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Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New
Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of
ongoing research in the development of collections and services.
The book contributes to practical outputs of general benefit to the
sector, including customers, clients or stakeholders, offering
ideas for how to identify comparative strengths and weaknesses and
improve or enhance present practices regardless of how well
institutions currently perform. The centerpiece of the book is a
description, report and analysis of a major international QB
exercise that culminates in a set of good practice statements. The
benefits of the QB methodology are applicable to individual
institutions. Because of the current global turbulence,
individuals, leaders and whole institutions are keen to learn more
about what is happening and how they can develop sustainable
solutions to both immediate challenges and longer-term
scenarios. These include an analysis of third sector
organizations, e-libraries, marketing information services,
vocational training in higher education, the creative arts, and the
role of partnerships in organizational openness.
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.
Is love a price worth paying? Nik's not a Voronov by blood, but
he's ferociously protective of his adoptive family. So when he
believes single mother Sybella is taking advantage of his
grandfather, he ruthlessly strips her of her job! But as unexpected
desire threatens to consume them both, sweet Sybella might just be
the redemption this brooding billionaire needs... * If black sheep
billionaire Deacon marries Callie, his father has promised him
legitimacy and acceptance. But Callie isn't the gold-digger Deacon
was promised, and now his heart's on the line... * Alessandra has
been groomed since birth to assume the joint reins of her father's
empire. Now that day has arrived, forcing her to not only abandon
her own career goals, but work closely with co-CEO and childhood
nemesis Alek. As they battle for control of the company, Alessandra
fights her attraction to the international playboy that could
sabotage her professional future.
COVID-19 is profoundly affecting the ways in which we live, learn,
plan, and develop. What does COVID-19 mean for the future of
digital information use and delivery, and for more traditional
forms of library provision? Libraries, Digital Information, and
COVID gives immediate and long-term solutions for librarians
responding to the challenge of COVID-19. The book helps library
leaders prepare for a post-COVID-19 world, giving guidance on
developing sustainable solutions. The need for sustainable digital
access has now become acute, and while offering a physical space
will remain important, current events are likely to trigger a shift
toward off-site working and study, making online access to
information more crucial. Libraries have already been providing
access to digital information as a premium service. New forms and
use of materials all serve to eliminate the need for direct contact
in a physical space. Such spaces will come to be predicated on
evolving systems of digital information, as critical needs are met
by remote delivery of goods and services. Intensified financial
pressure will also shape the future, with a reassessment of
information and its commercial value. In response, there will be a
massification of provision through increased cooperation and
collaboration. These significant transitions are driving
professionals to rethink and question their identities, values, and
purpose. This book responds to these issues by examining the
practicalities of running a library during and after the pandemic,
answering questions such as: What do we know so far? How are
institutions coping? Where are providers placing themselves on the
digital/print and the remote/face-to-face continuums? This edited
volume gives analysis and examples from around the globe on how
libraries are managing to deliver access and services during
COVID-19. This practical and thoughtful book provides a framework
within which library directors and their staff can plan sustainable
services and collections for an uncertain future.
Introduction By Robert Glass Cleland. Henry Hiram Ellis, 1829-1909,
Of Maine Sailed Round The Horn To San Francisco In 1849. From The
Kennebec To California, 1959, Contains Various Versions Of His
Reminiscences Covering His Adventures As A Gold Miner, Captain Of A
Sacramento River Boat And Pacific Merchant Ship, San Francisco
Police Officer And Chief Of Police, 1875-1877.
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Cornish Studies Volume 12 (Paperback)
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The twelfth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the
only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the
past and present of a nation.
Contributions by
Graham Busby, Terry Chapman, Ian Clarke, Yolande Collins, Bernard
Deacon, Helen Doe, Lucy Ellis, Jonathan Howlett, Alan M. Kent,
Sandra Kippen, Adrian Lee, Sharon Lowenna, Kenneth MacKinnon,
Kayleigh Milden, Brian Murdoch, Philip Payton and Garry
Tregidga
Nicole Kidman is undoubtedly the hottest female star around; her
every move makes front-page headlines all over the world. A number
of biographies of her former husband, Tom Cruise, have been
published, but until now not one on Kidman herself. This biography
will trace Nicole Kidman's steady rise from prolific child star
through B-list mediocrity to her current status as a critically
acclaimed and hugely popular actress. Kidman toiled for years in
the Hollywood wilderness, failing auditions for Ghost, Thelma &
Louise, Sleepless in Seattle and The Silence of the Lambs; she only
landed her breakthrough role in To Die For after Meg Ryan turned it
down. Since then, she has worked closely with some of the leading
directors and actors of our time, starring with John Malkovich in
Jane Campion's Portrait Of A Lady and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide
Shut; she's also made successful forays into action movies (The
Peacemaker, alongside George Clooney) and horror (the recent hit
film The Others). Having firmly established herself as a successful
film actress, Kidman has recently branched out into other areas,
demonstrating her great versatility as a performer. Her West End
and Broadway stage debu
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