Book Borrowing Research Articles

A New Mutual Authentication Protocol in Mobile RFID for Smart Campus

At present, with the increasingly growing application of Internet of Things, virtualization and intelligent technologies, and the maturity of smart campus systems, campus card technology based on radio frequency identification (RFID) has developed rapidly. Due to the convenience of use, it is widely used in dormitory access control system, book borrowing system, attendance system, and payment system. Because the data carried by the RFID card is more and more complex, the requirements for its security are getting higher and higher. In order to solve the problem of identity authentication and privacy protection of the RFID application existed in the digital campus in recent years, an improved mutual authentication protocol in mobile RFID for smart campus is put forward by analyzing and studying existing smart campus authentication protocols based on hash algorithm, which uses the technology of random number S and time stamp T. This protocol implements mutual authentication among the tag, reader, and backend database without the premise that the signal path between the database and reader communication is a safe signal path and can effectively resist counterfeit attack, replay attack, position tracking attack, de-synchronization attack, eavesdropping attack, denial of service attack, and man-in-the-middle attack, and it can also guarantee forward security. Due to the large data operations and storage have been transferred to readers and backend data, the protocol is formally proved to have a strong reliability and a good security. In addition, through the comparison with other existing authentication protocols on the resident variable storage overhead, the cost of computing complexity and the security performance, the authentication protocol proposed in this paper has a better storage and calculation performance, and it can better satisfy the security requirements in mobile RFID applications for smart campus in the future and has a good application prospect.

Design of Library Management System

The library management system runs on the DOS system, based on the C lan-guage as the main programming language and Visual C as the development environment. According to the characteristics of the system, we construct the development model and then build structural analysis, system function modules and system flow chart through the demand analysis of the system. Through the analysis of each function module, the definition and attributes of the data and the realization of each function are determined. In the paper, the design of the library management system includes the user module, the administrator module and the module of tourists and also achieves the usual function including borrowing books, returning books and books management.

A Personalized Recommender System Based on Library Database

In recent years, the university libraries in China have acquired increasingly abundant electronic resources. However, the information silo phenomenon appears due to the lack of connection between university IT system and the community. Based on the book borrowing, favourite collection, comments and social relationship of students, this paper digs into the personalized interests of students, and promotes the design and implementation of a personalized recommender system. Specifically, the overall framework and recommender engine of the system were created based on the library data services. The modules in the system were also elaborated, and the recommendation results were verified by an offline test.

PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PERPUSTAKAAN BERBASIS WEB PADA SMP SUMBANGSIH

The process of borrowing and the data recording performed on library books junior's contribution is still not fully computerized, so often finding difficulty in making the report as well as in existing data storage. The problems that exist in the junior's contribution raises the desire to have a new system in the library that can overcome these problems. Then designed a web-based library information system using PHP, MySql, and XAMPP with methods of system development life cycle (SDLC) that is expected to assist in the process of working in a library Junior contribution. The function of the program, among others: students can look at the books and magazines in the library, a member of the library, borrow books via the web, see the list of borrowing and repayment status, f.a.q, critique and suggestions and see the latest news in the library. As for the librarian, this program serves to enter the data of books, magazines of data, managing data members, f.a.q the data, the data criticisms and suggestions, and to report lending, the report returns, and report books and magazines. The purpose and benefits of this design include in order to facilitate student looking for a book in the library, facilitate students in borrowing/restore, encourage students active in the library, and assist librarians in doing his job.

Theft and Vandalism in Academic Library(S)

The most common problem in any academic library is that important pages are either torn or mutilated and books being stolen by its users. Users do not care about the borrowed books and keep underscoring, marking the important points, and dog-earing pages. Sometimes they also tear out the pages or even entire chapters before returning them to the library. This paper deals with the problem of theft and vandalism in academic libraries. The main focus of this paper is on the reasons for theft and vandalism and it also proposes the necessary measures to stop or reduce this problem in the Academic Libraries.

