U-Library: Um Modelo para Suporte a Bibliotecas Ubíquas

• Wilian Valmorbida UNISINOS
• Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa UNISINOS

Abstract

Ubiquitous computing aims to make tasks that depend on computing transparent to the users, thus providing resources and services anytime and anywhere. This paper proposes a computational model to support ubiquitous libraries, called U-Library. The U-Library provides to the librarian information and tools proper to maintain resources and services in a library, as well as tools that enable a better service to the library users. We developed a prototype that has been evaluated by volunteers in the Library of the Centro Universitário Univates (UNIVATES). The results showed a good acceptance of the U-Library.

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