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 …
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 …
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, …
Libraries are indispensable for gaining and increasing knowledge. What are libraries, anyway? They are institutions entrusted with acquiring, disseminating, and preserving knowledge. They are purveyors of knowledge, although they do not generate profits. Cambridge Dictionary defines a library as “a room or building that contains a collection of books and other written material that you can …
