The Durham difference: considering our context

This article reflects on the experience of Durham University Library staff in promoting services as part of undergraduate induction. It challenges the perception that all methods of marketing are equally valuable to all institutions and explores some alternatives

The role of human factors in stereotyping behavior and perception of digital library users: A robust clustering approach

To deliver effective personalization for digital library users, it is necessary to identify which human factors are most relevant in determining the behavior and perception of these users. This paper examines three key human factors: cognitive styles, levels of expertise and gender differences, and utilizes three individual clustering techniques: k-means, hierarchical clustering and fuzzy clustering to understand user behavior and perception. Moreover, robust clustering, capable of correcting the bias of individual clustering techniques, is used to obtain a deeper understanding. The robust clustering approach produced results that highlighted the relevance of cognitive style for user behavior, i.e., cognitive style dominates and justifies each of the robust clusters created. We also found that perception was mainly determined by the level of expertise of a user. We conclude that robust clustering is an effective technique to analyze user behavior and perception

The Warburg Dance Movement Library-The WADAMO Library: A Validation Study

The Warburg Dance Movement Library is a validated set of 234 video clips of dance movements for empirical research in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience of action perception, affect perception and neuroaesthetics. The library contains two categories of video clips of dance movement sequences. Of each pair, one version of the movement sequence is emotionally expressive (Clip a), while the other version of the same sequence (Clip b) is not expressive but as technically correct as the expressive version (Clip a). We sought to complement previous dance video stimuli libraries. Facial information, colour and music have been removed, and each clip has been faded in and out. We equalised stimulus length (6 seconds, 8 counts in dance theory), the dancers’ clothing and video background and included both male and female dancers, and we controlled for technical correctness of movement execution. The Warburg Dance Movement Library contains both contemporary and ballet movements. Two online surveys (N = 160) confirmed the classification into the two categories of expressivity. Four additional online surveys (N = 80) provided beauty and liking ratings for each clip. A correlation matrix illustrates all variables of this norming study (technical correctness, expressivity, beauty, liking, luminance, motion energy)

Library Cartoons: A Literature Review of Library-themed Cartoons, Caricatures, and Comics

To understand differing views of past events, historians, political science scholars, and sociologists have analyzed political and editorial cartoons with themes ranging from elections to fiscal policy to human rights. Yet scant research has been dedicated to cartoons with library themes. The author of this paper examines peer-reviewed literature on the subject of library cartoons, including historical background, analysis of recent themes, and arguments for promoting library-themed cartoons, caricatures, and comics. The author finds a significant gap in the literature on this topic and concludes that information professionals would benefit from a comprehensive content analysis of library-themed cartoons to enhance understanding of the significance of libraries during historic events, assess public perception of libraries, and identify trends over time

Optimal measurement of visual motion across spatial and temporal scales

Sensory systems use limited resources to mediate the perception of a great variety of objects and events. Here a normative framework is presented for exploring how the problem of efficient allocation of resources can be solved in visual perception. Starting with a basic property of every measurement, captured by Gabor's uncertainty relation about the location and frequency content of signals, prescriptions are developed for optimal allocation of sensors for reliable perception of visual motion. This study reveals that a large-scale characteristic of human vision (the spatiotemporal contrast sensitivity function) is similar to the optimal prescription, and it suggests that some previously puzzling phenomena of visual sensitivity, adaptation, and perceptual organization have simple principled explanations.Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures, 2 appendices; in press in Favorskaya MN and Jain LC (Eds), Computer Vision in Advanced Control Systems using Conventional and Intelligent Paradigms, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer-Verlag, Berli

Akses Informasi Dan Persepsi Mahasiswa Keperawatan Terhadap Jasa Perpustakaan Jurusan Keperawatan Politeknik Kesehatan Surakarta

The objective of this study is to analyze the use and participant access behaviour on library services, perception on the services, collection, and its layout of the library unit in Jurusan Keperawatan, Poltekkes Surakarta. An assessment was conducted to 60 students as library members.The assessment was designed by using survey method with questionnaire as interview guidance. The result showed that information access of participants in using library services was low according to needed collection, reading activity, and library loan. Perception of participants on library collection and services was positive, especially on attitude of librarian, and library room setting and room comfortable. 25% of respondent require increasing the literature collection especially the literature in English

Perception Differences of Library Service Quality at Students of Computer Science Faculty and Student of Economics & Business Faculty Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang

Currently, the use of the college library by students felt less. The development of a library can be seen from the service, because the success of the service is the ultimate goal to be achieved by the library. Whether or not the service quality is influenced by the perception of each user. This study aimed to determine whether or not differences in perceptions of library service quality at students of computer science faculty and economics & business faculty Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang.Population was students in the years 2010-2012 of computer science faculty and economics & business faculty who had ever visited the library of the Dian Nuswantoro University. Subjects was 60 people acquired through accidental sampling technique. Retrieval of data using a scale of perceptions of library service quality consisting of 33 aitem (α = 0.919).Processing data using Independent Samples t-Test, the value generated t = -2.130 and significance 0,041 (p <0,05). It means there are differences in the perception of library service quality at students of computer science faculty and economics & business faculty, so the hypothesis is accepted. Perceptions of library service quality at economics & business students is more positive than computer science students which is 97,40> 91,50