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Creating and reading realistic electronic books
A digital library project aims to combine the look and feel of physical books with the advantages of online documents such as hyperlinks and multimedia. A lightweight open source implementation enables highly responsive page turning and works within standard Web browsers
Searching in a Book
Information has no value unless it is accessible. With physical books, most people rely on the table of contents and subject index to find what they want. But what if they are reading a book in a digital library and have access to a full-text search tool?.
The paper describes a search interface to Realistic Books, and investigates the influence of document format and search result presentation on information finding. We compare searching in Realistic Books with searching in HTML and PDF files, and with physical books
Electronic books: Are they effective educational tools for students who are deaf or hard of hearing?
This literature review will examine the effectiveness of electronic book features on studentsâ reading development in the general education population and investigate whether or not these digital tools could be a useful tool and/or supplement in literacy for students who are deaf and hard of hearing
Judging a book by its cover: interface elements that affect reader selection of ebooks
Digital library research has demonstrated the impact of content presentation on both search and reading behaviours. In this paper, we scrutinise the influence of ebook presentation on user behaviour, focussing on document thumbnails and the first page view. We demonstrate that flaws in presentation increase the volume of short time-span reading, and reduce the likelihood of long-span reading when compared to other documents. This reflects other patterns of information seeking behaviour that demonstrate increased short-term reading when information content is uncertain, and suggests an ineffective use of reader time on less useful content
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Europe In the Round CDâROM, Guildford, Vocational Technologies, 1994
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Successful Instructional Diagrams by Ric Lowe, London, Kogan Page, 1993. ISBN: 0â7494â0711â5
Information Literacy: Developing Partnerships Across Library Types
This article describes a grant-funded project with the final goal of creating information literacy collaborative partnerships among academic, school, and public libraries. The objectives of the grant as well as an overall description of the project are stated. The emphasis of the article is on the process followed to create the collaborative partnerships and the partnerships created as a result of the grant
Reading Matters in the Academic Library: Taking the Lead from Public Librarians
With the increasing virtualization of resources, reference service, and instruction, college students have fewer reasons to visit the academic library, a place they believe lacks relevance in their lives. This article explores the idea of revitalizing academic libraries by reconsidering the place of pleasure reading in them. Considerable research has been conducted on reading in the last quarter century. Reading serves a host of essential functions, far more than we have ever guessed. The first part of this paper looks at the social, psychological, moral, emotional, and cognitive role it plays in our lives. The second half examines readersâ advisory services that we can borrow or adapt from public libraries, services that can attract new users, promote lifelong reading, and transform academic libraries to be more community, user, and reader focused
Introduction to Library Trends 44 (2) Fall 1995: The Library and Undergraduate Education
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Access to Core Course Materials Project: report of the needs analysis interviews
This report outlines the findings of the Access to Core Course Materials needs
analysis interviews. Interviews were conducted with academics in thirteen
departments (including one pilot interview). Individuals were asked to identify core
materials in their subject, the specific needs of their department, their use of and
attitudes towards the current teaching support services and their requirements for a
future electronic service
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