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Service-oriented Architecture Delivers Greater Returns from Web Services

Although smart companies are using Web services to improve the way they do business, firms have even more to gain by changing the way they think about their infrastructure. According to a new research report, Chief Information Officers (CIO) that adopt the discipline of service-oriented architecture are positioning their firms for [...]

e-Business No Longer An Either-Or Technology Decision

Many thought it was archaic and dying, but after almost three decades years of existence, one of the most widely deployed standards for conducing e-Business transactions is as strong as ever, and even continuing to grow. At the same time, newer standards are evolving and competing for ubiquity in an ever-changing [...]

Terminal Server Powered Workstaions For Libraries

Maybe a modern librarian doesn’t miss much the text-based computer terminals that only accesses the catalog, but your Systems department probably does. We still have few existing at our libraries; they’re like sneakers: quick, quiet, and when they stop working, you replace them. All good and simple things must become complex, and now that we’ve grown up, we have [...]

Open Source Public Workstations in Libraries

In a time where an economic downturn and concerns about climate change are influencing decisions, many libraries are looking for ways to save money and to reduce their impact on the environment. This report provides detailed information about the operating systems, software, and approaches used by three libraries and one academic institution that have implemented [...]

The Utilization of Alternative Therapy in Long Term Care Facilities: Patient, Employee, and Profit Implications

Introduction
Geriatric patients entering nursing homes or assisted living facilities often give up contacts with their family members, close friends and personal possessions. Often the number of personal items they are allowed to bring to long term care facilities is limited.  In addition, relationships with pets often have to be severed, resulting in residents experiencing depression, [...]

Beyond Convenience and Competition : The Impact of Personalized Information Technology on the Way Communities Work

Abstract:
Having already transformed business beyond recognition in barely two decades, information technology is now further expanding into the general culture and transforming society at an equally rapid rate due to the growth and popularity of personal and personalized computing.  While the computer was once only a factor in the production of other goods, it is [...]

OverDrive Releases Android Audiobook App

OverDrive, the leading global distributor of audiobooks and eBooks to libraries and retailers, today announced the beta release of an audiobook app that enables Android phone and device owners to wirelessly download digital audiobooks. OverDrive’s audiobook app for Android is compatible with MP3 audiobooks from more than 10,000 libraries and major online retailers, including BarnesAndNoble.com, [...]

Cultural Awareness and Learning: An Anthropological Study of the Consumers at a Chinese Buffet in North America

INTRODUCTION
Recent studies find out that the population in the United States has kept growing and become even more diversified since last decade.  According to the US Census, the total population of the nation has increased 10.34% from 248,791 thousands in 1990 to 274,520 thousands in 2000. It is suggested that one-third of the growth is [...]

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF BANGLADESH – AT A GLANCE

1. Some useful Information

a) Mailing address: Directorate of Archives and Libraries
The National Library of Bangladesh
32,Justice S.M.Murshed Sarani
Agargaon, Sher-e-BangIa Nagar
Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
Phone: 9129992,9112733.913S053
Tele- Fax: 880-2-9118704
e-mail : nab@accesstel.net
b) Self-Identity at the main entrance of Library in writing is [...]

Consumer Experience Tourism

A web site providing information on the workings of such everyday items as computers, heat pumps, and automotive engines now receives over 1 million hit per month (see howstuffworks.com).  Radio and television programs tell us how to improve our homes, relationships, financial affairs, spiritual lives, and so on.  Consistent with this curiosity with “how things [...]