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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Library usage"”.
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The effects of collaboration between the elementary teacher and educational media specialist on non-required student library usage
… in third grade students' non-required school library uses if collaboration on a weekly basis between the educational media specialist and classroom teacher was present. The study contained one experimental group, consisting of one class of third grade students who received collaborative …
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Adolescents as public library users
… and scope of this research are to examine the library usage behaviour of adolescents, specifically those attending a high school in Grassy Park and those using Grassy Park Library. A central aspect of this research was to identify the types of library needs (curricular and non-curricular) that …
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The librarians' axiom: a "flat earth theory"? : the case of the Saldanha Municipality Libraries during the Great Recession
The Librarians' Axiom is the theory that library usage goes up during an economic recession. This Axiom is supported by anecdotal evidence in the literature, but lacks statistical support. This dissertation attempts to fill that gap by looking at library use of the 10 libraries in the Saldanha Bay …
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A study of certain Virginia teachers' utilization of library facilities
In an effort to determine the extent and type of usage of the libraries of the various high schools in District "M," a questionnaire was formulated. The group of students who composed the Graduate Seminar at Radford College during the Summer Session, 1950, cooperated with the study by responding to …
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A Longitudinal Study of Language Minority Students' Academic Achievement and Transitional Bilingual Education Program Effectiveness on Mainstream Education
… reading emerged as the most preferred activity; library usage least preferred; (d) reading achievement was a significant correlate of the bilingual students' attitudes toward total self; and (e) students' reading achievement was a significant correlate to the number of children in the family, the …
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User preferences in the use of Law Library collections : a case study of the Brand van Zyl Law Library of the University of Cape Town
… and the teaching of law. The use of the law library by the entire university often causes concern on the part of the legal patrons and staff who use and manage the library and its collection. This dissertation investigates the nature and purpose of the law library of the University of Cape …
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Distributed libaries: an investigation into the challenge of providing appropriate library services to off-campus users of Brisith university libraries
… During the last five years research into library usage patterns of both groups of users, and into the expectations of their course providers, has given university librarians extremely valuable information on which to base these distributed services. AX the same time service developments, …
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A Java-based Smart Object Model for use in Digital Learning Environments
The last decade has seen the scope of digital library usage extend from data warehousing and other common library services to building quality collections of electronic resources and providing web-based information retrieval mechanisms for distributed learning. This is clear from the number of …
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Static analysis for architecture-implementation conformance in robust embedded systems
… monitoring. Our solution combines language and library usage restrictions on the C language with a suite of compiler analyses to statically guarantee these properties. In doing so, we incur minimal (often zero) run-time overhead and do not require garbage collection, making our approach very …
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Student adoption and perceptions of the library and information mobile services at the University of Namibia
… to examine students' adoption and perceptions of library and information mobile services at the University of Namibia (UNAM), Main Campus. The research objectives were: to assess factors influencing students' adoption and use of wireless technologies that enable them to access library and …
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The impact of reduced hours on public library services in Cape Town: the case of Eersterivier Public Library
… the impact of reduced hours on public library services in Cape Town through taking the Eersterivier Library, as a case study. The research problem comes from the author's personal experience as a librarian in the City of Cape Town whose library's usage seems to have increased since the …
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The information needs and challenges of agricultural researchers and extension workers in Zimbabwe
… seminars, and personal collections. The level of usage and preferences differed, but overall agricultural researchers showed a preference for electronic sources while extension workers preferred print sources. Departmental collections were especially prominent among the extension workers, and …