The Nordic House in Reykjavík, Iceland: A House with a Big Heart for Children and Literature

The Nordic House in Reykjavík, Iceland: A House with a Big Heart for Children and Literature Marloes Robijn (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Photo: Mats Wibe Lund [End Page 36] Surrounded by sea on three sides and guarded by the majestic mountain range Esja, the city of Reykjavík is a capital in a rather non-metropolitan way. Small in scale and with a pond frequented by Arctic birds for a central square, the city gets its capital allure from the international vibe of its numerous events and the variety of cultural festivals it hosts. One of the venues taking a leading role in the city’s richness of activities is the Nordic House, situated in the nature reserve across the road from the city center. The same modest size as Reykjavík, the house is as vibrant, varied, and international as the city itself. The Nordic House, built in 1968, is a cultural institution designed by acclaimed Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976). Visitors from all over the world find their way to the Nordic House to admire this distinctive representative of Aalto’s architecture. It features typical motifs that can be found in Aalto’s well-known masterpieces. Due to the use of organic shapes and natural materials, such as bended wood and copper combined with tile and brick, the building is in harmony with its environment [End Page 37] and function. The blue rooftop merges with the mountain range to the south, and the brightness, transparency, and warmth of the interior reflect the objective of the Nordic House. The institution was the first of its kind and is operated by the Nordic Council of Ministers—an intergovernmental body with representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Åland. The goal of the Nordic House, which is to foster and support cultural connections between Iceland and the other Nordic countries, is manifested in a diverse program of cultural activities and events. A Focus on Children and Young People In the heart of the house, with its high ceiling and fan-shaped book well, is the library, which has books and media in all the Scandinavian languages along with Sami, Greenlandic, and Finnish. Furthermore, the house contains an art lending section, an auditorium, exhibition spaces, and a cozy children’s library and playing area, where storytelling hours in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish take place. On a regular day, activities can be as varied as follows: In the morning, a school class gets a guided tour through the house, while a seminar on Nordic environmental issues is opened by the President of Iceland. Later, the auditorium might be used for a film screening or children’s theatre, while tourists and locals visit the exhibitions, the restaurant, or the gift shop. People drop in at the library to study, borrow books, or enjoy the architecture. In the children’s library, children are playing, reading, and discovering books in familiar or new languages. In the evening, you might see guests sipping from a glass of wine during a literature night with a Nordic writer, or the auditorium could be filled with long-haired youngsters at a concert with Norwegian medieval instruments or young people of all ages enjoying Danish hip-hop. The Nordic House participates in the major festivals held in Reykjavík and produces its own exhibitions, festivals, and events—covering a broad spectrum of topics, with a focus on sustainability, children and youth, and literature. Click for larger view View full resolution Photo: Mats Wibe Lund Today, the Nordic House has sister organizations in the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Åland, and Finland. All five institutions work under the auspices [End Page 38] of the Nordic Council of Ministers, following its strategy for Nordic cultural co-operation. One of the current strategy’s five main topics focuses on children and young people. In addition, children and youth are a priority target group within the overall strategy of the Nordic Council. Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Ministers seeks to respect, protect, and promote the rights and perspectives of children and young...

Application of text mining in library book procurement

With the diversification of readers’ preferences, the continuous growth of book price and the shortage fund for purchasing books, it becomes increasingly important to explore reads’ real needs and spend limited money on those needed books. In this context, Chinese Word Segmentation technology combined with Chinese Library Classification are used to explore readers’ reading preferences by using news, management and finance disciplines’ borrowing data of Jinan University in the year of 2015. Results showed that readers showed remarkable preferences for books of a specific subcategory or theme. Meanwhile the hot borrowed books often gathered in a few core publishing house, with the core publishing house books accounting for 70%, 63% and 76% of the total sampling books for news, management and finance discipline respectively. All in all, this research is of great significance for the book procurement job of the high school library.

“Literature Acknowledges No Boundaries”: Book Reading and Social Class in Britain, c.1930–c.1945

Sitting down to read a work of fiction was a well-established leisure activity within British society by the early-twentieth century, but one that was mainly enjoyed by the country’s more leisured classes. After the First World War, however, changes to the publishing industry’s working practices, coupled with the growth of the ‘open access’ system in public libraries in the 1920s and the spread of twopenny libraries in the 1930s, created a new type of reader, drawn principally from the country’s working-class communities. This article reveals that the spread of the working-class book reading habit prompted a series of discussions among the country’s cultural elites, publishers, and public and commercial librarians regarding how that social group engaged with the written word. Many of these commentators were highly disparaging of the working-class’s reading and book borrowing habits and, based on a prejudiced understanding of that social group’s cultural capital, sought to influence the types of reading material available to them, particularly with regard to what was accessible in the country’s public libraries. The article argues that while the outbreak of the Second World War may have tempered these discussions somewhat, class distinctions surrounding the reading habit continued to shape people’s participation in it, thus revealing that even during a period when class divisions were supposedly blurring, attitudes towards social class and leisure remained essentially unchanged.

