Data are becoming the proverbial coin of the digital realm: a research commodity that might purchase reputation credit in a disciplinary culture of data sharing, or buy transparency when faced with funding agency mandates or publisher scrutiny. Unlike most monetary systems, however, digital data can flow in all too great an abundance. Not only does this currency actually "grow" on trees, but it comes from animals, books, thoughts, and each of us! And that is what makes data curation so essential. The abundance of digital research data challenges library and information science professionals to harness this flow of information streaming from research discovery and scholarly pursuit and preserve the unique evidence for future use. Volume One of Curating Research Data explores the variety of reasons, motivations, and drivers for why data curation services are needed in the context of academic and disciplinary data repository efforts. Twelve chapters, divided into three parts, take an in-depth look at the complex practice of data curation as it emerges around us. Part I sets the stage for data curation by describing current policies, data sharing cultures, and collaborative efforts currently underway that impact potential services. Part II brings several key issues, such as cost recovery and marketing strategy, into focus for practitioners when considering how to put data curation services in action. Finally, Part III describes the full lifecycle of data by examining the ethical and practical reuse issues that data curation practitioners must consider as we strive to prepare data for the future. Digital data is ubiquitous and rapidly reshaping how scholarship progresses now and into the future. The information expertise of librarians can help ensure the resiliency of digital data, and the information it represents, by addressing how the meaning, integrity, and provenance of digital data generated by researchers today will be captured and conveyed to future researchers.

Volume 6 of The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series focuses on the rapidly changing rhetoric coloring American politics. An increasingly polarized electorate combined with advances in technology have led to a combative and pitched rhetoric through more and more outlets. Each chapter is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on communication studies, political science, history, and other fields.Using the extensive collection of the C-SPAN Video Library, chapters cover the highly visible Thomas and Kavanaugh judicial nomination hearings as well as the ongoing debate around impeachment. Other pieces focus on the rhetoric of the 2008 Wall Street crisis, presidential campaign announcements, White House press conferences, floor time by women in the House of Representatives, the use of Twitter by legislators, and the puzzle of zero population growth. Collectively, they paint a picture of how Congress and the president approach the broad topic of political rhetoric using C-SPAN video as the basis for their research. The C-SPAN Video Library is unique because there is no other research collection that is based on video research of contemporary politics. Methodologically distinctive, much of the research uses new techniques to analyze video, text, and spoken words of political leaders. No other book examines such a wide range of topics-from immigration to climate change to race relations-using video as the basis for research.

At a time when budgets are dwindling, libraries must overcome insularity through collaborative initiatives that allow them to support each other through resource sharing and networking. These collaborative networks can expand beyond libraries to include cooperative efforts with archives and museums in order to surpass challenges in the digital era. Cooperation and Collaboration Initiatives for Libraries and Related Institutions is a critical research publication that explores digital advancements in library collaborative technologies and the steps needed to implement them in order to achieve institutional goals. Featuring topics such as e-records, policymaking, and open educational resources, this book is essential for librarians, archival staff, museum staff, knowledge managers, policymakers, educators, and researchers.

