I am looking which libraries (every kind of libraries In particular university's libraries) in the world use an application for library services specially for virtual references and what their names are.

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Souleymane Sogoba

Feb 6, 2019

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National library of Danemark, I think.

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Mardene Rosalee Carr

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What methods are libraries using to catalog open educational resources OERs)?

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Feb 7, 2015

Many libraries (especially in developing and under-developed countries) rely on OERs to provide information for their patrons. What I have noticed however is that these resources are many and scattered all over the internet. What is a good way to gather all these reources and organize so that patrons have everything in one place and able to search and access easily?

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Francis Osae Otopah

Feb 20, 2015

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Speaking from personal experience, subject directories are good in that they help organise resources by subject. However, without a comprehensive search tool, a subject direcotry stands to be woefully underutilsed. The multidisciplinary nature of some materials is one reason for this - a material you are seeking in one discipline might have been placed under another discipline because it fits there too. The laborious task of wandering from one link to the other is another reason. One is likely to look for an item under the wrong discipline. One funny thing associated with looking for items in the list is that, one's fallible eyes may not even see the item here is looking for, although it is right there. Performing a search by entering your key term or concept, for me is the best method of locating what you want. This is one reason why putting OER together and rendering them searchable is a good approach to making resources available to library clientele. I found that Google Custom search perfectly does the job

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Diar Abdlkarim

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Which human coordinate frames of reference should we consider when reaching to objects?

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Aug 14, 2014

Currently I am writing my thesis on a reaching task experiment with motion and visual gaze analysis. I tested stroke patients and age matched participants.

I would like to hear your thoughts about different kinds of reference frames in which we move our hands and arms e.g. when reaching for an object.

I mean:

1- Is there a generic consensus on these coordinate frames e.g. visual coordinates and proprioceptive coordinates?

2- Are there other frames of reference one can look at? e.g. object frame i.e. perspective from the target object etc.

Many thanks in advance for your contributions.

PS: I have got x-y motion data with movements made in a horizontal plane i.e. reaching to targets displayed on a screen.

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Salvadore Joseph Guccione, Jr.

Sep 11, 2014

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At the Naval Biodynamics Laboratory, tests were also done in a Ship Motion Simulator as well as a 6 DOF Motion Table where subject response to various tasks under sea state conditions were also assessed using photographic and sensor instrumentation. These data and techniques may be more germane to the tasks you are working with.

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Eduardo Da Silva Alentejo

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Currently a discussion is emerging in Brazil about online reference services terminology. The term 'user' has become 'client', which of the following terms is preferred: user, reader or customer?

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Jan 25, 2013

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Matt Holland

Feb 18, 2013

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Hi Eduardo, I think all the terms are problematic.

To my mind they imply three different relationships. User is passive. The Library exists, people come in and make use of the services, or use them, and leave having received the service they need. Users is in common use in the UK.

The term clients implies a proactive action on behalf of the Library and the user (can't get away from that term). A client has some expectation that a service will be delivered and the Library has an expectation that they have so designed the service that they can meet a clients needs.

Customer to my mind implies a commercial transaction. Students in the UK, now they pay their own fees have become customers of UK universities, and their libraries. They pay the fees and buy the course. The term customer puts power in the hands of users. They want what they have paid for, they want the resources that will get them through their course and they want you to respond to them as if it were a commercial transaction.

My view for what its worth is that Libraries need to be proactive and responsive to services users. More now than ever. Keeping in mind that they must also preserve the power relationship. Its not just what the services users say they want, but what serves them and the higher purpose of education and the greatest number of students.

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