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Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Greece: progress So Far
(2009)
The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation regarding open access and institutional repositories (IRs) in Greece. Design/methodology/approach -- This paper reports on the development of IRs in Greece and ...
Intangible assets for academic libraries. Definitions, categorization and an exploration of management issues
(2009)
The aim of the paper is explore issues related to the intangible assets in libraries and
provide first results regarding their identification, categorization, valuation and reporting.
Design/methodology/approach – A review ...
Library services for people with disabilities in Greece
(2008)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate current library services for people with disabilities in Greece and their information seeking behavior and to study both libraries' and users' perspectives in this field for the ...
Secure medical digital libraries
(2001)
In this paper, a secure medical digital library is presented. It is based on the CORBA specifications for distributed systems. The described approach relies on a three-tier architecture. Interaction between the medical ...
A semantics-based substitution for unsupported Z39.50 Bib-1 access points
(2007)
Unsupported Z39.50 Access Points result to query failures and/or inconsistent answers, in spite of the protocol specification for a unified global access mechanism. A challenge to this issue is to substitute an unsupported ...
On rewriting Xpath Queries Using Views
(2009)
The problem of rewriting a query using a materialized view is studied for a well known fragment of XPath that includes the following three constructs: wildcards, descendant edges and branches. In earlier work, determining ...
A Brief but Intense Job: at Work in the Main Press Center Library at the 2004 Olympics.
(2005)
Relates the experience of the author as a volunteer librarian at the Main Press Center and in the Olympic Village during the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Presentation of farewell gift to guests and the journalists in ...
In praise of the Alexandrian librarians: pioneers in literacy scholarship
(2008)
The article highlights the three librarians of the Library of Alexandria, who pioneered the formal study of literary texts in classical Greece in the third and second centuries B.C. Zenodotus, the first official head of ...
National Libraries and People with Disabilities
(2007)
The purpose of national libraries is to provide full access to the information society for everybody, including people with disabilities. This paper describes the role of national libraries in the provision of library ...