An exploration of the relationship between undergraduate students’ library book borrowing and academic achievement

This exploratory study examines book circulation patterns among undergraduate university students at an English-language University in Istanbul, Turkey, in order to investigate the relationship between students’ academic achievement and discipline of study, gender and book borrowing habits. Overall, this study supports the important role of the academic library’s print book collection in supporting and contributing to student success and demonstrates a significant positive correlation between undergraduate students’ level of academic achievement and the number of books they borrowed from the university library. This positive correlation was found for students in all faculties and fields of study, but was strongest for students studying qualitative disciplines and was particularly strong for students enrolled in English as a foreign language programmes.

Stock verification in automated environment: A case study of Sahitya Akademi Library

The present article focuses on the procedure of stock verification in the library. This process not only identifies about the losses of the library but also gives a chance to rectify the wrong placement of books on the racks. It also provides an opportunity to redefine the library policy in terms of proper checking at the entrance of the library, borrowing of books, etc. It will prove to be helpful for any library going for checking their stocks.

On Book Borrowing: Forming Part of a Literary History Seen Through the Perspective of a Book from Charles Lamb’s Library

shall die soon, my dear Charles Lamb! and then you--will be vexed that I had bescribbled your Books. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May 2, 1811 COLERIDGE WROTE THESE WORDS ON THE BACK FLYLEAF OF A COPY OF John Donne's Poems owned by Charles Lamb. (1) It would be the first book he returned to his friend with predictions of imminent death or marginalia destined to outlive both men. A few months later, in Lamb's folio of the plays of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Coleridge prophesied: shall be long here, Charles! I gone, you will mind my having spoiled a book in order to leave a Relic. (2) In reality, Coleridge was nowhere near death, and while he may have known that, he certainly did know that he was spoiling Lamb's book. Spite of Appearances, he wrote on Lamb's 1669 edition of Donne, Copy is the better for the Mss. Notes. Annotator himself says so. (3) Lest there should be any doubt about the annotator, he signed the note (as he did others) S.T.C. Coleridge was a master of that scattered genre, marginalia, a term he himself coined. He was voluminous in his marginal commentary, so much so that Princeton University Press had to devote no less than six hefty volumes--one of them over twelve hundred pages--in his Collected Works to it. In Lamb's essay The Two Races of Men, Lamb spoke teasingly of the manuscript notes Coleridge left in his books as vying with the originals only in quality, but also not unfrequently in terms of quantity. (4) Indeed, Coleridge was above commenting on his own comments. N.B. Tho' I have scribbled in he wrote in Lamb's copy of Donne, is & was Mr Charles Lamb's Book, who is likewise the Possessor & (I believe) lawful Proprietor of all the Volumes of the 'Old Plays' excepting one. (5) He was referring to the third volume of Lamb's twelve-volume set of Robert Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays, which he had lost. volume included a revenge tragedy, a history, and three Jacobean comedies (John Webster's White Devil, Jasper Fisher's Fuimos Troes, Robert Tailor's Hog Hath Lost his Pearl, John Cooke's Greene's Tu Quoque, and Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton's Honest Whore), and for Lamb, it was perhaps the most valuable volume of them all. (6) Coleridge had borrowed it along with Lamb's copies of Samuel Daniel's Poems and Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Pray, if you can, Lamb pleaded, remember what you did with it, or where you took it out with you a walking perhaps; for, to use the old plea, it spoils a set. (7) But Coleridge could remember, and, on this occasion, having loaned his books to Coleridge, Lamb wound up with an unsightly gap in his bookshelves and two books made valuable only because Lamb owned them but, more importantly, because he and Coleridge wrote in them. These two races of men--lenders and borrowers, Lamb and Coleridge-were connected through what is called, in the book trade, the association copy, and also, more generally, through what we might call the principle of association. Lamb's library was a living nexus of association. nodes of that network included books as well as readers, annotators, owners, booksellers, and a multitude of bookish encounters and events. To follow patterns of association between books, or between people who have been involved in the life of a book, is to build so many paths to, and through, a lost world of letters. Embracing the associational principle as a literary critical technique--belletristic and book historical, biographical and bibliographical--this essay will explore literary history from the perspective of the book. story it contains will be transatlantic, spanning the gap from Lamb's bookshelves to Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan, and our primary means of conveyance will be that same octavo edition bearing the marks of Lamb, Coleridge, and various other hands since the seventeenth century: Poems, &c. …

Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare by Gene Barretta

Reviewed by: Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare by Gene Barretta Elizabeth Bush Barretta, Gene Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare; written and illus. by Gene Barretta. Ottaviano/Holt, 2016 [40p] ISBN 978-0-8050-9945-4 $17.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 2-5 Separated as they are by a hundred years, and representing rival political parties, Lincoln and Kennedy don’t immediately lend themselves easily to a side-by-side picture-book analysis. Kudos to Barretta, then, who is stunningly successful at creating such a book by pausing at key moments of each man’s life to see what he’s facing and enriching the biography of both by comparison. Boy Lincoln, scrubbing down in a tin bathtub while a bear hovers near his shoulder, “had a passion for learning and borrowed books whenever he could.” On the facing page, boy Kennedy soaks in a footed tub, with a teddy bear perched on the radiator: “He showed little interest in his studies.” A picture shows Lincoln wooing Mary Todd at a dance, in true meet-cute fashion, while the scene below depicts Jacqueline Bouvier sneaking a sidelong glance at Kennedy as he holds forth at a dinner party. Both men, pictured in somber silhouette, experienced the loss of a child and suffered from [End Page 507] depression or pain. Each made a stand for civil rights; each faced military defeat. And, of course, both fell to an assassin’s bullet. Cartoon illustrations are respectful but at times humorous, and the career of each man is recapped with a double-page spread that includes presidential accomplishments, trivia, and five memorable quotations. With a glossary and list of sources, this will obviously catch the eye of social-studies teachers, but the lively illustrations and inviting approach will entice independent readers as well. Copyright © 2016 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Operating Classroom Aesthetic Reading Environment to Raise Children's Reading Motivation

This research aims to explore how preschool educators understand about raising children's reading motivation through operating classroom aesthetic reading environment. With one year qualitative research, sixteen 4-6 years old young were observed and interviewed. The first stage interviews were undergone with environmental guidance. After the physical class reading environment was adjusted into aesthetic perspective, children's reading motivation and attitudes were triggered. The second stage involved themed reading activities, including the child-centered extended reading activities, arranging parent-child and peers shared reading time, designing borrowing books home activities, promoting peers and parent-child shared reading, and classroom hot-popular reading books selection ballot. Data collection methods included observation, interviews, children's relative documents, drawings, and hands-on works. Based on analysis of research data, main results were extracted as below: young children's reading motivation including interest, perceived control, collaboration, involvement, and efficacy were promoted through classroom aesthetic reading environment and parent-child shared reading promotion activities. Finally, according to conclusion of this research, suggestions for relative teaching application and subsequent research were proposed as reference.

The Library Use Habits of Senior Secondary School Students in Ogun State, Nigeria

This study investigated the library use habits of Public Senior Secondary School Students in Ogun State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population consisted of 54,907 third year senior secondary students (SS 3) in the 2014/2015 session in 295 public senior secondary schools in Ogun State, Nigeria. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 977 respondents. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire titled Library Use Habits Questionnaire (LUHQ). The instrument was tested for reliability using Cronbach alpha. The reliability coefficient of Library use habit scale was= 0.9. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings indicate that majority of the respondents reported that nobody encouraged them to use the library. While, respondents were also tried to benefit from all facilities of the library; borrow books from the library. In the face of using library facilities, majority of the respondents established that they visit the library not only when they have assignment. Based on the findings, the study concludes that organizing a series of lecture under user instruction or user education or library orientation program is required in public senior secondary schools. The study recommends that teacher should also mandate students to use the school library effectively; it can help attain high academic achievement. It was also recommended that p rofessional librarians should be employed in public senior secondary schools to plan and execute result oriented information education.

