scholarly journals NNELS: A New Model for Accessible Library Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
New Model ◽  
National Network ◽  
Publicly Owned ◽  
Disabled Communities ◽  
Accessible Format

Public libraries face a unique challenge when building a collection that includes accessible format material for people with print disabilities, as a very small percentage of published material is available in accessible formats. In Canada, the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) offers a forward-thinking solution to this predicament. NNELS is digital library of accessible-format material; this paper argues that NNELS’ model of user-driven, participatory, and publicly-owned accessible format collection-building, provides an innovative way for public libraries to meet the needs of their print-disabled communities.

Reader service experience system of intelligent library based on artificial intelligence and machine learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wang Songyun
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Service System ◽  
Video Retrieval ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Software Requirements ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Times ◽  
Video Recovery

With the development of social economy and the improvement of science and technology, digital video on the Internet is increasing rapidly, and it has become a new force to promote the development of the times. Most of these videos are stored in the memory, which poses a great challenge to the research and development of the system. The reader service system is an important part of library service. The library uses it to collect information resources, not just for service and work. The document combines the video of library service, the analysis of video recovery and video software requirements of digital library, puts forward the design goal and conception of video search, and puts forward a foundation. From the video data of digital library, video retrieval experiments are gradually carried out. These experimental results show that the number of enhanced dynamic clustering algorithm increases to ensure the complexity of the image.

scholarly journals Unchain my heart and set me free: A new civil society library model.

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Oversight ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
And Control

A new model of the public library is outlined that explicitly links it to its role in support of civil society. The model argues that the ongoing “chaining” of public libraries to direct government oversight and control is deleterious to their ability to actualize their potential. Collateral argument is made that that it is the civil society character rather than the simply free nature of these libraries which needs to be harnessed to help move the conceptualization of the sector away from a reactive model of client service toward a dynamic approach that integrates with the life experiences of clients.

scholarly journals Creating an Authentic Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sarah Osolen ◽  
Leah Brochu
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Library Service ◽  
National Network ◽  
Narrative Story ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Walking Dead

While working as production assistants for the National Network of Equitable Library Service (NNELS), an organization that creates and shares accessible versions of books to people with print disabilities, we were tasked with a challenging request from a user: Could we make an accessible version of the comic book The Walking Dead? Audio description services are available to the visually impaired in a few different venues such as television, movies, and live theatre. Guidelines for the creation of these descriptive texts are available to potential creators, but in our case, we could find nothing that would help guide us to create a described comic book. While some people and organizations have created prose novelizations of comic books, these simply tell the story, and do not include the unique visual aspects of reading a comic book. We have found that it is possible to create a balanced description that combines the visual grammar of a comic with the narrative story. In addition to creating a described comic book, we are developing guiding documentation that will be a necessary tool to ensure that visually impaired readers have a comic book experience (CBE) that (a) closely matches the CBE of a sighted reader, and (b) is standardized across producers, so that the onus of understanding the approach to comic book description (CBD) is not put on the visually impaired reader. At this point in our work, we need more feedback from users with print disabilities to ensure we are meeting the highest standards.

The Public Library in an Aging Society

2014 ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saori Donkai ◽  
Chieko Mizoue
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aging Society ◽  
Service Category ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Recent Government ◽  
Individual Service

This chapter describes the present conditions of our aging society, with a particular focus on Japan as a typical example of such a society. In Japan, one in every four individuals is over 65 years of age, and one in eight is over 75 years of age. Further, based on this demographic change to an older population, this chapter discusses a new library service designed to enhance the lives of elderly citizens. The authors explore this new service from the viewpoint of lifelong learning, utilizing the results of recent government surveys and some case studies, such as those done at the Izumo City Hikawa Library and the Akita Prefectural Library in Japan. Although the elderly have been placed within the category of “disabled library patrons,” in recent years, it has become more common to consider the elderly, as a whole, as an individual service category. We should, in the near future, pay more attention to supporting elderly citizens at public libraries to engage them in the development and maintenance of their own communities.

Copyright Issues in the Context of the Digital Library

2016 ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Pedro Pina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Legislation And Jurisprudence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Exclusive Right ◽  
Right Of Reproduction

Libraries have a strong role on promoting culture and knowledge as intermediaries between creators and readers. In the analogical world, such usages didn't have relevant effects on the normal exploitation of copyrighted works. However, digitisation had a strong effect on rightholders' interests by facilitating and democratizing access to works, considering that libraries may reproduce them and promote their online accessibility. Litigation regarding the referred actions has dramatically increased in the last years as they may stress the normal exploitation of copyrighted works and the exclusive rights of reproduction and of distributing. Based on the European Union's legislation and jurisprudence, the present chapter analyses the lawfulness of public libraries digitisation of books from their collection in order to make them available to users without the right holder's consent, confronting them with the exclusive right of reproduction and the making available right.

Copyright Issues in the Context of the Digital Library

2020 ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Pedro Pina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Legislation And Jurisprudence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Exclusive Right ◽  
Right Of Reproduction

Libraries have a strong role on promoting culture and knowledge as intermediaries between creators and readers. In the analogical world, such usages didn't have relevant effects on the normal exploitation of copyrighted works. However, digitisation had a strong effect on rightholders' interests by facilitating and democratizing access to works, considering that libraries may reproduce them and promote their online accessibility. Litigation regarding the referred actions has dramatically increased in the last years as they may stress the normal exploitation of copyrighted works and the exclusive rights of reproduction and of distributing. Based on the European Union's legislation and jurisprudence, the present chapter analyses the lawfulness of public libraries digitisation of books from their collection in order to make them available to users without the right holder's consent, confronting them with the exclusive right of reproduction and the making available right.

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