scholarly journals Feminism and the Future of Library Discovery

Author(s):  
Chris Bourg

This paper discusses the various ways in which the practices of libraries and librarians influence the diversity (or lackthereof) of scholarship and information access. We examine some of the cultural biases inherent in both libraryclassification systems and newer forms of information access like Google search algorithms, and propose ways ofrecognizing bias and applying feminist principles in the design of information services for scholars, particularly as librariesreinventthemselves to grapple with digital collections.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Oza Rahmadita Putri ◽  
Malta Nelisa

AbstractThe writing of this paper aims to describe how to process tecnologi digital-based collections, to describe how to manage information technology-based technology services, describing what are the facilities and infrastructure of technology library-based management at the Padang 1 Public High School Library. Data was collected through observation and interviews with librarians and visitors at the Padang 1 Public High School Library. Data analysis was carried out descriptively. Based on the discussion described above, it can be concluded that First, digital-based collection processing is processing physical collections in the form of systematic collection of collections ranging from checking library materials to compiling books on a shelf, processing book collections into digital collections using SLiMS applications, processing physical data collection of digital-based books by transferring media collections of books to digital-based collections by using a scanner machine. Second, the management of technology-based information services, namely the creation of membership cards, on the membership card library has information about member identities, member names, identity numbers, addresses and telephone numbers of users, information search services, application of corner literacy services. Third, library-based infrastructure management tools, namely infrastructure literacy corner bookshelves provided by schools, the application of barcode scanners, library building infrastructure that is quite extensive as a forum for educational information services in libraries, television facilities as learning media for students in Padang 1 Public High School and internet-connected computer facilities.Keywords: management; processing; technology


2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
John M. Budd ◽  
Stan A. Hannah ◽  
Michael H. Harris

Author(s):  
Yutaka Matsuo

This chapter presents discussion of word weighting algorithms in user modelling and adaptive information systems. We specifically address two types of user interest: (1) broad and consistent interest; and (2) narrow, spot interest. A user’s consistent interests can be modelled utilising the user’s information access history; a user’s spot interests can be determined based on that. We developed a word-weighting algorithm to measure the user’s spot interest. The information access history of a user is represented as a set of words. It is considered to be a user model. This method weights words in a document according to their relevancy to the user model. The relevancy is measured by the biases of co-occurrence, called the Interest Relevance Measure, between a word in a document and words in the user model. The future methodology of word weighting is described herein while demonstrating our approach.


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