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This book analyses: the 'dysfunctional' concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational level. dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. This book will be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries.
Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Information Retrieval covers three areas along with the introduction to Intelligent IR, i.e., Optimal Information Retrieval Using Evolutionary Approaches, Semantic Search for Web Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval. * Talks about the design, implementation, and performance issues of the hybrid intelligent information retrieval system in one book * Gives a clear insight into challenges and issues in designing a hybrid information retrieval system * Includes case studies on structured and unstructured data for hybrid intelligent information retrieval * Provides research directions for the design and development of intelligent search engines This book is aimed primarily at graduates and researchers in the information retrieval domain.
This book Presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art. Brings together expertise from different disciplines and provides an in-depth investigation of the development of documentation as a set of production, circulation and preservation strategies. Illustrates how these strategies are often led by artists, audiences and museums, the contributions offer new insights into digital art and its history, curation and preservation, through documentation. By considering documentation as the main method of preserving these art forms, analyses how it can address the inherent challenges of capturing live events, visitor experiences, and evolving artworks. Will appeal to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and curation, art and art history, performance, new media and digital art, library and information science, and conservation.
This book analyses: the 'dysfunctional' concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational level. dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. This book will be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries.
Human Action Recognition is a challenging area presently. The vigor of research effort directed towards this domain is self indicative of this. With the ever-increasing involvement of Computational Intelligence in our day to day applications, the necessity of human activity recognition has been able to make its presence felt to the concerned research community. The primary drive of such an effort is to equip the computing system capable of recognizing and interpreting human activities from posture, pose, gesture, facial expression etc. The intent of human activity recognition is a formidable component of cognitive science in which researchers are actively engaged of late. Features: A systematic overview of the state-of-the-art in computational intelligence techniques for human action recognition. Emphasized on different intelligent techniques to recognize different human actions. Discussed about the automation techniques to handle human action recognition. Recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in this arena. In the present endeavour the editors intend to come out with a compilation that reflects the concerns of relevant research community. The readers would be able to come across some of the latest findings of active researchers of the concerned field. It is anticipated that this treatise shall be useful to the readership encompassing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, researchers active as well as aspiring, not to speak of the senior researchers.
Qualitative Research and the Modern Library examines the
present-day role and provides suggestions for areas that might be
suited to this type of research for the purposes of evaluation. The
author discusses how the results from such research might be
applied, and the overall impact of using this type of research to
inform development of a more user-centred organisation. The book
provides a thoughtful look at the implications of using qualitative
research to inform decision-making processes within libraries and
is written by an author and library researcher with international
experience in various types of libraries, implementing/improving
programs and services, and supporting user needs.
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed - and how it should be governed. Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.
This book examines the difficulties confronting information
professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological
change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career
options. It is divided between a case study (based on the author s
own experiences) of career dislocation and eventual career renewal,
and several sections that offer pragmatic advice on how to recover
from job loss, conduct a skills assessment and develop a practical
job search strategy. The author, with honesty, confronts the
serious and sometimes troubling psychological and professional
consequences of layoffs and job burnout. This book presents an
overall positive outlook on personal growth and the opportunities
our new information environment holds.
iPhone application development is explained here in an accessible
treatment for the generalist Library and Information Science (LIS)
practitioner. Future information-seeking practices by users will
take place across a diverse array of ubiquitous computing devices.
iPhone applications represent one of the most compelling new
platforms for which to remediate and re-engineer library service.
Strategies of efficient mobile design and delivery include adapting
computing best practices of data independence and adhering to web
standards as articulated by the W3C. These best practices apply
across the diverse range of handheld devices and accompanying
software development tools. This book is essentially a how-to guide
for application development, laying out foundational principles and
then moving toward practical implementations.
This book addresses the question of how knowledge is currently
documented, and may soon be documented in the context of what it
calls semantic publishing . This takes two forms: a more narrowly
and technically defined semantic web; as well as a broader notion
of semantic publishing. This book examines the ways in which
knowledge is represented in journal articles and books. By
contrast, it goes on to explore the potential impacts of semantic
publishing on academic research and authorship. It sets this in the
context of changing knowledge ecologies: the way research is done;
the way knowledge is represented and; the modes of knowledge access
used by researchers, students and the general public.
Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society
explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed
for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural
environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have
real world experience with transformational change and
thought-provoking ideas for the future of research libraries,
academic librarianship, research collections, and the changing
nature of global scholarship within a higher education context.
This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced claims about their past by establishing 'proof' of a long historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage. This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a region and a category, in scholarship and in politics. Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political leaders.
