Month: May 2024

As said in the preceding article, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has turned science fiction dreams into reality. Intelligence is a quality associated with humans as neither animals nor other living beings have intelligence. And that is why machine learning tools are called artificial intelligence because theirs is not real intelligence; it is an artificial intelligence, mimicking people’s brains.  Everything has a purpose and a unique name. …

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From steering a car, writing and translating content or analyzing data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is amazing and is all over the place. I am writing this article from a research perspective, not from the viewpoint of an expert in the AI industry. Having dispelled that notion, let us get back to AI and its wonders. AI is a mind-blowing technology that …

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Libraries develop their collections and catalogue them. Library collection is a term that encompasses books and other items in a library, and cataloguing is the process of assigning call numbers to books. This is to say that every book ought to get a unique number accompanied by three letters identifying who wrote that particular book. That is …

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The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is one of the most used methods, especially by public libraries. Melvil Dewey was an American philosopher and librarian. He came up with a classification system aimed at organizing books according to their subject area. He developed the system in 1876 while working as a student assistant in the library of Amherst College. He was twenty-one years …

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Libraries are of different kinds and provide different services. For the layperson, a library is a library, the same thing that holds books and other items meant for reading and borrowing. However, libraries are of different categories. There is a public library, there is a school library, there is an academic library, and there is a corporate library. Despite their differences, though, …

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