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The International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing
the interests of library and information services and their users.
It is the global voice of the information profession. The series
IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which
libraries, information centres, and information professionals
worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a
group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global
problems.
The International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing
the interests of library and information services and their users.
It is the global voice of the information profession. The series
IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which
libraries, information centres, and information professionals
worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a
group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global
problems.
Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and
consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In
the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread
acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and
subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social
scientists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural
studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that
which is more-than-representational, through the development of
theories of affect, assemblage, post-humanism and actor network
theory, to name a few. While there have been some recent attempts
to draw these lines of thinking more forcefully into the field of
heritage studies, this book focuses for the first time on relating
heritage with the politics of affect. The volume argues that our
engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the
politics of affective registers such as pain, loss, joy, nostalgia,
pleasure, belonging or anger. It brings together a number of
contributions that collectively - and with critical acuity -
question how researchers working in the field of heritage might
begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially
those that are shaped and expressed in moments and spaces that can
be, at times, intensely personal, intimately shared and ultimately
social. It explores current theoretical advances that enable
heritage to be affected, released from conventional understandings
of both 'heritage-as-objects' and 'objects-as-representations' by
opening it up to a range of new meanings, emergent and formed in
moments of encounter. Whilst representational understandings of
heritage are by no means made redundant through this agenda, they
are destabilized and can thus be judged anew in light of these
developments. Each chapter offers a novel and provocative
contribution, provided by an interdisciplinary team of researchers
who are thinking theoretically about affect through landscapes,
practices of commemoration, visitor experience, site interpretation
and other heritage work.
After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia
Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of
novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young
adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread,
canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but
didn't, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn't to have liked but
did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom.
On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating,
results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of
intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why
do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the
plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen's fiction
reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children
love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And
why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The
Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What
pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it
answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are
so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)?
Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves.
It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we
reread, have both changed and remained the same.
The International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing
the interests of library and information services and their users.
It is the global voice of the information profession. The series
IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which
libraries, information centres, and information professionals
worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a
group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global
problems.
The International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing
the interests of library and information services and their users.
It is the global voice of the information profession. The series
IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which
libraries, information centres, and information professionals
worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a
group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global
problems.
In Audit Effectiveness, Dr Kamil Omoteso examines how information
technology is changing the landscape for the audit profession as IT
tools and techniques continue to be developed for auditors in the
pursuit of quality, efficiency and effectiveness. In addition to
shedding light on practical subjects such as audit automation,
continuous online auditing and computer auditing, this book
introduces some theory that helps explain the motivation for the
use of new tools and techniques, and assists understanding of their
impact on the quality of audit judgment. The book proposes a
three-layered model - an integration of contingency,
socio-technical systems and structuration theories - for a
comprehensive understanding of IT's impact on audit. The model
advocates that the use of IT in audits is a function of certain
contingent factors that determine an optimal mix of human skills
and technological capabilities, which would lead to changes in the
nature of auditors' roles and outputs and audit organisations'
structures. Dr Omoteso puts forward an audit automation maturity
model that can help audit firms/departments to understand their
current level of IT integration and how to systematically enhance
their capabilities with a view to meeting modern IT challenges -
taking them from the position of mere 'followers of technology' to
that of effective 'leaders of technology'. Audit Effectiveness is
for anyone practising in auditing or accounting automation, as well
as for those with an academic or research interest in the
challenges posed by technological advances for auditors in
particular, and for managers in general.
The last decade has seen significant global changes that have
impacted the library, information, and learning services and
sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information
solutions to pressing global challenges. Future Directions in
Digital Information presents the latest ideas and approaches to
digital information from across the globe, portraying a sense of
transition from old to new. This title is a comprehensive,
international take on key themes, advances, and trends in digital
information, including the impact of developing technologies. The
latest volume in the 'Chandos Digital Information Review Series',
this book will help practitioners and thinkers looking to keep pace
with, and excel among, the digital choices and pathways on offer,
to develop new systems and models, and gain information on trends
in the educational and industry contexts that make up the
information sphere. A group of international contributors has been
assembled to give their view on how information professionals and
scientists are creating the future along five distinct themes:
Strategy and Design; Who are the Users?; Where Formal meets
Informal; Applications and Delivery; and finally, New Paradigms.
The multinational perspectives contained in this volume acquaint
readers with problems, approaches, and achievements in digital
information from around the world, with equity of information
access emerging as a key challenge.
Cultural institutions must reimagine their roles as education
facilities for their communities and address the public need for
conversations in safe and fair places, thereby renewing their
essential place in democratic society. This book explains how. Open
Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums is a
provocative book, one that is designed to offer courage to cultural
institution administrators and staff even as it opens their eyes to
the possibility that their facilities can offer more than they are.
Rather than offering prescriptive answers, the author invites
readers to consider museums and libraries in fresh ways. Author
David Carr believes professionals in libraries and museums need to
think more broadly. He challenges them to address communities,
national social change, psychology, and learning, and to think
about ways to frame their institutions, not as repositories or
research chambers, but as instruments for human thinking. Now is
the time for these institutions to recover their integrity and
purpose as fundamental, informing structures in a struggling
democracy. Based on lectures and previously published writings by
the author, and drawing on new scholarship and research, the essays
here will inspire professionals to understand their collections and
institutions as instruments of personal, social, and cultural
change. An annotated bibliography of key works A standard
bibliography
The protection and security of cultural properties is of primary
concern to the thousands of federal, state, county, city, and
private institutions entrusted with housing and displaying our
national heritage and history of our society. Cultural property
security is of global importance as well, with tens of thousands of
institutions internationally tasked with protecting and maintaining
relics and artifacts of social, cultural, and historical
significance. Cultural Property Security offers powerful protection
guidelines to security departments tasked with safeguarding popular
historical sites, museums, and libraries and the historical
artifacts they house. Presenting practical, ready-to-implement
solutions in a clear writing style, the book: Provides a working
definition of cultural properties Identifies the threats against
cultural properties from crime and terrorism, particularly in
regions with political or civil unrest Offers guidance in threat
assessment Identifies the physical security measures and technology
that can be used to protect such institutions Presents guidelines
for establishing a protective service department for cultural
properties Describes proper arrest and post-arrest protocols
Includes a list of online resources for further information related
to the protection of cultural properties Complete with dozens of
photos, the book establishes leading industry best practices to
identify the various threats to cultural properties and protect
them. Dr. Daniel J. Benny has more than 35 years of security
management experience and has served as a Director of Protective
Services for the state of Pennsylvania's Historic and Museum
Commission. His insight is invaluable to those responsible for
securing these institutions from internal and external threats.
