Summary: Advances in computer and multimedia technologies have resulted in the increased size of digital images. As a result, it is necessary to design automated multimedia retrieval systems that can operate on a large scale basis. Library and information institutions around the world are also taking advantage of digital technologies as eviden

Summary: Bibliometric concepts are applicable to the World Wide Web, as it is the largest network of documents in history. The job of bibliometricains has become uncomplicated as the Web Sites are playing a progressively more important role in supplementing the library services and information dissemination through the World Wide Web. In this

Summary: This study has been conducted in order to ascertain collection development policy, procedures, and collection evaluation of Arabic language collection in IIUM academic library as well as the qualification of the library staff in developing Arabic language collection. A series of individual interviews between researcher and subjects ha

Summary: Sorting the retrieved results from the most relevant to the least relevant is the common option of an Information Retrieval System (IRS). This sorting mechanism or relevance judgment is computed by measuring closeness of query with its documents. The purposes of this study were to measure the relevance status of Index Islamicus, evalu

Summary: This study investigates the relationship between information communication technology (ICT) funding from the Malaysian government towards scholarly publishing. This study attempts to explore the relationship between the amount spent on research and development (R&D) by the government to the number of references or articles publish

Summary: Semantic Digital Libraries give users a better understanding of the collections. This research is aimed at developing ontology for use in a Semantic Digital Library. The research objectives are to identify the subjects and sources for the ontology development to construct the semantic relationship predicates and to verify the semantic

Summary: The purpose of the study was to assess the perceptions of academic librarians of the copyright law in Malaysia. It also aimed at examining copyright problems faced by academic libraries in relation to their operations and services. The study then looked at the ethical aspects of librarianship associated with copyright, precautiona

Summary: The study investigates the current status of library automation in primary and secondary schools in Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur(WPKL). The main objectives of this study are to determine the extent of library automation in terms of system, modules and functions being automated and used, to establish the level of satisfactions of t

Summary: This research attempts to discover the information seeking behavior among undergraduate programming learners. This study investigates the specific issues regarding the seeking process including types of resources and the most preferred resource, challenges in the seeking process, and the ways students benefit from the seeking process

Summary: In addition to the traditional print resources, libraries of today offer online databases which contain electronic resources (ERs) such as electronic journals or electronic books for better and easy access, regardless of time and distance. The uses of these ERs are growing very fast and are becoming very popular in all kinds of librar