digital libraries T D Wilson and Elena Macevičiūtė
• Digital libraries and scholarly information: technology, market, users and usage Jeonghyun Kim, Angel Durr and Suliman Hawamdeh
• Digital libraries and open access Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
• iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories Christopher C Yang and Jung-ran Park
• Usability of digital libraries Sudatta Chowdhury
• Intellectual property and digital libraries Michael Fraser
• Digital preservation: interoperability ad modum Milena Dobreva and Raivo Ruusalepp

Digital libraries and information access: research trends Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo.

2012

256pp

£49.95

Paperback: 978-1-85604-821-7

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Do LIBRARIES Matter in this modern world?

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1. The context of Library 2.0

• Do libraries matter in the modern world?
• What is meant by ‘the expectations of the modern world’?
• What impact does this have?
• What do these modern world experiences mean for libraries?

The changing software market

• So what does the new application model look like?
• So what does this all actually mean?

So what does all this mean for the library?
Introducing Library 2.0

• Our view of the principles of Library 2.0


• The library is everywhere


• The library has no barriers 10


• The library invites participation


• The library uses flexible, best-of-breed systems


• The library matters 11

The library’s information provider crown is slipping. Justifiably or not, today libraries are
increasingly viewed as outdated, with modern, Internet-based services, such as Amazon and
Google, looking set to inherit the throne.

Even so, we believe that there is plenty of life left in the library yet. This survival demands change though. Inevitably, as the world advances, the library must also evolve and begin to deliver its services in the ways that its modern users expect.

Library 2.0 is a concept of a very different library service that operates according to the expectations of today’s library users. In this vision, the library makes information available wherever and whenever the user requires it.

At times, realising this vision will be tough. But we believe it will also be exciting and fulfilling.
In the end, we hope it will be proof that the library really does continue to matter.

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