This is the first of a three-part series called TFIDF In Libraries, where “relevancy ranking” will be introduced. In this part, term frequency/inverse document frequency (TFIDF) — a common mathematical method of weighing texts for automatic classification and sorting search results — will be described.
The GLBTRT is a unit of the American Library Association. The GLBTRT was founded in 1970 as the Task Force on Gay Liberation. We are the nation's first gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender professional organization.
Libraries often have policies that allow patrons to complain about content they find objectionable. New York City libraries have received almost two dozen written objections since 2005. On the rare occasions when a formal objection is upheld by library officials, a book may be removed or put in a less accessible area; that way, the challenged item remains in the library’s collection, although it is harder to find.
Talis, the UK market leader in providing academic and public library solutions, and LibLime, the leader in open solutions for libraries, are pleased to announce a partnership to make available over five million bibliographic records to the library community on the ‡biblios.net platform.
The Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service enables both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress via URIs.
The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.
The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH).
Several cutting-edge thinkers will prepare short opinion pieces on future trends/issues/developments that are likely to impact research, instruction, and scholarly communication. These essays will serve as the foundation for panel discussions between some of these thinkers, selected respondents, and attendees on emerging roles for libraries and librarians, particularly collections and technical services librarians. This symposium will build upon the themes developed in the ALCTS Symposium, “Living Digital.”
Welcome to the home site of the Semantic Digital Libraries community. Here you will find many valuable resources related to the topic of Semantic Digital Libraries
LODUM is an internally funded project at University of Muenster, Germany, with the goal to make the university’s research data available as Linked Data. We are just starting and we will be using this blog to keep track of our progress.
The article deals with the rapidly spreading phenomenon of collective tagging and its impact on library community. The term collective tagging implies the method of organization which is used in order to organize, preserve, search, and exchange the c...
The new DLF website. The goal for the site is to not only provide information about the DLF community, but also serve as a resource and communication hub around important ideas and trends developing throughout the broader digital library community.
This site is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It compiles data from usability studies evaluating terminology on library websites, and suggests test methods and best practices for reducing cognitive barriers caused by terminology.
Whether you are looking to decide if open source software is right for your library or need help finding what open source software package meets your needs, this site has the content and the community to help you with those decisions.
Aktuell, in der COVID-Pandemie, präsentieren sich Bibliotheken als wichtige Einrichtungen, welche die Wissenschaft am Laufen halten und den Zusammenhalt der Gesellschaft rstützen. Unter anderem unter den Hashtags #BibliothekSindDa und #BibAtHome sowie auf diesem Etherpad und noch an anderen Stellen werden aktuell kostenlose Anmeldungsmöglichkeiten per Internet, Zugang zu Online-Medien, Lieferdienste von Bibliotheken und so weiter verbreitet.…
Hello everyone! My name is Fobazi M. Ettarh. Previously a school librarian, I am currently the Undergraduate Success Librarian at Rutgers, Newark. Here, I talk about critical pedagogy, my love-hate relationship with libraries and librarians, and activism. I tend to tweet more often than I blog, and you can find me @fobettarh. If you would…
J. &, and K. Pettigrew. Library Journal, 125 (2):
44(02/01 2000)M3: Article; Durrance &, Joan C. Pettigrew, Karen E.; Source Information: 02/01/2000, Vol. 125 Issue 2, p44; Subject Term: COMMUNITY information services; Subject Term: LIBRARIES & community; Subject Term: LIBRARIES -- Automation; Subject Term: PUBLIC libraries; Subject Term: UNITED States; NAICS/Industry Codes: 519120 Libraries and Archives; Number of Pages: 3p; Illustrations: 1 graph, 3bw; Document Type: Article; Full Text Word Count: 2346.