Nearly all software systems today are designed and built to be modular; that is, they consist of separate components or modules that are connected together to form the larger system. The beauty of modular architecture is that it is possible replace or...

A library function is a function that can be called by a program to perform some task, but it is not part of the program itself. Typically library functions are collected together into libraries, which comprise suites of functions that are loosely...

The term library constant is relevant to computer science in the context of programming and programming languages. Library constants are defined constants that determine several numerically related properties that are permitted by a particular...

In programming, a library is a collection of precompiled routines that are available for use by programs. The use of libraries makes programs more modular. Many programming languages come with their own standard libraries. The standard library contains...

More than 30 academic departments and research laboratories are now participating in the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL), according to a news release from Cornell University. The NCSTRL (pronounced "Ancestral") system complies the technical reports of leading-edge research from computer scientists...

East Carolina University's Health Sciences Library has used laptop computers since 1988. The laptops serve as portable workstations that librarians can use throughout the library to perform online searching, word processing and other tasks that would otherwise have to be performed at in-place workstations....

Downtown Brooklyn's gonna look busy soon, with thousands of square feet of residential property going up, as Matthew Schuerman reports in today's Observer. But another nearby development, the Brooklyn Public Library's Visual and Performing Arts branch, at Flatbush and Layfayette avenues in Fort Greene,...

Evangelist Billy Graham held his final crusade two years ago and has made few public appearances since. But the group charged with carrying on the work of the frail, 88-year-old preacher believes he can still have an impact, through a new $27 million museum that...