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E-rate Funding and Libraries: Preliminary Analysis of Trends Post-Modernization
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2021)Libraries in the United States have access to discounts on internet and telecommunications services through the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Schools and Libraries Program, also known as E-rate. While the ... -
Early Literacy in Library Storytimes: A Study of Measures of Effectiveness
(The Library Quarterly, 2017-01)Across the nation, librarians work with caregivers and children to encourage engagement in their early literacy programs. However, these early literacy programs that libraries provide have been left mostly undocumented by ... -
Edgar: Centro Comunitario Santa Fe Evidence Narrative Worksheet
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008)This paper is part of a project at the Center for Information and Society to broaden and deepen our understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Our intention is to ... -
El rol de los telecentros y bibliotecas en situación de catástrofe: El caso Chileno
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2012-02-27)Las bibliotecas y telecentros han jugado un papel fundamental en situaciones de emergencia y esta investigación examina su rol después del terremoto y tsunami que ocurrió en Chile en Febrero del 2010. Las diferentes ... -
Emerging Concepts in Ontogenic Analysis
Subject ontogeny is the life of the subject in an indexing language (e.g., classification scheme like the DDC). Examining how a subject is treated over time tells us about the anatomy of an indexing language. For example, ... -
Empirical Evaluation of Metadata for Video Games and Interactive Media
(University of Washington Information School, 2015-05)Despite increasing interest in and acknowledgment of the significance of video games, current descriptive practices are not sufficiently robust to support searching, browsing, and other access behaviors from diverse user ... -
Enquête paneuropéenne destinée à évaluer les perceptions des utilisateurs à l’égard des avantages liés aux technologies de l’information et de la communication dans les bibliothèques publiques
(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2013-03)What impacts do public libraries in the European Union have on users’ lives? As public libraries in the EU expand their offerings to include access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) like computers and ... -
Epistemic, Ontic, Axiologic, and Praxic Constructs in Knowledge Organization Research
The work of knowledge organization requires a particular set of tools. For instance we need standards of content description like Anglo-American Cataloging Rules Edition 2, Resource Description and Access (RDA), Cataloging ... -
Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization: Toward a Classification, Metatheory, and Research Framework
This paper proposes a preliminary classification of knowledge organization research, divided among epistemology, theory, and methodology plus three spheres of research: design, study, and critique. This work is situated ... -
Ethos and Ideology of Knowledge Organization: Toward Precepts for and Engaged Knowledge Organization Drawing on The Arts and Crafts Movement, Critical Theory, and Žižek
Ethos is the spirit that motivates ideas and practices. When we talk casually about the ethos of a town, state, or country we are describing the fundamental or at least underlying rationale for action, as we see it. Ideology ... -
Ethos and Ideology of Knowledge Organization: Toward Precepts for anEngaged Knowledge Organization
This paper provides rationale for considering precepts for an engaged knowledge organization based on a Buddhist conception of intentional action. Casting knowledge organization work as craft, this paper employs Žižek’s ... -
Europaweite Umfrage zu den Vorteilen von Informations- und Kommunikationssystemen in öffentlichen Bibliotheken aus Sicht der Nutzer
(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2013-03)What impacts do public libraries in the European Union have on users’ lives? As public libraries in the EU expand their offerings to include access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) like computers and ... -
Evidence of Term-Structure Differences among Folksonomies and Controlled Indexing Languages
With the advent of Internet-based technologies for information organization, many groups have constructed their own indexing languages. Biologists, Library and Information Science practitioners, and now social taggers have ... -
Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification
What theoretical framework can help in building, maintaining and evaluating networked knowledge organization resources? Specifically, what theoretical framework makes sense of the semantic prowess of ontologies and ... -
Exploring the Persistent Problem of User Assistance
(2005-08-25)Users continue to report problems with user assistance systems. We conducted a study within three populations that have a stake in the user assistance process: users, developers (anyone who plays a role in creating the ... -
Extending the Simple Knowledge Organization System for Concept Management in Vocabulary Development Applications
In this article, we describe the development of an exten- sion to the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to accommodate the needs of vocabulary devel- opment applications (VDA) managing metadata schemes and requiring ... -
e‐Skills and employability: A learning and networking event for NGOs
(Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), 2007-06)On June 19, 2007, twenty NGO practitioners from across Europe gathered at the e‐Skills & Employability Workshop to share best practices and discuss new ways to grow and sustain efforts to support economic empowerment through ... -
Facets of Access: a Typology of Information Dissemination Systems
In this poster, we describe a new way of conceptualizing relationships between systems for information dissemination throughout history, based on a set of basic attributes or facets. This poster illustrates one way in which ...