Books on the Move

London, June 2014. I'm queuing outside a downtown church behind a six-foot-tall man whose neck juts into my view every time the lights change at the corner. He's craning for a white van whose walls are lined with hardcovers and paperbacks. Its sponsor, the Quaker Homeless Action Committee, helps readers who are sleeping rough reclaim a right that many citizens take for granted: book borrowing.

Library System Development Implementing Integrated Book Circulation for Interlibrary Loan

Abstract The purpose of this research is to develop a library system by implementingintegrated procurement flow, return and borrowing books, so that the inter-library loan can be done in an integrated manner, with the hope to facilitate members to borrow varied books thereby increasing library transactions. The methods used include the method of analysis in the form of literature and field studies to observe the activities of the running system, interviews with stakeholders, user surveys and design method using the Unified Modelling Language, and design the system architecture and features. The result of this research is the development of the library system by implementing an integrated flow of circulation of books between libraries. The conclusions of this research is toimplement an integrated book circulationbetween libraries, then the inter-library loan can be done in an integrated manner.

English Language Literacy Initiatives in the Institute of Human Resource Advancement (IHRA), University of Colombo (UoC), Sri Lanka

Being a colonial country under the British government for 150 years, Sri Lankans as a society familiar with English language. Recognizing that enhancing the literacy of English Language gives a better life, IHRA (UoC) has been in the process of improving the knowledge of English from the beginning. The undergraduates of IHRA, though they are considered as normal full-time students, are employed adults who have responsibilities in their working places as well as in the family. These responsibili- ties become barriers when it comes to both studying and reading materials. Since the people who were exposed to the Education system in Sri Lanka after 1956 are mainly mono-lingual the em- ployed students also have to put extra effort to learn English. The library of the IHRA has taken several steps to motivate its students to borrow books in English from 1992 to 2011. But the statistics did not show whether there was an improvement of their borrowing books in English. Therefore a study was being carried out in 2011 and in 2013 it was repeated. The purpose of the survey was to find out the nature and extent of the usage of the materials in English of the BLE students in IHRA. To achieve this objective, a sample of students of IHRA engaged in higher studies while being employed was selected and a questionnaire was distributed among them to identify the emographic information, to examine the nature and extent of reading books in English and attitudes towards learning English. Though the majority of students have a positive attitude towards learning English, they do not end to read in English. When compared to 2011, they did not even interested in indicating preferences if they get a chance to read in English. According to the survey results, the students were aware of the importance of learning English as well as other languages.

Analisis dan Perancangan Sistem Informasi Perpustakaan Sma Negeri Xyz

Library information system analysis and design for public senior high school XYZ in South Tangerang aims to identify needs of data and information about library operational transaction in the school. The result of requirement analysis was used to build a computerized system supporting the run of library business process. The analysis and design focused on solving the problems, such difficulties in finding book location, book availability, and else. Rational Unified Process was used for the information system development methodology and the result of requirement analysis was documented by using unified modeling language; user interface was also designed. This information system was expected to ease the library in doing its activity by serving the information related to book searching, book availability, book tracking. Besides, it would also fasten the process of book borrowing, book returning, and new book registration.

How to reach library users who cannot reach libraries?

AbstractThe article discusses the ways of getting library activities closer to the individuals or groups of users who have difficulties to or cannot visit the library themselves. The author presents the services offered by the Maribor Public Library and discusses how one of the basic human rights – the right to the access of cultural goods, knowledge and information - is exercised also through library activities. By enabling access to library material and information, public libraries help to fulfill basic human rights and thus raise the quality of living in a social environment. The following forms of library activities are presented in the article: »distance library« – borrowing books at home, in hospital, station for the bibliobus for disabled users, »mobile collections« in the institutions where users, due to their age or illness, have difficulties in accessing or even cannot reach library materials and information by themselves.

Design of Library Smart Bookshelf Based on RFID

The misplacement problem in library has been for a long time, most of those present solutions are temporary. For thoroughly resolving this problem, we designed a smart bookshelf which based on RFID and used C# and SQL Sever2008. Hardware of system composed by UHF tags worked at frequency range of 920MHz, RFID readers, antennas. Software of system included two parts: inventory check, misplacement check. It can complete the statistical work of available and borrowed books, find those misplaced books and check their corresponding correct place. The test results suggest that the system is running stable, the accuracy of data read is relatively high, the find and compare results are according with expected results. This system can save labor and improve work efficiency.