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A list of Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs) in the U.S. is presented.

Archeological sites have heterogeneous information ranging from different artifacts, image data, geo-spatial information, chronological data, and other relevant metadata. ETANA-DL, an archaeology digital library, provides various services by integrating the heterogeneous data available in different collections. This demonstration presents an initial prototype for searching DL objects based on the image content, using the Content-Based Image Search Component (CBISC) from Virginia Tech/State University of Campinas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital libraries allow organizing, classifying and publishing collections of electronic contents that are available in computers or networks. Also, digital libraries are easy to use and configure and they offer a user interface with access to fast searching and browsing over a repository of documents using a graphical interface. This article presents a digital library prototype for retrieving, indexing and clustering documents published on a website. The website may include unstructured, semi-structured and structured documents such as: web pages, scientific papers, news and documents in several formats that contain essentially text. The proposed prototype includes a clustering process that uses a conceptual algorithm and an a priori process of cluster labeling. Preliminary results correspond to tests made with different sets of documents published in a real website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we introduce our system that retrieves Ukiyo-e databases using an English query by customizing and utilizing freely available open source software. In our system, the Ukiyo-e metadata elements were mapped to Dublin Core. We adopted a dictionary-based query translation approach and utilized the Greenstone Digital Library Software to make available our Ukiyo-e digital collections online. The preliminary result is an easy-to-use and useful system for users who do not understand Japanese, that allows to search and view Japanese Ukiyo-e databases in English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A central aim of software testing is assurance of functional correctness and dependability. For many software-intensive systems, including administrative, embedded, enterprise and communication systems, functional correctness means achieving the desired effects in the physical world, and dependability means dependability of those effects. For example, an administrative system for a lending library is required to ensure that only members can borrow books; that a member who has reserved a book and has been notified that the book is now available for collection in the library will not find that it has been lent to another member; that the catalogue gives reliable information about what is currently on the shelves, and so on. Similarly, a system to control a lift must ensure that the lift comes when summoned and takes the user to the desired floor; that the building manager can specify service priorities in terms of express lifts and time-dependent needs such as rush hours at the beginning and end of the working day; and that failure of the mechanical equipment does not endanger life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chapter 5 of the book "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer" is presented. It discusses on ways to create slideshows on the computer through the gathered collection of digital picture and share it on the Website with additional music. It offers tips on how to create a collection of photographs in the Library module which comes before to the Slideshow module available in the Filmstrip at the bottom of the screen.

Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) lesions are limited to the human epidermis and can persist for months, showing only weak signs of inflammation. Because a culture system has not yet been created to replicate MCV, this chapter describes how the virus can be isolated from patient specimens. From this material, we describe how MCV is purified and used for infection studies, electron microscopy, viral DNA extraction, and analyses of early mRNA synthesized by in vitro transcription of permeabilized virions. The complete MCV-1 genome has been sequenced, and a redundant MCV genome fragment library of MCV type 1 (available from American Type Culture Collection [ATCC]) is useful for the cloning and study of individual MCV genes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Athens University recently initiated a digital collection development project to provide enhanced educational capabilities. Collections vary in terms of the material included and the requirements imposed by potential users. In order to simplify collection management and promote collection interoperability, a common Digital Library platform should be employed to support all collections. In order to deal with the extended requirements imposed, Athens University has decided to support an integrated Digital Library framework for multiple heterogeneous digital collections development. The most important requirements imposed by the University's collections are discussed in this paper, along with the characteristics of the Folklore Collection, one of the most complex and diverse ones. In order to evaluate available Digital Library systems, the Folklore Collection has been chosen as a guide for the development of two prototype implementations using Fedora and DSpace. Conclusions drawn from their comparison and the proposed integrated Digital Library architecture based on Fedora are also presented. Keywords:Digital library architecture, managing heterogeneous collections, Fedora, DSpace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a research guide to biography and criticism on the works of British author Charles Dickens. Wolf Mankowitz's "Dickens of London," is an unscholarly but lively and profusely illustrated biography. An especially impressive bio-critical study is Angus Wilson's "The World of Charles Dickens," which attempts to demonstrate the relationship between Dickens's public and private life and his novels. Perhaps the most useful works to the student who does not have access to a large research library are the collections of important journal articles available in book form. Among the most useful are those edited by Martin Price titled "Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays."

Bivariate flow cytometry is now able to resolve the majority of chromosomes of the human karyotype (1,2 and Chapter 12). When this is coupled to a sorting facility, specific chromosomes can be separated and purified in small, but useful quantities. These chromosomes have been used for the production of chromosome-specific DNA libraries (3); each human chromosome, sorted from lymphoblastoid cell lines or somatic cell hybrids, has been cloned into A, or plasmid vectors, and these libraries are now available from the American Type Culture Collection (4). Chromosome abnormalities, such as balanced translocations, deletion, or marker chromosomes, can also be distinguished in a flow karyotype (5,6), and these have provided alternative starting material for more restricted DNA libraries (7,8). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]