Essays about: "what is library"

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  1. 16. Exercising freedom of speech: A cultural analysis of the Dawit Isaak Library

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Livia Skåve; [2023]
    Keywords : freedom of speech; free speech; artistic freedom; banned books; the Dawit Isaak Library; library selection; field theory; democracy; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how freedom of speech is implemented in a Swedish library context, by examining what actions and practices the concept is translated into at the Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö, a library focused on freedom of speech and banned literature that opened at Malmö City Archive in 2020. The aim of the study is to illuminate and clarify discrepancies between the theoretical definition and the physical performance of freedom of speech, and it investigates the dilemmas that may arise there. READ MORE

  3. 17. Information literacies in school and everyday life : Swedish young people’s information literacies in different contexts

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT

    Author : Hanna Lindbom; [2023]
    Keywords : Information literacies; credibility assessments; information seeking; source selection; young people; school; everyday life; information;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish young people’s information literacies are learned and enacted in different contexts. This study contributes to the information literacies research area by comparing information literacies across contexts rather than focusing on either the school context or everyday life, which most previous research has done. READ MORE

  4. 18. Padel court detection system

    University essay from Jönköping University/JTH, Avdelningen för datateknik och informatik

    Author : David Wennerblom; Andrey Arronet; [2023]
    Keywords : Court detection; Computer vision; Image processing; Padel; Hough lines; Canny edge detector; Homography; OpenCV;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the possibility of a court detection program for sports videos that can identify the court even when some important elements are not visible. The study will also analyze what external factors may impact the program's accuracy in detecting all relevant elements. READ MORE

  5. 19. Catalogue across languages? : The opportunities and challenges of the multilingual Online Public Access Catalogue as an interface between librarians and end-users

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT

    Author : Maud Guichard -Marneur; [2023]
    Keywords : Online Public Access Catalogue OPAC ; multilingual; users and end-users; interface; access;

    Abstract : There exist two assumptions that may well be connected. The first is that in an increasingly global and technological world, language barriers have fallen. Online machine translation services are monetarily free for everyone to use. READ MORE

  6. 20. Bacterial cell detection limits using Oxford Nanopore’s MinION

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Mohammad Ghiasvand; [2022]
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    Abstract : Sepsis is a potentially fatal emergency medical condition that reflects the presence of the body’s systematic inflammation. Around 260 biomarkers have been determined to sepsis. The gold standard of blood culturing has remained the best technique for finding sepsis etiology up to this data. READ MORE