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Automated processing of massive audio/video content using FFmpeg

Li, Lingxia is Senior Systems Analyst at the National Library Board, Singapore; responsible for the developments involving the FFmpeg software.

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中国的民俗

This is one of the books in the series "Chinese Studies in the West: The Chinese Record," Volume 12 . This series consists of reprints of western books about China in the public domain, with Chinese introductions and translations of the books’ main…

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Making Sense of eBook Access and Use Limits across Multiple Collections

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has a collection of over seven hundred thousand eBooks across numerous platforms, available to download in multiple methods, and with a variety of purchase options. This presentation explains how UIC makes…

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Introduction to Linked Data

Linked Data is a powerful semantic web technology that makes knowledge and information spaces of different knowledge domains sharable, exchangeable, interoperable, and more. It is increasingly being used in libraries. This presentation is primarily…

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Four Pedagogical Approaches in Helping Students Learn Information Literacy Skills

Rider University librarians heightened their collaboration with classroom faculty to teach students in core writing classes information literacy (IL) skills during IL instruction (ILI) sessions. This quasi-experimental study assessed four pedagogical…

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Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis of Assessing Student Information Literacy Skills: The Power of Librarian-Faculty Collaborations

Librarians at the Moore Library of Rider University conducted a focus group with 12 undergraduate students during the summer of 2011 and modified an online test
used for determining students’ information literacy (IL) skills in required composition…

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What Five Minutes in the Classroom Can Do to Uncover the Basic Information Literacy Skills of Your College Students A Multiyear Assessment Study

Objective – Librarians at Rider University attempted to discern the basic information literacy (IL) skills of students over a two year period (2009-2011). This study aims to
explore the impact of one-session information literacy instruction on…

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The Effectiveness of a University’s Single-Session Information Literacy Instruction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to determine the effectiveness of “single‐session” information literacy instruction as it was integrated into the curriculum of a general education course at Monmouth University, New Jersey.

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A University Library Laptop Lending Service: An Analysis
Using Two Student Surveys

Purpose - This paper aims to report on a study of an academic library's wireless laptop lending service. The authors believed that the unexpectedly low usage level of the Monmouth University Library's Laptop Lending Service (LLS) could best be…

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The State of Wireless Laptop Lending Programs: A Survey of Academic Libraries

Purpose – This paper seeks to learn, by way of a survey, what librarians at US colleges and
universities were doing and the issues they were encountering as they considered, developed, or
maintained wireless laptop computer lending programs (WLLP)

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