Public libraries serve increasingly critical roles in the knowledge society. Public libraries currently serve integral roles in their communities through the provision of free public Internet access. Libraries have become technology centers where critical information services are offered to their communities. This is an analysis of the greater potentiality public libraries possess in bridging the ‘digital divide’ in the United States. An examination of the ways in which networked services can aid people in disadvantaged communities is provided, as well an exploration of the coordinated efforts of local municipalities and public libraries in the provision of public Internet access. The predominate statistics used were produced by the PEW Internet and American Life Project 2008 study of US Broadband Penetration and the 2007 report “Public Libraries and the Internet” for the American Library Association (ALA) by Florida State University, which analyzed the impact of Internet-based services by public libraries in their communities.
COMLA is a viable Commonwealth Professional Association with an influential voice in international library relations. COMLA is an association of Associations and its progress depends on each one of us. It has maintained its most cherished characteristic: its potential for developing close ties of fellowship between individual professionals from widely deferring backgrounds and cultures. The purpose of this article is to discuss the COMLA’s contribution towards the development of librarianship.
The robustness or breakdown of Lotka's law about the frequency distribution of scientific productivity depends on scientific cooperation, counting methods, interdisciplinary publishing and selection methods for sample collections. We have chosen to analyse the relationship using Mandelbrot's equivalent distribution model because this model is sensitive and uses the original data (scores). Five sets of authors and publications, the two sets used by Lotka, a set from High Energy Physics, a set from Microbiology and a set based on applicants to a research programme promoting young researchers have been used. It is shown that even for a sample of authors in High-Energy Physics with extremely strong co-authorship, Mandelbrot's distribution law is robust when complete-normalized (fractional) counting is used whereas complete counting results in a breakdown. In the field of Microbiology with much weaker cooperation, both counting methods result in a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law. Today a field like Microbiology with the corresponding set of journals, probably has a large content of interdisciplinary publishing and therefore no more fulfills the precondition of Lotka's law, that the total production of the authors (sources) is considered. For a set of applicants for the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation. Mandelbrot's law breaks down despite the fact that all publications co-authored by the applicants are taken into account. In agreement with Bayes' theorem of conditional probabilities these results lead to the conjecture that any selection process of authors and/or publications causes a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law and, as a consequence Lotka's law.
"Whenever I teach open source to librarians I always start by outlining why libraries are the prefect breeding grounds for open source. What many librarians probably don’t realize is that the open source community actually shares a lot of the same ethics, ideals and characteristics as the library world. I think that Glen Horton put it best in his talk at the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference:"
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"Zunächst freue ich mich als Autor zahlreicher Fachbücher zur
Informatik und Informationstechnik darüber, dass Sie sich Sorgen um das Wohlergehen der Fachverlage (und damit auch um dasjenige von uns Fachbuchautoren) machen. Dennoch bin ich -- gerade im Hinblick auf das Wohlergehen der Verlage und Autoren -- entschieden anderer Meinung als Sie."
V. Wiens, M. Galkin, S. Lohmann, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the ISWC 2019 Satellite Tracks (Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, and Outrageous Ideas) co-located with 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), (2019)
M. Mami, D. Graux, S. Scerri, H. Jabeen, A. Sören, and J. Lehmann. Proceedings of the ISWC 2019 Satellite Tracks (Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, and Outrageous Ideas) co-located with 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), (2019)
H. Thakkar, D. Punjani, S. Auer, and M. Vidal. (2019)cite arxiv:1908.06265Comment: This is an extended version of an article formally published at DEXA 2017.
J. D'Souza, I. Mulang', and S. Auer. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs-13), Association for Computational Linguistics, (2019)
S. Fathalla, S. Vahdati, S. Auer, and C. Lange. Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC \textquotesingle19, ACM Press, (2019)
A. Sakor, I. Onando Mulang', K. Singh, S. Shekarpour, M. Esther Vidal, J. Lehmann, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), page 2336--2346. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Association for Computational Linguistics, (June 2019)
A. Oelen, M. Jaradeh, K. Farfar, M. Stocker, and S. Auer. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge co-located with the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019), (2019)