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Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of
exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections.
In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime
communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly
researched field of study in urban informatics.""The Handbook of
Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the
Real-Time City"" brings together an international selection of 66
esteemed scholars presenting their research and development on
urban technology, digital cities, locative media, and mobile and
wireless applications. A truly global resource, this one-of-a-kind
reference collection contains significant and timely research
covering a diverse range of current issues in the urban informatics
field, making it an essential addition to technology and social
science collections in academic libraries that will benefit
scholars and practitioners in an array of fields ranging from
computer science to urban studies.
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Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries surveys
and evaluates the current practice of learning commons and research
services within the academic library community in order to
determine if these learning spaces are functioning as intended. To
evaluate their findings, the authors examine the measurement tools
that libraries have used to evaluate usage and satisfaction,
including contemporary anthropological studies that provide a more
detailed view of the student s approach to research. The book takes
a candid look at these redesigns and asks if improvements have
lived up to expectations of increased service and user
satisfaction. Are librarians using these findings to inform the
evolution and implementation of new service models, or have they
simply put a new shade of lipstick on the pig?
Takes an honest look at learning commons in academic libraries and
discusses what is working and what is notExplores behind the
statistics as to why users come to the library; does the librarians
concept of the library as place match user perception?Looks at the
anthropology of the user to gauge satisfaction with the services
and space provided by the library via recent survey findings"
Strategic to the study of popular evangelical movements, this
volume provides a thorough description of the holdings of one of
the major evangelical resource centers in the United States. The
Billy Graham Center, with its focus on efforts by Evangelicals
around the world to spread the Christian Gospel, with a special
emphasis on North America, has developed a superb array of sources
to document this vigorous yet largely uncharted aspect of modern
Christianity. The special strengths of the Graham Center's Library,
Museum, and Archives are documented here. Books, magazines,
photographs, paintings, artifacts, diaries, letters, and files of
Christian organizations are among the types of sources described.
Two appendices, comprising 20 percent of this volume, give detailed
summaries of holdings in 161 other archives and libraries
throughout the United States. Also included are 61 photographs of
artifacts and documents from the Graham Center. This guide includes
three main chapters on the Library, Museum, and Archives of the
Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. Chapters on the collections
of the Library and Museum discuss their thematic strengths,
featured holdings, and services. A lengthy chapter on the Archives
provides an overview, an annotated catalog of its more than 525
collections, and a list of subjects treated in each collection. Two
appendices provide extensive descriptions of other archival and
library collections around the country. A comprehensive index of
subjects and names quickly helps researchers determine what the
Graham Center and other North American research centers offer. The
user can enjoy a general overview or receive direct information on
a specific topic. This volume is designed for the varied interests
of pastor, missionary, scholar, journalist, or interested
layperson.
Intended to enhance collection development in school, public,
and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates
approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985
through 1993, with some earlier but still useful publications.
Annotations indicate scope of the work, size (often the number of
entries), kinds of material included, purpose, arrangement, nature
of entries, indexes, special features, and a recommendation.
Author, title, and subject indexes provide easy access to the
entries. With its deep and comprehensive coverage, this work will
help not only in the process of selecting and acquiring materials
for the library but also in the process of identification of items
for reference, readers' advisory, interlibrary loan, and collection
evaluation.
This books provides a detailed overview of conflicting issues
and practices related to Federal government information policies
and the distribution of federal information through print and
non-print information handling technologies. Drawing from published
literature and interviews with key Federal officials, it provides a
framework for viewing Federal information policies and
practices.
As classrooms and universities strive to adapt their instructional
methods to an ever progressing technological age, it is imperative
that academic libraries also revisit the ways in which reference
and instruction services are organized and implemented. Library
Reference Services and Information Literacy: Models for Academic
Institution not only advocates for a more intentional integration
of reference and instructional services, but it also provides
organizational background, staff objectives, and various successes
and challenges that have already been experienced by real
institutions. This publication is an important reference source for
librarians, practitioners, and university leaders who wish to
maximize the current utilize of their resources.
