Investigation of methods of automatic information retrieval for Arabic is essential to the growth of learning in the Arab world. It is the simplest and most cost-effective way to make the resources of large reference libraries available to the increasing numbers of students and …
In order to trace the historical development that occurred in published Arabic children's literature between 1912-1986, this dissertation examines the changing attitudes and trends as reflected in the themes published by al-Kilani, Dar al-Ma'aref and Dar al-Fata al-'Arabi publis…
The research described here accomplished several goals. First, we built a microcomputer based Arabic bibliographic Information Retrieval System (Arabic-IRS), that interprets queries and retrieves relevant abstracts, with a reasonable response time. This system will be used in th…
Effectiveness of alternate text processing techniques for Arabic retrieval are investigated in this study. The techniques that were studied are term weighting schemes, stemming, and stop words elimination. This research explored the effect of different weighting schemes on the r…
The main purpose of this study was to measure the performance of academic library information service points and physical support facilities at seven universities in Saudi Arabia. These measurements provide the means to critically analyze the library program and its operations a…
"Explores activist librarianship in the early 21st century"
Offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property, LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely contribution thus presents vit…
This volume offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property, LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely contribution thus …