Are you a librarian struggling to stay engaged in a digital age? Facing budget concerns to keep existing programs running? Don't have the staff or budget for specialized services? Wonder how to move beyond teaching your patrons HOW to use a computer? This book gives you 15, step-by-step programs, using free online software, that go beyond basic digital literacy, and provides you, the librarian, with all you need for classes that engage the digital natives and computer users in your community. It includes: 15 quick, easy classes focused on actual outcomes for patrons, without requiring a budget, dedicated facilities, or specialized knowledge. Classes that your patrons can relate to, geared towards actual needs or interests, and not just to "techy" people. How to's and other elements to effectively use simple software and allow patrons to get optimal results from their effort. Classes or workshops designed to help the average computer user so he or she can teach patrons with ease and authority. Tips for teachers or librarians on how to engage their audience and not lose them with information overload. This book is a complete computer class upgrade solution. Based on the Montessori Method, classes are problem or project based. You are given all the tools you need as a presenter to show relatable uses of technology, making sure the patron can see the possibility involved in using the software. There are step-by-step instructions that focus on your patron leaving with practical skills for everyday life using freely-available software such as YouTube, Ebay, Google, and Monster. Best practices are also included so your patron's project has the greatest chance of being successful.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Robert Mayers Theorie der Mechanik der Warme ist unbe stritten eine der glanzendsten naturwissenschaftlichen Errungen schaften des letztvergangenen J ahrhunderts gewesen, und zwar hat sich nicht nur die Aufstellung und die Darlegung der Grund prinzipien, welche bereits ebenso von verschiedenen anderen Seiten in Angriff genommen war und auch ohne Mayers Arbeit durch die vereinten Krafte dieser anderen Forscher erreicht worden ware, als eine kapitale und fruchtbringende Tat erwiesen, sondern es ist namentlich auch von den Fachkundigen anerkannt worden, daB die Grundgedanken der Lehre von keinem dieser ubrigen ursprunglichen Mitbegrunder so prazis und so allgemeingultig ge faBt und diese selbst von keinem so konsequent und vielseitig weitergefUhrt worden ist, als von Mayer, neben dem auch von den andern Bearbeitern des Problems beinahe nur noch Helm holtz genannt werden kann. Dies hangt nur zum Teil damit zu sammen, daB Mayer als Arzt eher und besser ein Urteil uber die Bedeutung seiner Resultate fUr die organische Welt gewann. "DaB Sie in einer kleinen Provinzialstadt und in Anspruch genommen von den Obliegenheiten Ihres Berufs," schrieb Tyn dall, Professor der Physik der "Royal Institution," am 11. Jam ar 1866 an Mayer, "allen anderen so weit vorausgeeilt sind, ist fUr mich erstaunlich. Ich kenne keinen ahnlichen Fall in der Ge schichte der Wissenschaft."

Effectively marketing libraries by persuasively communicating their relevance is key to ensuring their future. Speaking directly to those in senior leadership positions, Anderson lays out the structural and organizational changes needed to help libraries answer the relevance question and maximize their marketing and communications efforts. Focusing on big-picture strategies, she shares lessons learned from her 20 year career in library marketing and communications. No matter what type or size of library you help to lead, by reading this book you will gain insight into why libraries need to tell their stories more effectively than they are today; be able to craft a strategic roadmap for marketing your library and communicating its value in a variety of ways that resonate with key audiences; see why improvements to the structure of your marketing and communications team can lead to better results; learn practical methods for incorporating audience research into your planning; know how to remove customer barriers and discontinue practices that are thwarting your marketing efforts; receive guidance on preparing for potential crises; understand how to be more community-focused by forming and sustaining partnerships; and feel confident in engaging with stakeholders so that they become your library's best ambassadors. This book will shake up your marketing and communications approach, helping you implement real changes for lasting results.

Excerpt from Internationales Adressbuch Der Antiquar-Buchh ndler: International Directory of Second-Hand Booksellers; Annuaire International Des Librairies D'occasion About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The world is witnessing the growth of a global movement facilitated by technology and social media. Fueled by information, this movement contains enormous potential to create more accountable, efficient, responsive, and effective governments and businesses, as well as spurring economic growth. Big Data Governance and Perspectives in Knowledge Management is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of applying robust processes around data, and aligning organizations and skillsets around those processes. Highlighting a range of topics including data analytics, prediction analysis, and software development, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, information science professionals, software developers, computer engineers, graduate-level computer science students, policymakers, and managers seeking current research on the convergence of big data and information governance as two major trends in information management.