Learn and perfect the skills needed to conduct satisfying reference
interviews in the modern technological environment with this
easy-to-use guide. In today's technology-driven world, reference
librarians must serve users who come into the building as well as
remote users who ask via various digital means. With virtual
reference and social networking tools now commonplace, reference
questions have become more complex and interdisciplinary. The
Reference Interview Today will help reference librarians decide
which tools and strategies will best serve their diverse group of
patrons-in person and in cyberspace. This text covers the skills
needed for traditional face-to-face reference and how they can be
applied in 2.0 media. Best practices for culturally diverse,
disabled, and "difficult" patrons; strategies for public and
academic libraries; and virtual technologies like Twitter and
Second Life are described. Written by a practicing reference
librarian, this invaluable book makes it easy to train
paraprofessionals and serves as a guide for experienced librarians
to hone their skills in new delivery methods.
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning
literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how
diverse factors shape the relationship between archives,
recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts
struggles for different social justice objectives. Discussions and
debates about social justice are playing out across many
disciplines, fields of practice, societal sectors, and governments,
and yet one dimension cross-cutting these actors and engagement
spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping and
archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume
provides a rigorous account of the engagement of archives and
records-and their keepers-in struggles for social justice. Drawing
upon multidisciplinary praxis and scholarship, contributors to the
volume examine social justice from historical and contemporary
perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with
culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative
assessment. Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social
justice impacts influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and
archiving, the book presents nine case studies from around the
world that link the past to the present and offer pathways towards
a more just future. Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice
will be an essential reading for researchers and students engaged
in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes,
social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great
interest to archivists, records managers, and information
professionals.
Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study
that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on
the geographical factors which have an impact on them. Perspectives
in Medical Geography will appeal to both novice and seasoned
researchers looking to be informed on the latest theories and
applications in the field. Chapters represent a wide range of
industries, ranging from private/public universities to private
companies to non-profit foundations. Contributors describe ways in
which map and geography librarians can engage in public health
research - creating data standards, archiving map collections and
providing mapping/GIS services. In addition to compiling current
theories and practices related to medical geography, this volume
also features commentaries from two pre-eminent geography
librarians, sharing their perspectives on this emerging field and
how map and geographic information librarians can engage in
health-related research through their profession. This book was
originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Map
& Geography Libraries.
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published
works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this
way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North
America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica,
continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions
that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Individuals need to survive and grow in changing and sometimes
turbulent organizational environments, while organizations and
societies want individuals to have the knowledge, skills and
abilities that will enable them to prosper and thrive. Personal
Knowledge Management (PKM) is a means of coping with complex
environmental changes and developments: it is a form of
sophisticated career and life management. Personal Knowledge
Management is an evolving concept that focuses on the importance of
individual growth and learning as much as on the technology and
management processes traditionally associated with organizational
knowledge management. This book looks at the emergence of PKM from
a multi-disciplinary perspective, and its contributors reflect the
diverse fields of study that touch upon it. Relatively little
research or major conceptual development has so far been focused on
PKM, but already significant questions are being asked, such as 'is
there an inherent conflict between personal and organizational
knowledge management and how best do we harmonize individual and
organizational goals?' This book will inform, stimulate and
challenge every reader. By delving both deeply and broadly into its
subject, the distinguished authors help all those concerned with
'knowledge work' and 'knowledge workers' to see how PKM supports
and affects individuals, organizations and society as a whole; to
better understand the concepts involved and to benefit from
relevant research in this important area.
University libraries around the world have embraced the
possibilities of the digital learning environment, facilitating its
use and proactively seeking to develop the provision of electronic
resources and services. The digital environment offers
opportunities and challenges for librarians in all aspects of their
work - in information literacy, virtual reference, institutional
repositories, e-learning, managing digital resources and social
media. The authors in this timely book are leading experts in the
field of library and information management, and are at the
forefront of change in their respective institutions. University
Libraries and Digital Learning Environments will be invaluable for
all those involved in managing libraries or learning services,
whether acquiring electronic resources or developing and delivering
services in digital environments.
Over 60% of this updated book is all new material focusing on the
rapidly changing world of technology and its use in the classroom.
Over 60 percent of this updated book is all new material focusing
on the rapidly changing world of technology and its use in the
classroom. Featuring updated weblinks, resources, research, and
software reviews throughout, this title introduces podcasting,
blogs, and course management systems as they relate to teacher
tools and instruction and addresses pedagogical and management
issues as they relate to one-to-one laptop environments. An all new
chapter, Managing and Assessing Computer Use Outside of the
Classroom placed after Managing and Assessing Computer Use Inside
of the Classroom focuses on content delivery and management over
the Internet, with greater focus on podcasts, blogs, course
management systems, and other content development tools for online
learning and research related to online learning; tips and
recommendations. The author has incorporated feedback from faculty
and reviews of the previous edition in this revision. Grades K-12.
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