This book has been written with a view to understand the validity
of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library
and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals
this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and
quantitatively. Over the last three hundred years scholarly
journals have been the prime mode of transport in communicating the
scholarly research process. However in the last few decades, a
changing scenario has been witnessed in their form and format. OA
is an innovative idea that attracts a fair amount of support and
opposition around the world because it bridges the gap between
digitally divided scholars by solving the pricing and permission
crises that have imbalanced the scholarly communication process.
Some scholars are of the opinion that OA has led to a chaotic
environment where anyone can publish anything. Scholarly
Communication in Library and Information Services records, in
detail, the impact by accessing the journals web site qualitatively
and quantitatively in measuring the important elements such as
articles, authors, countries, subjects and cited references.
Finally, the book calculates the impact factor using synchronous
and asynchronous approaches.
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This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community contexts. The studies offer new insights into questions such as how transferable are the information practices and skills learned in one context to other contexts? What is the degree to which information competences are generic, to what degree are they domain and context specific? What are the kinds of challenges and outcomes that emerge from incorporating information literacy into education and training courses? And, most importantly, what kinds of theories and philosophies regarding the nature of learning, information, and knowledge, should information literacies education and research efforts be based on?
The primary purpose of Pursuing Information Literacy is to inspire
individual thinking and application. The book reviews important
information literacy and its social significance and the
application of information literacy in a number of different
sectors. The future of information literacy is explored in
concluding chapters.
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed - and how it should be governed. Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.
Virtual Research Environments examines making Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) usable by researchers working to
solve grand challenge problems in many disciplines from social
science to particle physics. It is driven by research the authors
have carried out to evaluate researchers requirements in using
information services via web portals and in adapting collaborative
learning tools to meet their more diverse needs, particularly in a
multidisciplinary study.
Reviews the current landscape of scholarly communications and
publishing and potential futures, outlining key aspects of
transition to best possible futures for libraries and librarians.
Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry, and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working the fields of library, archival, and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe.
Originally published in 1976, this publication falls into three parts: The Verbal Index, The Word Frequency Table, and The Field of Reference. A scholar interested in the full range of connotation for the word heart in Conrad would look first to the word frequency table to see how often the word in question occurs in Lord Jim. If the word is indeed part of the vocabulary of the novel, he then would turn to its alphabetical listing in the verbal index and the line numbers in which it appears. Then turning to the field of reference, he could locate the lines cited and look at each occurrence of the word in context. The authors feel that the data provided by these tables is of basic importance to both the editor and the literary critic.
1) This book presents a two-fold approach to the topic. On one hand it discusses the fundamentals and theoretical concepts of 5G with respect to the IoT, and on the other hand it showcases some impactful and trending research in this field. Clearly, IoT is an interdisciplinary field and therefore this book would be useful to different stakeholders related to mobile communications and IoT networking architecture. 2) IoT is one of the most trending topics worldwide and 5G is coming into force across the world. Hence there would be demand for this topic 3) As compared to competition, the proposed book has updated content. It is written completely with the consideration of 5G inclusion worldwide in 2020, state-of-the-art research across the globe presented in diverse chapters, dual approach of conceptual and research/implementational perspectives put together.
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.
Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current practice in OA, as well as data collected in detailed interviews with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, the book discusses what constitutes 'theory', and how the role of theory is perceived by both theorists and practitioners. Exploring the ways theory and practice have interacted in the development of OA, the authors discuss what this reveals about the nature of the OA phenomenon itself and the theory-practice relationship. Open Access in Theory and Practice contributes to a better understanding of OA and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers, and students working in the fields of information science, publishing studies, science communication, higher education policy, business, and economics. The book also makes an important contribution to the debate of the relationship between theory and practice in information science, and more widely across different fields of the social sciences and humanities
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of public opinion about certain topics. They allow the connecting of different events that have taken place in various times and places and involve several actors that seem incompatible to bystanders. This book focuses on strategic-function conspiracy narratives in the context of (social) media and information conflict. It explicates the strategic devices in how conspiracy theories can be used to evoke a hermeneutics of suspicion - a permanent scepticism and questioning of so-called mainstream media channels and dominant public authorities, delegitimisation of political opponents, and the ongoing search for hidden clues and coverups. The success of strategic dissemination of conspiracy narratives depends on the cultural context, specifics of the targeted audience and the semiotic construction of the message. This book proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing contemporary strategic communication. The authors develop a theoretical framework that is based on semiotics of culture, the notions of strategic narrative and transmedia storytelling. This book is targeted to specialists and graduate students working on social theory, semiotics, journalism, strategic communication, social media and contemporary social problems in general. |
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