Der vorliegende dritte Band des Dresdner Handschriften katalogs folgt auf die beiden ersten nach einer langeren Zwischen zeit, als ursprunglich vorausgesehen werden konnte. Diese Ver zogerung ist durch Umstande verschiedener Art bewirkt worden: einmal dadurch, dass zunachst die zeitraubende und muhevolle Katalogisierung der umfanglichen handschriftlichen Korrespon denzen, insbesondere der grossen Bottigerschen Briefsammlung, in Angriff genommen wurde, ferner durch die im Jahre 1885 erfolgte Einverleibung der Oelser Schlossbibliothek und durch die Be rufung des Bearbeiters der beiden ersten Bande zum Vorstand der Konigl. Bibliothek. Die hier verzeichneten Handschriften ent stammen zum grossen Teile noch den alten Bestanden, so nament lich die Abteilungen 0 und Pj einen wesentlichen Bestandteil aber machen auch die 1853 und 1854 erfolgten erheblichen Ab lieferungen des Konigl. Sachsischen Hauptstaatsarchivs aus: Die noch ausstehenden wenigen und nicht umfanglichen Abteilungen, zusammen hochstens etwa 600 Nummern enthaltend, setzen sich in der Hauptsache aus Erwerbungen der neueren und neuesten Zeit zusammen, unter denen die Handschriften der Oelser Biblio thek einen grosseren Raum einnehmen. Fur diesen Rest ist die Ausgabe eines Supplementheftes zum Handschriftenkatalog geplant; hier sollen auch die in der Musikabteilung aufgestellten Auto graphen, insbesondere die der 1896 einverleibten Konigl. Privat musikaliensammlung entstammenden Originalmanuskripte, fur die, abgesehen von den Anfuhrungen in Rob. Eitners Biographisch bibliographischem Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten (10 Bande, Leipzig 1900-1904), ein gedrucktes Verzeichnis noch nicht vorhanden ist 1), sowie die im Vorbericht zu Band I S."

Im Zusammenhange mit der neuen Consignierung des ge sammten Bucherbestandes der Dresdner Bibliothek, welche wah rend der Amtsfuhrung des Herrn Oberbibliothekars Hofrath Dr. I"

3) Codices manuscripti orientales (27 BIl. fo . Biblioth. -Ar chiv Vo . 131). - Ein gleichfalls von Scheureck geschriebenes Verzeichniss, welches 142 orientalische Handschriften in "Scrin. 4" und 136 in "Scrin. 5" auffuhrt. 4) Catalogus manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Electoralis. Car. Aug. ] Scheureck elab oravit]. 1755 (102 und 35 BIl. fo . Bi blioth. -Archiv Vol. 132). - Ein Verzeichniss, das aus zwei von Scheureck geschriebenen Theilen besteht, deren erster mit Nr. 773 abschliesst, deren zweiter die "Mscta Orientalia" enthalt und 351 Nummern umfasst; in einem in den Band eingelegten, von ver schiedenen Handen geschriebenen; funf Bogen starken Nachtrage d z mm sind die Nummern 439-439, 439aa-439ddd, 737 -739 und 776-846 registriert. Die in diesem Kataloge der kurfurstlichen Sammlung vorkommenden Handschriften sind, wo ich sie auf fuhre, in jedem einzelnen Falle auf die Weise kenntlich gemacht, dass ich die Nummer, welche ihnen hier gegeben ist, nenne und vor dieselbe die Bezeichnung Elect. setze. Ein alphabetisch ge ordneter "Catalogus realis manuscriptorum codicum. C. A. Scheur eck elab. 1755" hat neben ihm keinen selbstandigen Werth, son dern bildet zu ihm nur das Register. 5) Manuscripta BUllaviana. Verzeichniss von der Hand des Bibliotheksecretars Kar Adolf Naumann (15 BIl. 4 . Bi blioth. -Archiv Vol. 188 Nr. 7); und Catalogus Codicum Manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Bunavianae ante Transportationem Biblio thecae Electoralis in Palatium Japonense confectus adspersis . non nullis observationibus literariis a Carolo Guilielmo Dassdor fio Sereniss. Elect. Saxon. Bibliothecario Dresdae MDCCLXXXV (26 SS. fo1. Biblioth. -Archiv Vo1. 200)."

Compounded with the emergence of information technology, information services have become more complex. In order to break the bottleneck in providing information services, the information behavior of the user community must be studied and library staff must be effectively trained to identify, adapt, and satisfy the information needs of every type of information seeker. Innovations in the Designing and Marketing of Information Services provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of improving and expanding information resources and services in a cost-effective way and enables librarians to plan and present information services for the betterment of civil society. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as e-resources, knowledge ethics, and user-friendly technology, this book is ideally designed for librarians, information scientists, behavioral scientists, information technologists, marketers, marketing executives, academicians, researchers, and students.

The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms?
This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do.
The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."