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Jason Sokoloff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Mary S Woodley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • crosswalks metadata harvesting federated searching metasearching using metadata to connect users and information
    2008
    Co-Authors: Mary S Woodley
    Abstract:

    Since the turn of the millennium, instantaneous access to a wide variety of content via the Web has ceased to be considered “bleeding-edge technology” and instead has become expected. In fact, from 2000 to the time of this writing, there has been continued exponential growth in the number of digital projects providing online access to a range of information resources: Web pages, full-text articles and books, cultural heritage resources (including images of works of art, architecture, and material culture), and other intellectual content, including born digital objects. Users increasingly expect that the Web will serve as a portal to the entire universe of knowledge. Recently, Google Scholar, Yahoo! and OCLC’s WorldCat (a union catalog of the holdings of national and International Libraries) have joined forces to direct users to the closest library that owns the book they are seeking, whether it is available in print or online or both.1 Global access to the universe of traditional print materials and digital resources has become more than ever the goal of many institutions that create and/or manage digital resources. Unfortunately, there are still no magic programming scripts that can create seamless access to the right information in the right context so that it can be efficiently retrieved and understood. At this point, most institutions (including governments, Libraries, archives, museums, and commercial enterprises) have moved from in-house manual systems to automated systems in order to provide the most efficient means to control

Fazle Wahid - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Usefulness of Library Resources Utilization by B.Ed. Students in Private Sector Universities in Khyberpahtoonkhwa, Pakistan
    2015
    Co-Authors: Nasrullah Khan, Sajjad Hayat Akhtar, Fazle Wahid
    Abstract:

    ============================================================ Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the utilizations of existing resources of the Libraries of private universities of KPK. Total 03 universities from private sector were included in the study. The data for this survey was collected through a questionnaire from B.ED students. The results showed that Libraries were under-utilized despite students expressed willingness for using Libraries. Lack of human and material resources were the main reason for under-utilization. Student mostly visited library for reading books, preparation of assignment and consume spare time. Library staff needed professional training, purchase of library resources need simplification for timely procurement, digital linkage with national and International Libraries needs to be enhanced and proper utilization is required for improved efficiency of the current Libraries. It is concluded that improved library facilities can enhance the utilization of Libraries.

Nasrullah Khan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Usefulness of Library Resources Utilization by B.Ed. Students in Private Sector Universities in Khyberpahtoonkhwa, Pakistan
    2015
    Co-Authors: Nasrullah Khan, Sajjad Hayat Akhtar, Fazle Wahid
    Abstract:

    ============================================================ Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the utilizations of existing resources of the Libraries of private universities of KPK. Total 03 universities from private sector were included in the study. The data for this survey was collected through a questionnaire from B.ED students. The results showed that Libraries were under-utilized despite students expressed willingness for using Libraries. Lack of human and material resources were the main reason for under-utilization. Student mostly visited library for reading books, preparation of assignment and consume spare time. Library staff needed professional training, purchase of library resources need simplification for timely procurement, digital linkage with national and International Libraries needs to be enhanced and proper utilization is required for improved efficiency of the current Libraries. It is concluded that improved library facilities can enhance the utilization of Libraries.

Abdul Salam, Yasser Ismail - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Early Manuscripts of Quran Through Data of Hijazi Calligraphy and Archaeological Evidence
    Arab Journals Platform, 2020
    Co-Authors: Al-shareef, Adnan Mohammed, Abdul Salam, Yasser Ismail
    Abstract:

    This research tackled the manuscripts of the early Quran (through the data of Hijazi calligraphy and archaeological evidence), reviewing the spelling phenomena that characterized Quran writing in close relation to the reality of Arabic writing. It also attempted to enlist the characteristics of calligraphy in early Quran copies as influenced by Nabataean script or what might be called early Arabic calligraphy (Hijazi calligraphy), comparing it with early Arabic inscriptions. Moreover, the study identified the relationship between the spelling system used in writing early Quran copies and the one used in early Arabic inscriptions, and attempted to conceive ways of identifying and dating the early Quran manuscripts preserved in regional and International Libraries. The study is mainly based on five copies of the Quran manuscripts preserved in International Libraries and book houses; namely: The Quran manuscript preserved in Berlin National Library (Berlin Quran), the Quran preserved in Birmingham University Library (Birmingham Quran), Tübingen University Library Quran (Tübingen Quran), the Quran preserved in the National Library in Paris (Paris Quran), and the Quran preserved in the British Library in London (London Quran). This is in addition to a collection of stone inscriptions and early dated papyrus received. The identification of the origin of Arabic calligraphy is significant for researchers of ancient Arabic inscriptions and of the Quran, whether in terms of the manuscripts or the drawings and other related sciences. Such identifications also enables identifying the characteristics of this calligraphy, especially the early ones with which the first Quran was written to explain those sciences and others, and to resolve the debate on the origin of the calligraphy with which the Quran in the era of the Prophet peace be upon him was written and copied in the era of the Caliphs, may Allah be pleased with them all. There are many trends and theories in determining the origin of the Hijazi Arabic calligraphy with which the Quran was written. A researcher of early dated Arabic inscriptions can easily identify a well-established writing system that writers followed, no matter how well that system resulted in conformity between what is written and what is pronounced. The study concluded with a set of findings and recommendations, the most important of which are: - The study proved that the early Quran copies received (samples of study) were copied and written in soft Hijazi calligraphy. - The study and the models of Quran manuscripts used proved the authenticity of the Holy Quran, despite the claims of Orientalists and skeptics. - The study revealed that most of the tithing marks were later on added in the early Quran manuscripts after their copying. - The study proved that among the main criteria that assist in dating the Quran manuscripts, especially the early ones, are their technical standards, as well as the linguistic standards in comparison with the cultural heritage, and then the radioactive carbon (C14) examination