With the advent of downloadable retail eBooks marketed to
individual consumers, for the first time in their history libraries
encountered an otherwise commercially available text format they
were prevented from adding to their collections. Trade eBooks in
Libraries examines the legal frameworks which gave rise to this
phenomenon and advocacy efforts undertaken in different
jurisdictions to remove barriers to library access. The principal
authors provide a general historical overview and an analysis of
library/eBook principles developed by a variety of library
associations and government reviews. In addition, experts from
twelve countries present summaries of eBook developments in their
respective countries and regions.
This volume offers up-to-date insights into the state of library
and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa.
Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property,
LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely
contribution thus presents vital areas of research on a region that
receives relatively little coverage and is currently experiencing
rapid and significant changes.
In the many books and articles written on the subject of
librarianship in Japan, some perennial themes appear, such as, What
is librarianship? and What should libraries be today? These
questions reveal the incessant quest of Japanese librarians to
define their profession. This reference book provides a
comprehensive overview of libraries and librarianship in Japan. The
volume traces the developments of traditional and modern libraries
and describes what they have become in modern times.
In the many books and articles written on the subject of
librarianship in Japan, some perennial themes appear, such as, What
is librarianship? and What should libraries be today? More than
ever before, Japan is aware of its potential for shaping the global
library and information scene. The Japanese are responding to the
current flood of information with new media technologies and
improved database services with a synergistic approach that
involves library professionals, information specialists,
governmental leaders, corporate and industry planners, and
information consumers.
This reference work traces the development of traditional and
modern libraries and librarianship in Japan and describes what they
have become in modern times. The book begins with a retrospective
glance at the cultural and literary circumstances surrounding the
development of language, writing, paper, books, and other
activities which fostered early library activity. The chapters that
follow provide detailed information on the evolution of particular
types of libraries. Attention is also given to special topics, such
as computers in libraries, the education of librarians, and
professional organizations. An extensive bibliography of English
and Japanese sources concludes the work.
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted
secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary
technological developments that brought not only significant
challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new
instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation
and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European
theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived
by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of
scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since
1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has
stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number
of national library associations all over Europe.
This text reviews the issues involved in handling and processing
digital documents. Examining the full range of a document s
lifetime, the book covers acquisition, representation, security,
pre-processing, layout analysis, understanding, analysis of single
components, information extraction, filing, indexing and retrieval.
Features: provides a list of acronyms and a glossary of technical
terms; contains appendices covering key concepts in machine
learning, and providing a case study on building an intelligent
system for digital document and library management; discusses
issues of security, and legal aspects of digital documents;
examines core issues of document image analysis, and image
processing techniques of particular relevance to digitized
documents; reviews the resources available for natural language
processing, in addition to techniques of linguistic analysis for
content handling; investigates methods for extracting and
retrieving data/information from a document."
Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in
journals. The most important indicator to determine the influence
of a journal is the Impact Factor. Since this factor only measures
the average number of citations per article in a certain time
window, it can be argued that it does not reflect the actual value
of a periodical. This book defines five dimensions, which build a
framework for a multidimensional method of journal evaluation. The
author is winner of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation
Scholarship 2011.
Journalism is under ever-increasing pressure, due in large part to
the phenomenon of media convergence. Not only does media
convergence redefine the tasks of journalists and newsrooms, it
also re-shapes the business environments of media companies. In
this book, international media practitioners and researchers
describe and analyze the relationships between media convergence
and advertising, public relations, social media and other areas of
communication posing a challenge to journalism.
Focusing on important information literacy debates, this new book
with contributions from many of the main experts in the field
highlights important ideas and practical considerations.
Information Literacy takes the reader on a journey across the
contemporary information landscape, guided by academics and
practitioners who are experts in navigating this ever-changing
terrain.
Diversity of content from authors with national and international
reputationsShows professionals how to operate at a strategic level
to engender institutional change and have a direct practical
application for their teaching and learning practiceMany of the
chapters are based on empirical research ensuring innovative
approaches to information literacy
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