Book reviews online

As the number of new academic books published each year continues to rise, such that it becomes evermore difficult to keep abreast of them in one's discipline, the book‐review procedure takes on an increasing importance. This paper outlines the design and development of an automated system for handling book reviews. Descriptions are given of some prototypes that have been developed for use on an intranet server and/or the Internet. These systems, based on SGML and HTML, are briefly discussed and compared

Special Libraries, February 1966

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Special Libraries, December 1977

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Multilanguage Library Search Systems

This thesis presents an application of information retrieval in a multilingual environment, by computerising the documents stored in a library. These documents are either in English/French or in Arabic. Some approaches to processing them are discussed; the possibilities to mix the documents are studied and a solution is developed. English and French documents are grouped together and a method for their retrieval is developed. Arabic documents are not considered in their original scripts but are romanised. The proposed method for searching the Arabic documents is based on the reduction of the words into root-pattern pairs which is handled by a morphological study of the Arabic words. The Arabic documents are totally separated from English/French documents. Finally, a user interface and the implementation of the system are developed to realise the aim of this project. The user interface gives possibilities for the user of the library to search documents in either English/French or Arabic. File structures are presented in the context of information retrieval and an evaluation of the system in terms of efficiency is studied

Special Libraries, February 1964

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E-reading in organizations: Users' satisfaction and preference

This paper defines electronic reading (e-reading) and then continues to discuss the diverse definitions of the main resource of e-reading, which are, electronic books (e-books). It then proceeds to describe the formats and standards of existing e-book initiatives, which are gaining wider interest since the introduction of portable electronic reading devices and software-based readers that provide users with a more realistic book reading experience. Advantages, disadvantages, and problems with paper-based reading are also explained. In addition, a study concerning an evaluation of e-reading satisfaction is described. Three different e-book formats (LIT, PDF, and HTML) were utilised to accomplish the primary aims of the study, which were to identify the most preferred format, associated software-based reader (Microsoft Reader, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Internet Explorer), and the potential of e-reading in the workplace. Based on a proposed preferred index, the results seem to suggest that Microsoft Reader is more preferable when compared to the other two. However, most participants preferred reading on paper rather than on screen. Although this was the case, some participants would e-read depending on resources and situations